Meanings
- not comparableballetdanceHeld in position for a prolonged period.
The dance opens with a développé posé fondu in arabesque followed by a step back.
2005, Gay Morris, Moving Words: Re-Writing Dance, page 193 more examples
This perversion illustrates a tendency on the part of even educated people to call everything which is posé or exhibitional in action by the name of Delsarte.
1897 June, “Perversions of Delsarte”, in S.S. Curry, editor, Expression: A Quarterly Review of Art, Literature, and the Spoken WordDégagé with the right foot, the left; posé on point: coupé with the right foot behind, left foot in fondu; small développé to the side with the left foot, the right foot posé on point;
1960, Dancing Times, page 352A classical ballet syllabus has a similar structure, where steps are grouped together into sets such as posé, jeté, batterie etc.
2016, Maratt Mythili Anoop, Varun Gulati, Scripting Dance in Contemporary India, page 165
Origin
- Frenchposé
- Frenchposé
- Englishposé
Borrowed from French posé (“placed, posed”).
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