Act
Act noun - A performance regularly presented by an individual or group.
Ballet
Ballet noun - A theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers.
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Synonyms for Ballet
Nearby Word: balletic
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Wagner objected to placing the ballet in the second act, instead providing a ballet at the very beginning — thus provoking noisy demonstrations by the gentlemen of the royalist Jockey Club.
Source: Theatre / Tannhäuser -
The Nutcracker is a ballet in which all of the second act and some of the first turns out to be All Just a Dream in some productions (other productions play it as straight fantasy with magical things orchestrated by the mysterious Drosselmeyer).
Source: Dream Ballet - Nixon In China, where in act II Nixon, his wife, and Henry Kissinger attend a ballet and sing the opinions of the ballet dancers in a manner highly suggestive of a strawman of their own views.
Source: Show Within A Show / Theater
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