Sentence examples for ballerina over from inspiring English sources

The swapping begins when Ms. Kistler comes from behind a column to Nilas Martins, whose partnering is gallant even when he sweeps his ballerina over his shoulder into an arabesque.

La Scala fires ballerina over frank talk of anorexia.

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo may look nutty, with its male ballerinas, over-the-top stage names and mostly witty choreographic jokes.

The prima ballerina takes over from Wayne Eagling, who was in the post for seven years.

Dancing across the floor of her home, spinning round; visions of one day becoming a graceful ballerina take over her imagination.

(Mr. Carreño is just 43, but that's a lifetime of back strain from lifting ballerinas over his head).

At the end, some of the leering gentlemen among the crowd fling these Degas ballerinas over their shoulders to carry them off.

A serious disappointment is that Ms. Kondaurova, like too many Mariinsky ballerinas over the years, dances Odette beautifully but without any moment-by-moment drama.

JR has sent a seventy-five-foot-tall ballerina soaring over Tribeca in her tutu, and inscribed the wrinkled faces of two dozen elderly Cubans onto the flaking, cracked walls of Havana.

The final segment, in which the ghost of the puppet Petrouchka — killed by the Moor, his rival for the ballerina — hovers over the crowd at the fair and jeers from the roof of the theater, can often sound amorphous and anticlimactic.

In the pas de deux Balanchine uses innovative movement — jagged limbs and lifts of a hunched-over ballerina who looks as if she is seated — to evoke the intimate love symbolized by the traditional pas de deux.