entrechat
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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
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
Bea is an earthbound Nijinsky who can entrechat her way across a stage in half-inch leaps.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an entrechat, the beat of her feet in the air seems as natural and effortless as the beat of a hummingbird's wings.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was past-mistress of the entrechat and other mysteries of the ballet academy.
From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl
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
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
Last week, while city studios gathered dust, the thrifty, as well as the talented who can get scholarships, were doing their pirouettes, entrechats and extensions in the spruce air of a 200-acre Berkshire farm.
From Time Magazine Archive
She began to make the three ritual entrechats, but Stat stopped her.
From Helpfully Yours by Smith, Evelyn E.
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