ballet
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With “Mercurial Son,” Mr. Abraham’s vivid 21st-century vision of ballet, the modern-dance-based choreographer offered eye-catching opportunities for his cast of seven to command the stage amid Grischa Lichtenberger’s resonant, recorded space-age soundscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
"The dads will come in and say my son doesn't dance, he doesn't want to do ballet," Doughty said.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
To help finance the company, James toured with other ballet troupes including Northern Ballet.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
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
Belet's pirouette completed, she slowly lowered her foot like a ballet dancer.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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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
As usual with Heartbeat projects, the focus was narrowed to the main story, so choruses and ballets were cut along with some characters and subplots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
She also reimagined famous choreography from ballets like “The Nutcracker” and “Sleeping Beauty.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
Stafford and Whelan have commissioned 12 ballets by choreographers of color in the last six years, it says.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024
To emphasise the intended awe and majesty of the occasion, Louis XIV’s long, mythological ballets would begin with a self-contained instrumental introduction, or opening.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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