What do you call male ballerinas?
By hunibani
@hunibani (720)
Philippines
4 responses
@alberello (4752)
• Italy
10 Feb 12
I personally do not know in your language, how to define a man who practices the activity of dancing.
In my state (Italy) there is a male and female for this term, namely:
for women is called "Ballerina"
for males is called "Ballerino"
this term in the singular.
I do not know exactly in your language if there is a distinction between these two terms.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
10 Feb 12
There is only one ballerina in a company. The lead male dancer is called 'Danseur Nobel'. Other dancers are called ballet dancers or dancers (in French, it would be 'les danseurs' and 'les danceuses').
You do not call a male lead dancer a 'ballerino' except, perhaps, in Italy.
@universe2o6 (356)
• Brazil
11 Feb 12
I call everybody who dances balet a balet dancer. Being one myself, I wouldn't like being called a balerina.