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I’m excited to present to you a new release of the Ballet Vocab Game! These past few weeks I have been working on the Ballet Vocabulary game. With suggestions from a few awesome friends, I have redesigned the game to make it more user friendly.

Give it a try and tell what you think.

Alongside Dance Advantage and other great dance blogs, Dance25 has been featured on Online Classes as one of the Top 50 Best Blogs for Fine Arts Students for our tutorials and drills such as the Pique Turns article

If you are looking to explore other dance and fine arts blogs from the list, you can find it in the link above.

I want to thank everyone who sent in comments for their feedback. This has been really helpful. I would like to give a special shout out to Nichelle from Dance Advantage and the girls from The Ballet Bag who gave me some great advice.

Unfortunately, there can be only one winner… and that is Herman. Thank you for taking the time to point out the specific areas of improvement and linking me to resources. I will be contacting you to see which prize you’d prefer.

Based on all the feedback, it sounds like it’s time to do a small revamp of the page! I’ll be working on this over the next few months. This is exciting. Expect to see some changes here and there as I experiment on this.

I hope you liked our last week’s article on Chaînés . This week’s term is Pas de basque .

Pas de Basque

[pah duh bask]

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Translation: Step of the Basques (Basques are a member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain)

Category: Jump

• Pas de Basques is a halfway between a step and a leap, taken on the floor (glissé) or with a jump (sauté).  It can be done moving toward the front or toward the back.
• There are two types of pas de basque: pas de basque glisse, done close to the floor, and pas de basque saute, which is done with a jump.

Ballet Videos with Pas de Basque – Pas de Basque is a combination of four movements done in 3 counts. It can be best demonstrated by the following videos:
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