But the room seemed a palace to the brats of the corps de ballet, who were lodged in common dressing-rooms where they spent their time singing, quarreling, smacking the dressers and hair-dressers and buying one another glasses of cassis, beer, or even rhum, until the call-boy's bell rang.
People began by laughing and making fun of this specter dressed like a man of fashion or an undertaker; but the ghost legend soon swelled to enormous proportions among the corps de ballet. All the girls pretended to have met this supernatural being more or less often.
Picture the corps de ballet scuttling down the Jacob's ladder and dividing the suicide's rope among themselves in less time than it takes to write!
He had been at a fast supper-party, given the night before by Captain the Honourable George Cinqbars, at his house in Brompton Square, to several young men of the regiment, and a number of ladies of the
corps de ballet, and old Mac, who was at home with people of all ages and ranks, and consorted with generals, dog-fanciers, opera-dancers, bruisers, and every kind of person, in a word, was resting himself after the night's labours, and, not being on duty, was in bed.
Of its ranks--aspirant, eleve,
corps de ballet, coryphee, grand sujet, soloist and principal--she skipped eleve and grand sujet along the way.
The
corps de ballet are also befeathered male dancers instead of tutu-wearing ballerinas.
World-famous principal dancers and
corps de ballet of the Bolshoi Theatre will take to the stage tonight for the first of two performances in Bahrain.
Before that high-octane finale there are such delights as the elegant
Corps De Ballet, the aerial acrobatics of Jackie Louise and trick equestrian Nicky de Neumann thundering around the ring on the backs of up to three horses.
On Monday, March 4, auditions will be held at the theatre to find 100 dancers aged between eight and 18 for the ballet to perform the
corps de ballet and soloist roles for the show, which will be performed in Cardiff on July 26-27.
Ballet blanc is described as the triumph of the
corps de ballet, referring to the identical white costumes worn by the female dancers of the
corps de ballet.
Seven dancers were from the
corps de ballet, 16 were first artists, 12 were soloists, and 16 were principal dancers.