ballet

Example Sentences

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She was set to perform a ballet dance, but broke her foot the week after entering the event and so used another of her musical theatre talents to impress the judges.

From BBC

His recordings of Andrew Norman’s “Sustain” and Thomas Adès’s “Dante” ballet are hugely valuable, though I have heard Adès conduct parts of his score more audaciously.

From New York Times

He’d like to put on an art exhibition to showcase his colorful creations — which incorporate geometric principles that infuse ballet and boxing.

From Los Angeles Times

A Robbins dance has a way of unspooling across a stage with easy, unforced abandon, and “Brandenburg” displays this with extraordinary speed and dewy sweetness as it slips between ballet and vernacular vocabulary.

From New York Times

Cleopatra has inspired dozens of films either about her life or related to her legend, along with tens of operas and ballets.

From Salon