单词 | ballet master |
释义 | > as lemmasballet master ballet master n. [compare French maître de ballet (1783 or earlier), maître des ballets (1755 or earlier), German Ballettmeister (1768 or earlier as †Balletmeister), Swedish balettmästare (1647)] a man who arranges and directs ballet, or a ballet; (now esp.) an employee of a ballet company who teaches and rehearses dancers. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ballet > [noun] > arranger or trainer ballet master1762 maître de ballet1776 maîtresse de ballet1840 choreograph1876 choreographer1886 1762 G.-A. Gallini Treat. Art of Dancing 122 A good ballet-master must especially have regard to both poetical and picturesque invention. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIV xxxviii. 134 Danced..Not like a ballet-master in the van Of his drill'd nymphs. 1911 Times 5 Aug. 9/3 Monsieur K, the ballet-master, composes ballets as he walks. 2007 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 4 Nov. 48 He became ballet master of the Milwaukee Ballet in 1981 and was named its artistic director in 1995. < as lemmas |
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