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unballetic en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + balletic.

Meanings

1. Not balletic.
   • Ms. Marin uses a deliberately slack, unballetic form; limbs are relaxed rather than stretched and feet are unpointed. 2007 October 4, Roslyn Sulcas, “For $10, a Smorgasbord of the Popular and Daring”, in New York Times:
   • 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. 2014, Sharon E. Friedler, Susan B. Glazer, Dancing Female, page 128:
   • 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. 2006, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Dancing Revelations, page 150:

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