Sentence examples for ballet figures from inspiring English sources
Ross, a former dancer and choreographer for Ballet Theater, views his company with a warm if sardonic eye, and inside jokes about ballet figures abound.
A large rear fresco shows a Tiepolo-like sky in which transcultural ballet figures (Giselle, Albrecht and other ballet characters, Louis XIV, Vaslav Nijinsky and the ballerina Tamara Karsavina) are all suspended.
Here, painted walls; large, colorful semiabstract woodcuts; and small ghoulish gouaches imply a kind of circus environment complete with sideshow freaks reminiscent of Punch and Judy or Oskar Schlemmer ballet figures.
Though a number of big-time ballet figures — Frederick Ashton, Agnes de Mille — have said that Anna Pavlova was their inspiration, their thunderbolt, some people still regard her as a chocolate-box ballerina, a view that is probably, for the most part, the product of her extremely conservative repertory.
In it, Ukrainian-born Sergei Polunin ― one of the most famous ballet figures in the world ― dances alone to Irish singer-songwriter Hozier's "Take Me To Church".
In the most famous ballet treatment of the score, Leonide Massine's 1938 "Seventh Symphony," Frederic Franklin, still a beloved ballet figure, opened the work as the Spirit of Creation.
Ballet often figures into a Sunday for Patsy Tarr, 65, the philanthropist and publisher who runs the 2wice Arts Foundation, which specializes in digital and print projects uniting dance and design.
Thus, Mr. Jourdan included an extraordinary sequence of Nureyev and Deanne Bergsma, their bodies often totally intertwined, rehearsing Glen Tetley's modern ballet "Field Figures".
She learned foreign languages from a young age, did ballet and figure-skating.
Having established these fundamentals, he proceeded to cultural and recreational interests: movies, books, ballet, music, figure skating, volleyball, rhythmic gymnastics.
He was one of those extra-extra credit calculator-watch kids who was nocturnal and loved freestyle, a long-extinct pure-tech branch of skateboarding that was viewed the way ballet or figure skating is in today's sports world.
