The word "ballerinas" is correct in written English
It is used to refer to female ballet dancers, often in the context of performances or discussions about ballet. Example: "The ballerinas gracefully danced across the stage, captivating the audience with their elegance." Alternatives include "female ballet dancers" or "ballet dancers."
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Certainly, there has been a very different excitement attached to the Royal in the following decades, with the importation of world-class talents such as Sylvie Guillem, Tamara Rojo, Alina Cojocaru and Marianela Nuñez alongside British ballerinas such as Bussell and Sarah Wildor.
With an expanding classical repertoire, and an ensemble headed by two notable ballerinas, Irina Perren and Ekaterina Borchenko, the Mikhailovsky began to win itself an international reputation.
Watching the documentary film Ballets Russes last week, I winced as ancient ballerinas, octogenarians if a day, retraced sequences from their Diaghilev-era youth dressed in backless leotards and diaphanous tutus, attitudes struck with dove hands and much dewy simpering.
Weird, wonderful lemurs - singing ones, mini ones, even ones sashaying like tipsy ballerinas - iridescent frogs, technicoloured chameleons, and laid-back boas trump anything a cartoonist could pen.
There is a famous story in ballet that dates back to 1845, when four of the great ballerinas of the day were signed up to appear in the same work, Perrot's Pas de Quatre.
Natalie Portman has played rebels, ballerinas, the Queen of England and Luke Skywalker's mother but now she looks set to take on her most intimidating role yet: "the Notorious RBG".
Her named successor, Uliana Lopatkina is, of course, also a great ballerina.
Nor will it save Altynai Asylmuratova, the lustrous former St Petersburg ballerina who is being removed from her own job as the Vaganova's artistic director.
Britain's foremost ballerina, Margot Fonteyn, went to France in 1948 to perform with Petit's newly founded company Les Ballets de Paris, and they had a brief but romantic affair.
What our feelings are at a given moment, where we should make eye contact…" If Gittens and Singleton's experience has been that British ballet is essentially colour-blind, a senior African-American ballerina claims that the same is not true of the US.
