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                                                 ( a male ballet dancer )

 

Traditional, gender-specific titles are

used for ballet dancers. In French,

a male ballet dancer is referred to as                    

a danseur and a female as a danseuse.

In Italian, a ballerina is a female who

typically holds a principal title within

a ballet company; the title for equally                  

ranked males is ballerino. In Italian,                     

the common term for a male dancer                    

is danzatore and a female dancer is 

a danzatrice.