dance pose
Held ballet position
A dance pose is a held position of the body, typically at a moment of stillness within choreography or at the end of a movement sequence.
The term appears most often in contexts like yoga-dance fusion, photography direction, or video game animations where characters strike stylized positions: Hold that dance pose for the camera.
In ballet and other formal dance, these positions have specific names—arabesque, attitude—but dance pose serves as a general term across styles.
- stanceStanding posture or viewpoint
- arabesqueFlowing ornamental design
- pliéBallet knee-bending movement
- attitudeSettled way of thinking
- en pointeBallet's toe-standing position
balance · freeze · hold · extension · body line · gesture · movement · graceful · poised · elegant · turnout · arch · stillness · frame · body · limbs · stretch · fluid
- posesstanding, sitting, seated, kneeling, reclining
- figure drawingfigure drawing, life drawing, figure study, figure model, life model
- Tantric Buddhismdakini, tantra, yogini, consort, deity
- danceballet, breaking, b-boying, ballroom, waltz
dance poseleap
Sudden springing movement
jump · turn · spin · pirouette · grand jeté
dance posefree movement
Unrestricted ability to travel
improvisation · fall · release · collapse · abandon
dance posefree movement
Unrestricted ability to travel
improvisation · release · flow · spontaneous expression · continuous motion
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