Pas de quatre (ballet)

See also: Pas de deux and Pas de trois
Lithograph of Perrot's Pas de Quatre featuring Carlotta Grisi, Marie Taglioni, Lucille Grahn, and Fanny Cerrito.

Pas de quatre (literally, "step of four") is a French term used to identify a ballet dance for four people.[1] Pas de quatre are usually plotless dances performed as divertissements within the context of a larger work. However, narrative pas de quatre and pas de quatre that stand alone are not unknown.

  1. ^ Cyril W. Beaumont, A French-English Dictionary of Technical Terms Used in Classical Ballet (London: Beaumont 1959), p. 23.