Sentence examples for heart of ballet from inspiring English sources

Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky, claims to penetrate to the romantic, obsessional heart of ballet.

It's a question at the heart of ballet, and especially at the heart of the Mariinsky's Swan Lake.

That secret involved aspects of rhythm that connected to the point work and brio of ballet, a feeling for the male-female chivalry that lies at the heart of ballet's romance, and a sense of the suspense that turns ballet into drama.

Thursday's spring gala at the Koch Theater at Lincoln Center illustrated both aspects of his assignment: it presented two world premieres (one by Mr. Martins himself, one by Benjamin Millepied) and then gave us a new production of Balanchine's "Symphony in C," a ballet that, despite not having been performed since 2008, has traditionally been at the very heart of City Ballet repertory.

Other ballets have greater music and greater choreography, yet this one still takes us deep into the classically Romantic heart of what ballet itself is all about.

It might not matter in a more dramatically convincing production, but here it seems symbolic of an emotional void at the heart of the ballet.

There's a very powerful work at the heart of this ballet, yet Scarlett needs to cut and cut again to set it free.

Doug Varone plunges into the dark obsidian heart of the ballet ballroom in "Castles," performed by Doug Varone and Dancers on Wednesday night at the Joyce Theater.

At this point Mr. Evans is more inventive in the three striking pas de deux at the heart of the ballet than in its solos.

The two men are the heart of the ballet, which does not catch fire until the angelic young Tadzio first appears on the beach, playing ball with his pals.

In her "bracelet" gestures — which Ms. Nadeau projected especially well — the ballerina casts out light and then seems to pluck it back again; she also becomes the enchantress at the heart of this ballet's forest.