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
“Usually a choreographer creates the steps, and the ballet master puts it to counts. Here there is no fancy way to do it. If the piano plinks, or she’s laughing, I’m on the music.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 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
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