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  • noun An employee of a ballet company who is charged with maintaining the skill of the company's dancers

Etymologies

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ballet +‎ master

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Examples

  • At dinner, Peter Martins, the balletmaster of the troupe, came over to check on one of his top dancers and her mystery date.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • It was said then that the balletmaster found the result disappointing—"dancing matchsticks," in his view.

    Matchsticks No More Robert Greskovic 2011

  • At dinner, Peter Martins, the balletmaster of the troupe, came over to check on one of his top dancers and her mystery date.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • (The film's best line comes when Madame Mao watches a rehearsal of a classical piece and, when it's finished, turns to the balletmaster and says, "Where are the guns?")

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Mao's Last Dancer 2010

  • For Ms. Kistler, as for many of his dancers, Balanchine was not just their teacher, their balletmaster, he was the best father they ever had, frequently the only father.

    Darci Kistler Exits the Stage Toni Bentley 2010

  • While George Balanchine (1904-1983), the witty and visionary 20th-century balletmaster, worked to keep ballet a living, contemporary art, Tchaikovsky's 1877 "Swan Lake" continued to hold sway with audiences, its popularity unbounded.

    Born of Ambivalence 2009

  • Picq, balletmaster at the Russian Court, commanded the opposing band.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Vincent Cassell, the French actor who co-stars in Black Swan as a George Balenchine-style balletmaster, told the Brooklyn-born Aronofsky he has the sensibilities and style of a European rather an American director, something that Aronfsky takes as a compliment and repeats with pride.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Marius Petipa (1818-1910) is widely regarded as one of the most influential balletmaster and choreographers that ever lived.

    unknown title 2009

  • Marius Petipa (1818-1910) is widely regarded as one of the most influential balletmaster and choreographers that ever lived.

    unknown title 2009

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