the leading man; prima ballerina; prima donna; a star figure skater; the starring role; a stellar role; a stellar performance.
She is beyond all doubts the finest prima ballerina of her day.
My daughter is a dancer and my ex-wife was a prima ballerina.
Whether she's learning to dance like a prima ballerina, running her school carnival or camping in the great outdoors, no challenge is too great for our tireless heroine!
Playing a prima ballerina on the verge of a breakdown, Natalie trades the modern elegance we're used to for stark white skin, vampy lipstick and amber eyes painted in a Jurassic Park-esque mask.
Hepburn turned to acting in 1948 to help pay the bills — her mother, an aristocrat, was already doing menial work, and Hepburn, though trained in dance, was too tall to be a prima ballerina.
