WordNet
n. a company that produces ballets
Wikipedia
A ballet company is a group of dancers who perform classical ballet, neoclassical ballet, and/or contemporary ballet in the European tradition, plus managerial and support staff. Most major ballet companies employ dancers on a year-round basis, except in the United States, where contracts for part of the year (typically thirty or forty weeks) are the norm. A company generally has a home theatre where it stages the majority of its performances, but many companies also tour in their home country or internationally.
Ballet companies routinely make a loss at the box office, and depend on external financial support of one kind or another. In Europe most of this support comes in the form of government subsidies, though private donations are usually solicited as well. In North America private donations are the main source of external funding.
Many ballet companies have an associated school which trains dancers. Traditionally the school would provide almost all of the company's dancers, something which helped to create clear distinctions in style between companies, but 21st century ballet has open hiring practices, and many ballet companies have a very international staff.
Usage examples of "ballet company".
Michael wanted 5,000 words on the oldest ballet company in the world.
We have been invited to be the first Western ballet company to perform in China.
I day-dreamed a little as we drove, about living in New York as a member of a world-famous ballet company.
And someone like me, with skin the color of cocoa and eyes like coal, could never have dreamed of joining a ballet company.
The surprise was attendance at a touring French ballet company's staging of Swan Lake at the Habima National Theater, accompanied by the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra.
The baggage master of the ballet company takes you, in the costume baskets.
When the aunt died, Ilma joined a small ballet company and ended up with the San Francisco Ballet for one season.
Maria Ana wanted to be a dancer, took the train to San Francisco, and after years of strenuous work, heartbreak, and small roles in the city ballet company, she hurt her back and wound up teaching in an Arthur Murray studio.