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The phrase "a former ballet dancer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who used to be a ballet dancer but is no longer actively performing.
Example: "She is a former ballet dancer who now teaches dance to children."
Alternatives: "an ex-ballet dancer" or "a past ballet dancer".
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Mr Emanuel, a former ballet dancer who swears a lot, is both clever and pragmatic.
Mr. Emanuel, a former ballet dancer, tends to be precise and punctual.
He and his wife, Lisa Rinehart, a former ballet dancer, have bought a smaller house in Snedens Landing.
His wife, Lidia Golini Pettine, a former ballet dancer, died in 1988.
He was forty-five and married to Olga Khokhlova, a former ballet dancer.
Brian Jameson, a former ballet dancer, died on April 28 in Washington.
Sonia Morales Puopolo of Massachusetts, a former ballet dancer, was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 11.
In 1947 Yehudi Menuhin married Diana Gould, a former ballet dancer who had worked with Nijinkska, Massine and Ashton.
Watching the performance, her mother, a former ballet dancer, wept happy tears as she recognized her daughter's creative spirit.
A former ballet dancer, she performed in the 1990's in "The Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway.
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