What is the meaning of battement tendu?

What is the meaning of battement tendu?

• A. Disengaged Beating
• B. Carriage of the Arms
• C. Stretched Beating
• D. Turn in the Air

Answer: (C)

Battement tendu describes a movement where the foot slides along the floor from a closed position to an open, fully stretched position with the leg kept straight and the foot pointed, all while the foot remains in contact with the floor. The idea is the foot is “beating” or moving through the line of extension, hence the term battement (beating) tendu (stretched). This makes it the best choice: it directly combines the two ideas—beating and stretched—into the action of extending the foot along the floor. The other options don’t fit because they refer to different concepts. Disengaged beating isn’t the standard description of this floor-moving extension, and carriage of the arms concerns arm positions, not the footwork. Turn in the air would describe a movement done in the air, not along the floor, which is essential to battement tendu.

Battement tendu describes a movement where the foot slides along the floor from a closed position to an open, fully stretched position with the leg kept straight and the foot pointed, all while the foot remains in contact with the floor. The idea is the foot is “beating” or moving through the line of extension, hence the term battement (beating) tendu (stretched). This makes it the best choice: it directly combines the two ideas—beating and stretched—into the action of extending the foot along the floor.

The other options don’t fit because they refer to different concepts. Disengaged beating isn’t the standard description of this floor-moving extension, and carriage of the arms concerns arm positions, not the footwork. Turn in the air would describe a movement done in the air, not along the floor, which is essential to battement tendu.