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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Terminology Tuesday Tour Jeté



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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