Sentence examples for the same ballerina from inspiring English sources
The same ballerina usually stars in both pieces.
On Friday, Daria Pavlenko took to the same ballerina role with abandon.
(This is not too unreasonable when the other woman is played by the same ballerina, as usually happens).
The first performance in both Houston and New York was led by the same ballerina in the title role, Nina Ananiashvili.
The same ballerina role can be transformed by two different exponents, one of whom makes much of its grand displays of line, the other of its jumps and turns.
But for all practical purposes, there are only two roles in this ballet (three, if you prefer): Prince Siegfried and Odette and her dark mirror image, Odile, usually danced by the same ballerina.
By catching successive casts, balletomanes can have the fun of seeing the same ballerinas dance both Cinderella and one of her stepsisters.
In 2009, the same prima ballerina performed the Dying Swan in a feather-light white Chanel confection by Karl Lagerfeld.
Soon after Christmas, Rebecca Krohn, dancing the Sugar Plum Fairy with Zachary Catazaro, suddenly showed a kind of glamorous authority and individuality — intermittent, true, but piercing — that raised hopes that she will achieve the same again in ballerina material.
On the same program a ballerina role normally danced by one person in Twyla Tharp's new "Variations on a Theme by Haydn" was divided up and danced by three women.
More than any other ballet choreographer, Mr. Balanchine made the ensemble the star, using the corps de ballet on the same level as the ballerina.
