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What does entrechat mean?

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Noun
  1. (dance) A manoeuvre whereby the performer jumps up and strikes the heels together a number of times.
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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.
By the same token an entrechat in ballet can convey elation, or it can register as a lacing pattern in its own right.
But the curtain rose on the ballet, and the first entrechat electrified them.
She was past-mistress of the entrechat and other mysteries of the ballet academy.
Theirs is a veritable entrechat dix of scholarship on the ever more crowded stage of ballet studies.
Throughout the Poisson Rouge show, ballet steps kept showing up: relevé, sissonne, arabesque, jeté, entrechat.

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