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nouncorps de ballet (plural corps de ballet)
- chorus line, ballet personnel
And the gymnastic corps de ballet, choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, gives further, infectious life to that feeling of perpetual motion, of a speeding, unceasing course of human events.
2015 August 5, “Review: `Hamilton,' Young Rebels Changing History and Theater”, in The New York Times
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