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ONT Re: Ballet




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| Ailes de pigeon [el duh pee-ZHAWN].
| Pigeon's wings.  The dancer performs a cabriole devant, then
| the legs change and beat again, then change once more before
| the dancer lands on the leg he or she jumped from, leaving
| the other leg extended in the air.  Also known as "pistolet".
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| Gail Grant,
|'Technical Manual And Dictionary Of Classical Ballet',
| Third Revised Edition, Dover, New York, NY, 1982.

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