Sentence examples for backstage ballet from inspiring English sources

"Backstage, ballet is sport.

Nor does Aronofsky's biblical epic possess that sense of mischief, irony and malice that the director brought to his backstage ballet film Black Swan (2010).

The curtain is about to be raised on backstage ballet rage among legendary figures like Rudolf Nureyev and Sir Kenneth MacMillan.

They may find themselves checking off the standard clichés of backstage ballet stories, beginning with the characterization of Emil, firmly in the demanding-but-impossible mold that goes back, at the very least, to "The Red Shoes".

And there is already considerable buzz about Robert Altman's "Company," a backstage ballet film scheduled to open in December, with remakes following next year of "Dirty Dancing" (set in Cuba under the title "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights"), and "Shall We Dance?," in which Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez play the shy businessman and the beautiful ballroom dance teacher of the 1997 Japanese film.

UCLA spent about three years and $1.5 million in donated funds on its heroic restoration and digital transfer of the Technicolor classic "The Red Shoes," a 1948 backstage ballet drama revered for its beauty.

The big moment occurred backstage during Ballet Theater's gala performance.

Backstage, New York City Ballet dancers are warming up in dim light in the wings at barres ranged across the scarred floor.

Backstage at New York City Ballet on a recent afternoon, a Shetland pony waited to audition for the role of a donkey.

At age 6, lunatic-boy-age, Kevin Dwyer was running around backstage at his ballet class and banged his head on a cinder-block wall.

Closed since 2005 for a renovation project that is running years behind schedule, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, home of both the Bolshoi Ballet (backstage in 2001, above) and Bolshoi Opera, is now aiming at October 2011 for its reopening, Agence France-Presse reported.