unballetic
English
Adjective
unballetic (comparative more unballetic, superlative most unballetic)
- Not balletic.
- 2006, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Dancing Revelations, page 150:
- 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.
- 2014, Sharon E. Friedler, Susan B. Glazer, Dancing Female, page 128:
- 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.
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