Ballet

The Muppets

 * Miss Piggy appeared in a parody of Degas' 1881 sculpture "The Little Dancer of Fourteen Years" in the 1984 Miss Piggy's Art Masterpiece Calendar, and later reissues Miss Piggy's Treasury of Art Masterpieces and Jim Henson's Muppet Masterpieces Calendar.
 * A 1985 episode of PBS series Great Performances was hosted by Kermit and Miss Piggy. The episode featured the San Francisco Ballet performing Cinderella (from Prokofiev's score).

The Muppet Show

 * Royal Ballet dancer Michael Coleman appears as one of the Mutations in The Muppet Show episode 318

Sesame Street

 * In two 1987 Sesame Street News Flash segments, "Ballet: Counting Battements" and "Ballet: Ballerina's Body", New York City Ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell performs.


 * Big Bird Presents the Nutcracker is a 1991 All About Music album, based on The Nutcracker.
 * I Want to Be a Ballet Dancer is a 1993 picture book featuring Prairie Dawn.
 * The 1996 computer game Elmo's Art Workshop includes a sticker of Bert in a tutu.


 * The 1998-2002 Sesame Street opening sequence included footage of Big Bird using a crosswalk, followed by girls in tutus. In Episode 3851, Zoe interrupts the opening, to point this footage out, mentioning that the episode focuses on dance.


 * In a 2000 episode, episode 3851, the Street scene focuses in on a dance party on Sesame Street. Zoe demonstrates her ballet moves for Elmo, and a sequence of the New York City Ballet is shown. When Elmo sees Miles and Gabi playing basketball, their movement leads to another sequence. A latter ballet sequence is sparked by seeing the Three Bears, a stretching dance done by Tarah and Stinky, and Big Bird's turning dance. The ballet segments were performed by Maria Kowroski, Aosha Ash, Eva Natanya, Albert Evans, Nikolaj Hübbe, Jock Soto, under the direction of Mary Perillo, with choreography by Sean Lavery.


 * One animated segment features Zoe narrating an animation of a ballet painting by Edgar Degas.


 * Joe Mathieu parodied Edgar Degas' 1877 painting "The Star" in a 2004 issue of Sesame Street Magazine, with a spoof featuring Zoe.


 * What's the Word on the Street? has featured the word "Ballet" It was accompanied by a The Word of the Day segment, with Ellen DeGeneres trying to dance ballet.


 * Elmo's Christmas Countdown, a 2007 Christmas special, features a "Nutcracker Medley" segment with Elmo as The Nutcracker, Tiffany Curl as Clara, and Jamie Foxx as an action figure of himself. The music samples 	 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's music for the original ballet.


 * What's the Word on the Street? has featured the word "Piroutte". The accompanying The Word of the Day segment featured Cuban ballet dancers Lorena and Lorna Feijóo in season 39, with Grover.
 * The Sesame Street Podcast featured an episode on the theme "Piroutte" (August 26, 2008).
 * In episode 4162, the Fairy Shoeperson gaves Telly some ballet slippers, which make him pirouette out of control.