1.   Although he has often worked with ballet troupes, Walker is essentially an American modern-dance choreographer.

2.   And this time the master classes were hot tickets for ballet troupes and general dance students as well as modern dancers.

3.   At the classiest theaters, you could even enjoy a symphony orchestra, a ballet troupe and opera selections before the feature began.

4.   Ballet troupes often use apprentices to augment the corps in works with large casts.

5.   Ballet troupes spent summers there.

6.   All big ballet troupes go through this process.

7.   All Scandinavian ballet troupes with royal patrons are not the same.

8.   Chicago has not had a history of supporting its ballet troupes, however, and the question remains whether two companies can survive there.

9.   Demographics are in, as are computers, in an art form in which decisions were once based on the very particular tastes of the heads of ballet troupes.

10.   Five additional ballet troupes are negotiating licensing contracts.