balletomane

But you didn't need to be a balletomane or even an adult to enjoy the performance.

What elegant balletomane had paid for the costume she was wearing at that moment?

Not a single balletomane got out of it even five minutes of pleasure."

His father, Herbert, a balletomane, spent a great deal of time with him in London.

No true balletomane can afford to miss this season, with its spate of new young male stars in the making.

The distaste melted to pleasure; she became a balletomane.

He became a lifelong balletomane with a special fondness for the City Ballet.

"Lincoln Kirstein" (1950) caught the great American balletomane to perfection.

TO the Degas-drunk balletomane, dance studios are mirrored temples of mystery and romance.

"I can't believe I loved seeing six ladies going crazy onstage," one unregenerate balletomane said.

The media noted the event as "a meaningful tribute to a passionate and indefatigable Filipino artist no balletomane should miss."

As with most Russian nobility, Duke Peter was a longtime balletomane and patron of the arts.

And no balletomane visiting the French capital this month can afford to miss the rare revivals that make up this two-part bill.

Balletomane at large: an autobiography (London: Heinemann, 1972).

That even a pre-teen balletomane could prefer Ashton to de Valois was something that the great lady herself would understand.

The evening was dedicated to Ed Pellman, a balletomane who encouraged young dancers, and who died several months ago.

But her talks, while invariably offering a tidbit or two for even the most hard-bitten balletomane, are accessible to the first-time dancegoer.

Even the most veteran balletomane cannot fail to be moved by the production and the dying swan scene at the end brought a few tears in the audience.

(Bring back Minkus, one balletomane muttered.)

Geoffrey Holder's similarly spirit-warming "Dougla" isn't the kind of dance a balletomane might expect to see in this setting.

Won: Best Student Film (The Bronx Balletomane, 2009)

I've often wondered why he didn't become a balletomane - but, then, I've often wondered why a great many people I know are not balletomanes.

Doan Mackenzie is the innocent-looking novice Sister Mary Leo, a not-so-secret balletomane.

It is the rare balletomane who has heard of Jooss's "Dithyrambus" or "Gaukelei."

It is no secret that the Trocks are just about the only classical company still dancing the beloved old Russian chestnuts that every balletomane grew up on.