Port de bras is the carriage and movement of the arms. A beautiful port de bras, work on your port de bras, port de bras exercises.
It is what separates a dancer from somebody performing steps, since the arms carry the line and the expression. The French means carriage of the arms, and ballet keeps its vocabulary in French everywhere in the world.
1nounport de brasThe carriage and movement of the arms.
“The ballet teacher praised her graceful port de bras.”
port de bras is a movement.
French port de bras means carriage of the arms.
French
port de bras
English, today
port de bras
From French port de bras literally “carriage of the arms”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Dance