battement
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of battement
1820–30; < French, equivalent to batt ( re ) to beat ( see bate 2) + -ment -ment
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When Violet topples over while stretching her leg high in a grand battement, Weary tells her, “It is better to try our hardest and fall down than to not try at all.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2020
During the 90-minute class, instructor Jessica Jaye Mackinson taught us to chassé, sauté, ronde de jambe and grand battement, a fancy French word for a three-sided kick.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2017
But now look at how the dancers do the battement tendu, the single step most famously associated with Balanchine.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2012
She fills the space with an array of battements and bourrées, chaîné turns and arabesques; at one point she skips up a spiral staircase like a happy child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
I have a small studio space in my house, a postage stamp, I think of it, and here every day I try to speak with my body: crunches, push-ups, tendus, a few battements.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2015
In “Electricity,” the Times Square number, there are only four kicks, knitted together by dévelopées instead of battements.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2014
The Marginalized, Front and Center Peter Baryshnikov is following in the footsteps of his father, Mikhail — but not with jetés and battements.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2013
While other children were having their parents or their dentists pull out their baby teeth, I was knocking mine out with my feet when I did grands battements.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
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