ballerina
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One of Japan’s most celebrated dancers, she is the prima ballerina in the storied Matsuyama Ballet Company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Suwa nevertheless instilled in the fledgling ballerina a discipline and rigor that would carry Morishita through her career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In a 2003 interview with Hello! magazine, Lord Snowdon named weekend guests such as the ballerina Margot Fonteyn, financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, comedian Peter Sellers, actor Sir John Mills, and author Edna O’Brien.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Monson de Kansky never became a world-famous ballerina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Nah, man, on the court Rondell was a damn ballerina.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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That meant that his first prominent patients weren’t point guards or centers but New York’s premier ballerinas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Blessedly, these ballerinas didn’t learn their skills in prison or the foster system, and their tutus are not fodder for a satanic pyre.
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
Like alien ballerinas who danced without needing any music.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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