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  2. Glossary of ballet - Wikipedia

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    Italian, or French adage, meaning 'slowly, at ease.' Slow movements performed with fluidity and grace. One of the typical exercises of a traditional ballet class, done both at barre and in center, featuring slow, controlled movements. The section of a grand pas (e.g., grand pas de deux), often referred to as grand adage, that features dance ...

  3. Reverso (language tools) - Wikipedia

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    Reverso's suite of online linguistic services has over 96 million users, and comprises various types of language web apps and tools for translation and language learning. [11] Its tools support many languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Ukrainian and Russian.

  4. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...

  5. Battement - Wikipedia

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    In ballet, battement is an alternating side-to-side movement of the working leg. [1] Battements are typically performed in multiples, quickly and in rapid succession so that the working foot appears to be fluttering or vibrating. They are usually executed in front, to the side or in back The word battement is of French origin, meaning "beat".

  6. Pas de trois - Wikipedia

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    In ballet, pas de trois [pɑ də tʁwɑ] is a French term usually referring to a dance between three people. Typically, a pas de trois in ballet consists of five parts: Entrée (the opening number for the three dancers, usually preceded by a short introduction) Variation (or solo) for the 1st dancer; Variation for the 2nd dancer; Variation for ...

  7. Les noces - Wikipedia

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    At a revival of the ballet in London's Covent Garden on 23 March 1962, four composers – John Gardner, Malcolm Williamson, Richard Rodney Bennett and Edmund Rubbra – played the piano parts. [ 8 ] The premiere of the 1919 version of Les Noces , with cimbaloms , harmonium , and pianola, took place in 1981 in Paris, conducted by Pierre Boulez .

  8. Montjoie Saint Denis! - Wikipedia

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    View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

  9. Le baiser de la fée - Wikipedia

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    Le Baiser de la fée (The Fairy's Kiss) is a neoclassical ballet in one act and four scenes composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1928 and revised in 1950 for George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet. Based on Hans Christian Andersen 's short story Isjomfruen (English: The Ice-Maiden ), the work is an homage to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , for the ...