Bell became an international success with his screen debut as a ballet dancing youngster in Daldry's Billy Elliot three years ago.

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Graced with talent and strength, DePrince says she has had to work even harder to get accepted into the rarefied world of ballet dancing -- a predominantly white preserve.

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This witty and romantic ballet is made for lovers of big dancing and vaudeville.

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And even in the frenetic string of fairy solos in "The Sleeping Beauty, " statuesque and lovely corps-de-ballet-ranked Lydia Wellington made indelible impressions with her sure dancing.

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And as the ballet progresses, Mr. Ratmansky presents somewhat more narrative action than strict dancing.

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Passionate about dancing, she earned a full scholarship to the prestigious American Ballet Theater's summer intensive in New York aged 13.

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To reflect the princess's love of dancing and musicals, there will be an appearance by the English National Ballet, while Andrew Lloyd Webber will stage a medley of songs from his West End shows.

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Unaware of exactly what it was, I had first seen this cantata-cum-ballet in 1970 at the National Arts Center in Ottawa and been awestruck by the music, the dancing, and the monastic chanting of the earthy love poems.

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But at least, in this one instance, the dancing men were spared not only inane attempts at eccentricity but moves that betrayed an ignorance of ballet's inherent finesse and expressivity.

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