What does unballetic mean?
Unballetic means Not balletic..
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Not balletic..
The dancers express giddy playfulness in terms of exaggeration: overarticulated beats of the feet, flamboyantly oversized port de bras, and patently unballetic shimmies of the shoulder.
Ms. Marin uses a deliberately slack, unballetic form; limbs are relaxed rather than stretched and feet are unpointed.
The early moderns, almost all of whom began their choreographic careers by creating solos for themselves, were using their own unballetic bodies rather than someone else's body as the raw material of their art.
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Unballetic means Not balletic..
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The dancers express giddy playfulness in terms of exaggeration: overarticulated beats of the feet, flamboyantly oversized port de bras, and patently unballetic shimmies of the shoulder.
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