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ballet

noun as in graceful, expressive dancing

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If you know you’re never going to record a ballet class, for example, delete that option if you can.

If I had gotten into the Royal Ballet School, I would have gone to ballet school and become a ballet dancer.

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So I’ve decided to spend an hour a week of my time in a local ballet studio, in a mask, plie-ing and pirouetting, or at least trying.

In one day’s strip, Calvin and Hobbes might engage in, say, a ballet of physical comedy — the stretch and squash effects rendering the strip as near to animation as a static art form can.

So many things have already been taken from them — school, their friends, ballet recitals, taekwondo — that, honestly, I just want to wake up on Christmas morning and see their eyes light up.

Monir is not interested in classic dances like tango or ballet.

When I studied in London back in 2005, I actually saw the ballet, too.

But she was forced to drop it at 11 to focus all her energy on ballet.

But the New York City Ballet seems to have found the answer: Valentino.

Yet few have done so with as much fanfare, star power, and consistency as the New York City Ballet.

Two unsophisticated country lasses visited Niblo's in New York during the ballet season.

I have foolishly undertaken to write music for a ballet Cinderella, at a very small fee.

In their youth both had been enthusiastic admirers of the ballet, and had often tried to imitate the art of the dancers.

She remained alone until the curtain fell upon the first act of the ballet.

They carried him away without any fuss, and Peter was just in time, after all, to see the finish of the second act of the ballet.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ballet, such as: choreography, dance, and toe dancing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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