The chorus of a ballet company.
Group of dancers who are not soloists.
1Well, I had to get my corps de ballet from somewhere.
2The all-male corps de ballet dances bare-chested wearing what look like feathered pantaloons.
3She wasn't just a pretty face, or a member of the corps de ballet.
4The others were members of what Donna Tullia called her " corps de ballet."
5He would not take to the hunting-field, she thought, the boulevard, and the corps de ballet.
6The corps de ballet was flung into consternation.
7I remember seeing him inspect the corps de ballet one night, just before the curtain went up.
8He won an apprenticeship with Seattle's prestigious Pacific Northwest Ballet, where he joined the corps de ballet.
9Both dancers graduated into the Kirov company as soloists, bypassing the usual period in the corps de ballet.
10Of this permission I was myself the bearer, and I naturally extended it to the corps de ballet.
11Our evenings were spent at the theatre, where there was a ballet A corps de ballet at Luneville!
12Every soloist was technically perfect and the corps de ballet had that wonderful unity without uniformity that only Russian-trained corps achieve.
13Well, footmen and courtiers and Scottish Highlanders, and the corps de ballet, draymen too, have legs, and staring legs, shapely enough.
14Barcelona has a permanent framework for opera productions - an orchestra, a chorus, a corps de ballet and a roster of supporting singers.
15And the occasional laughing remark which one member of the corps de ballet makes to her neighbour, backs safely turned to the audience.
16Four years ago, languishing in the Royal's corps de ballet, Parish accepted an offer to join the Mariinsky, the first Briton ever to do so.
Translations for corps de ballet