ballet

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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

Prokofiev’s “Cinderella,” which had its premiere in November 1945 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was the last new major story ballet to enter the repertory.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s a lovely ballet that has aged well.

From New York Times

“The fact that the Western world has been forced to deprive itself of the opportunity to see classical ballet the way Bolshoi is dancing saddens us,” the statement said.

From New York Times

The researchers compared the apes’ rope spinning speeds to human pirouettes in professional ballet and the turning of Ukrainian hopak dancers, Sufi whirling dervishes and suspended spinning-rope acts by circus artists.

From Scientific American