ballet blanc
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ballet blanc
In classical ballet, a dance in which the women wear the familiar white tulle skirts first seen in La Sylphide in 1832 and thereafter immortalized in many romantic lithographs. One of the most famous examples of ballet blanc is Act II of Giselle.
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