What is the English translation of the term Quatrième port de bras?

• A. Balancing exercise for turns or spins
• B. Turns or spins outward for girls and boys
• C. Fourth carriage of the arms
• D. Three rises

Answer: (C)

Quatrième port de bras is asking you to translate a Cecchetti arm term. In dance vocabulary, port de bras means the carriage or how the arms are held, and quatrième means the fourth in the sequence of those arm positions. So the natural English rendering is “the fourth carriage of the arms” (often spoken as the fourth position of the arms). This matches the idea of a specific, named arm position rather than a movement or rise. The other descriptions describe different actions or concepts and don’t fit the specific naming of this arm position.