The bourree is humorous and an exercise in structure.

There was, for example, her delicious bourree, a scurry of little steps before a grand leap.

He returned immediately, making two bourree steps to the side, offering a huge platter of oats to the horse.

The couples, often kept in diagonals, embrace and collapse and bourree with their legs held parallel.

More than a progress, that walking hood appeared to perform a gavotte, a bourree, which the absence of music made even clumsier.

Sometimes other dances were included as well, e.g. a minuet, gavotte, passepied or bourree.

It is still amusing to see the Trocks go up on their toes, and many still knock out a mean bourree or fouette.

In the end, in fact, the lovers are parted by a corps that floats beautifully in a bourree across the stage.

These optional movements were known as galanteries: common examples are the minuet, gavotte, passepied, and bourree.

Ms. Nichols enters with a floating bourree and in an elegant gown by Heather Watts.

That evening she danced "Bourree Fantasque," as scheduled, but switched movements with Diana Adams.

"Bourree Fantasque" can be likened to a Champagne party at which all the guests are witty, elegant and, perhaps, slightly tipsy but never drunk.

Unfortunately, some sequences looked strained in "Bourree Fantasque" on Saturday night at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Her entrance in Act II was a delight, with an exceptionally fast bourree, and she remembered to look back at the little angels she was leading.

Christina Fagundes danced Myrta on Friday and Saturday nights, skimming the floor beautifully in a quick, tight bourree.

Yvonne Bourree and Nikolaj Hübbe represented the purely physical side of love in the ballet's one clinker of a duet.

Miss Fugate floats in on a bourree, and her impassive demeanor is very much like that of the sleepwalker in Balanchine's "Sonnambula."

Mimicking a ballerina bending from a lofty stance, Mrs. Jakobson added, "But how can they call it realism to bourree and pick potatoes on point?"

In 1949 he choreographed "Bourree Fantasque," whose final exuberant section exploited the vitality and virtuosity that made up Ms. Reed's trademark style.

Yet from the moment Mr. Luders led on Miss Calegari into a skimming bourree, the pas de deux became part of a unified musical whole.

Jerome Robbins's "Other Dances" and George Balanchine's "Bourree Fantasque" certainly differ in scale.

His dance suites are made up of several dances such as galliard, bourree, sarabande, gigue, gavotte and allemande as well as more unusual dances.

The Gigue contrasted Mr. Baryshnikov's bouncy phrasing against Miss Bourree's sleekness, although both blurred the small crossing steps.

A more genuine revival on Thursday was "Bourree Fantasque," a whirlwind of kinetic wit that Balanchine choreographed to Chabrier's music in 1949.

When "Bourree Fantasque" was being revived by Ballet Theater, Balanchine felt his jokes about inverting conventional ballet style would look dated.