ballerina

I have not had one since I was training to be a ballerina when I was a kid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Today, Morishita is the world’s oldest ballerina still taking on demanding lead roles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

She was a ballerina, and that was what mattered most.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Monson de Kansky trained with the former Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina for three years, until her father inquired about her future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Rondell definitely wasn’t no ballerina off the court.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña

Arguably most prominent was her role as the central of five ballerinas in “Divertimento No. 15,” Balanchine’s Mozart-inspired confection from 1956, where she displayed gyroscopic turns and air-filled, feathery footwork.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Blessedly, these ballerinas didn’t learn their skills in prison or the foster system, and their tutus are not fodder for a satanic pyre.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026

But Giorgos Mavrogordatos, emeritus professor at the University of Athens criticised the evzone display as "extravagant figures resembling ballerinas for the pleasure of tourists".

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

At Westside Ballet’s adult showcase in August, I witnessed the sense of dignity these adult ballerinas carried with them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024

But questions pirouetted around Penelope’s mind faster than even the ballerinas of the Imperial Russian Ballet could have managed: Who had requested these awful stories about children and wolves?

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood