(n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
(n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.
(n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
(n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
Example Sentences:
(1) The somatograms demonstrated that the ballet dancers had relatively smaller upper arms and larger calves and ankles compared with the reference female.
(2) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Dutch National Ballet’s production of Coppélia Photograph: Marc Haegeman
(4) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(5) The decision, which is being contested by the arts world in Germany and beyond, will effectively end the Deutsche Oper am Rhein – considered to be among Germany's 10 leading theatre institutions – and will seriously dent Duisburg's musical theatre and ballet output.
(6) He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer.
(7) The data from this study suggest that the body type characteristics associated with professional classical ballet dancers are already apparent in the pre-professional adolescent dancers.
(8) Twenty-nine soloist and principal dancers (mean age, 29.08 years) from America's two most celebrated ballet companies were administered questionnaires measuring personality (API), occupational stress (OES), strain (PSQ), and coping mechanisms (PRQ), and injury patterns.
(9) And the US default and the ballet ballot on strike action were both looming -- they could have wiped out the positive momentum.
(10) The effects of nutrition on the incidence of stress fractures among classical ballet dancers were studied.
(11) She was raised in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, where she attended a Welsh-speaking school and trained as a ballet dancer before studying theatre, film and TV at Aberystwyth University.
(12) An ethnic Tatar from eastern Russia, Mingazov was a successful ballet dancer before he entered the Russian Army in the late 1980s.
(13) Women who feel "unfeminine" when playing sport could take up other activities like "ballet, gymnastics, cheerleading and even roller-skating", the minister of sports, equalities and tourism Helen Grant has suggested.
(14) But this is not some illustration of a legend, it is Mlle Fiocre in the ballet La Source , and therefore his first ballet picture, not that you would notice if the title didn't give the game away.
(15) Grace and speed In his physical prime, a decade earlier, Ali had such grace and foot speed that watching him perform almost became an extension of the balletic arts.
(16) So when he accepted the post of artist-in-residence at American Ballet Theatre , the company rightly felt they had scored a coup.
(17) Watching Fox News is like a rehearsed ballet: every show over the last week has claimed that president Obama’s response to the murder of journalist James Foley has been so weak because he issued a statement before going back to his golf game while on vacation – host Judge Jeanine’s monologue epitomised the channel’s sentiment.
(18) The results were evident in the "hip-hop ballet" class in a new dance studio, and a mural of a meteor containing a dove about to hit a forest struck by lightning, suggesting that somewhere a heavy metal band is missing an album cover.
(19) Back in the high puritan era of 17th-century England, when Oliver Cromwell tried to ban all forms of public dance, from court masques and ballets to maypole dancing, the effect of the prohibition was to create a generation for whom dance represented sin.
(20) I have always been crazy flexible because I did ballet.
Madrigal
Definition:
(n.) A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.
(n.) An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.
Example Sentences:
(1) And now, with The Days of Anna Madrigal , it's all coming to an end.
(2) Handing a newbie the keys to 28 Barbary Lane is one of life's simplest joys – like Mrs Madrigal taping a joint to Mary Ann's door on her first night.
(3) The Brazilian full-back was preparing to take a corner at Villarreal's El Madrigal stadium when the piece of fruit landed on the pitch next to him.
(4) They have also beaten Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid at the 25,000-capacity El Madrigal this season – the former Tottenham striker Roberto Soldado scoring the only goal against Real – and drew 2-2 with Barcelona last month.
(5) Through her friendship with a rich cast of characters, including eccentric marijuana-growing landlady, Anna Madrigal and quiet young gay man Michael Tolliver (known as Mouse), Maupin's sparkling comedy chronicles Mary Ann's adventures in 70s San Francisco.
(6) Nine novels later, Maupin has written The Days of Anna Madrigal – what he claims is the last instalment (he's said that before – please let him be fibbing again).
(7) Luckily, Higgs has found a few hours to spare before rushing off to join his wife for another round of Monteverdi madrigals at the festival that first attracted him to the city in 1949.
(8) Villarreal 1-0 Liverpool: Europa League semi-final – as it happened Read more The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, the nickname adopted by Villarreal as they began their remarkable rise up the ranks in Spain, replaced their traditional pre-match anthem at El Madrigal and helped to create a jovial atmosphere.
(9) It wasn't until many years later that I realised that Hayley Mills's mysterious governess in the 1964 film The Chalk Garden is called Miss Madrigal.
(10) It was born at 6pm on 29 September 1946, and its first cries were a light-hearted guide on How to Listen , a talk on world affairs, Bach harpsichord music, Monteverdi madrigals and a new work by Benjamin Britten .
(11) A moment of silence was held before the match at El Madrigal for the victims of a bus accident in north-east Spain that left at least 13 dead.
(12) Having done most of the damage with a 3-1 first leg win at El Madrigal, Sevilla finished things off at home with a 2-1 victory courtesy of second-half goals from Vicente Iborra and his replacement Denis Suárez.
(13) In his hands was a ceramic yellow submarine, a memento of his time at the Madrigal.
(14) "FC Barcelona wishes to express its complete support and solidarity with our first-team player Dani Alves, following the insults he was subject to from a section of the crowd at El Madrigal on Sunday during the game against Villarreal."
(15) As Mrs Madrigal says: "You didn't choose Barbary Lane.
(16) At El Madrigal they settled for leaning on the midfield covering of the splendid Gilberto and, when that did not suffice, the authority of Lehmann.
(17) Jürgen Klopp’s side will travel to El Madrigal stadium for the first leg on 28 April and host the second at Anfield on 5 May.
(18) Landlady Anna Madrigal's name was my own invention, intended to evoke the pleasant rhythm of Mrs Miniver , a book I revered and had initially been serialised to great success in the Times.
(19) • The Days of Anna Madrigal is published by Doubleday.
(20) They have made a lot of good decisions to be here and we shouldn’t hope for the wrong decisions tomorrow.” Klopp was not in the mood to wallow in that remarkable quarter-final victory when he appeared at El Madrigal Stadium on Wednesday.