Sentence examples for ballet teaching from inspiring English sources

The principal dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, who came up watching these men, wants to revamp ballet teaching radically.

His Traité élémentaire, théorique, et pratique de l'art de la danse (1820; Elementary Treatise upon the Theory and Practice of the Art of Dancing) became the standard work of ballet teaching for the 19th century.

In 1920 she was the guiding figure in the small but distinguished group of dance personalities who worked to establish an organization that would set and enforce standards in ballet teaching.

Meanwhile, he traces a connection between the body's central axis and the placement of its weight over the front of the foot in a way that fascinatingly recalls some ballet teaching: George Balanchine's, not least.

Even when he is not in class himself, Mr. Farley can be found in doorways, armed with his notebook, to absorb all he can about ballet, teaching and, of course, choreography.

In that very first lunging transfer of weight — by the time the moving foot arrives back on the floor, the whole body has arrived with it — they demonstrate bedrock principles of Balanchine's American ballet teaching.

Anna Fateeva, a 28-year-old ballerina who herself trained and danced with the Bolshoi from the age of 9 and later danced with the Moscow Classical Ballet, teaches advanced students at the school.

In "Enemy in the Figure," the dancers move in angled, disjointed configurations, their ballet-trained limbs mutating into entirely unexpected shapes, their bodies appearing as polyphonous instruments that can generate movement from any point, rather than taking impetus (as ballet teaches) from the legs and arms around a vertical body.

It may not be your favorite dance style, but ballet teaches a body discipline that will serve you well throughout your life.

That opens my way of looking at the ballet in teaching it to them".

With an emotional smile, Dupont said on Wednesday that she was moving on after 32 years – 17 of them as principal dancer – to become the Opera's ballet mistress, teaching the company's classes and running the dancers through their rehearsals.