What does “Flic flac” mean in ballet?
Familiar French term for battement fouetté à terre . A step where the foot of the working leg sweeps flexed across the floor from pointed à la seconde (en l'air, as in dégagé) to pointed at cou-de-pied devant or derrière.
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Definition adapted from Glossary of ballet on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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