Miraculous Monday Passing Through
Every grand battement is made up of two other important steps. It is just like a recipe: the ingredients must be correct or the dish
will not come out as expected – and might even taste horrible.
In grand battement these two ingredients are tendu and dégagé. It is important to pass through tendu and dégagé
as the leg thrusts upward into the battement, and on the way down the process
is reversed, passing through dégagé, then tendu, and finally closing in fifth
position.
This is important for the correct impetus (through the use
of the foot on the floor), but also for one other big reason. Passing through these positions assures a fully pointed foot as soon as
the foot leaves the ground! It is like having
a policy of Pointed-Foot Insurance for grand battement.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #12d:
“A grand battement
must pass through a tendu and a dégagé, on the way up and on the way down.”
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