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Definition of Modern ballet
1. Noun. A style of ballet that admits a wider variety of movements.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modern Ballet
Literary usage of Modern ballet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The question is whether mute pantomimic action, which is the essence of modern
ballet, was carried through those court entertainments, in which kings, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The ballet d'action, to which the changed meaning of the word is to be ascribed,
and therewith the introduction of modern ballet, has been generally ..."
3. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"This idea arose early in the eighteenth century, but the modern ballet is a
spectacular dance rather than a dramatic representation, the main-purpose being ..."
4. The Making of Personality by Bliss Carman (1908)
"The practice of the art as developed in the modern ballet is admirable so far as
... But the modern ballet is only a stiffened relic of the art of dancing ..."
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