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| Manèges | term applied to steps or enchaînements executed in a circle. |
| Mazurka (mazurek) | a Polish folk dance in 3/4 time which has been introduced into a number of ballets as a character dance. |
| Methods | academic ballet as we know it today came into being in the year 1661, when King Louis XIV of France founded the Académie Royale de Musique et de Danse |
| Mime | art of using the face and body to express emotion and dramatic action |
| Neuf | nine |
| Notation | there are two systems of notation in general use, Labanotation and Benesh notation. |
| Ouvert, ouverte | Open, opened - refers to positions (the second and fourth positions of the feet are positions ouvertes), limbs, directions, or certain exercises or steps |
| Pas | simple step or a compound movement which involves a transfer of weight |
| Pas de bourrée | Bourrée steps done on the point or demi-pointe |
| Pas de bourrée couru | running steps - a progression on the points or demi-pointes by a series of small, even steps with the feet close together |
| Pas de chat | cat's-step - owes its name to the likeness of the movement to a cat's leap |
| Pas de deux | dance for two |
| Pas de deux, grand | grand dance for two |
| Pas de quatre | dance for four |
| Pas de trois | dance for three |
| Pas de valse | waltz step- with a graceful swaying of the body with various arm movements, step is like a balancé, but the feet do not cross |
| Pas marché | marching step - the dignified, classical walk of the ballerina and the premier danseur |
| Penché, penchée | leaning, inclining, for example, in arabesque penchée |
| Petit, petite | small |
| Pieds, cinq postions des (Five postions of the feet) | five basic positions of the feet in classical ballet, and every step or movement is begun and ended in one or another of these positions |
| Piqué | pricked, pricking - executed by stepping directly on the point or demi-pointe of the working foot in any desired direction or position with the other foot raised in the air |
| Pirouette | whirl or spin - a complete turn of the body on one foot, on point or demi-pointe |
| Pirouette à la second, grande | large pirouette in the second position usually performed by male dancers. It is a series of turns on one foot with the free leg raised to the second position en l'air at 90 degrees |
| Plié | bent, bending - of the knee or knees. This is an exercise to render the joints and muscles soft and pliable and the tendons flexible and elastic, and to develop a sense of balance |
| Pointes, sur les | raising of the body on the tips of the toes. Also used in the singular, "sur la pointe." First introduced in the late 1820s or early 1830s at the time of Taglioni. There are three ways of reaching the points, by piqué, relevé or sauté. |
| Pointe shoes | The satin ballet shoes used by dancers when dancing sur les pointes. shoes reinforced with a box constructed of several layers of strong glue in between layers of material. |
| Poisson | fish - a position of the body in which the legs are crossed in the fifth position and held tightly together with the back arched |
| Polonaise | processional dance in 3/4 time with which the court ballets of the seventeenth century were opened |
| Port de bras | movement or series of smooth movements made by passing the arm or arms through various positions. The passage of the arms from one position to another constitutes a port de bras. Also term for a group of exercises designed to make the arms move gracefully and harmoniously |
| Porté, portée | Refers either to a step which is traveled in the air from one spot to another or to the carrying of a danseuse by a danseur. |
| Premier, première | first |
| Promenade, tour de | in a pas de deux, the ballerina on point holds her pose and is slowly turned by her partner who walks around her holding her hand. |
