Yet in this performance, Miss Alfieri was to a ballerina role born.

Miss Watts has honed the ballerina role to inventive perfection.

The two ballerina roles were similarly projected with individuality and style.

A chief difference in this production is that the ballerina role is split.

Medora and Gulnare, the two ballerina roles, may be captives.

I feel like an accessory, which is the way it was in the old days for the ballerina role.

Ballet Theater is presenting many of its leading ladies in the ballerina roles this week.

Miranda Weese gave the ballerina role true authority.

That a corps member would step into a ballerina role might be unusual in other companies.

Ms. Hlinka restored the original grand manner of the ballerina role.