Sentence examples for war ballet from inspiring English sources

For the Kremlin, it was a key propaganda weapon in the cold war: ballet was one of Russia's leading national brands, and in a year where Russia had already put the first cosmonaut into space, it was planning to confirm its cultural superiority by showing off the Kirov to the west.

Warring ballet divas, a reluctant king of England, and an aged Thai gent who can recall his past lives will be among the heroes and heroines of this year's London film festival, the full lineup for which was announced earlier today.

So the Bolshoi survived, becoming under Stalin a key tool in the propaganda war, where ballet had to represent heroic workers, not fairytale princes, and each commission was subject to censorship from Glavrepertkom, a board that controlled every aspect of every performance, with stultifying and dangerous consequences.

Now more than 250,000 communities have been created, covering everything from veganism to Star Wars to ballet, with the biggest ones attracting more than 100,000 members.

Miracle is framed by two other war-themed ballets.

Another cast, at the Wednesday matinee, suggested how much leeway there is for interpretation even in war-horse ballets like this.

Trying to trot out an entire stable of stars and preview the many ballet war horses that dominate an eight-week season, American Ballet Theater's opening-night galas can be tedious affairs.

A central partner for more than four decades in Drew Associates, Anne edited and produced award-winning cinema verite films on ballet, war, Duke Ellington, Indira Gandhi, and President John F. Kennedy, among others.

Marcel Dzama's music video for Department of Eagles, a collaboration with Patrick Daughters, reads like if Wes Anderson directed a World War I-themed ballet.

TRENTON WAR MEMORIAL American Repertory Ballet.

But not this past weekend, when the rainy city and Pacific Northwest Ballet welcomed the American premiere of Mr. Ratmansky's "Don Quixote," a robust and rather more soulful take on this war horse than the ballet world has grown used to.