danseuse

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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

Rita De Leporte, the Metropolitan's premi�re danseuse, whipped together an able troupe of 100.

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

To be sure she was La Argentina, the Spanish dancer* who as a child was premi�re danseuse classique at the Royal Opera in Madrid, as a mature artist the rage of Berlin, of Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pr�vost could teach her, the little girl returned to Brussels, and made her d�but at the theatre with such astonishing success that, in spite of her youth, she was appointed premi�re danseuse.

From Queens of the French Stage by Williams, H. Noel