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How To Use Corps de ballet In A Sentence

  • It differs from the website where there is no distinction made between coryphées and corps de ballet.
  • I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
  • Like most currents of what we call "revivalism," it usually had an erotic side; and the larger temples frequently have attached to them female staffs of attendant votaries and _corps de ballet_ of very easy virtue. Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India
  • I have to say here, that the corps de ballet (that's the poncy equivalent of the chorus line, for you unenlightened) were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
  • One can imagine a playhouse running on the basis of a big ballet, with a story, popular music, magnificent scenery, gorgeous costumes, huge _corps de ballet_, half-a-dozen principals and immense advertisement. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
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  • During a rehearsal of ‘Swan Lake ‘when the corps de ballet is moving in a long sequence of bourrées, up and down, back and forth, the camera only shows the feet of the dancers.
  • “Ou,” said he (in reference to the operatic singers and the corps de ballet), “he just keeps a curn [76] o 'quainies [77] and a wheen widdyfous [78], and gars them fissle [79], and loup, and mak murgeons [80], to please the great fowk.” Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • After Tanny and Nicky danced, the corps de ballet entered and waltzed.
  • In 1816 a permanent corps de ballet was established at the Théâtre de la Monnaie opera house in Brussels; in 1819 Jean-Antoine Petipa was hired as premier danseur and ballet master.
  • The muffled non-sound emanating from a stageful of 16 corps de ballet beauties was a glorious occurrence. Debra Levine: Cubans Cruise Into L.A. With Classic Don Quixote
  • The emphasis is firmly on 19th-century favourites, with each excerpt built round a grand pas de deux framed by the corps de ballet. Times, Sunday Times
  • The three companies are also unique in not being based on a hierarchy: there are no entities such as corps de ballet, coryphées, soloists and principals; all the dancers are of equal status.

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