ballet master
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ballet master
First recorded in 1755–65
Example Sentences
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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
The dance was created by French choreographer Marius Petipa in 1877 after being named the Mariinsky’s principal ballet master and has been performed by the troupe ever since.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2019
I do not know whether he really believed in his choreographic gifts, or whether he thought that his talented dancing, about which he raved, indicated that he would show equal talent as a ballet master.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
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