ballet

Example Sentences

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She was set to perform a ballet dance, but broke her foot the week after entering the event and so used another of her musical theatre talents to impress the judges.

From BBC

The women were inseparable in life as well as death, learning to dance when they were children and applying their skills with the Leipzig Opera children’s ballet, the AP said.

From Los Angeles Times

Led by Mr. Roxander’s powerful dancing and cheeky projection, the five-part ballet projected force and fun, duly supported by two secondary women and an animated female ensemble plus a few men.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the USSR, Soviet TV often showed the ballet following the death of Soviet leaders, and it was back on Soviet TV screens in 1991 during the failed coup by communist hardliners.

From BBC

Her journey shattered long-standing norms in an art form historically dominated by white dancers, challenging stereotypes about body type, ethnicity, and “who belongs” in classical ballet.

From Salon