What does “"Russian" pas de chat” mean in ballet?
A jump where the legs are successively brought to attitude derrière instead of retiré. This variant of the pas de chat appears in several Petipa ballets (e.g. the fourth variation in Paquita ).
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Definition adapted from Glossary of ballet on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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