ballet master

American  

noun

1. a man who trains a ballet company.

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Etymology

Origin of ballet master

First recorded in 1755–65

Example Sentences

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

On a Sunday in late August, a Dutch ballet master they have been working with, Rinus Sprong, led a company class outdoors, in front of the Russian Embassy — ballet class as civil protest.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 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

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