Crossword clues for ballerina
ballerina
- Anna Pavlova, e.g.
- A female ballet dancer
- "Les Sylphides" figure
- "Swan Lake" troupe member
- Tallchief, e.g.
- A liberal excited about new performer
- Who works on toes held by footballer in agony
- Footballer in Arsenal trousers who practises first position?
- Female dancer
- Label I ran represented a dancer
- Pavlova, say, eaten by footballer in Accrington
- Bare all in dancing? I wouldn't do that!
- At work, my partner may give me a lift
- All-in wrestling with bare stage performer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ballerina \ballerina\ n. A female ballet dancer.
Syn: danseuse. [WordNet 1.5] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1792, from Italian ballerina, literally "dancing girl," fem. of ballerino "dancer," from ballo "a dance" (see ball (n.2)). The Italian plural form ballerine formerly sometimes was used in English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A female ballet dancer. 2 The star female ballet performer in the company. 3 (context less common sometimes derogatory English) A male ballet dancer. 4 A ballet flat shoe.
WordNet
n. a female ballet dancer [syn: danseuse]
Wikipedia
"Ballerina" is a popular song.
The song was written by Sidney Keith Russell and Carl Sigman. Published in 1947, the tune is listed as ASCAP Title Code 320012517.
Hit versions were recorded by:
- Vaughn Monroe (#1 in 1947)
- Buddy Clark (#5 in 1948)
- Bing Crosby (#10 in 1948)
- Jimmy Dorsey (also #10 in 1948)
- Nat King Cole (#18 in 1957)
"Ballerina" is the second to last song on Astral Weeks, the 1968 album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.
Ballerina also known as The Copenhagen Ballet is the story of a young girl Mette Sorensen (played by Mette Hønningen) who aspires to be a dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, against the wishes of her mother but with the support of her musician father and her mentor, the famous ballerina Kirsten Holm (played by Kirsten Simone).
The story opens with Mette greeting Kirsten at the airport following the latter's return from a successful dance tour. They ride into the city together where Kirsten notices that Mette is slightly down-hearted about her own progress at ballet school. She soon gathers from the Ballet Master, and Madame Karova, Mette's teacher, that all is not well and Mette is not showing the promise she had originally displayed. The audience then learns that Mette's mother is against her pursuing a career as a ballerina, wanting her instead to settle down with her boyfriend Sven.
With Kirsten's backing, Mette secures a place at the Royal Danish ballet ('the company') and takes a small, solo part in Swan Lake, in which she excels. Kirsten is then asked to go to London at short notice, leaving the Ballet Master without a female lead soloist for Coppelia. Kirsten recommends Mette for the part. The remaining part of the film follows Mette's rehearsals and the various ups and downs on the path towards the finale of Coppelia and her arrival as the company's newest star. A young Jenny Agutter also stars as a pupil at the ballet school who turns to Mette for guidance and mentorship.
Ballerina is a 2006 documentary film that follows the training sessions, rehearsals, and everyday lives of five Russian ballerinas at different stages in their career. The film features footage of classes at the Vaganova Ballet Academy as well as performances in the Mariinsky Theatre.
Ballerina is a 1956 West German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
"Ballerina (Prima Donna)" is a song by British singer-songwriter Steve Harley, released as a non-album single in 1983. "Ballerina (Prima Donna)" was written and produced by British songwriter/musician/producer Mike Batt, who was also a friend of Harleys.
A ballerina is a principal female dancer in a ballet company.
Ballerina may also refer to:
- Ballerina (1937 film), a 1937 film featuring Jeanine Charrat, Mia Čorak Slavenska and Yvette Chauviré
- Ballerina (1956 film), 1956 German film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- Ballerina (1966 film), 1966 American German film
- Ballerina (2006 film), 2006 documentary which follows several Russian ballerinas during different points in their careers
- "Ballerina" (Sidney Keith Russell and Carl Sigman song), a 1947 song covered by many artists
- "Ballerina" (Van Morrison song), 1968 song on the album Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
- Ballerina, Australian method of growing vines in vineyards
- Ballerina Stakes, an American Thoroughbred horse race
- Angelina Ballerina, a fictional mouse in a series of children's books and a British animated TV series
- Tina Ballerina, a recurring character on The Simpsons animated TV show
Ballerina is a 1937 French ballet film directed by Jean Benoit-Lévy and Marie Epstein, starring Yvette Chauviré, Mia Slavenska and Jeanine Charrat. The original French title is La mort du cygne, which means "the death of the swan". It tells the story of a 12-year-old girl who fears that her favourite performer at the Paris Opera will be replaced by a Russian ballerina, and sets out to engineer an accident for the rival.
The film is based on the 1933 short story "La mort du cygne" by Paul Morand. The choreography was done by Serge Lifar. The film was remade in the United States as The Unfinished Dance, released in 1947.
Usage examples of "ballerina".
Not yours anymore, The doctor doll, The ballerina doll, The praying-to-grow-taller doll, And the dead doll.
For the first time Julian Marquet will partner a ballerina other than his wife in a major television production of Giselle.
I knew once I had a child, he or she would become the center of my world, and luv would again spoil a ballerina who could have been the best.
A male dancer who let a ballerina fall would soon never have a partner to lift.
Long ago you would have been a prima ballerina if your husband had shown less arrogance and more respect for those in authority.
Now the ballerina doll has a small son of her own, and not much money.
Cordially yours, the ballerina doll, Catherine Dollanganger Marquet Each day I waited for a check to come in the mail.
Miss Catherine Dahl, the lovely ballerina who takes my breath away even before she dances.
Moving as only a ballerina can, I meant to play my role to the utmost of my dramatic ability.
The porcelain ballerina also thrusts her horizontal leg, frozen in its arabesque, into the cone of green light.
But he hit the porcelain ballerina when he tried to smash the big hourglass with his shag pipe.
He poured more tea and gave Matern photographs to look at: in a stiff tutu stood Jenny doing an arabesque, like the porcelain ballerina except that her leg was all in one piece.
When Felsner-Imbs moved to Berlin with hourglass, porcelain ballerina, goldfish, stacks of music, and faded photographs -- Haseloff had engaged him as pianist for the ballet -- Tulla gave him a letter to take with him: for Jenny.
Her ballet slippers had grown too tight for her swelling feet, and at long last Jenny Angustri appeared to have the perfect high instep that every ballerina ought to have.
Paris, her status as Prima Ballerina set her apart from the other girls, and there were those who fawned and wanted to be her, and those who plotted and were cold and wanted to be her, or those who were overtly jealous and wanted to be her.