Sentence examples for ballet stages from inspiring English sources

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During the 1830s and '40s the Romantic movement flooded ballet stages with nature spirits, fairies, and sylphids.

Likewise, on today's ballet stages, the foot is forcefully pointed most of the time, whereas Petipa varied the tension: half-point, quarter-point.

The advent of pointe work was perfectly matched to the portrayal of the otherworldly characters for example, sylphs, willies (from Giselle, ghosts of maidens who were betrayed by their fiancés), and fairies that filled Romantic ballet stages.

In the bunched up force of the curving torso and lifted leg, in the torsion of the neck and in the feral, almost goatish cast to Nijinsky's features, Rodin captured something of the explosive impact the dancer made when he first appeared on the ballet stages of Europe.

Every few years, New York City Ballet stages its Diamond Project, which just means that the company commissions a handful of new ballets in the hope of coming up with something interesting or, failing that, of pepping up the dancers, who are always at their best in work made specially for them.

Broadway and ballet stages are not the usual first stop for those seeking images of female empowerment.

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(Both artists designed for the ballet stage).

Particularly in ballet, stage retirement comes early.

Let's see them reflected on the ballet stage.

They need large numbers, like on a ballet stage.

Since the 1820s Russian dancers have reigned supreme on the ballet stage.

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