How do you spell this step step?

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Cathlete
In IMAX2, there's a step Cathe does that she says is a 'patamarey' phonetically, at least the way I hear it. If you do the step on your left it's a tap with your left foot on the right side of the board, a tap of the foot on the left side of the board and then cha-cha-cha on the floor and change legs.

Anyway, I was trying to figure out what that step actually is, where the name came from, but I can't even figure out how it should be spelled.

Anybody know?

Thanks!
Melissa:)
 
Melissa,

I think that she's saying "pas de boure" which is a ballet term. I don't know if you know any French; the "s" in pas is silent. I think there should also be an accent on the "e", so it's pronounced like a long "a". I can't really explain what it means, but I know she does that in one of her recent workouts. I didn't remember that being in IMAX2, I was thinking it was in something else, maybe Cardio and Weights. Anyway, I hope that helps!
 
Oh, you might be right, it might be Cardio and Weights. Anyway, sounds like what I'm looking for. Thanks so much!

Melissa
 
Pas de bourré .

"Bourré" is taken from a style of traditional danse (no other French definitions make sense, as it means "stuffed," "drunken," or "bulging."!)
 
So ... it could mean "drunken dance"? "Dance of the drunks"? "Stuffed dance"? (maybe for a turkey??), or "Dance of the bulge"? (or ... should that be "dance AWAY that bulge!") LOL!!

... just being silly!!!

Carol
:)
 
>So ... it could mean "drunken dance"? "Dance of the drunks"?
>"Stuffed dance"? (maybe for a turkey??), or "Dance of the
>bulge"? (or ... should that be "dance AWAY that bulge!")
>LOL!!
>
>... just being silly!!!

Drunken, bulging stuffed danse. Hmmm...sounds like a typical Thanksgiving!
>
>Carol
>:)
 
Correct spelling is 'pas de bourree" (accent over the first e). It is a simple ballet move primarily used to change the working foot. There are several simple types usually involving three steps. For example if you are in fifth position with the right leg in back, you can step with the right foot still placed back, then step to second with the left and slide the right foot to fifth with the right leg in front. There are several types of pas de bourree, including bateau, dessous, dessus and others. Probably more than you wanted to know but I studied ballet seriously for a number of years and had to jump in.:)
 
>Drunken, bulging stuffed danse. Hmmm...sounds like a typical Thanksgiving!


LOL!! How true! How true!

Carol
:)
 
This has all been very enlightening. I'll have to do Cardio and Weights tomorrow just so I can hear her say it...and I'll know what she's saying! I'm not just getting fit, I'm getting educated at the same time :)

Melissa
 
Carol --

OH MY, thank you so much for the laugh. I haven't read this forum (the DVD one) for a while. I was in a terrible mood this morning from driving in an hour's worth of traffic (with no known cause) and this just sent me into an out-loud laugh (twice).

thanks,
Shonie
 
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