Cecchetti Grade 1 Exam Practice 2026 – Complete Prep Resource

The main idea here is understanding how a French preposition used in ballet terms translates into English. The word en is a preposition that signals being inside or within something, and in Cecchetti vocabulary it appears in phrases like en dehors (outside) and en dedans (inside). When translating en by itself in this context, the closest and most accurate English rendering is “in.” It doesn’t mean outside or on; those meanings would come from other terms (for example, outside would be en dehors, on would be sur). So the translation that fits this term best is “in.”