Terminology Tuesday Tour de Reins
Tour
de reins (toor duh ren) means turn of
the back. Here is the description of the step from Gail Grant’s Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical
Ballet:
“This is a series of coupé-jeté en
tournant done en manège. The dancer contracts his back muscles and leans toward
the centre of the circle at an acute angle. The angle is obtained through the
speed and continuity of the step which demands good elevation and a well-arched
back. The tempo has an unusual accent and the step actually becomes jeté-coupé
instead of coupé-jeté. The jeté maybe performed in attitude or arabesque.”
This series of steps is most commonly
called barrel turns, and you can see
it demonstrated in today’s Link of the
Day.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #30g:
“Tour de reins means turn of the back.”
Link of the Day:
Quote of the Day:
“You have
to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to
store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems
to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel
alive.”
― Merce Cunningham
― Merce Cunningham
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