Word: woetzel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resonances of the mourning and then renewal that the company has had to endure since Balanchine's death. The ballet ends with a vision of heaven, indicated in the score by a beautiful chorale. As always, Robbins skillfully uses some company youngsters: Peter Boal, looking like an archangel, Damian Woetzel, a particularly blithe spirit who joined the troupe last month, and Teresa Reyes, a recent incarnation of Balanchine's leggy ideal. In Memory of . . . ends with a homage to him. Farrell is carried offstage by Duell and Luders in the serene, lyrical "swimming" motion from Chaconne -- also set in Elysian...