Name of Step

[Skittl1321]

Well I've been out of class for a week and I am trying to keep it fresh in my memory. (Although I am only doing a simple barre to stay in shape, no center work. And my poor pointe shoes feel sad and lonely)

 

So the point of this post. I cannot remember the name of a turn we would do across the floor. It was a series of quick half turns switching which foot was in coupe as your turned.

 

Anyone know the name? (The name it might have been called in class or a full proper name would work.) I've gone through ABTs video dictionary, and while I might have missed it, I can't seem to find it.

[Victoria Leigh]

There may be a name for these turns, but if there is, I don't know it. I just call them half turn piqués.

 

(P.S. - foot in cou de pied, front and back, or sometimes retiré front and back. Coupé is an action, not a position! )

[Skittl1321]

Ms Leigh,

Thanks for your response.

I'm don't think we are thinking the same thing.

To pique don't you have to step down onto a straight leg?

 

This is a flat supporting foot, with a slight plie to the leg because you are jumping so quick.

 

As for the cou de pied, I had typed that first but changed it because I was thinking that was when you put your foot behind the ankle and this is in front.

 

So maybe someone else will come along with my first answer, and in the meantime, what action is coupe? Because I apparently have that confused too!

[Marenetha]

Knock knock

 

Isn't that an emboite en tournant?

[Mel Johnson]

Definitely emboités en tournant. Mentioning the pointe shoes first probably threw Ms. Leigh off.

[Victoria Leigh]

Yes, I thought you were talking about a pointe step! Sorry.

 

Coupé means to cut. It is a STEP, not a position, and involves one foot cutting away, or replacing the other one. The other foot often goes to cou de pied, either front or back, but not always and it doesn't have to. For instance, when you do piqué turns on pointe (or demi pointe), the action between the turns is a coupé.

[Skittl1321]

Emboite is exactly it. And thank you for explaining what coupe is!

 

 

Sorry for my red herring....

[Xena]

Sorry if I'm about to confuse anyone, but I have a question regarding the step skittl explained at the start. She said " It was a series of quick half turns switching which foot was in coupe as your turned." I immediately thought it was petit jete by half turns. Then emboites came up, then I got confused... they aren't the same step are they? the emboite sautes en tournant I used to do consist of releves done every half turn, so it would go 'up up down, up up down..etc etc...

Jeanette

[Victoria Leigh]

Jeanette, how can emboité sautés have relevés??? You have me totally confused here!

[Mel Johnson]

Different schools, I bet. Petits jetés by half-turns is RADspeak, and Cecchetti, I think, for what most of the rest of the world calls emboité turns. Emboité sauté would be a kind of redundancy.

[Victoria Leigh]

But what does relevé have to do with any of them?

[Mel Johnson]

Different kind of emboité - RAD has emboités relevés en tournant.

[Xena]

Yes, sorry guys...knew I'd confuse matters! forgot to mention that it was NATD and RAD..whoops...and no I think I confused myself with the relevés as well, as it is just emboites sautes en tournant , for some reason I always think of it as relevés

[lampwick]

I was just thinking about those pique turns where you do a half turn, then switch legs to complete the full turn. Are those considered emboite turns as well? Should the working foot always come to the front of the knee in retire? I think I've been doing them back, front, back, front all this time...

[Victoria Leigh]

I do them back/front too. Not sure if they would be emboités or not. Could be, I guess