Technical Tuesday Échappé
Yesterday I blogged
about sous-sus and how each leg travels an equal distance to come from fifth to
relevé. An échappé does something similar.
The word “échappé” comes
from the French word échapper which means “to escape; and that is what the feet do – they “escape”
from fifth position (usually) and move to an open position like fourth or
second. The definition is: “of
a movement) progressing from a closed position (first, third, or fifth) to an
open position (second or fourth) of the feet.”
An échappé is not only
a jumping step, but also a pointe step. The movement is almost the same: each
foot travels (slides) outward equally to an open position. It is like sous-sus
but in reverse: the movement is outward instead of inward. Sous-sus and échappé
are often combined in choreography and classroom pointe-work exercises.
The secret to échappé
is like sous-sus: equal, equal, equal
distance must be traveled from the starting position.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #15ff:
“Échappé comes from the
French word échapper which means “to escape”.
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