| 释义 |
‖ porteur Ballet.|pɔrtœr|
[Fr., lit. ‘one who carries’.]
(see quot. 1957.)
1936A. Haskell in ‘C. Brahms’ Footnotes to Ballet 5 Taglioni (1821) was frail and ethereal, and..she shone so brightly that the male was soon degraded to the rôle of porteur from which Nijinsky finally rescued it. 1949Ballet Ann. III. 93 With the advent of the Italian ballerina..ballet became even more a vehicle for the virtuosity of the female dancer backed by rows of pretty girls in the corps de ballet. The male dancer was..relegated to the position of porteur. 1957G. B. L. Wilson Dict. Ballet 220 Porteur, Fr. lit. one who carries, a porter. A male dancer whose sole function is to lift the ballerina in supported leaps and similar movements. 1961Ibid. (rev. ed.) 235 The male dancer in Western Europe was relegated to the rôle of a porteur during the half century preceding the coming of the Diaghileff Ballet and male dancing rôles were taken by the danseuse travestie. |