Technical Tuesday Tour Jeté
Since this is Technical Tuesday, technically speaking, a tour jeté is not the correct term, it is
more colloquial (“used in ordinary or
familiar conversation; not formal or literary”). The correct term is “grand
jeté en tournant”, that is, a jeté that turns. Tour jeté is more often used, I
believe, because it is shorter and easier.
But I digress. Yesterday I blogged about the difference
between grand jeté and saut de chat, and today the subject is a grand jeté that
turns: a grand jeté en tournant.
The important thing about a grand jete en tournant is the
first thing that should happen: a grand battement devant in the air. This
must precede the switching of legs in the air and not, as so often happens, be
a mini-battement - a shortcut where the leading leg never achieves a full grand battement devant
before the switch.
There are several other elements that must come into play in
a grand jeté en tournant, but I shall leave those to be discussed on another
day.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #15w:
“A grand jeté en tournant begins with a grand battement devant.”
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Switching of legs in the air must be really a difficult task.
ReplyDeleteIt gets easier with practice!
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