ballet
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Before that she was a barista, she made sandwiches, and for years, she was a ballet and contemporary dancer prior to becoming a writer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
“But if a person could go to a ballet at the Balanchine hall or a concert at the Leonard Bernstein hall, it would have such a different impact.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The Act 3 witches’ ballet featured a satirical re-enactment of the murder of Duncan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Barrecore is a brand specialising in barre, a fitness discipline that combines pilates, ballet, and yoga.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Another time he'd put ice cubes in Madison's ballet slippers.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
As a trained ballet dancer, I love structure, rules and the methodological algorithm of how story ballets go.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
For the occasion, artistic director Susan Jaffe astutely chose 11 one-act ballets and four pas de deux.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
When you’re imagining what Balanchine would do, your mind is going to what his ballets were.
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
He commissioned the unknown, untested Igor Stravinsky to provide music for one of the new ballets, The Firebird.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing ballet
English Words Derived from French, List 2
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Dance - Introductory
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