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The phrase port de bras is used in some schools and parts of the world to indicate a bending forward, backward, or circularly of the body at the waist, generally to be followed by bringing the upper body back to center/upright again, e.g. "port de bras forward", "port de bras back", "circular port de bras/grand port de bras".
I have only studied in a school claiming to teach "American" style - supposedly a mix of all styles - but the terms I have been looking for the spelling of: saut de chat {pronounced "sō-də-shǎ" (a leap similar to grand jeté but beginning with a developpé)} tembé {pronounced "tǒm-bě" meaning "to fall" (often happens before a pas de ...
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La Fille de marbre, Cesare Pugni, 1847; La Fille du Danube, Adolphe Adam, 1836; La Fille mal gardée, to an arrangement of fifty-five popular French airs, 1789; La Fille mal gardée (Ashton), Peter Ludwig Hertel, Ferdinand Hérold, John Lanchbery, 1960; La Fin du jour, to music by Maurice Ravel, 1979; The Firebird, Igor Stravinsky, 1910
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". [2] [3] The word came into English usage from the French around 1630.
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The Afternoon of a Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. Nijinsky danced the main part himself. The ballet is set to Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.