Terminology Tuesday Forty-Five
I was recently perusing Gail Grant’s
indispensible book Technical Manual and Dictionary
of Classical Ballet (what ballet nerds do for fun), and discovered page
after page of different sissones. Whew!
We all know the standard sissone. See Ballet Secret # 15mm: The step sissonne was named for the
originator of the step; and is pronounced see-SAWN. But who would have guessed that there are more than
forty-five variations!
I’m not going
to list them all, but many of them will be familiar, such as sissone battue (a beaten sissone), or sissone à la seconde (a sissone to the
second position). Others are less familiar, such as sissone
subresaut (a term of the Russian school) which is the same as temps de poisson.
If you’d like
to see all the sissones listed, here is a link to Gail Grant’s book: https://archive.org/stream/GailGrantBalletDictionary/Gail%20grant%20ballet%20dictionary_djvu.txt
Or, you can
purchase your own copy. It’s a very handy book to have around.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #30n:
“There are more than forty-five sissones.”
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