prima ballerina
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The story is completely absurd, filled with plot holes and characters as thin as a prima ballerina.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
Garr fancied herself a prima ballerina, obsessively pursuing that goal after her father died.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024
The Royal Ballet's prima ballerina extraordinaire told Plomley she was looking forward to living on a desert island as she would be "delighted" to get away from the telephone.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022
After witnessing prima ballerina Katya Symanova perform, Dr. John Curtin is so enchanted that he waits with white roses at the stage door.
From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022
Any joy she had once taken in dancing had left her, as had her grandiose dreams of being, at twelve years old, the youngest prima ballerina in the history of ballet.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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