The phrase "a pair of ballet" is not correct in English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression, as it typically requires a noun to follow "ballet," such as "shoes" or "dancers."
Example: "I need to buy a pair of ballet shoes for my dance class."
Alternatives: "a pair of ballet shoes" or "a pair of ballet dancers."
So I was given a pair of ballet shoes and off I went.
She quickly changed into a pair of ballet slippers that she had dyed black and fitted with special supports.
After several crossings, he stepped off the wire, put on a pair of ballet slippers, and changed the tape from guitar music to jazz.
For Isabella's birthday on Feb. 25, her family wandered the East Village and ended up at Jane's Exchange, where she chose a pair of ballet slippers as her gift.
I'd have liked to have to seen john Terry stepping off the plane in a pair of ballet pumps, black knee socks, combat shorts a string vest and a hat made out of sausage-shaped balloons.
For a big man on campus — one of the biggest men, really — to sit in a makeup chair for nearly an hour, then put on a pair of ballet tights and take the stage for the Pacific Northwest Ballet's "Nutcracker" shows that Quincy Pondexter has a certain level of comfort in his own skin.
Of its three recent programs in New York, two were of ballets created in the 21st century, while the third was a pair of ballets from 1947 and 1967.
For the program, Ms. Tharp, now 67, worked intensely to create a pair of ballets studying and mourning the loss of tradition.
When you first begin ballet, buy a pair of flat ballet shoes.
Kazan swung her feet in the air and squinted at shoes the costume designer had selected, a pair of gray ballet flats.
For this staging the choreographer Christopher Wheeldon devised an intricate dance number for the Gypsies, and invented a couple of steamy duets for a pair of solo ballet dancers, a shirtless man and an alluring woman.
