Ballet meaning

Noun: ballet

Pronunciation: (ba,ley)

Ballet meaning:

• A theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers. Synonym: concert dance
• Music written for a ballet.

Quotations: Charles Swanson – We have talked to our arts colleagues around the country, and they say no one has ever attempted anything like this with a major ballet company.

Julie Harris – God comes to us in theatre in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It’s a way of expressing our humanity.

Isadora Duncan – The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Heather Whitestone – Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outsider. The dance studio was the one place I felt accepted and ‘just like everybody else’ was in the dance studio. Hoping to improve the rhythm of my speech, my mother had enrolled me in a ballet class when I was five years old. The ballet class boosted my self-esteem.

Suzanne Farrell – On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline and it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

George Balanchine – In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men. They are better.

Sample sentences:

1. It got many people to the ballet who had never been there before and they liked what they saw.
2. I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine.
3. The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
4. It’s a wonderful by product of an affluent society to be able to have these choices. On the other hand, there are only 24 hours in a day, and if you decide to take your child to ballet or tae kwon do and other sports and everything else, then something has to be eliminated.
5. Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. This is a quotation by George Balanchine.
6. You translate paint to fabric, somebody gets into it and the ballet begins.
7. It’s so important to have someone that actually knows the ballet,  not just the steps, but the style and the musicality. And the subtext, not just the context.
8. The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.
9. People always want to know where the set comes from. It comes entirely from our imaginations. These ballets don’t come with blueprints.
10. There’s a stigma. It’s a macho thing for the fathers. They don’t want to take their boys to ballet.