Balletic vs Unballetic - What's the difference?
balletic | unballetic |
Not balletic.
* 2006 , Thomas F. DeFrantz, Dancing Revelations (page 150)
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 4, author=Roslyn Sulcas, title=For $10, a Smorgasbord of the Popular and Daring, work=New York Times
, passage=Ms. Marin uses a deliberately slack, unballetic form; limbs are relaxed rather than stretched and feet are unpointed. }}
* 2014 , Sharon E. Friedler, ?Susan B. Glazer, Dancing Female (page 128)
As adjectives the difference between balletic and unballetic
is that balletic is pertaining to or suitable for ballet while unballetic is not balletic.unballetic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
citation
- 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.
