How to Use corps de ballet in a Sentence

corps de ballet

noun
  • Seven women were cast in the role, some of them still members of the corps de ballet.
    — Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
  • There was room for the expert corps de ballet, although much of their work was lost on the large video screens.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • Soloists perform less often than members of the corps de ballet.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2018
  • This is when the corps de ballet become most important.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Feb. 2026
  • This thriller is set amongst the ballerinas and artistic staff of a corps de ballet in France.
    — Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The herd’s lithe necks drifted above the bush in one ethereal mass, moving like a corps de ballet against a pale blue sky.
    — Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2026
  • This season, his body has lengthened and become more agile, whether dancing a corps de ballet role or a lead.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The second movement is dazzling in the tiny steps and patterns given to a corps de ballet who closely cross the back of the stage.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The corps de ballet is another anchor as couples move in unison turns, dip their torsos forward or take steps on their heels.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • San Francisco Ballet has announced its first open call for entry-level corps de ballet dancers in nearly four decades.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2023
  • Ballet can be a cruel career, especially for female corps de ballet artists, who are easily replaced.
    — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
  • At 16 she was asked to be a part of NYCB’s corps de ballet, the backbone of company.
    — Magdalena Puniewska, Bon Appetit, 17 Mar. 2017
  • The production, at the Skirball, is a two-and-a-half-hour dance-theatre marathon, featuring a full corps de ballet, performed without a break.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Clad in white, the corps de ballet descends a ramp to the stage in a diagonal snaking pattern, repeating a meditative sequence of arabesques and port de bras.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • This was a vivid threesome; but Bradley, a member of the corps de ballet, rooted the steps with a seriousness that instilled her entire body with lucid focus.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 29 May 2023
  • Bigger in nearly every dimension than its predecessor, the new Ram dwarfs other traffic like a linebacker in the corps de ballet.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
  • Woo is a principal dancer, but other categorizations include principal character dancers, soloists, corps de ballet and more.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Savannah Durham, an apprentice at City Ballet, seemed to be on the brink of signing her corps de ballet contract when the pandemic hit.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Toward the end, the watery corps de ballet bows to the four corners of the world, and one of the wave-men finally lays poor Ferri down on her back and slips into the receding sea, as the lights dim.
    — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • There are Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian dancers among its soloists and international corps de ballet.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • In 1948, an all-white corps de ballet was the norm in a place like Theatro Municipal, then the most-esteemed performing arts theater in Rio de Janeiro.
    — Beatriz Miranda, refinery29.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Holloway is a corps de ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and has been instrumental in increasing the company’s presence on social media.
    — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The most distinct of the ballet’s segments, a solo for corps de ballet dancer Jonathan Fahoury with a choreographic focus on articulation for his torso, presents dynamic relief—but just barely.
    — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Weaving in and among a corps de ballet that mimics swaying coral and schools of fish, the Mermaid saves Gutierrez, who’s gone overboard to retrieve a golf ball inadvertently lobbed over the deck railing of his White Star-esque ship.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Melanie Hamrick, a former member of American Ballet Theatre’s corps de ballet, was leaping down a dingy stairwell in the company’s lower-Broadway rehearsal building recently.
    — Bob Morris, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Copeland began her dance career in California as a 13-year-old (considered late, by ballet standards), eventually becoming a member in the ABT’s corps de ballet in 2001 at the age of 18.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025

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