Sentence examples for Greek ballet from inspiring English sources

He also danced with a Greek ballet company, and has since directed opera and ballet.

It opened as part of a triple bill of "Greek" ballets, with "Apollo" and "Orpheus"; City Ballet's season starts with that historic program on Tuesday.

Morris incorporated Isadora Duncan's "Greek positions" into her ballets of 1910; into her production of Orpheus, based on Christoph Willibald Gluck's Orfeo, at the Savoy Theatre, London; and into her performance of The Blue Bird, based on Maurice Maeterlinck's play L'Oiseau bleu, at the Haymarket Theatre.

The title is Greek for "contest", and the ballet is an ideal one between dance and music.

Mr. Loukos, a 51-year-old Greek who left Roland Petit's ballet company to work in Lyon in 1984, recalled: "The dancers wanted to show off technique, although most did not come from good schools.

In all his portrayals in whatever medium, Degas returns again and again to the tension that preoccupied the ancient Greeks, and which has preoccupied ballet since the Baroque era: How can the ideal and real coexist?

Duncan rejected the narrow and inhibiting classicism of the Russian ballet and returned to the Greeks for inspiration.

In 1928, the choreographer George Balanchine made a dance for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes that retells the Greek myth.

His footwork brought him the nickname "the Ballet Dancer", a potential place in the Greek Olympic team and middleweight supremacy in the Balkans.

The title, "Agon," links the ballet to "Apollo" and "Orpheus," two previous Greek-themed works, story ballets also set to Stravinsky scores.

Agon – the Greek word means struggle, or contest – was Stravinsky's final ballet, composed for the Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine.