Nick had been the premier danseur, a mentor, a professional partner.

And she was going to marry Maurice, the premier danseur of the company.

A premier danseur, he was recognized for his elegance and style.

"Don't pull your premier danseur pose on me," she said dangerously.

He lifted his brow, studying her with cool blue eyes, "I am premier danseur."

"But when it's my premier danseur and artistic director involved with my best ballerina, I'm concerned."

He became the company's principal dancer in 1968 and achieved the ultimate position of premier danseur in 1974.

The discipline of a premier danseur appears to cloak a creature of wild and beautiful movement impulses."

Tomasz was premier danseur, and Eleanora a soloist.

"We have an enormous and very difficult male repertory, especially for a dancer like Sean, a premier danseur noble," Robbins says.

Bruce Padgett was nicely evil and classically attuned as the not-so-noble premier danseur.

Godunov joined the Bolshoi Ballet in 1971 and rose to become Premier danseur.

His technical virtuosity took Soviet male dancing to new levels, but he was as convincing a dramatic or character dancer as a premier danseur.

And during the years he performed, he became a true premier danseur, romantic and ardent, able to merge flash with style.

Mr. Woetzel's firebrand Premier Danseur is just one of the guys offstage.

The terms prima ballerina, premier danseur, and première danseuse have been used to denote similar levels of prominence.

The choreography for Solor went through a renaissance as well with the great Premier danseur Chabukiani in the role.

He had a privacy fetish about keeping his door closed at all times so no one could see a former premier danseur lying helpless on his bed.

He became the Royal Swedish Ballet's premier danseur and choreographer, composing ballets for it.

Petipa was offered the position of premier danseur at the Grand Théâtre in Bordeaux in 1841.

While dancing with the company, Larkin met her future husband Roman Jasinski, a premier danseur from Poland.

The other is a bravura solo by Damian Woetzel, the company's premier danseur, who cuts loose with the virtuosity only classical technique can provide.

By 1838 he was appointed premier danseur to the Ballet de Nantes in Nantes, France.

In 1843 Petipa was offered the position premier danseur at the King's Theatre in Madrid, Spain.

For many Americans, she personified the company, and box-office success was guaranteed by her partnership on stage with Frederic Franklin, the company's English premier danseur.