Hi everyone again!

I thought this would be a very interesting thread to start, so here I am starting it =)

I think we'd all have some fun trying to choreograph free enchainment exercises and trying some that our fellow DDN friends have choreographed... so don't wait! get some now and post them! Any non-syllabus work, challenging, technical, confusing, tricky, or fascinating ones!

Feel free to discuss any free enchainment stuff here too =)

Hope this becomes sticky someday and everyone won't run out of exercises to do =)

I'll post this one given to us by my teacher.

commence croise
left leg degage deriere

temp de fleche towards corner 6
fouette towards corner 5 attitude leg open 4th arms
hold 1 count
coupe dessus
chasse en tournant towards corner 6
coupe jete en tournant
chasse en tournant
pose on left leg into arabesque open 4th arms

step to face corner 8
2 runs
jete entrelace
2 step
pose with right leg turning to face corner 6 into attitude and 4th arms

chasse pas de bourre towards corner 6
assemble dessus
temp leve in attitude with back bend. 5th arms

use moderate music preferably

sorry if its kinda messy, and I didn't include the counting.. shouldn't be too hard to count though. =)


enchainment by: Ms Chien, adv free class.

Wah... Now you know how to do temp de fleche liao... haha... I quite like it man... Sorry... But i don't have any nice enchainements to post...

haha, yup. the funny thing is it took me quite long to realize that it was temp de fleche...

when Ms Chien first said it, we couldn't really get what she was pronoucing.. I managed to guess temp de, but didn't know the last word... and my friend was like HUH?! What? Thunder Flash?!?! and we were all laughing away..., it was only after I stepped out of class that it strucked me that the last word pronouced fleche. Fun step haha, but I don't have very high extensions to do it =(

What IS a temp de fleche?

Thunder flash? LMAO! Haha... What a way to have heard it!
Oh. Temp de fleche is the step of the arrow. Hard to explain... But anyway... Usually, glissades en avant precede it. Then after that you do a grand battement with the right leg while jumping off the left leg, and do a rond de jamb en l'air en dedan with the now extended right leg. After that, you land on the right leg and do a rond de jamb en l'air en dehor with the left leg and extend it out en fondu. And vice versa.
Yups. My description may not be accurate at all, but this is the way i was taught. Somehow, others are also taught to just that the left leg just doing a battemnt developpe. Yups.

Hmm, the way we were taught was much simpler... it was more of a attitude grand battement with the L leg, and then the R leg temp leves, pique into a developpe, landing en fondu with the L leg...

I guess the rond de jambe version sounds a little harder.. but it doesn't sound as sharp... as a thunder flash would -.- LOL!

Commence: 5th position right foot devant en face

4 Counts Introduction

1-4 Echappe Saute change to 2nd Arms 2nd and close
5-6 Grande Sissonne Open en avant en croise Arms 4th
7-8 Coupe assemble devant
1-4 Sissonne double de cote facing en face Arms 2nd to bra bas
5 Releve 5th Arms 3rd
6 Plie
7 Tour en l’air Arms 1st
8 Plie Arms open demi bra

1-4 Echappe Saute change to 2nd Arms 2nd and close
5-6 Grande Sissonne Open en avant en croise Arms 4th
7-8 Coupe assemble devant
1-2 Degage deriere right leg Arms 2nd
3-4 Plie 4th Arms 3rd opposition
5-8 Double pirouettes or more down to kneel Arms 1st to open demi
bra on kneel


More of a guy's exercise but I think girls can do it too =) it can be quite fun with both slow and fast music...

Hey! No one's posting =(

Well. I believe many of us don't have enchainements as good as yours! Haha.