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lead dancer

NOUN
prima ballerina
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Soon she was a lead dancer in the star-spangled Lido de Paris show at the Stardust Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026

The USC team adopted a style that mimics Jackson State’s J-Settes in which a lead dancer performs a move, and the others repeat it.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2022

I was the lead dancer in a Broadway show.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2021

“As long as I can move, I will keep dancing,” says Li Fei, a lead dancer.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2021

Spartacus The power to transform Spartacus from Soviet museum piece to living classic lies primarily in its lead dancer – and the Bolshoi's Ivan Vasiliev is beyond compelling.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2010




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