Sentence examples for successful ballet from inspiring English sources

Amalia Hernandez, the founder of the internationally successful Ballet Folklorico de Mexico, died on Saturday in Mexico City.

In 1944 Robbins choreographed his first, spectacularly successful ballet, Fancy Free, with a musical score by the young composer Leonard Bernstein.

In 1960, following his successful ballet version of Igor Stravinsky's masterpiece Le Sacre du printemps (1959), he became director of ballet at Brussels' Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie.

This book catches Balanchine's voice and spirit in its account of his ballets, and it generously relates the scenarios of a wide range of internationally successful ballet repertory.

But given the economics of dance today, performers are lucky if they rehearse -- or learn a role -- to the sound of the studio piano, even in the largest and most successful ballet companies.

Previews of the musical -- about a young boy who overcomes the prejudices of his mining family to become a successful ballet dancer -- are now set to begin at the Victoria Palace Theater on March 31, a week late, and will play a reduced weekly schedule until the official opening in May.

For a while it was thought that he would take the post of resident choreographer at the New York City Ballet, for which he has made two very successful ballets.

While Margot Fonteyn is generally thought to be the inspiration behind some of Frederick Ashton's most successful ballets, the same could be said of Alexander Grant, who has died aged 86.

These seasons, when her airy and ebullient style was at its most captivating, coincided with the engagement as ballet master of Jules Perrot, who produced a series of successful ballets for her, including Alma (1842), for which she herself arranged several dances, Ondine (1843), and Lalla Rookh (1846).

And at its best, "The Creative Habit" reflects the same demotic impulse that suffuses her most successful ballets -- from "Deuce Coupe" and "Push Comes to Shove" in the 1970's to the current Broadway hit "Movin' Out," inspired by the songs of Billy Joel.

The same year, Gerald and Porter collaborated on a riotously successful jazz ballet, "Within the Quota," a burlesque on American culture.