Sentence examples for ballet section from inspiring English sources

I admire the variety of dance idioms and groupings with which Ailey keeps varying the choreographic tone; in one ballet section five dancers do rapid little beaten steps and Bournonville-type jumps, witty in their very improbability as a dance accompaniment to this music.

But what for me is breathtaking about the central ballet section it is its attempt to capture the "out-of-body", fugitive experience of an artist in performance, when the conscious mind is suppressed and the body and pure instinct take over.

Instead she reclaims the "At the Ballet" section that lyricist Ed Kleban and composer Marvin Hamlisch based on what she contributed when Michael Bennett was taping dancers' recollections in hopes of developing a musical around what he heard.

Mr. van Heerden is a relatively new choreographer, having created his first ballet, a section of the three-part "South African Suite," in 1998.

In the ballet's opening section Ms. Kowroski, passed among men, had seemed a bit unsure of her footing, as if really on sand.

Of the ballet's three sections, "Emeralds" (Faure) is popularly considered an homage to France, "Rubies" (Stravinsky) to America and "Diamonds" (Tchaikovsky) to Russia.

A comic ballet in four sections: Madame Upanova and her ostriches (Morning); Hyacinth Hippo and her servants (Afternoon); Elephanchine and her bubble-blowing elephant troupe (Evening); and Ben Ali Gator and his troop of alligators (Night).

Most moving of all was the second-cast lead in "Chamber Symphony," the ballet's tortured middle section.

The ballet includes a vocal section -- a poem is sung about the mermaid -- but does not feature narration.

Essentially the production is about ballet, starting with a section that evokes classroom exercises performed with unaffected purity and concluding with two vibrant selections to Stravinsky that show the company in full dancing force.

Mikhail Mypansarov's Pan (Emanuel Abruzzo) leads the fauns in a spirited male section — this ballet was, after all, a Bolshoi staple and celebrates a certain bravura — but the revelation of the production is Mr. Zou's Panette, a pertinacious flirt whose soaring leaps trail across the stage like beams of light.