Sentence examples for ballet academies from inspiring English sources
LONDON, Paris, St . Petersburg and New Yorkare well known for their first-rate ballet academies, training many of the best dancers in the classical form.
At the final round, which is open to the public, tensions will be running high as 60 exceptional young talents vie for a total of $250,000 in scholarships to prestigious ballet academies.
Today, the gold standard for ballet academies in America is the New York City Ballet's School of American Ballet: founded in 1934 and modeled after the great state schools of Europe, it trains potential dancers for the company year round.
When a 1941 ballet by Balanchine seems the only semi-radical item on the program, you wonder about whether these ballet academies are offering the motto "Onward and Backward With the Art of Ballet".
And it offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the most prestigious ballet academy in the country, which has an almost mystical quality for aspiring ballerinas.
Ms. Kirkland, who opened a ballet academy last month with her husband, Michael Chernov, a former dancer, actor and theater director, may be tiny, but she's not the airy type.
But it was Duncan who proved that dance could be taken seriously outside the ballet academy and that a solo woman could take charge of her career.
Dario Argento's Suspiria is a fairytale about a women's ballet academy run by witches where students die more often than dance.
The team caught another break when Natalie Portman — who had been talking to Mr. Green about a possible remake of "Suspiria," a Dario Argento horror movie set at a ballet academy — joined "Your Highness" as a Xena-like warrior named Isabel.
Home-schooled by his parents using a Calvinist curriculum, he rode horses, became good with a rifle and danced the role of the Nutcracker at a local ballet academy.
What was some kind of private drama has turned, thanks to the transforming powers of the ballet academy, into a public gesture of openness — of being opened out as if from within.
