Ballerina

Category
CARTOONS

Language
FRENCH

"Ballerina" means any female ballet student or dancer. Historically, "ballerina" was once a rank given only to the most exceptional female soloists. As late as the 1950s a ballerina was the principal female dancer of a ballet company who was also very accomplished in the international world of ballet, especially beyond her own company; female dancers who danced ballet were then called danseuses or simply ballet dancers. Ballerina was a critical accolade bestowed on relatively few female dancers, somewhat similar to the title diva in opera. The male version of this term is danseur noble . Since the 1960s, however, the term has lost its hierarchical meaning and is applied generally to women who are ballet dancers.[4] <

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