Sentence examples for illustrious ballet from inspiring English sources

City Center has had an illustrious ballet history as home to New York City Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet in their formative years.

The Mikhailovsky is half the size of the Bolshoi and has always languished in the shadow of St Petersburg's older and more illustrious Mariinsky Ballet.

Ms. Vishneva is the most conventional of the women, but her conventions are those of the Mariinsky, the company with the longest and most illustrious traditions in this ballet.

She was at the peak of an illustrious career as a ballet dancer in Europe – but before long, she would leave it all behind it to nurture the raw talent she found in the streets of the Peruvian capital.

Topics include his illustrious performing career with New York City Ballet, his leadership of Miami City Ballet and his thoughts on dance education, highlighted by rarely seen TV and film clips.

But "Vienna," a long ballet, needs more illustrious casting.

It was established in 1773, and its alumni include some of the most illustrious dancers in the history of ballet.

The school now counts among its current and former faculty members ex-dancers from such illustrious companies as the Moscow Classical Ballet and on occasion even from such internationally celebrated troupes as the Bolshoi and the Kirov.

High among my memories of the most illustrious dance performances are those that New York City Ballet gave in the early 1980s of Balanchine's "Divertimento No. 15".

Photo Credit: Paul Kolnik The former stomping ground of Mikhail Baryshnikov, the New York City Ballet is one of the most illustrious dance companies in the world, founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in 1948.

Rosella Hightower, a prominent American Indian ballet dancer who rose to an illustrious career in the 1940s and 1950s and later started one of the premier dance schools in Europe, died overnight Nov. 3 at her home in Cannes, in the south of France.