ballet

ballet
noun

[mass noun]an artistic dance form performed to music, using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures. Classical ballet, which originated in Renaissance Italy and established its present form during the 19th century, is characterized by light, graceful, fluid movements and the use of pointe shoes with reinforced toes
芭蕾舞
■[count noun]a creative work of this form or the music written for it
芭蕾舞作品；芭蕾舞曲
■[treated as sing. or pl.]a group of dancers who regularly perform such works
芭蕾舞团
the Bolshoi Ballet.
俄罗斯大剧院芭蕾舞团。
■[in sing.](figurative)an elaborate or complicated interaction between people
(喻)芭蕾式交流（人际复杂相互作用）
that delicate and cautious ballet known as the planning process.
计划过程微妙谨慎的芭蕾式交流。
Ballet developed in Renaissance Italy and at the court of Louis XIV of France, originally as a formal spectacle involving singing and speech as well as dance, performed by courtiers. The stylized costumes, steps, positions, and techniques of romantic and classical ballet were developed in the 19th century, when the practice of dancing on the tips of the toes (sur les pointes) was introduced. Classical ballet was perfected by the Russian Imperial Ballet under the choreographer Petipa, and still flourishes in Russia, notably in the Bolshoi and Kirov companies. In the early 20th century the form was further developed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and by the radical approach of dancers such as Isadora Duncan (see modern dance) Among the most notable 20th-century dancers have been Vaslav Nijinsky, Alicia Markova, Rudolf Nureyev, Robert Helpmann, Margot Fonteyn, and Mikhail Baryshnikov; famous choreographers include Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Michel Fokine, and George Balanchine

语源

mid 17th cent.: from French, from Italian balletto, diminutive of ballo 'a dance', from late Latin ballare 'to dance' (see ball)

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