Soloist (ballet)

In ballet, a soloist is a dancer in a ballet company above the corps de ballet but below principal dancer. ^[1]

Dancers at this level perform the majority of the solo and minor rôles in a ballet, such as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet or one of the Fairies in The Sleeping Beauty.

References

1. Koegler, Horst (1982). Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-311330-5.