| She used the entrechat, a series of rapid crossings of the legs that previously had been used only by male dancers. |
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| Throughout the Poisson Rouge show, ballet steps kept showing up: relevé, sissonne, arabesque, jeté, entrechat. |
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| Then he asked her to try an entrechat six, a leap straight in the air with rapid leg crossings. |
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| But there's another version that's done primarily through Europe and in America, where the Albrecht comes out center stage and he does these beats — a series of beats called entrechat six. |
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| By the same token an entrechat in ballet can convey elation, or it can register as a lacing pattern in its own right. |
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| Theirs is a veritable entrechat dix of scholarship on the ever more crowded stage of ballet studies. |
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| Then in a moment of stillness, I slide off my high horse into an entrechat six, feeling ebullient. |
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