English

Noun

pointwork ‎(uncountable)

1. The engineering of sets of points on a railway, tramway, etc.
2. (ballet) Alternative form of pointework
   • 2007 December 13, Alastair Macaulay, “A Beloved Spanish Gypsy Returns to Frances Arms”, in New York Times:

     Though Mr. Lacotte makes certain nods to the early 19th-century ballet style of the first act of Giselle and August Bournonvilles ballets, he asks all his female dancers to do the sustained pointwork known to be late-19th-century in style.