Terminology Tuesday Hortensia
Hortensia [awr-than-SYAH] is a male dancer’s step. It is a jump
in which the legs are drawn up, one in front of the other and then the position
is reversed several times in the air, but without beats. The dancer lands with
the legs apart.
The definition of the word hortensia is particularly interesting.
It can be several things including an English baby name, and it comes from the
feminine form of the Roman clan name Hortensius.
Hortensia is also a name for a group of
hydrangeas that have large, rounded flower heads. Its origin is said to come
from the Latin Hortense who was the
wife of a French clockmaker in the 1700s. Or, it is possibly from the Latin
word for garden: hortus.
Hmm. How the ballet step came to be
called hortensia is something I have
yet to discover. Perhaps when the legs are drawn up into the double passé it
looks like a flower head?
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Terminology Secret #42:
“Hortensia is a male dancer’s step.”
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