Terminology Tuesday En Reculant

Terminology Tuesday Reculant

Emboîté en reculant  (ahn bwah TAY ahn ruh kew LAHN) means an emboîté that moves away from the audience, or upstage. It is a term of the French school, and its opposite is emboîté en descendant, which moves toward the audience, or downstage.

These terms most likely come from the time when stages were raked (slanted toward the audience) which is where the terms upstage and downstage come from.

See also my blog on emboîtés: http://balletwebb.blogspot.com/search?q=embo%C3%AEt%C3%A9

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets

Terminology Secret #30j:

“Emboîté en reculant  moves away from the audience.”

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Terminology Tuesday Grand Emboîté

Terminology Tuesday Grand Emboîté

Most of us are familiar with emboité, but I seldom heard the term grand emboité. Of course it means big, but here is the full definition from https://themasterdance.com/ballet-terminology/: “A grand emboîté is a traveling jump where each leg is alternately brought to attitude in the air, each foot passing the previous one in alternating.”

Also from the same site, a regular or small emboîté is “known as a petit jeté in RAD and the French school.”

The word emboîté itself translates to “nested” in English and embroîér means “to fit together”.

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets

Terminology Secret #52:

“A grand emboîté is a big emboîté.”

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Terminology Tuesday Emboîté

Terminology Tuesday Emboîté

Most of us are familiar with the step called emboîté (as seen at the end of the coda of Peasant Pas de Deux- see the Link of the Day below at 9:24). But did you ever wonder what the word itself means?

It means “boxed” or “fitted together”. The term comes from the close fitting of the feet that are like a snugly fitted lid on a box. The Russian and Cecchetti schools use this word, but the French school uses the term “petit jeté” and they only do this step on pointe or demi-pointe (according to Gail Grant’s Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet).

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets

Terminology Secret #75:

“Emboîté means ‘boxed’.”

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Wacky Wednesday Quarter Song

Wacky Wednesday Quarter Song

In the large collection of fun-to-say ballet terms, I present emboîté. It is also a fun step to do, particularly because it is a jump and a turn. Double fun. It is a great way to practice spotting, and also a great way to perfect jumps and turns simultaneously.  The term emboîté means “fitted together” or “boxed”.

The interesting thing about emboîtés is that despite the way the step looks (there’s that illusion thing again), an emboîté isn’t truly a half-turn, half-turn. That’s right. It is actually a one-quarter turn followed by a three-quarter turn. Try it. It works much better this way.

Emboîtés have a song that is repeated silently in the dancer’s mind as the step is performed: “Quarter, three-quarter, Quarter, three-quarter, Quarter, three-quarter… You get the idea.

From now on, this song will be stuck in your head whenever you do emboîtés.

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:

Secret #15cc:  

“An emboîté is involves a quarter turn followed by a three-quarter turn.”

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