Terminology Tuesday Fléchir
The verb fléchir [flay-SHEER] means “to bend or to flex”. For example as in fléchir les genoux which means “bend the knees”.
Now this begs the question, what about “plié”, which dancers are usually told
means to bend? According to https://m.interglot.com/fr/en/pli%C3%A9,
plié (the adjective) means crooked, bent,
curved or warped. Hmmmm…
But as a noun, according to https://m.interglot.com/fr/en/pli%C3%A9,
plié means “a movement in which the knees
are bent while the back is held straight”. That’s more like it.
But it still sounds like we could all be
doing fléchirs instead of pliés.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Terminology Secret #69:
“Fléchir means to bend.”
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