entrechat
Americannoun
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entrechats
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of entrechat
1765–75; < French, alteration of Italian ( capriola ) intrecciata intwined (caper), equivalent to in- in- 2 + trecci- tress + -ata -ate 1
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“But I still look at a ballet like ‘Swan Lake’ or ‘Giselle,’ and I’m like, I have to do 24 entrechat sixes,” he said, referring to a virtuosic jump with rapid, crisscrossing feet.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
The latest step in Japan's Westernization is an entrechat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bea is an earthbound Nijinsky who can entrechat her way across a stage in half-inch leaps.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Paris, balletomanes were treated to an unprogrammed novelty when Dancer Michel Rayne leaped up in an entrechat, came gracefully down, kept right on down through a prematurely opened trap door.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man at the controls of the machine practically performed a ritual entrechat.
From Helpfully Yours by Evelyn E. Smith
But when I first saw the Danes in 1979, I felt as if I’d never seen entrechats before.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
The way he, when crisscrossing his feet in the air in entrechats, added a sudden, wider opening before the final crossing was a wonderfully subtle grace note.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2010
Its 20-year-old dancers concentrated on U. S. subjects, did their own staging, hired U. S. composers to write their music, added a distinct U. S. flavor to their classical leaps and entrechats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Graham approaches her art with barefoot, Protestant simplicity, thinks of her choreography in terms of drama rather than pirouettes and entrechats.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is slipping, Madam, into a terrible abyss, while you and I are gazing, delighted, at her entrechats and pirouettes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
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