Sentence examples for dramatic ballet from inspiring English sources

It is one of the most powerful sequences in modern dramatic ballet.

He developed the compact one-act dramatic ballet, now a major choreographic genre.

"Les Sylphides" was followed by Antony Tudor's "Pillar of Fire," a dramatic ballet to Schoenberg from 1942.

Cranko, who died in 1973, was a major exponent of the twentieth-century dramatic ballet; he relished its loaded gestures, dramatic lifts, and outsized emotions.

First came a nice little classical ballet; then a dramatic ballet; then an "adventurous" ballet; then "a piece of zestful crap".

The giant of late 18th-century choreographic art was Jean-Georges Noverre, whose work and writings made the dramatic ballet, or ballet d'action, celebrated.

The Bolshoi is known for its powerful, overtly dramatic ballets.

On the other hand, the drama in dramatic ballets has to come from somewhere.

Too many choreographers now appear to assume that dramatic ballets ought to be multi-act productions.

Unfortunately, recent dramatic ballets can be as tepid as the abstractions.

The Royal retains a reputation as a supreme interpreter of dramatic ballets, but its repertoire is ageing.