Insight: Ballet Glossary Fouettés

Dawid Trzensimiech, Royal Ballet Artist, and Akane Takada, Royal Ballet First Artist, demonstrate fouettés. Fouetté: A whipping motion of the leg used to propel the dancer around. The dancer starts on flat foot in plié, and extends the working leg in fourth position en l air (in the air) then whips the leg around pulling the working foot to touch the supporting knee. There are a variety of fouettés. In a fouetté en tournant, the dancer uses their free leg and arms to propel themselves around using a whip br, br,