Ballet: alternatives and connections

A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.

Artistic pursuits; artistic ability.

A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of…

A rollicking French dance, accompanied by indecorous or extravagant postures and gestures.

The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture

A collection of persons employed to applaud at a theatrical exhibition.

The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other pe…

A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artis…

A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.

A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.

A dance, piece of music, or interlude, performed between two acts of a drama.

a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological developm…

A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop.

A kind of lively dance, in 2-4 time; also, the music to the dance.

A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played…

Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; an honorable burial.

A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball.