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Active Listening (music): What you do when you’re focusing on what you hear, for example focusing on the words someone is saying when you are having a conversation.

Alberto Giacometti: Swiss sculpture who is known for his thin, tall figures made of bronze.

Alliteration: Use of words with the same letter or consonant sound that repeats.

Ballet: A classic Western dance form that originated in the Renaissance courts of Europe. By the time of Louis XIV in the mid-1600s, steps and body positions were classified.

Battement Tendu: A movement in which one leg is extended until the point of the stretched foot barely touches the ground.

Character: A person who is part of a story or drama.

Choreography: The creation and composition of dances by arranging or inventing steps, movements and patterns of movement linked together in a sequence.

Composer: A person who writes music by organizing sound.

Choreographer: The person who creates or composes and arranges dances.

Dynamics: Varying degrees of volume in the performance of music.

Demi-Plie: Half bend. A position in which the knees are half bent.

Dramatize: To present something in a dramatic way.

Elongated: Unusually long in relation to its width.

Five Positions: The 5 basic steps used at the beginning and end of movements and in passing from one movement to another.

Gesture: A movement of a part of a body, especially a hand or head, to express an idea or meaning.

Grand Jete: A big jump from one leg to the other, with legs outstretched in the air.

Grand Plie: A position in which the legs are fully bent.

Imagery: The use of pictures/visuals to describe/paint a picture in words.

Metaphor: A direct comparison.

Movement: The principal of design dealing with the creation of action.

Onomatopoeia: Use of a word associated with a sound.

Pantomime: Using body movement, gestures, and facial expression to communicate or tell a story.

Pas De Deux: A dance for two.

Personification: Giving human qualities to animals, inanimate objects or abstract notions.

Pirouette: To whirl about on one foot or on the points of toes.

Releve/Eleve': Raised. A movement in which the body is raised on pointes (points of toes) or demi-pointes. (Half raised on ball of foot)

Saute: A jump.

Sculpture: A 3-dimensional (3D) work of art.

Setting: Where and when a story takes place.

Simile: A comparison using like or as.

Suite: A musical composition consisting of a succession of short pieces.

Tchaikovsky: Famous Russian composer of the Romantic era whose music is heard in The Nutcracker.

Tempo: The pace at which music moves according to the speed of the underlying beat.

Texture: The surface quality of materials, either actual (tactile) or implied (visual); one of the elements of art.

Theme: An idea, belief, message or lesson of a story that the author wants the reader to understand.

Venn Diagram: A diagram that shows the relationship between two groups of things by means of overlapping circles.