Sentence examples for formal ballet from inspiring English sources

The mice are endearingly absurd, dancing formal ballet steps whenever they have the chance.

Moving slowly through formal ballet poses, they are waiting, by implication, to replace whoever is dancing.

Only in one scene does either the music or dance have a clear pulse; in the other three Balanchine uses no formal ballet steps.

Whereas true jigs were quick and wild solo dances of indefinite form, gigues were danced by couples in formal ballet style.

The tale is a classic, recreated as a formal ballet -- as formal, at least, as anything now being made in the United States.

But emotion is never far from the surface of Mr. Tomasson's work, and in this plotless and formal ballet there is an unmistakable warmth.

(Reverence is a formal, balletic bow that ballet teachers use to begin and end the dance class as a sort of sacred balletic ritual) I think we're all trying to keep it alive because it has meaning to us and we believe it will offer something to other people".

"Polyphonia," danced to piano music by Gyorgy Ligeti by four men and four women, shows an immediate and unflagging command both of choreographic accomplishment and formal academic-ballet energy.

It moves between the formal grace of ballet classicism and more deliberately imperfect genres, sometimes in mid-phrase.

It's a classic Morris piece: it honours the music's spirit, filtering folksy motifs through a more formal vocabulary of ballet steps and manners.

"Variations on a Theme by Haydn," a subtle, formal and rich ballet that Twyla Tharp has set to music by Brahms, received its New York premiere.