Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.

The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

He was moving like a ballet dancer, playing for laughs.

that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; ;

It is a kind of friendliness and frankness of address toward the audience which we have been led to believe was peculiar to the American ballet.

The engagement was supposed to be all set for the big theater in McCormick Place, which Sol Hurok, ballet booker extraordinary, considers the finest house of its kind in the country -- and of course he doesn't weep at the capacity, either.

At the other extreme in character was the half-hour excerpt from the Petipa-Minkus ballet `` Bayaderka '', which opened the evening.

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

Although an enthusiastic amateur musician and patron of the ballet, Alexander was seen as lacking refinement and elegance.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Don Chisciotte was a mix of ballet and opera buffa, and the lead female roles in L ' amore innocente were designed to contrast and highlight the different traditions of operatic writing for soprano, even borrowing stylistic flourishes from opera-seria in the use of coloratura in what was a short pastoral comedy more in keeping with a Roman Intermezzo.

Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer in early life.

In 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris, and for three years she attended the ballet classes of Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.

The first ballet dance academy was the Académie Royale de Danse ( Royal Dance Academy ), opened in Paris in 1661.

Shortly thereafter, the first institutionalized ballet troupe, associated with the Academy, was formed ; this troupe began as an all-male ensemble but by 1681 opened to include women as well.

The relationship of music to dance serves as the basis for Eurhythmics, devised by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, which was influential to the development of Modern dance and modern ballet through artists such as Marie Rambert.

By now Curt was seeing clearly again.

Against all expectation, Carmer was inside, clearly enjoying himself to the hilt and already so tipsy that it seemed unlikely he was bothering to note anything or anyone about him.

An inmate, a former university professor, expounded to us, logically and clearly, that someone was pilfering his thoughts.

It was, of course, in this drawing of the balance sheet of judgment that he most clearly displayed his desire to do full justice to an author.

In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.

He was again tingling with pleasure, seeing himself clearly in Slater's shoes.

She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare's poem.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

Barco was clearly a `` nut ''.

he was talking to himself thirteen to the dozen and smoking two cigars at once, clearly a man in extremis.

Specific staining by DEAE-cellulose treated Af and Af, although clearly distinguishable under the microscope from either nonspecific staining or autofluorescence of cells, was not satisfactorily photographed to show such differences in spite of many attempts with black and white and color photography.

The distinction between domiciled ( de jure ) and present ( de facto ) population was not clearly defined.

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

The new Council was itself inescapably of political meaning, which was most clearly revealed in the absence of any U.N.F.P. members and the presence of several Istiqlal leaders.

He remarked: `` It has been clearly established that in a number of instances the message did not come from a spirit but was received telepathically by the medium from the sitter ''.

His sudden unannounced appearance at the Borden home was strange in that he did not carry an iota of baggage with him, although he clearly intended to stay overnight, if not longer.

In these terms, the `` economic withdrawal '' of the Negroes of Nashville, Tennessee, from trading in the center city, for example, was clearly justified, since these distinctions do not require that only people subjectively guilty be singled out.

The figures on the worksheet paper in front of her were jumping and waving around so badly it was all she could do to make them out clearly enough to copy them with the typewriter.

`` I am taking the position that the contract was clearly violated '', Berger said.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

All week long the President clearly was playing a larger personal role in foreign affairs ; ;

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

Brooks ' style was generally slapstick and zany in nature, often parodying film styles and genres, including Universal horror films ( Young Frankenstein ), westerns ( Blazing Saddles ) and Hitchcock films ( High Anxiety ).

After quarterback Jay Cutler came down with an injury in 2011, where the Bears lost 5 straight games and was knocked out of playoff contention, his absence was bemoaned in a song parodying the hit Baby Come Back as a parody called Cutty Come Back.

The MTM logo was a short video sequence parodying the MGM logo, but with a cat meowing instead of a lion roaring.

) George Zebrowski, in his afterword to the story, speculates that Heinlein was parodying Campbell in the character of Calhoun, who goes insane and actually believes the false religion created by the Americans.

( He was once, however, depicted as a pig, in a strip parodying the film The Mask.

He wrote songs that were innovative and original in form ( parodying and refreshing contemporary literary styles was one of his specialities ), as well as challenging in subject matter.

Kinderman, on the other hand, whose researches among the Beethoven sketchbooks discovered that Variation 1 was inserted late into the work, deems it a " structural variation ", echoing Diabelli more clearly than the non-structural variations and, in this case, parodying the weaknesses of the theme.

Luba Goy, who was parodying Johanson, got up to retrieve a book.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Sesame Street ran a series of SuperGrover skits parodying the old Superman series ( in the opening of these, his name was hyphenated " Super-Grover ").

A sketch parodying Soul Train mocked the show as Old Train, suggesting the show ( along with its host, Don Cornelius ) was out of touch and only appealed to the elderly and the dead.

His earliest notable success was made in A Pantomime Rehearsal, a short play ( parodying incompetent amateur theatricals ) with which he was associated for many years.

It was also parodied in Tiny Toons Adventures episode " Acme Cable TV " in a commercial for " Foot Loops " which featured Gogo Dodo ( parodying Toucan Sam ) trying to convince Shirley to eat them as an alternative to granola, without success.

Berman was also known to often say a football player " could — go — all — the — way " on long touchdown plays ( parodying Howard Cosell's delivery ).

In early 2006 an advertising campaign for ' Tango Clear ' was launched, parodying the ' Balls ' themed advertisement for Sony BRAVIA LCD televisions.

Because she was concerned that she would be criticized for what was seen as immoral conduct, she punished those whom she perceived to be criticizing her or parodying her behavior with severe punishment, including death.

In the early 2000s, McMahon made a series of Neighborhood Watch public service announcements parodying the surprise appearances to contest winners that he was supposedly known for.

: Evidence: It is known that the play was on stage by early 1592 as in A Groatsworth of Wit, Bought with a Million of Repentance, Robert Greene mocked Shakespeare by parodying a line from 3 Henry VI.

The first, for publishing The Late John Wilkes's Catechism of a Ministerial Member ( 1817 ), was before Mr Justice Abbot ( afterwards Lord Tenterden ); the second, for parodying the litany and libelling the Prince Regent in The Political Litany ( 1817 ), and the third, for publishing the Sinecurist's Creed ( 1817 ), a parody on the Athanasian Creed, were before Lord Ellenborough.

" Goo-ology " was a series of promotional shorts for Cadbury's Creme Egg, parodying pivotal scenes from cult movies ( Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Alien and Frankenstein ).

The programme was in fact parodying hysteria surrounding the issue of paedophilia and the media, thus commentators suggested that extreme reactions such as those by Hughes had in fact emphasised the need for such programming.