Fun Friday Enveloppés
You will recall that every step in ballet has a name and can
be reversed. Today’s secret involves the reverse of developpé – enveloppé. The word
means “enveloped”, but when I learned this step as a student I thought it
sounded like “envelope” (which comes from the same French root) and that seems to
be exactly what the step does.
Unlike a developpé that unfolds
(usually from a passé), an enveloppé
folds back into, or through a passé,
and moves on down into fifth or whatever closing position is required. It is
just like placing a letter (the working foot) into an envelope.
So on your next enveloppé, imagine tucking a letter into an
envelope.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #11f:
“Imagine tucking a letter into an envelope in an enveloppé.”
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