divertissement
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This 1898 divertissement by Marius Petipa, to the melodious music of Alexander Glazunov, is accented with moves shaped by Hungarian folk dance and has long been a staple of various classical ballet companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The loveliest expression of these is in the second act, where the enchanted forest is replaced by a pure-dance divertissement.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
“Lost in Paris” grows a bit tiresome at feature length, but it’s a winning divertissement.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2017
This stitched-together divertissement, complete with dance sequences and musical interludes, opens itself up to alterations, rearrangements and modern liberties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2016
With a slight splash, Matthew began scooping quartered slices of peaches into his mouth with such a zealous sucking and slurping that even his father paused to witness the divertissement.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
He followed it with a succession of intensely theatrical divertissements, often revolving around unexpected intellectual conceits or bizarre juxtapositions and featuring brilliant dialogue, puns, repartee, double meanings and misunderstandings.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
To prove he was worth his salt in card-sharking, Fallon asked Reynolds to engage in a friendly game of Slapjack, yet another one of Fallon’s twisted divertissements.
From Time ● Sep. 22, 2015
The divertissements that take up most of act two are the weakest theatrical element of the ballet.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2012
They’re a bit of intellectual window dressing adorning what is basically a series of divertissements.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2012
"Die Puppenfee," "Sylvia," "Les Sylphides," and "Chopin," though on the program, were not given, short divertissements after long operas being made to take their place.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
