When the main ballerina leans in an arabesque toward the kneeling poet, she should seem to whisper in his ear like a muse.

She is the troupe's main ballerina and was seen as Odile in the excerpted ballrom act of "Swan Lake" with Aleksandr Gorbetsevich.

Partnering Natalya Bessmertnova, the company's main ballerina he turned and smiled at her during a love duet.

Maria Tallchief, one of the two main ballerinas in the original, wrote in her memoir, "Dancing the ballet was a little like taking medicine every day."

One could even forgive the postural oddities of the two main ballerinas.

Balanchine even seemed intent on casting against type when he chose successors to Violette Verdy as the main ballerina in "Emeralds."

By contrast, the two main ballerinas seen in Washington - Paloma Herrera and Kathleen Moore - represented two halves of a whole.

Lourdes Lopez, the main ballerina, for instance, virtually ends the ballet with a series of two alternating kinds of turns.

In her debut as the main ballerina, Kathleen Tracey did something wonderful.

He twists her ankle right before the show that could make her famous forever, as a main ballerina.