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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

Theodore Kosloff was ballet master; dancer Nini Theilade and a ballet corps of fairies were commended by the New York Times for their exquisite grace.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2022

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

Georges Balanchine, as ballet master, had arranged the dances exactly as I had wished—that is to say, in accordance with the classical school.

From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor

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