divertissement

Etymology

From French.

noun

  1. An entertaining diversion.
  2. A short ballet within a larger work, usually providing a break from the main plot.“Patricia Delgado, though taller and paler-skinned, strongly resembles Jeanette, and in Miami they often dance together (in the “Emeralds” pas de trois from “Jewels,” for example, or leading successive divertissements in Balanchine’s “Swan Lake”).”