ballet
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Before that she was a barista, she made sandwiches, and for years, she was a ballet and contemporary dancer prior to becoming a writer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Silent movies may be the home of slapstick, but they are also akin to ballet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
She later helped the Dutch resistance by carrying messages and taking part in secret ballet performances to raise money for anti-Nazi causes.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Act 3 witches’ ballet featured a satirical re-enactment of the murder of Duncan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Kwame brings on the next act, the eighth-grade ballet troupe.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
As a trained ballet dancer, I love structure, rules and the methodological algorithm of how story ballets go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Stravinsky had spent nearly two decades working inside self-imposed forms—neoclassical symphonies and ballets built on borrowed material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
When you’re imagining what Balanchine would do, your mind is going to what his ballets were.
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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