toursenlair Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 ... and if so ... WHY???? Find out in my ongoing series of word histories of ballet terms : http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2012/08/between-cats-history-of-word-entrechat.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w445403 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Roberto Bolle and Carla Fracci doing a bunch of entrechats: wonderful but I can't think what the ballet is, please spare me from a restless night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 Giselle in both cases. But they weren't dancing it together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w445403 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Thanks for that, not seen Giselle since 2008 so maybe that's why I couldn't place it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 The best series of entrechat I have ever seen was Chi Cao in Giselle with BRB in 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 Chi Cao, eh, Janet? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irmgard Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Glad to see you use the term capriola intrecciata in your explanation of an entrechat. Intrecciata comes from the verb "intrecciare" of which one meaning is "to interweave" and this is the translation Mary Skeaping and I used in translating (published in 1988) the 18th century dance treatise "Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Dancing" by Gennaro Magri, a renowned Grotesco dancer. His explanation of what we now call entrechats is remarkably clear and explains how to count the "cuts" which is by each movement of the legs, i.e. in what is now called an entrechat quatre there are four leg movements (open, close, open close) very much as taught by the Cecchetti method. In Magri's time "capriola" or "capriole" referred to any jump requiring elevation rather than the specific cabriole of today. There are 23 subsections in his chapter on caprioles, each one listing several variations, and today's balletgoers might be amazed at how many of the jumps we consider virtuosic/acrobatic today were being performed in the 18th century! With regard to the series of entrechats quatre for Albrecht in "Giselle", these were introduced by Nureyev when he first danced the ballet in the west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 I always found it interesting that the sur la place beaten steps such an entrechats which are an odd number (3 crossings) end on one foot while the even number crossings end on two feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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