5 sentences with 'ballet'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ballet and other words derived from it.
• « Louis XIV was called the Sun King, a term and image he actively cultivated, declaring himself "peerless", and being depicted as the sun god Apollo (he once performed as Apollo in a ballet before his nobles, to rapturous applause - he was an excellent dancer). »
• « The Rite of Spring was a ballet depicting the fertility rites of the ancient Scythians, the nomadic people native to southern Russia in the ancient past. »
• « Staged by classical ballet dancers, The Rite of Spring completely shocked its first audiences; at its first performance in Paris, audience members whistled at the dancers and threw debris at the orchestra, while the press described it as pornographic and barbaric. »
• « The ballet dancers prowled the stage, sometimes in overtly sexual ways, and the music changed tempo and abandoned its central theme. However, within a few years (and after a change in its wild choreography), The Rite of Spring became part of the canon of great ballet pieces. »