ballet-dancer

plural ballet-dancers

1. alternativeAlternative form of ballet dancer.

   Swans glide, fox-cubs gambol, eagles soar; time-lapsed trees burst into leaf, slowed-down hares leap and twist like furry ballet-dancers.

   1999 November 8, Robert Hanks, “Television Review”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022

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   There Degas was, and behind him, in there, was his studio; and behind him, there in his old age, was his life-work; and with unaging eyes he was, I felt sure, taking notes of the “values” and what not of the populous scene down below, regretting perhaps (for he had never cast his net wide) the absence of any ballet-dancers, or jockeys, or laundry-girls, or women sponging themselves in hip-baths; but deeply, but passionately observing.

   1944 April, Max Beerbohm, “Fenestralia”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2023

   Nina Ananiashvili (1963- ): Alluring grace, enticing mystique, personal magic, instinctive expressiveness and the technical wizardry to draw the public with her into unvoiceable passions and dreams - these qualities separate the handful of true ballerinas from the legions of mere female ballet-dancers.

   2015 December 8, “12 of the greatest ballerinas of all time”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2015