Ballet 2- 3 @ Dance Island Hawaii

In the original Italian, the terms ballerino (a male dancer, usually in ballet) and ballerina do not imply the accomplished and critically acclaimed dancers once meant by the terms ballerina and danseur noble when used in English. Rather, they simply mean one who dances ballet. Italian terms that do convey an accomplished female ballet dancer are prima ballerina and prima ballerina assoluta (the French word toile is used in this sense at the Scala ballet company in Milan but has a different meaning at the Paris Opera Ballet.). More Info below.