Ponyshine

When you do en avant you pass the back foot to the front into fifth, and then do the sissoné, and en arriere you pass the front foot to the back into fifth, and then do the sissoné

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Hi Everyone,

I have a question about temps de cuise en avant & en arriere.

I know that for the an avant version the sissone part travels forwards & for the en arriere version the sissone travels backwards, but what I'm not sure of is whether the foot passes devant or derriere in the petit retire passe before the sissone.

My teacher thinks (but is not certain) that when the sissone goes en avant, then you pass the front leg petit retire passes derrier before doing the sissone en avant & the opposite for when the sissone goes en arriere.

Is this correct or does the foot pass devant when traveling an avant with the sissone?

I hope this makes sense!

Thanks

The plan is to complete old Advanced 1 this year - my exam is actually next Monday!!

That's why I'm going through the RAD vocabulary lists and checking where there are gaps in my knowledge which I need to know quite quickly

Not a complete shock to your system then Wishing you all the best for your Advanced 1 exam - is it this year or are you studying the new Adv 1 with a view to doing the exam next year?

The plan is to complete old Advanced 1 this year - my exam is actually next Monday!!

Did you do an unset enchainement for your IDTA intermediate exam, Ponyshine? From my experience and DD's experience, in preparing for RAD intermediate foundation and upwards these terms would have become very familiar to you so that if they were part of the unset enchainement given by your examiner you would have had no problem demonstrating them. It must be difficult to switch from IDTA to RAD especially at this advanced stage -was there no possibility of your doing IDTA Advanced?

Yes - I did have to do a number of unsets for Intermediate IDTA. I have found unsets quite hard previously because my brain likes to have time to fully understand what I have to do before I do it, but thankfully I managed fine in my Intermediate exam. Although many terms became familiar to me, there are some that I still forget, especially ones that get a little confusing.

I actually wanted to do RAD Advanced 1 because most of my life I'd done RAD until my previous teacher decided  to do Intermediate IDTA.   Although Advanced 1 RAD is hard, I'm not completely foreign to RAD, so it's not too bad generally.

Petit assembles are just a little jump to get your feet into 5th (ie no swish like a normal assemble). Say you did glissade jete, you'd end one foot sur le cou de pied, you just do a little petit assemble to get your feet into 5th.

 

RAD inter - the sissies ordinaries exercise, doesn't that have petit assembles inbetween the sissones to get your feet to 5th?

Thanks - that helped! I don't know the RAD Intermediate syllabus very well - I actually did IDTA intermediate.

Hi Ponyshine, welcome to the forum! As far as I remember from my ballet days - and I will immediately bow to the vastly superior knowledge of the ballet teachers on the forum if I am wrong and apologise in advance if this is the case:-

 

Assembles devant use the front foot to 'swish' and land with the same foot still in front - the converse for assembles derrière.

 

Assembles dessus or over use the back foot to 'swish' and that back foot comes 'over' to finish at the front. Assembles dessous or under use the front foot to 'swish' and that front foot goes 'under' to finish at the back.

 

Assembles en avant move forwards rather than to the side and assembles en arriere move backwards rather than to the side.

 

Assembles en tournant are assembles performed whilst turning.

 

Petit assembles devant and derrière are what I always mentally labelled 'joining the feet' on a jump.

Thanks - this helped! I'm still not quite sure what petit assembles are though...?

Shouldn't your teacher  be covering this?

She did give us some help, but there was so much that I couldn't remember everything. I am planning to ask her some terms, but I thought I'd see if I could work out some of the easier ones so as to save time in class.

Welcome from me too, twiggy and Ponyshine.

Thank you!

I'm trying to make sure I know all the French terms before my Advanced 1 RAD exam!

I know what an assemble is, but I get a little confused with all the different types!

Could you give me a simple definition of each of the following (use videos if that helps you to explain):

- Assemble devant

- Assemble derriere

- Assemble dessus (over)

- Assemble dessous (under)

- Parallel assemble en evant & en tournant

- Petit assemble devant & derriere

Thanks very much in advance!

Welcome to the forum, both. :-)

Thank you!

I am a ballet dancer working towards Advanced 1 RAD. I have done ballet my whole life & I've also done gymnastics my whole life. For me, they have complimented each other well. Ballet has improved my posture which helps in gymnastics. Gymnastics has helped to strengthen my legs for ballet.

My teacher calls them running glissades as well

It's a normal glissades step that travels further turning into more of a linking step. It is usually used in the sequence- coupe chasse glissade grand jete

Hope this helped xxx

Thanks, that helped!

Hello All,

Could someone please explain to me what a 'running glissade' is. Maybe you could post a video of one? I think I know, but I just want to make sure I'm right. I know what a normal glissade is.

Thanks!