danseuse

The biggest casualty was Edgar Degas’ bronze sculpture of a teenage ballerina, “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans,” estimated to bring as much as $35 million.

From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 2, 2011

They were loud in praise of Catherine Littlefield who directs the troupe, plans its choreography, serves as its premiere danseuse.

From Time Magazine Archive

During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull.

From Time Magazine Archive

More amusing was the scene wherein a chorus director was driven to distraction by a particularly inept performer who subsequently advertised herself as a "well trained, highly musical danseuse, accidentally still disengaged."

From Time Magazine Archive

I wonder what the danseuse of to-day would think of the costume worn by her sister of the "sixties"?

From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris

If the Koch contained these two danseuses instead of those seated pairs of women, you feel their energy would raise the roof.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2016

You can imagine what the drag danseuses of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo could make of these glamorous Russians.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2010

The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina.

From Time Magazine Archive

The soldiers appeared, dressed in various costumes, as Highlanders, Poles, Spaniards, etc.; nor was there any scarcity of danseuses, who, of course, were likewise private soldiers. 

From A Woman's Journey Round the World by Ida Pfeiffer

Had the danseuses been scrubbed and well dressed, they would have been a presentable body of débutantes in any European ballroom.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule