ballet
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As a teenager, she learned ballet and eventually concluded that, at 6-foot-2, she was too tall for it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The thing that is always mentioned about him is that he used to do ballet.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
In other performances, Joseph Markey, a corps de ballet dancer since 2021, made much of this character’s persona but less of its choreographic challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Classical music CDs and cassette tapes that Monson de Kansky records for ballet class clutter her shelves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
“We paid for the entire year of ballet classes back in the fall,” Mom explains.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
Prominent among these were ballets by Ms. Tharp, the one-time experimentalist modern-dance maker whose creations for ABT made up the opening bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
For the occasion, artistic director Susan Jaffe astutely chose 11 one-act ballets and four pas de deux.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
His ballets are effective in ways no one else’s are.
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
Vocabulary lists containing ballet
English Words Derived from French, List 2
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Dance - Introductory
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