0 the members of a group of ballet dancers who dance together, especially those who are not the main dancers
One can imagine a playhouse running on the basis of a big ballet, with a story, popular music, magnificent scenery, gorgeous costumes, huge corps de ballet, half-a-dozen principals and immense advertisement.
Some pictures which will always count among the masterpieces of the nineteenth century, represent the whole corps de ballet performing on the stage before a dark and empty house.
Those in charge of the chorus and the corps de ballet wrote memos, on stationery with the same letterhead, about misbehaviour in the ranks.
As reward for loyal patronage, he gained access to the "secret world" of music-hall, and to the corps de ballet backstage.
In the season of 1838-9, for example, there were twenty-two principal singers, thirtyone principal dancers, and seventy-three members each in the chorus and the corps de ballet.
Prior to becoming a principal dancer, she was in the "corps de ballet" and then a soloist.
She also added a "corps de ballet" to the city in which she took great pride.
He joined the corps de ballet in 1997.
