Sentence examples for corps role from inspiring English sources

At both performances, he consistently brought the same life and care to a corps role in "Theme and Variations" and the "Gold" solo in the third-act of "Sleeping Beauty".

"Flying Leathernecks," of course, is Nicholas Ray's 1951 movie about the Marine air corps' role in the battle of Guadalcanal and its innovative tactic of providing close air support for ground troops.

And I wish that the blithe freshness with which she dances a corps role in "Études" and three lead roles in different William Forsythe ballets would rub off on her Balanchine and (especially) Petipa repertory.

Elyse Borne, now ballet mistress at the San Francisco Ballet, taught the corps roles.

I wanted to be doing really good roles, and when he told me I wouldn't be doing any corps roles, that I'd be a featured dancer, I decided to say yes".

Ms. Wiles has always stood out, however, even in the most mundane of corps roles where her height (she is 5-foot-8) often relegated her to the back row.

"The White House press corps sees its role as taking the opposite side of whomever they cover," he says.

What is it like, navigating between corps and soloist roles?

He had to hold his ambition in reserve over the next few years while he danced mostly in corps de ballet roles.

In his 20s, he's still dancing a range of corps and solo roles; nobody wants him to be overburdened with commissions.

The Purchase College version, with choreography by the faculty of the Purchase Conservatory of Dance and directed by Bettijane Sills, a member of the faculty, features the Purchase Dance Corps, with solo roles by Peter Boal and Miranda Weese, right, of the New York City Ballet.