ballet

While filmed performances are usually stale, the movie has long struck me, as a professional ballet dancer who discovered “Invitation” in college, as an example of how cinema and dance can be memorably combined.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

More provocative explorations of ballet included “The Red Shoes.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

In the early decades of Hollywood musicals, ballet had been at most a secondary art, especially compared to the prevalence of tap dance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

And as our little girl puts on her tutu for 3-year-old ballet class, she says, “No, momma, I don’t want to go to dance class.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

And then, in a messier scrawl, I write: My ballet school has always been my sanctuary.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

As usual with Heartbeat projects, the focus was narrowed to the main story, so choruses and ballets were cut along with some characters and subplots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

His ballets are effective in ways no one else’s are.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

How much do you know about one of the most impactful ballets and what will that look like?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

Stafford and Whelan have commissioned 12 ballets by choreographers of color in the last six years, it says.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

To emphasise the intended awe and majesty of the occasion, Louis XIV’s long, mythological ballets would begin with a self-contained instrumental introduction, or opening.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall