Which term translates to the French word for the movement that means assembling step over?

Which term translates to the French word for the movement that means assembling step over?

• A. Assemblé Dessus
• B. Assemblé Dessous
• C. Assemblé Soutenue
• D. Tours

Answer: (A)

Understanding how French ballet terms describe the path of the working leg in an assembled jump is key. Assemblé means the dancer brings the feet together in the air and lands with them closed. When you add dessus, it specifies that the working leg travels over the supporting leg in the air before closing. That makes the phrase correspond to the idea of a step where the leg goes over, which is exactly “assembling step over.” The other possibilities describe different ideas: dessous means under, so it would be a path beneath the other leg; soutenue refers to a sustained or held quality rather than the path of the leg; and tours means turns, not the over/under path of an assemble. So the term that captures the “step over” version of assembling is assemblé dessus.

Understanding how French ballet terms describe the path of the working leg in an assembled jump is key. Assemblé means the dancer brings the feet together in the air and lands with them closed. When you add dessus, it specifies that the working leg travels over the supporting leg in the air before closing. That makes the phrase correspond to the idea of a step where the leg goes over, which is exactly “assembling step over.”

The other possibilities describe different ideas: dessous means under, so it would be a path beneath the other leg; soutenue refers to a sustained or held quality rather than the path of the leg; and tours means turns, not the over/under path of an assemble. So the term that captures the “step over” version of assembling is assemblé dessus.