ballerina
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The nutritional deprivation she suffered caused her to lose the muscle tone she needed to pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
A dancer who became Britain's first black professional ballerina has had her pointed shoes restored on the television programme, The Repair Shop.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
The story is completely absurd, filled with plot holes and characters as thin as a prima ballerina.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
A native of Brazil, she was a professional ballerina in Austria for nine months before moving to America to attend MIT, where she met her co-founder, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Lady Constance flew to her feet and chasséd giddily around the room like a tipsy ballerina.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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Arguably most prominent was her role as the central of five ballerinas in “Divertimento No. 15,” Balanchine’s Mozart-inspired confection from 1956, where she displayed gyroscopic turns and air-filled, feathery footwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
When their bus breaks down on the way to a showcase, a troupe of ballerinas led by “Dance Moms” alum and one-time Sia protégée Maddie Ziegler becomes stranded in a remote hotel-bar-dungeon-arms factory outside Budapest.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
But Giorgos Mavrogordatos, emeritus professor at the University of Athens criticised the evzone display as "extravagant figures resembling ballerinas for the pleasure of tourists".
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
Whether actual star ballerinas are this serious and demanding and socially brutal, I don’t know, but this is a television show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025
It's almost like he's enjoying the design of me, the same way he appreciates the interlaced ballerinas.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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