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pas de deux
[ French pahduh dœ ]
noun
- a dance by two persons.
- (in classical ballet) a set dance for a ballerina and a danseur noble, consisting typically of an entrée, an adagio, a variation for each dancer, and a coda.
pas de deux
/ pɑddø /
noun
- ballet a sequence for two dancers
Word History and Origins
Origin of pas de deux1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pas de deux1
Example Sentences
Petrushevskaya is best at the pas de deux, where women and men stick together and peel apart due to some mysterious force.
It was more like a Balanchine-Stravinsky pas de deux, full of tension, crashing cymbals and shifting rhythms.
Together, it is Williams and Gosling who are gracing movie screens this winter with the truest of pas de deux.
You can't fully understand how hemoglobin molecules interact until you've seen them depicted through a classical pas de deux.
The son and daughter are gracefully executing a pas de deux.
After she had finished the pas-de-deux, she made all the other figures a sign to begin a general dance.
Mozart only planned two longer portions without completing them, and in performance the whole Pas de deux was omitted.
Regular ballets of action now take place, in lieu of the pas de deux, and pas seul, of one or two principal dancers.
The exchange was as formal as a pas de deux and just about as warlike.
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