ballet
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Her Peugeot bicycle is on sale, as are two pairs of leather Repetto ballet flats.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Ms. Van Herpen has also dressed Beyoncé, Björk, Lady Gaga and Natalie Portman, and makes costumes for ballet and opera companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Local farmers have also poured in to help, working shifts to oversee a ballet of tractors pulling in tankers of water from a nearby lake.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Fans can expect performances spanning symphony orchestras, ballet, jazz, opera and theater as well as events with libraries, bookstores, coffee shops, yogurt/ice cream shops and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The French critic Théophile Gautier wrote the great ballet Giselle and then fell deeply in love with its star ballerina.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
It all ultimately feels like five separate little ballets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
She also reimagined famous choreography from ballets like “The Nutcracker” and “Sleeping Beauty.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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
Even though The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring ballets all have narrative threads, Stravinsky played against this tendency in his scores for them.
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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