danseuse

The biggest casualty was Edgar Degas’ bronze sculpture of a teenage ballerina, “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans,” estimated to bring as much as $35 million.

From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 2, 2011

During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the onetime Leonora Hughes, 27, famed danseuse, now Mrs. Carlos Ortiz Basualdo, a son; on Feb. 17, in her Argentine home, whence the fact has just been broadcast by mail.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Manhattan last week General Manager Guilio Gatti-Casazza announced plans for the Metropolitan Opera's coming season, married Rosina Galli, his première danseuse, and sailed for Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had the pleasure of witnessing one of the last performances of the celebrated danseuse, Madame Taglioni.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe

If the Koch contained these two danseuses instead of those seated pairs of women, you feel their energy would raise the roof.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2016

You can imagine what the drag danseuses of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo could make of these glamorous Russians.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2010

The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina.

From Time Magazine Archive

I moreover introduced two danseuses of remarkable excellence, Mdlle.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson

The soldiers appeared, dressed in various costumes, as Highlanders, Poles, Spaniards, etc.; nor was there any scarcity of danseuses, who, of course, were likewise private soldiers. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Ida Pfeiffer