noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ballet dancer
ballet/ballroom/flamenco etc dancer
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Margot Fonteyn, the famous British ballet dancer
classical ballet/dance etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
classical
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Black dancers fared even worse in classical ballet .
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But this was only innovative in so far as classical ballet was concerned as there are many 5/4 Slav folk dances.
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But he thought the piece needed more work, and he wanted to get a better feeling for the classical ballet .
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Purely classical ballets are still popular, so there have to be choreographers who understand and mould the technique.
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But she realised that more serious training in classical ballet was necessary, and went to Edouard Espinosa for classes.
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There are forms of dance which we all admit as forms of art: for example, classical ballet .
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These have led to the same stereotyping of characters as happens in classical ballet .
modern
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A few of the choreographers whose work he chose had solid reputations in modern dance and ballet .
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No particular message united the repertoire, which ranged from outdoor performance pieces to modern ballet essays.
national
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Nineteenth-century choreographers creating either a character or a national ballet used both occupational and natural emotional gesture in their dance designs.
new
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He wrote that no new ballet could be founded on a dead ritual.
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Although the new ballet had occupied much of his time and energy, other aspects of life continued.
other
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The latter he created specially to depict Alain, a very particular role which was unlikely to appear in any other ballet .
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Most other story ballets can be analysed in much the same way.
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In the total absence of black dancers, Covent Garden lags behind other ballet companies in the West.
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They said at the time it was a crib, and La Sylphide is indeed markedly different from any other Bournonville ballet .
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This is also true of occupational dances in other ballets , for example in those for the tradespeople in Ashton's Cinderella.
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It is every bit as good as I remember and so are the other two ballets .
■ NOUN
class
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There she inspected the results of a lifetime of disciplined diet and decades of rigorous ballet classes .
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Maureen and I had been in the same ballet class about a hundred years ago.
company
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Stravinsky was commissioned in 1909 by Diaghilev to compose a new work for his famous ballet company to perform in Paris.
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In the total absence of black dancers, Covent Garden lags behind other ballet companies in the West.
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These four distinct types of dancer are still found in twentieth-century ballet companies .
dancer
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I felt weightless, light as a ballet dancer .
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He is a sensational, irresistible presence who has the composure and concentration of a ballet dancer .
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He became like a male ballet dancer - a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes.
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I lift her soft and easy as a male ballet dancer would lift Giselle.
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Poor Brady, a ballet dancer in a bearpit.
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Look at her, May jeered, nodding over the road, thinks she's a ballet dancer .
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A ballet dancer who does not practise every day loses a lot of skill, as does a musician.
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I get as big a kick out of watching Seb on the top curve as I do watching a ballet dancer .
lesson
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Could this be because ballet lessons are now a very middle-class thing, like ponies?
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She, has an ungainly walk for a child whose support payments specify weekly ballet lessons .
music
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It was not created at a good time for ballet music and these scores are relentlessly trivial.
school
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He wined and dined Princess Diana after supporting her favourite ballet school show.
■ VERB
create
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Weaver was the first to create a ballet d'action in which the dancers told their own story.
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And no one else has been creating ballets .
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In 1901, Gorsky was inspired by Glinka's Valse Fantaisie to create the first abstract ballet .
study
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At the age of 12, Tupac joined a Harlem theatre group and studied ballet and acting.
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Modern style After studying the above ballets it may well be asked what is modern style?
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When the war was over, she won a scholarship to study ballet in London.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Swan Lake" is my favorite ballet .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was also presenting ballets in a similar format to Rustic Revelry.
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His steps are in no ballet dictionary.
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I feel the same way about ballet and, to a lesser extent, basketball.
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Ozawa with his light ballet touch is a natural for this score.
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Purely classical ballets are still popular, so there have to be choreographers who understand and mould the technique.
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The impetus fur any step, pose or gesture should be part of the overall rhythm of the ballet .
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There was a strong influence from his parents pushing John towards an interest in ballet .
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Throughout his career, the profane would compete with the sacred when Alvin contemplated themes for ballets.