Cabriole, assemblé, brisé... and précipitée (sp?)

[ripresa]

So we've started doing brises, and I'm starting to get confused between brises, caprioles and ensembles.

What are the main differences between the three? I think brise you beat but end up in same position, while caprioles you beat and land with change feet? Is that it? In which case, an ensemble is a beat and change as well, which seems like a capriole?

 

Also, how do you do a precipite?

 

 

Thanks in advance!

[Victoria Leigh]

Ripresa, I think you mean cabriole, assemblé battu, brisé, and glissade précipitée.

 

The assemblé battu is just like an assemblé but with a beat. It will be either over or under, and the beat occurs before the change of feet.

 

The brisé is similar, but does not change feet, so the leading leg, if coming from the back, will beat in front and return to the back.

 

A cabriole is quite different, as it is a jump from one foot to the same foot, and it is done either en avant or en arrière.

 

[Don't forget that the beat in all of these steps are done by bringing the bottom leg UP to the brushing leg, not the brushing leg down to the bottom leg!]

 

A glissade précipitée is a very quick, small glissade, done in half the time of a regular glissade. It is also a bit more up than sideways, usually travels forward (or diagonally forward), and leads into a step lke a grand jeté or a piqué arabesque, etc.

 

[i fixed the title for you! ]

[Redbookish]

A teacher mod will be along soon I hope, but I always think knowing the French helps, eg "assemblé" mean to "assemble" - so as one of my teachers (who is a demon at petit allegro) always reminds us that the legs assemble in the mid-air.

 

 

Edited to add: Ms Leigh and I were posting at the same time!

[Mazenderan]

Where do you get the time from to add a beat to an assemblé?

[Hans]

Unfortunately, ABT's Online Dictionary does not have assemblé battu, but it does have jeté battu, so you can at least see how the beat occurs.

[ripresa]

The assemblé battu is just like an assemblé but with a beat. It will be either over or under, and the beat occurs before the change of feet.

 

Wow. Lightbulb moment for me here.. I've always done the beat after the change of feet. This makes jeté battu, much much easier too!

 

A glissade précipitée is a very quick, small glissade, done in half the time of a regular glissade. It is also a bit more up than sideways, usually travels forward (or diagonally forward), and leads into a step lke a grand jeté or a piqué arabesque, etc.

 

Ah.. that makes sense. My teacher always does it in centerwork, and she's more a "show-er" then a "talk-er" and her feet flutters really quickly which makes it hard to learn visually. I didn't even know it was a glissade.

 

Thank you so much!

[Redbookish]

I always think of my [un]French translation of "precipitée" -- "on the precipice" as a kind of inward breath that suspends you slightly, before you breath out into a big move. It's imagery more than technique

[Mel Johnson]

But as such, it's not bad!