grand jeté

ballet movement

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The grand jeté is a ballet leap where a dancer throws one leg forward into the air, creating a split position with legs stretched front and back. The dancer then lands on the front leg. This movement is a type of jeté, which means "thrown" in French and involves transferring weight from one foot to the other during a leap. A grand jeté is characterized by its high kick or battement. It is considered a vigorous jump within ballet vocabulary.123

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…air before the descent; the grand jeté, a broad, high leap with one leg stretched forward and the other back like a “split” in the air; and the jeté en tournant, or tour jeté (“flung turn”), in which the dancer executes a half-turn in the air away from the forward…
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…air before the descent; the grand jeté, a broad, high leap with one leg stretched forward and the other back like a “split” in the air; and the jeté en tournant, or tour jeté (“flung turn”), in which the dancer executes a half-turn in the air away from the forward…
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