sissonne

English edit

sissonne (plural sissonnes)

(ballet) A jump starting with two feet on the ground and ending with only one.
- 2008 May 12, Alastair Macaulay, “City Ballet’s Itinerary: Robbins and Beyond”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  The pairs of backward-diagonal traveling sissonnes (jumps from two legs to one) are another motif so accentuated as to become irresistible.