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In dance (particularly ballet), arabesque (French: [aʁabɛsk]; literally, "in Arabic fashion") is a body position in which a dancer stands on one leg (the supporting leg) with the other leg (the working leg) extended, straight, behind the body.
Graceful epaulement, with the upper body usually twisting towards the working foot, to draw attention to and emphasise the movement. [3] [2] Lowered eye-line to give the impression of kindness, not raised with the expression of being proud. [3] The eyes naturally follow the moving leg. [3] Great attention is paid to the shape and placement of ...
Arabesque position with working leg à la hauteur, forming a 90° angle with supporting leg Arabesque penchée. Arabesque (French:; literally, "in Arabic fashion") in dance, particularly ballet, is a body position in which a dancer stands on one leg–the supporting leg–with the other leg–the working leg–turned out and extended behind the body, with both legs held straight.
Training in Balanchine technique allows dancers to utilize more space in less time, so that speed, spatial expansion and a syncopated musicality are enhanced.
Obviously, ignoramuses who rule the internet now thought that this word is somehow related to notes do and si. Now let us go ahead and rename "epaulement" into "a-pullman", chasse into chase or shassey, chaînés into chains, and especially I am eager to see battement turned into batman. mikka 19:28, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Muriel Mary Stuart Popper was born in 1900, [1] in South Norwood, London. [2] [3] She was discovered by Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova as a girl, and trained with Pavlova, [4] and with Ivan Clustine and Enrico Cecchetti.
Ballet is a French word which had its origin in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance) which comes from Latin ballo, ballare, meaning "to dance", [1] [2] which in turn comes from the Greek "βαλλίζω" (ballizo), "to dance, to jump about".
Asphalt and sandbag revetment with a geotextile filter. A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water and protect it from erosion.