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ballet

[ba-ley, bal-ey] / bæˈleɪ, ˈbæl eɪ /
NOUN
graceful, expressive dancing
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Muñoz’s program was bookended by dance scores — Ginastera’s “Four Dances from ‘Estancia’” and Copland’s ballet, “Billy the Kid” — that evoke the prairie and the people in it in both viscerally and spiritually.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

As a teenager, she learned ballet and eventually concluded that, at 6-foot-2, she was too tall for it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

The thing that is always mentioned about him is that he used to do ballet.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Andrew Robare, a corps de ballet dancer since 2022, tore up the stage by tearing into the often cheeky choreographic details with confidence and sureness of footing and posture.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

He was wearing a black T-shirt with the words "Dancing Fool" on it, black sweat pants, and black ballet shoes.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

It all ultimately feels like five separate little ballets.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

Prominent among these were ballets by Ms. Tharp, the one-time experimentalist modern-dance maker whose creations for ABT made up the opening bill.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 3, 2025

How much do you know about one of the most impactful ballets and what will that look like?

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

“That was cool. I want to be a writer, too. And a ballet dancer. I’m going to write stories and make ballets about them.”

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu




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