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ballet

[ba-ley, bal-ey] / bæˈleɪ, ˈbæl eɪ /
NOUN
graceful, expressive dancing
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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

Yoko Morishita was 3 years old when she first put on a pair of ballet shoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

“The God of Ballet was telling me: ‘You’re meant to do ballet.’

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

TOKYO—Yoko Morishita was 3 years old when she first put on a pair of ballet shoes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

“You can pay for ballet but not piano?”

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

Stravinsky had spent nearly two decades working inside self-imposed forms—neoclassical symphonies and ballets built on borrowed material.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

Prominent among these were ballets by Ms. Tharp, the one-time experimentalist modern-dance maker whose creations for ABT made up the opening bill.

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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