Sentence examples for ballet up from inspiring English sources

Helgi Tomasson brought the San Francisco Ballet up to an international standard after he became artistic director in 1985.

But his work has manifest failings, and these are evident in his latest ballet, Up & Down, based on Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night.

I took ballet up through middle school, and then a general dance class for one year in high school, so I remembered the basics -- first position, second position, how to do a tendu or an arabesque, etc.

Mr. Nissinen vowed to have Boston Ballet back up to speed after two years.

The pluses and minuses of City Ballet add up differently at every performance.

Spencer: Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet turned up to do an acoustic set in Manchester.

Dance: Jewels Balanchine's 1967 ballet lives up to its name.

Most Westerners now spell it Tchaikovsky, but City Ballet took up, during Balanchine's lifetime, the spelling Tschaikovsky.

Merce Cunningham's Sounddance, created in 1975, is one of his most perfect works, a memory of a baroque ballet revved up for the modern world.

By Wednesday night, when the Tharp ballet built up to the tremendous climax that was missing on opening night, Ms. Brown deserved a medal.

Granted, my daughter, now 3, is still pretty young, and we can always pick ballet back up when she's older and expresses interest in doing so.