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* The ballet at the end of ''[[An American in Paris]]'', which is nearly 20 minutes long.
* ''[[Snow White and The Three Stooges]]'' has a Dream ''Ice'' Ballet, to show off the skills of lead Carol Heiss.
* ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'' had a scene that put Sarah in a white, puffy [[Pimped-Out Dress]], and [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]]. It had allusions to ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]]'', with Jareth as the prince dancing with her, and when clocks striking Midnight caused Sarah to break out of the dream.
* The film of ''[[Chicago]]'' uses this for nearly all of its musical numbers, contrasting Roxie's lavish and expansive daydreams with the cramped and discolored 'real' world.
* The "Broadway Ballet" from ''[[Singin' in Thethe Rain (Film)|Singin in The Rain]]'' is an imagined [[Show Within a Show]] which has an internal dream sequence in the [[Gene Kelly]]/Cyd Charisse ''pas de deux''.
* Miss Piggy's water ballet in ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]''.
* There's one in ''[[Bambi (Disney)|Bambi]]'' when the title character gets his [[First Kiss]] - the only overt fantasy moment in an otherwise realistic story.
* The "Once Upon A December" number in ''[[Anastasia]]'', where the portraits in the imperial ballroom come to life and dance for Anya.
* The truly bizarre short film "Design for Dreaming," which features a dream ballet about an auto show(!) and was given the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v91GELINmKo&feature=PlayList&p=76F6D9C63EFE0813&index=0&playnext=1 Mystery Science Theater 3000]'' treatment with hilarious results.
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* [[Osamu Tezuka|Tezuka Productions']] ''Broken Down Film'': When the nameless cowboy finally saves the damsel, the film suddenly shifts to Technicolor and the setting changes to a ballroom as the trope sets in. Then, when snapped out of it, the film suddenly reverts to its black-and-white western format.
* The 1956 movie version of ''[[Anything Goes]]'' included one.
* Messed around with in ''[[Black Swan (Film)|Black Swan]]'' ... [[Mind Screw|probably]].
* [[Cannibal! theThe Musical]] features a random dream ballet as an homage to [[Oklahoma]].
* Charlie Chaplin's ''[[The Kid]]'' has one near the end, with everyone in angel costumes until the party gets crashed by devils. Being that the rest of the film is fairly realistic, [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|it's appearance is rather random]].
 
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* Not necessarily ''ballets'', but there are a lot of musical numbers in ''Eli Stone'''s dream/hallucination sequences.
* Deleted scenes from ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' show that the writers toyed with the idea of a dream recorder, although the whole number was cut from the relevant episode (season 2, "Parallel Universe"). It's Cat's dream, naturally enough.
* A musical version happens in ''[[I CarlyICarly]]'' with both Carly and Spencer.
* The ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' episode "Waiting in the Wings" had a deleted scene that featured a fantasy ballet sequence between Fred and Wesley.
* In ''[[Smash]]'', Karen has a dream [[Bollywood]] dance number.
 
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* In ''[[Oklahoma]]!'', there is a [[Dream Ballet]] after Laurey takes smelling salts to help her decide whether to take Curly or Jud to a dance.
** Famous as the ''Oklahoma!'' [[Dream Ballet]] is, ballets in Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals aren't always dreams -- those in ''[[Carousel]]'' and ''[[The King and I]]'' don't involve dreams. There is, however, a [[Dream Ballet]] for Ta in ''[[Flower Drum Song]]'', and the college dance sequence in ''Allegro'' takes a three-minute break from awkward reality to send the dancers twirling through their imaginations.
** This scene is spoofed in Matt Stone and Trey Parker's early film ''[[Cannibal! theThe Musical]]''
* "Somewhere" from ''[[West Side Story]]''.
* "Carpe Noctem" from ''[[Tanz Derder Vampire]]''
* ''[[The Nutcracker (Theatretheatre)|The Nutcracker]]'' is a ballet in which all of the second act and some of the first turns out to be [[All Just a Dream]] in some productions (other productions play it as straight fantasy with magical things orchestrated by the mysterious Drosselmeyer).
* ''Fiddler On The Roof'' has both a [[Dream Ballet]] and a ballet to explain a dream.
* The [[Trope Maker]] ''might'' be the "Beggar's Waltz" from the 1931 revue ''The Band Wagon''.
* [[The Musical]] adaptation of ''A Tree Grows In Brooklyn''.
* ''[[The Pajama Game (Theatre)|The Pajama Game]]'' has the "Jealousy Ballet," with Hines imagining what life married to Gladys would be like.
* ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]'' has a frequently-cut ballet in which Rose dreams of killing her spineless fiance over and over again.
* "The Imaginary Coney Island" in ''[[On the Town]]''. "A Day In New York" in the film version uses much of the same music.
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