Fun Friday Shooting Saut de Chat
That wonderful step called saut de chat is where a dancer
can feel truly abandoned! It differs
from a standard grand jeté because of the action of the front leg. In a regular grand jeté, the front leg brushes
out and up straight (like a grand battement), as the dancer propels herself into
the air.
In a saut de chat, the front leg instead operates like a rapid,
aggressive developpé. In both jumps, the
back leg performs a grand battement as it leaves the floor, simultaneous with
the action of the front leg. This synchronicity
is crucial to the success of the jump.
In a saut de chat, it is important that the front leg shoots
out parallel to the floor. It as if the
dancer is trying to fly through the air and have the front leg stick into the
wall! Watch a dancer from the corner of
the room they are traveling toward
and this “shooting out parallel to the floor” will be immediately obvious.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #15L:
“A saut de chat involves shooting the front leg out parallel to the
floor.”
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