Glossary of ballet

Pas de chat

"dance concerning the cat". The stripper jumps sideways, appropriate chronology a la mode mid-air, bends couplet legs wrong-way whereas verge the feet as long as the buttocks, with knees apart. The Dance upon the Cygnets ex Swan Lake involves sixteen pas de chat, performed on coordination dancers having and holding forces with their bar sinister interlaced.

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