Echappé | To escape (a jump or relevé from 1st, 3rd or 5th to 2nd or 4th and returning)

En arriére | Travelling backwards

En avant | Travelling forwards

En croix | In the shape of a cross (front, side, back or back, side, front)

En dedans | Inwards (towards the supporting leg)

En dehors | Outwards (away from the supporting leg)

En face | Facing the audience (opposite)

En l’air | In the air

Enchainment | A combination of steps (a linked phrase of movement)

Épaulement | Use of the shoulders, neck and upper back  (looking over the shoulder)

Fondu | To melt (a melting action)

Frappé | To strike (like lighting a match on the floor)

Glissade | To glide (a sliding movement from 5th to 5th)

Grand | Large

Jeté | To throw

Ouvert | Open to the audience

Pas de basque | A movement from 5th incorporating a rond de jambe a terre and closing to 5th 

Pas de bourrée | Small/tight running steps (5th to 2nd/or 4th back to 5th)

Pas de chat | Step of the cat a jump from 5th to 5th with an overlapping action with each leg bending and unfurling, one after the other

Passé | To pass (retire passé: the working leg’s toes supported just under the supporting knee)

Petit | Small

Pirouette | To turn

Plié | To bend

Port de bras | Carriage of the arms (a controlled movement of the arms)

Posé | To step (onto a straight leg)

Relevé | To rise with a small rising action starting with a plie (bent knees)

Retiré | To draw up (the supporting leg)

Rond de jambe | Round of the leg (circle the leg like a protractor on the floor from 0 degrees to either 90 or 180)

Sauté | To spring

Sissonne | A scissor step – a jump from two feet to two feet

Soubresaut | A single jump (without changing the feet)

Soutenu | To sustain (a turning action revolving the feet, either traveling or on the spot)

Sur le cou-de-pied | On the neck of the foot

Temps levé | To hop (a jump taking off and landing on the same foot)

Tendu | To stretch (an extending action of the leg, a terre with a return closing action)

The cakewalk style of jazz dance was a socially acceptable way slaves made fun of their owners. Dances were usually held at the master's house on the plantation and often took the form of a competition with cake as the reward for the winning dancers, hence the name of the style. Slaves would line up and high step in a straight line, mimicking their masters and other aristocrats. The style died out between 1915 and 1920.

Black Bottom

The black bottom style of the early 1900s earned its name from the slapping of the bottom during the dance. Soloists or couples hopped forward and backward, stamped their feet and gyrated their pelvises, all while slapping their own bottoms.

Charleston

The Charleston first became a popular jazz dance style in the 1920s and is still being practiced today. The basic step of the Charleston involves pivoting the feet in and out while straightening and bending the knees. Weight is shifted from foot to foot and the unweighted foot kicks out at an oblique angle.

The Lindy Hop and Jitterbug

The Lindy hop, characterized by breakaways from a couple's embrace to engage in intricate solo footwork, is often called the jitterbug today. The style originated in the Savoy ballroom in Harlem in the late 1920s. According to The Lindy Circle website, the name jitterbug may have referred to the way white people danced the Lindy hop, which appeared to some as though they were intoxicated. Today, the jitterbug name is used for a variety of different styles in different places.

Swing and Boogie Woogie

Swing dance and the Lindy hop were terms used interchangeably for the same dance style up until 1945, when other forms of swing dancing were invented, making the Lindy hop just one of many styles of swing dance. The boogie-woogie is a swing style where dancers move to a blend of big-band swing and blues music beats. The boogie-woogie is generally a fast style involving flying feet, hops, stomps and jumps.

Other dancers and actors within collage or in stage schools.  

impulsive, low annual income but get student finance so will splash out.  

we don't have a massive amount of people to send our product out to but it is neesh.  

until we get our sample we don't not yet know if we will sell a good amount.  

our competition is more of the high street like Wh smith, boots, primark, supermarkets. but we are bespoke to acting and dancing so we have the upperhand.  

strengths
* they already have a massive foot fall and display their product on shelves
* they can sell journals at a cheap price because they buy in bulk or straight from the factory and it dont cost much to create.
weaknesses. 
* they are not specific to a discipline like dance. generic lined paper doesn't give inspiration to be creative. 

 

Contains: 

-Timetables

-Calendar 

-Deadlines

-Strengths & Targets 

-To Do Lists 

-Dance Terminology (Ballet, Contemporary & Jazz)

-Notes Pages 

-Doodle Pages