I used to know the name for this but googling isn’t coming up with it.
It’s done by a male dancer.
At 1:59 in the video (which shows just 3 seconds of it, but in a ballet it goes on several seconds longer) he’s circling the stage in a series of leaping turns, https://youtu.be/wFXPdRZ33Jg?t=119
What’s the name of the individual step and the name of the sequence? I’ve seen it live a number of times, and it can garner a storm of applause.
I’m not a balletomane, but guessing it included jetés, I came across this.
Coupé Jeté en Tournant en Manége https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH15FIftCWQ
OK thanks! That’s a great video. I haven’t seen Swan Lake in many years, and now I have another reason to try and see it again. I was wondering whether I’d seen it in the 3rd act variations in Coppelia, but I looked up videos and it’s a female dancer doing it there.
Here’s another impressive video of it with this line in the comments, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNOOoA7ifrk “usually performed by male dancers at the end of their variations or coda. Very few female dancers can execute the step powerfully.”
And googling “Coupé Jeté en Tournant en Manége” brought me to a Reddit page that gives, at the end, the name I’d heard for it before, grande jeté en tournant: Can someone tell me the name of this jump? : r/BALLET (reddit.com)
The OP made me think of this classic, not that I can help with the technical name:
