ballet

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Also known as Cambodia's royal ballet, classical dance performances were originally mounted for court occasions such as coronations or marriages.

From Barron's

The PBS series “Great Performances” fulfills an early, generally unkept, promise of the medium to bring the arts into every home, with opera, ballet and theater.

From Los Angeles Times

Bardot studied ballet at the Paris Conservatoire and, at her mother’s urging, pursued modeling.

From Los Angeles Times

Her mother encouraged her interest and enrolled her in ballet classes from the age of seven.

From BBC

If the Shakers have a lasting cultural legacy, it is their music — most famously “Simple Gifts,” the uplifting spiritual Aaron Copland immortalized in his ballet “Appalachian Spring.”

From Los Angeles Times