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"There's a story where they were doing grand battements high leg kicks and I was holding onto the crib, raising my leg, too," he said.

Extra! Young Triple-Threats Storm Broadway Pia Catton 2012

Dressed in something fabulously gauzy, a young ballerina demonstrated plies and tendues, frappes and grands battements, rond de jambes and fondues.

Wishing For Limber Limbs Patrizia Chen 2010

Dressed in something fabulously gauzy, a young ballerina demonstrated plies and tendues, frappes and grands battements, rond de jambes and fondues.

Patrizia Chen: Wishing For Limber Limbs 2010

I'm thanking Paul, the accompanist in my early classes at the Joffrey Ballet school, who inspired my legs to kick higher, as I performed grands battements to his uninhibited rendition of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Lucia Brawley: A Twa Lala -- Play a Song: My Keynote Address at the Music Educators Symposium at the Yale School of Music 2009

We can only hope that if he does his grands battements in the Oval Office, he doesn't accidentally kick over the red phone and start a war.

John R. MacArthur: Rahm Emanuel's Political Pirouettes 2008

And now, although I still have much to learn (particularly about how to get the ornamentations - trills, battements, flattements, grace notes - to sound right), I'm really flying.

The Naffest Musical Instrument Sharon Bakar 2005

And now, although I still have much to learn (particularly about how to get the ornamentations - trills, battements, flattements, grace notes - to sound right), I'm really flying.

Archive 2005-04-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

Je pose ma main sur mon ventre pour sentir mes battements.

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

"On peut dire que la _Chanson de Roland_ (ainsi que toutes nos plus anciennes chansons de geste) se développe non pas, comme les poèmes homériques, par un courant large et ininterrompu, non pas, comme le _Nibelungenlied_, par des battements d'ailes égaux et lents, mais par un suite d'explosions successives, toujours arrêtées court et toujours reprenant avec soudaineté" (_Litt.fr. au moyen âge_, p. 59).

Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker

There were no dull edges: her legs, in grand battements, sliced the air like blades.

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