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ballet

[ba-ley, bal-ey] / bæˈleɪ, ˈbæl eɪ /
NOUN
graceful, expressive dancing
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And as our little girl puts on her tutu for 3-year-old ballet class, she says, “No, momma, I don’t want to go to dance class.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

This led to the proliferation of the regional theater movement, said Eustis, as well as that of symphony orchestras and ballet companies.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Few ballet stars make it past 40 before hanging up their pumps and switching to teaching, overcome by the immense physical, mental and artistic demands of the art form.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

He enrolled Morishita with a strict and formidable ballet mistress called Michiko Suwa.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

If he’d really keep me from ballet until I raised my GPA.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

According to recent industry reports, ticket sales to American operas and ballets hover between 1.4 to 3 million each, depending on the year.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 9, 2026

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

If you go back to the 15th and 16th centuries, ballets were like a party, like combining the Met Gala with a high school prom and a giant party — that’s what it was.

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

With Beaujoyeulx, Catherine conceived what have come to be accepted as the world’s first formal ballets.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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