Sentence examples for on flat foot from inspiring English sources
Just as one dancer does that turn on flat foot, you notice that her neighbor is now doing it on half-toe.
The second ballerina of the same piece has a slow, strange, retreating exit toward the wings, repeatedly pausing, on flat foot, to raise her rear leg high in one powerful arabesque penchée after another as she goes.
On flat foot, she went through fast and violent changes.
In another painting, where the dancer is on flat foot, he shows admiringly how fully turned out her supporting leg is.
Both facing the same way, with their arms latticed in a standard Irish pattern, they just step forward, sideways, backward, forward, all on flat foot but with a slight bounce at the knee, tracing a circle as they walk.
Another unlikely device occurs when the ballerina arrives on one flat foot, the other foot crossed at the ankle and resting on its point.
(On point, she was six feet one. On flat feet, she is five feet six and a half).
Often dancers stand on flat feet like ordinary folk and use informal body language and gestures.
The women are in tutus but spend most of the time on flat feet bending this way and that.
The dance, which was performed on flat feet rather than on point, was delightfully herky-jerky and modern — as much Lil Buck as Balanchine.
