ONT Re: Ballet
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| Arabesque (cont.)
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| The French Arabesques (see illustrations, page 127).
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| Arabesque ouverte. The body is supported on a straight leg
| with the other extended and at right angles to the supporting
| leg, the extended leg being nearer the audience. The body leans
| forward with the arm on the side of the supporting leg held in front
| and the other taken well back and held parallel to the extended leg.
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| Arabesque croisée. The position is the same as the above but the
| supporting leg is the leg nearer to the audience, the arm on the
| side of the supporting leg held forward.
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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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