How To Do A Cabriole

Okay, so now we're going to do some cabrioles. Now, cabrioles are quite an advanced step and they're generally seen in your allegro, grand allegro sections. The cabriole is where the legs beat and rebound off each other and you want to see a big scissor action like in the air.

So, your cabriole would brush through and beat and then hopefully land and draw the leg back in. So if I do it slow, you shall step, swish the leg as in a grand battement. The other leg comes back to join and meet it and rebound your working leg on your supporting leg.

You finish there on your supporting leg and draw it back in. So if I show you in full, you're going to step and cabriole. Now, I'll show you one more time, you're going to step, brush and cabriole.

And that's your cabriole. You can even go more advanced than that and go into a cabriole fouette. So, you're adding a fouettte into your cabriole movement.

So, I'll show you a broken down version. First of all, you're going to step, swish into your grand battement. You beat the legs here, rebound and at the last minute, you fouette.

You whip the leg and you end up in your arabesque fondue. So, to go through the steps again, you step, swish, the legs come up, you beat the legs together. As you come down, you fouette and you finish there.

So, to show you in full, you're going to step and cabriole fouette. So, one more time, and that's your cabriole fouette. .