How to Use corps de ballet in a Sentence

corps de ballet

noun

• Seven women were cast in the role, some of them still members of the corps de ballet.
  — Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
• There was room for the expert corps de ballet, although much of their work was lost on the large video screens.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• This thriller is set amongst the ballerinas and artistic staff of a corps de ballet in France.
  — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
• At 16 she was asked to be a part of NYCB’s corps de ballet, the backbone of company.
  — Magdalena Puniewska, Bon Appetit, 17 Mar. 2017
• The second movement is dazzling in the tiny steps and patterns given to a corps de ballet who closely cross the back of the stage.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
• Soloists perform less often than members of the corps de ballet.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
• It’s a visually gorgeous excerpt, with the corps de ballet dressed in white and moving in sync.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
• Savannah Durham, an apprentice at City Ballet, seemed to be on the brink of signing her corps de ballet contract when the pandemic hit.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• Alina Dronova, a dancer in the corps de ballet for 17 years, said Mr. Martins was routinely allowed to be aggressive.
  — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2017
• This was a vivid threesome; but Bradley, a member of the corps de ballet, rooted the steps with a seriousness that instilled her entire body with lucid focus.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• Clad in white, the corps de ballet descends a ramp to the stage in a diagonal snaking pattern, repeating a meditative sequence of arabesques and port de bras.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• San Francisco Ballet has announced its first open call for entry-level corps de ballet dancers in nearly four decades.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2023
• Most impressive here is the soloist, Victor Abreu, a member of the corps de ballet, who has always struck me as having a certain vulnerability: the look of a boy trapped in a man’s body.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2020
• The corps de ballet re-forms, becoming an avenue or forest through which hero and heroine walk slowly on separate paths, looking for each other in vain.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
• In this instance, Joffrey passed every test with flying colors, giving its audiences the best corps de ballet they’ve ever seen.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The corps de ballet is usually up to something interesting.
  — Vulture, 19 Jan. 2023
• Bigger in nearly every dimension than its predecessor, the new Ram dwarfs other traffic like a linebacker in the corps de ballet.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• There are Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian dancers among its soloists and international corps de ballet.
  — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Holloway is a corps de ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and has been instrumental in increasing the company’s presence on social media.
  — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2023
• The most distinct of the ballet’s segments, a solo for corps de ballet dancer Jonathan Fahoury with a choreographic focus on articulation for his torso, presents dynamic relief—but just barely.
  — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024