I really love watching ballet I guess because my daughter is a ballet dancer- it has it's own vocabulary based on French terminology.  
I did not know the vocabulary was french - are there any examples
Well one example is adage which means slowly - so you are to do the move slowly
Ok.  What do they call it when they do the tiptoe turns
You are probably thinking of piourette which I believe means to turn - because it became formalizedin Franch, most of the terminology is French