Two ensemble dances added liveliness to a predominantly somber matinee.

The ballet's solos, duets and ensemble dances are tethered in space.

Mr. Barbee estimates that teaching a solo or small ensemble dance can take from a half hour to two hours.

Mr. Maya does not develop the story, using it simply as a setting for a series of solos and ensemble dances.

The lyricism of an ensemble dance from Siberia was impressive in its sustained flow.

There is also a clever use of traditional sailor dances in the ensemble dances.

She confesses to Tyler that she'd always imagined it as an ensemble dance, rather than a duet.

But they speak a different language from that in the ensemble dances, most of which are folk inspired.

The piece unfolds in two parts, each made up of five solos or ensemble dances that could stand on their own as discrete works.

Such important principal roles are rare in a company devoted largely to ensemble dances.