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What is the professional name of a male ballet dancer? Females being ballerinas.
Technically, the word ballerina only refers to the principal female dancers of the company... not any female ballet dancer. The prima ballerina is the 1st, or best, of all the ballerinas of a company.
The male equivalent of a ballerina is a "premier danseur."
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