[ noun ] a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina <noun.person>
As the mad, fly-eating Renfield, Eric Frederic gives a fine display of neurosis and pirouettes, and I was impressed by Rinat Imaev (a Bulgarian danseur) who played and danced Jonathan Harker with real finesse.
Edur is superb, an Apollonian premier danseur who uses the classical vocabulary as his native tongue, and can speak of feeling as well as of the beauties of academic propriety.
So, invariably, does the company's newly engaged premier danseur Faruk Ruzimatov, formerly of the Kirov Ballet.
What the company badly needs is a ballerina and a premier danseur of sufficient distinction to epitomize the standards of accomplishment to which LFB as a whole can aspire.