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ballet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | concert dance |
| Type of | choreography, stage dancing |
| Has types | modern ballet, classical ballet, comedy ballet |
| Derivation | balletic |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | music |
| Derivation | balletic |
Examples of ballet
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Do you wish that you could have taken ballet or been in the high-school musical?
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Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato has taken over a St. Petersburg ballet troupe.
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Ballet dancers were credited with 18 months of work for every year they labored.
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Acting, she says, offers an emotional outlet similar to that provided by ballet.
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I constantly sew on ribbons and repair my ballet shoes to make them last longer.
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You can listen to hip-hop or the symphony, watch an Indian circus or the ballet.
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With their meaty tanned limbs, they make the ballet cast look horribly underfed.
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It stages many events including international ballet, opera, drama and musicals.
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Sometimes there's foreplay in the ballet and sometimes there looks like full on.
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- A theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers
- Music written for a ballet
- Ballet is a formalized kind of performance dance, which originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France, England, and Russia as a concert dance form. ...
- Ballet is a 1995 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman. It portrays rehearsals, choreography, performances, business transactions, and other day-to-day life of the American Ballet Theatre. Much of the footage dates from the 1992 season. It also includes scenes from the company's European tour, namely in Greece and Copenhagen.
- Ballet as a music form progressed from simply a complement to dance, to a concrete compositional form that often had as much value as the dance that went along with it. The dance form, originating in France during the 17th century, began as a theatrical dance. ...
- A classical form of dance; A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story
- A danced story with instrumental accompaniment.
- (Bal'-lay) A bearing which consists of bezants, plates, hurts, etc., distinguished from each other by their color.
- Theatrical performance featuring dance movements to an instrumental musical score, or term describing the music itself; 16th century to present.
