Terminology Tuesday Tour Jeté
Most dancers are familiar with the big
jump called tour jeté. It is basically a jump where the legs scissor (exchange
places) in the air and the dancer lands in arabesque.
The full name (and most will say the correct name) is actually grand jeté en
tournant (a turning grand jeté). Tour jeté is basically a necessary shortening
of the lengthy term – a more colloquial rendering.
But there’s more. The term can be further extended into grand jeté en tournant entrelacé. Entrelacé means interlaced.
I have also seen grand jeté en tournant entrelacé to mean a grand jeté en tournant
that lands with the leg in devant – not arabesque, requiring a little bit more
interlacing.
One can certainly understand why this
particular term was shortened!
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #15ppp:
“The full name for tour jeté is grand jeté en tournant
entrelacé.”
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