I tend to use Gail Grant's Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet, where a definition for coupé jeté en tournant can be found. Different schools use different terms for the same step. I'm not familiar with the term you referenced, but would think it originates from the Italian School.
Coupé Jeté en Tournant or "chasse coupe jete" is another one of those steps that's taught completely wrong. We're taught the "correct" way is to do a quick turn with one leg in back coup de pied in plie, and then coupe (cut) to a large split jete with legs brushing to the front. When I first started dancing I learned this step instinctively and did it decently. Then I got a master guest teacher Benjamin Harkarvy for a week in the mid-90s who taught me the "correct" way and from that point on it ruined my coupe jete for over a decade making it awkward and unnatural. I didn't fix it until I relearned the step wearing sticky gym shoes at the gym that forced me to do two jumps. If we look at the great Sarafanov frame-by-frame (www.dropbox.com/s/3u6i3jzn6fvixrz/coupejete.jpg?dl=0), we see that it's actually two turning jumps and it initiates the brush to the side. Then he lets the torso catch up on rotation so that he ends in a front split at the top of the jump. The key to doing huge coupe jetes is to jump the prep step and it makes you look like you're skipping across a pond in a beautiful flight. Julio Bocca used to do coupe jete with 3 splits in a row. He'd do the jete split into another jete split and then another jete split while turning in between each split during his manege.
@@KentGBecker I think not everyone teaches the turning prep in a plie back coup de pied, but most teach it as a brush to the front. The brush to the front completely messes people up. Every freeze frame I've ever watched of the greatest dancers will initiate the brush to the side and then rotate the torso to end up in front splits. The front splits in ballet with an upright lower torso also needs to be mostly open in the hip.
Beautiful grand jetés, split jump movement ❤
Thank you so much! I was looking for the name of this step everywhere!
This is a grand jeté à l'italienne not a grand jeté en tournant
I tend to use Gail Grant's Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet, where a definition for coupé jeté en tournant can be found. Different schools use different terms for the same step. I'm not familiar with the term you referenced, but would think it originates from the Italian School.
@@KentGBecker better use a french dictionary
Coupé Jeté en Tournant or "chasse coupe jete" is another one of those steps that's taught completely wrong. We're taught the "correct" way is to do a quick turn with one leg in back coup de pied in plie, and then coupe (cut) to a large split jete with legs brushing to the front. When I first started dancing I learned this step instinctively and did it decently. Then I got a master guest teacher Benjamin Harkarvy for a week in the mid-90s who taught me the "correct" way and from that point on it ruined my coupe jete for over a decade making it awkward and unnatural. I didn't fix it until I relearned the step wearing sticky gym shoes at the gym that forced me to do two jumps.
If we look at the great Sarafanov frame-by-frame (www.dropbox.com/s/3u6i3jzn6fvixrz/coupejete.jpg?dl=0), we see that it's actually two turning jumps and it initiates the brush to the side. Then he lets the torso catch up on rotation so that he ends in a front split at the top of the jump. The key to doing huge coupe jetes is to jump the prep step and it makes you look like you're skipping across a pond in a beautiful flight.
Julio Bocca used to do coupe jete with 3 splits in a row. He'd do the jete split into another jete split and then another jete split while turning in between each split during his manege.
Thanks. Interesting commentary. Not sure if I did it the "correct" way when I was dancing.
@@KentGBecker I think not everyone teaches the turning prep in a plie back coup de pied, but most teach it as a brush to the front. The brush to the front completely messes people up.
Every freeze frame I've ever watched of the greatest dancers will initiate the brush to the side and then rotate the torso to end up in front splits. The front splits in ballet with an upright lower torso also needs to be mostly open in the hip.