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At this point the company broke forth in admiration of the ballet-master.
Symposium 2007
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Where the company needs change most is in its ballet-master/ballet-mistress structure — and in its attitude toward staging and coaching.
Marshall's Intimate Cloudless; Wholesale Promotion at NYCB 2006
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Where the company needs change most is in its ballet-master/ballet-mistress structure — and in its attitude toward staging and coaching.
Marshall's Intimate Cloudless; Wholesale Promotion at NYCB 2006
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Where the company needs change most is in its ballet-master/ballet-mistress structure — and in its attitude toward staging and coaching.
Marshall���s Intimate Cloudless; Wholesale Promotion at NYCB 2006
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‘In the time of the French Revolution, Pariseau, a ballet-master, was beheaded by mistake for Parisot, a captain of the King’s Guard.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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Where the company needs change most is in its ballet-master/ballet-mistress structure — and in its attitude toward staging and coaching.
Marshall���s Intimate Cloudless; Wholesale Promotion at NYCB 2006
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He used the epigram, as a literary form, very much as a ballet-master uses exercises at the bar.
Adventurer Hampshire, Stuart 1969
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Apart from Noverre, the greatest ballet-master was undoubtedly Gaetano Apolline
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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During the regency of Lord Middlesex a ballet-master was appointed and a _corps_ of dancers formed.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Mr.St. A---, who was then ballet-master at the theatre, and who, by the way, was a most graceful dancer, seeing Mrs. Banks, went up to her to exchange compliments.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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