ballerina
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The ballerina collaboration, Reichert said, would be part of the company’s efforts to hold consumers’ attention with new shoes and sandals in the years ahead.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Today, she is the world’s oldest ballerina still taking on demanding lead roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Morishita, who will turn 78 in December, is the prima ballerina in Japan’s storied Matsuyama Ballet Company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
After more than a decade abroad, it was time for the ballerina to return to America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
She does a goofy, fake ballerina leap across the room, lands on the bed, and shoulders up to me.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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“Many of them have been stretched into new silhouettes of the Samba, for example, into both ballerinas, into mules, into Mary Janes.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
When their bus breaks down on the way to a showcase, a troupe of ballerinas led by “Dance Moms” alum and one-time Sia protégée Maddie Ziegler becomes stranded in a remote hotel-bar-dungeon-arms factory outside Budapest.
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
“The man-eating tigers, the spinning blades...But I still think a few ballerinas would be nice.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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