Sentence examples for social ballet from inspiring English sources

The protean character of music that enables it to form such easy alliances with literature and drama (as in folk song, art song, opera, "background" music) and with the dance (ritual, popular entertainment, "social," ballet) appears to confirm the wide range and influence that the Greeks assigned to it.

His shiny exhibits are sweaty with animal vitality (you can almost inhale the aroma of damp straw and steaming dung), but also strangely caught in a frozen social ballet, even when, ostensibly, they're pitchforking hay or watching a foxhound finish off a stag.

Wise succeeded in controlling this awkward mixture of realism, social comment, opera, ballet and showbiz.

The mixture of ballet, social dance and individual tics of behavior is irresistible, the footwork has point and detail, and the rich tiltings of torsos are juicy in the extreme.

No hard sells here, and it was easy to be charmed by the sleekly relaxed noodlings, full of social dance and ballet witticisms, offered in response to the changing soundtrack.

Forsythe also typically messes with the social conventions of ballet - not lighting the dancers "properly", raising and lowering the curtain in the middle of a piece, making dancers talk.

It would be best to talk to your instructor to get an idea of your true potential, and to see whether or not it would be wise to dedicate so many years and loose many things, such as school and a real social life, to ballet.

After 1700 ballet and social dance took separate paths.

He's regarded in Europe as the social revolutionary of classical ballet.

Small-town Republicans are leery of big cities and the anonymity they bestow, but there is no better place to learn the delicate ballet of social skill.

In a 2012 appreciation of his work, Dance Teacher said that "Kidd drew from the vocabularies of ballet, modern, social dance and acrobatics.