ballet
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She spends treasured days teaching and practicing ballet, tap dancing and jazz dance, along with singing at the piano and writing.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
The man who created “The Rite of Spring”—a ballet whose pounding dissonances and unconventional rhythms caused pandemonium at its 1913 Paris premiere—now insisted that the bolder the creative ambition, the tighter the frame must be.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
"Why should only people who can afford ballet lessons and ballet shoes be our dancers?"
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Actor Timothée Chalamet is suddenly ballet and opera’s BFF.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
Belet's pirouette completed, she slowly lowered her foot like a ballet dancer.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Vocabulary lists containing ballet
English Words Derived from French, List 2
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Dance - Introductory
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