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Susan, a boarding student at Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Md., has followed in her mother's jetes. She has studied modern dance since the age of eight, and is now taking ballet lessons as well...
Midas Touch. Balanchine did go to the United States, though. The first Balanchine-Kirstein company, the American Ballet, went broke while on tour in Scranton, Pa., in 1935. Thanks partly to some fast lobbying by Kirstein, the troupe was taken on as the ballet wing of the Metropolitan Opera. Three years later the company dissolved as Balanchine went off to Hollywood to choreograph such films as The Goldwyn Follies and On Your Toes, and Kirstein enlisted in the U.S. Army...
...pair got together again in 1946 to found the Ballet Society. This became the New York City Ballet in 1948, when the City Center, New York's cultural arm organized under Mayor Fiorello La-Guardia, offered the company a home in its theater, a converted Shriners' Temple. Balanchine and Kirstein had found the setting for their lifework...
This broad range is what makes Kirstein, 66, something of a miracle worker behind the scenes at the New York City Ballet. He likes to say: "I'm a plumber. I just keep the thing working." His methods are as diverse and mysterious as those of a master politician-which he resembles far more than a plumber. He frequently jets off to foreign cities to negotiate future engagements for the company, and returns brimming with enthusiasm for the music and dance of newly visited lands. Balanchine's Bugaku (1963) was inspired in part by Kirstein's infatuation...
Routine fund raising is not his forte, but if money is needed for a special ballet or other project, he may simply ask "Mr. B." how much, then...