The phrase "air ballet" is not a standard expression in written English, but it can be considered correct and usable depending on the context.
You can use it to describe a graceful or artistic movement in the air, possibly in reference to aerial performances or flying objects.
Example: "The drone show was a mesmerizing display of air ballet, with the machines dancing elegantly across the night sky."
Alternatives: "aerial dance" or "sky ballet".
He pulled no punches when he spoke in public about his mission to "bring a breath of air to ballet".
By making some dolls in Act II do multiple pirouettes and double air turns, Ballet Theater nullifies the sweet but small-scale staccato dance that Swanilda and her friends do in their "let's be dolls" number; it just makes them look like poor mimics.
The woman does not click her heels, as might a boot-wearing folk dancer; she touches the toes of her finely pointed feet together and holds her toe-to-toe position in the air, highlighting ballet's turned-out and pointed use of the feet.
Earller Michael Nyman had written both Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, a ballet-opera based on The Tempest, and the music for Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books.
When I was a child I wanted to be... Emma Peel, a trapeze artist, an air hostess, a ballet dancer, a poet, a gymnast, an actor, a writer.
His next play, "Immortal Longings," a reworked version of 2018's "Fire and Air" (about the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev's early 20th-century ballet company) will begin performances in June at the Zach Theater in Austin, Tex.
The Baths of Caracalla are now the site of summertime open-air performances of ballet and opera, including works that employ spectacularly large casts, such as Giuseppe Verdi's Aida and Georges Bizet's Carmen.
For those with more money and looking for a more classical experience — both musically and architecturally — there is open-air opera and ballet amid the Roman ruins of the Terme Di Caracalla, the Caracalla Baths.
He followed this short suite with more Saint-Saëns (whose complete piano music he is recording for the Naxos label) — the expansive "Caprice on Ballet Airs From Gluck's 'Alceste' " — and a gentle étude by David Rakowski, before closing the concert with three of his own virtuosic, lively, occasionally jazzy improvisations on a handful of Debussy themes.
He's enjoyed tearing down conventions, especially ballet's air of decorum and taste.
