Sentence examples for sacred ballet from inspiring English sources
"Spartacus" is the Bolshoi's most sacred ballet.
When Whelan graduated into NYCB she was a skinny, feisty teenager from "nowhereland in Kentucky", and while she felt a "sacred calling" for ballet, she had no real sense of her identity as a dancer.
But ballet was sacred for us".
There were tone poems, sacred works, television scores, ballet scores and an opera to two.
Ballet is the sacred property of the Russian people, and the way they do it is the way it should be done.
This haunted-ballroom ballet is a sacred item, partly because it seemed to prophesy, and then commemorate, the fate of its original star, Tanaquil Le Clercq, whom Balanchine married the year after he made the piece.
But we don't any longer know much about the sort of dark luxe that is the subject of Balanchine's 1951 "La Valse". This haunted-ballroom ballet is a sacred item, partly because it seemed to prophesy, and then commemorate, the fate of its original star, Tanaquil Le Clercq, whom Balanchine married the year after he made the piece.
He also asked choreographers Lar Lubovitch and Jerome Robbins to create a "spiritual" ballet, for the King's entrance in Act 1, and a procession with a sacred white elephant in Act II.
The Balanchinian model holds the music sacred: the dance is there to incarnate the sound, to manifest it in a different form, and most ballet choreographers still treat the score as a primary inspiration.
