Good to see you've had a cultural week ;) I got taken to my first Beckett play at the NT last night, which was far less bleak and depressing than I'd feared!
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four jetes (or at least that's what he calls them, I always thought they were degages, or something?)
Battement glisses ("gliding beats") are also known as battement jetes ("thrown beats"). Go figure. I think they're meant to involve both gliding (of the foot along the floor as the leg extends) and throwing (of the foot up away from the floor at the end of the extension). The leaving of the floor differentiates glisses from tendus ("points"). The jumps petit jete and grand jete begin with a battement jete gliding the foot along and off the floor before elevation, so they are related.
Degages usually are transitions from a closed foot position to an open (e.g. degage first to second) and take place entirely on the floor.
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Battement glisses ("gliding beats") are also known as battement jetes ("thrown beats"). Go figure. I think they're meant to involve both gliding (of the foot along the floor as the leg extends) and throwing (of the foot up away from the floor at the end of the extension). The leaving of the floor differentiates glisses from tendus ("points"). The jumps petit jete and grand jete begin with a battement jete gliding the foot along and off the floor before elevation, so they are related.
Degages usually are transitions from a closed foot position to an open (e.g. degage first to second) and take place entirely on the floor.
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