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...enjoyed your article on ballet and was especially delighted to see a dancer make the cover. This is solid proof of the growing popularity of dance in America today...
...Ballet was less accepted when I came to the U.S. with Ballet Russe in 1934. Strange restrictions were placed on male dancers then: tights were taboo in some parts of the country, and as late as 1950 male dancers had to wear knee-length jackets to appear...
Today almost every large city has a ballet company, and these frequently act as springboards to the major companies...
Balanchine first choreographed this mixed-media event for Téàtre de Mon te Carlo in 1925, shortly after he first met Ravel. Perhaps it would have been better to let the work retreat into decent obscurity. This new production is sumptuous by City Ballet standards, but the singers are nearly incomprehensible, the Daliesque sets poorly lit and the comic effects too often unfunny...
...faltering first program does not add up to failure. After all, there are still 13 more ballets to go. Moreover, even if invention flags, there is still the delight of seeing the marvelous City Ballet dancers in fresh choreography. They respond to it with palpable zest...