Sentence examples for festive ballet from inspiring English sources

David Nixon's version of the classic festive ballet treads a nice line between tradition and innovation.

Then it was discovered by the West, and companies discovered that they had a family-friendly, festive ballet that could be turned into box office gold every year at Christmas.

Indeed not: the company is aiming to create a spring audience for festive family ballet with David Bintley's confident fairytale staging.

The weekend saw festive encores of Bolshoi Ballet's 2014 production of The Nutcracker, and The Met Opera's 2006 production of The Magic Flute.

Balloons rained down, flowers were tossed on the stage, and an adoring audience joined in a festive birthday tribute by American Ballet Theater to one of ballet's most beloved figures.

Festive, comic or spectacular ballets serve well as closers.

The programs are friendly; the first, offered with the young pianist Joyce Yang, features Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, along with Shostakovich's "Festive Overture" and excerpts from Prokofiev's ballet "Romeo and Juliet".

It was a heartwarming, festive evening, a joint venture by the New York City Ballet and Dance Theater of Harlem.

It was a conundrum; the stage was much too small for eight dancers and Ms. Rocha's lively choreography that borrowed just as much from hip-hop as it did ballet, but the intimacy of the theater, made temporarily festive with Christmas lights, wasn't entirely unsuitable for a glimpse at backstage life.

Robbins's Variations, Inspired by Bach's New York City Ballet New York State Theater The New York City Ballet danced three festive works on Friday night.

This looks like the safest of traditional ads in that it ticks all the festive boxes (snow, party frocks, girls meeting boys), and assumes a basic familiarity with the ballet's music and characters.