Terminology Tuesday Tour-Hanche
In the area of Strange but True Things
in Ballet comes tour-hanche
[toor-AHNSH]. It means “hip turn” and it was a mechanical device from the
eighteenth century. Seriously.
This piece of equipment was a vise-like
thing that allowed the dancer’s feet to be secured in a turned-out position. Of
course it did nothing to achieve rotation in the hip joints (despite the name),
but instead forced turn-out only from the ankles. Scary stuff.
But it gets better. Dancers were
strapped into this device at night so they could improve their turn-out while
they slept.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Terminology Secret #65:
“Tour-hanche
was a mechanical device.
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― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity
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