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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

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

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

Pity that, as a rule, so little intelligence is shown by the ballet master in arranging the dances!

From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Krehbiel, Henry Edward