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But grands jetés and the Cultural Revolution are just exotic window dressing in “Mao’s Last Dancer,” which is, at heart, nothing more than an old-fashioned tear-jerker.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2010

Jets and Sharks are easy marks In grands jetés!

From Washington Post

Mikhail Baryshnikov, 31, is a man of grands jetés.

From Time Magazine Archive

I expected us to immediately move on to greater things, like arabesques, grands jetés, and pirouettes, but we couldn’t.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince