caracole

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Four days before the premiere by his New York City Ballet, he found a title of French origin that fit his new dances like a leotard: "Caracole" �twisting and turning in a compact form.

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With his new Caracole, George Balanchine, composer of probably more ballets�and certainly fewer flops�than any other living choreographer, wowed them again.

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Caracole was full of fancy, always clear, but incredibly complex.

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Caracole, kar′a-kōl, n. the half-turn or wheel made by a horseman: a winding stair.—v.i. to turn half-round, as cavalry in wheeling: to prance about.—p.adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various