ballet master

Company rehearsal leader

A ballet master is the person responsible for rehearsing and maintaining a ballet company's repertoire.

The role involves teaching choreography, coaching dancers, and ensuring performances match the original artistic vision.

In historical usage, ballet master often meant the principal choreographer; today the terms are usually distinguished, with choreographers creating new works while ballet masters preserve existing ones.

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role in ballet hierarchy

ballet masterballet dancer

Performer of classical movement

principal dancer · performer · soloist · ballerina · danseur

artistic authority

ballet masterpupil

Learner or eye opening

trainee · novice · beginner · apprentice

creative function

ballet masterchoreographer

One who designs dances

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