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ballet master

American  

noun

  1. a man who trains a ballet company.


Etymology

Origin of ballet master

First recorded in 1755–65

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The bill opened with an onstage, truncated ballet class, with Erán Fink at the piano, conducted by Tomas Karlborg, the group’s wisecracking ballet master.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 20, 2026

He returned to the Bolshoi in 2008 as a choreographer and ballet master.

From BBC May 20, 2025

Jeremy Bauchet, an assistant ballet master at the club, lamented what he fears will be “the death of the cabaret as a place and a genre in Paris.”

From Washington Times May 28, 2022

At a recent rehearsal at City Ballet, Mr. Trusnovec performed the solo as the ballet master Glenn Keenan and Mr. Furlan looked on.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2020

The ballet master who could not seize this opportunity of devising a pas de fascination worthy of the occasion does not know the rudiments of his art.

From Oscar Wilde by Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell

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