ballet

[bæˈleɪ]

Definition:
1. A style of dancing that tells a dramatic story with music but no talking or singing.
2. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers.
3. Music written for a ballet.

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Use 'ballet' in a sentence:

1. New performances such as taekwondo and ballet have been added.
2. I do exercises for legs approximately once a week and most of my leg workouts include ballet movements and yoga stretching.
3. His girlfriend was a dancer with the New York City Ballet.
4. What did Duncan have against ballet?
5. We chatted about the Russian ballet which is to give its first-night performance next week.
6. The Royal Ballet will soon perform in our city.
7. As I said, in classical ballet, emotions are conveyed through a set of strictly formalized movements.
8. Next door, 200 girls are limbering up for their ballet exams.
9. She was plucked from the corps de ballet to take on Juliet.
10. If you don't subsidize ballet and opera, seat prices will have to go up to pay for it.
11. The performance will include the premiere of three new ballets.
12. I spend most of my spare time on ballet training every day.
13. Duncan attended a ballet, and the lead dancer was the renowned Russian ballerina, Ana Pavlova.
14. As we have been studying, the classical ballet is based on formalized movements, specific positioning of the arms, feet and the body.
15. After seeing this, Duncan publically denounced ballet as a form of acrobatics, uh, complicated and excruciating mechanism she called it.
16. I trained as a ballet dancer.
17. One unskilled American middle manager observed," it's tough choreographing a ballet when you've been trained as a boxer."
18. He rejoined Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet as Assistant Administrator in 1988.
19. A famous Russian ballet is coming to town next weekend.
20. He was famous for writing the music for the ballet Swan Lake in 1876.
21. Caroline revolted against her ballet training at sixteen.
22. She also narrated a documentary about the Kirov Ballet School.
23. Have you ever seen a ballet before?
24. I fell in love with it instantly and continued with ballet dancing for about ten years.
25. Her style was a clear rebellion against ballet, and ballet is extremely important in Russia.
26. At what age did Emily start learning ballet?
27. Nina Ananiashvili and Alexei Fadeyechev from the Bolshoi Ballet dance the leads.
28. His previous girlfriend was a dancer with the Royal Ballet.
29. Ballet classes are important for poise and grace.
30. In part, because she spent years training as a ballet dancer before becoming an actress.
31. Ballet dancers practise their skill every day.
32. She will spend a week with the ballet in broadway.
33. She wants to be a ballet dancer.
34. She studied ballet for six years.
35. The London City Ballet has engaged two male dancers from the Bolshoi.
36. Isadora Duncan did study ballet briefly as a child, but she quickly developed her own unique style, which she called free dance.
37. Or, put another way, expert performers—whether in memory or surgery, ballet or computer programming—are nearly always made, not born.
38. She is also keen on the ballet.
39. She has slogged her way through ballet classes since the age of six.
40. The choreography of Eric Hawkins is considered radical by ballet audiences.
41. Balloon, baseball, basketball, football and volleyball all dance ballet on the volcano.
42. Ballet is the ultimate in human movement.
43. The ballet still had some rough edges.
44. He's a dancer with the Royal Ballet.
45. Ballet had started to leave the Royal ballroom for the stage.
46. He gets huge pleasure from ballet and contemporary dance.
47. Fokine did not change the steps of classical ballet; instead he found new ways of using them.
48. The ballet company now occupies the middle ground between classical ballet and modern dance.
49. I like classical music and ballet.
50. 'Swan Lake' is one of the great classical ballets.