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ballet

[ba-lay, bal-ay] / bæˈleɪ, ˈbæl eɪ /
NOUN
graceful, expressive dancing
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With “Mercurial Son,” Mr. Abraham’s vivid 21st-century vision of ballet, the modern-dance-based choreographer offered eye-catching opportunities for his cast of seven to command the stage amid Grischa Lichtenberger’s resonant, recorded space-age soundscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

To help finance the company, James toured with other ballet troupes including Northern Ballet.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

"We'd have to carry in all the ballet bars, all the equipment that we use, all the dance floors," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

At least she can still go to ballet class and on a sleepover at her friend’s house.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

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

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

“That was cool. I want to be a writer, too. And a ballet dancer. I’m going to write stories and make ballets about them.”

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu


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