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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

As Larissa Lezhnina, the Russian- and English-speaking ballet master, gave her instructions, Ms. Smirnova focused intensely.

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2022

They made cuts despite my wishes; they left me at the mercy of the insubordination and rudeness of the stage manager and the ballet master, who would not listen to my most modest suggestions.

From Musical Memories by Rich, Edwin Gile

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