"Four great dancers from New York City Ballet’s past—Gloria Govrin, Allegra Kent, Kay Mazzo, and Merrill Ashley—will talk about the roles created or adapted for them by George Balanchine in ballets like “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,” “Stravinsky Violin Concerto,” and “Liebeslieder Walzer.” (The conversation will be moderated by another great American ballerina, Wendy Whelan.)"
"Swope viewed Balanchine and his muses—among them Allegra Kent, Suzanne Farrell, Patricia McBride, and Jacques d’Amboise—with intimacy and tenderness. The genius technique and style of Farrell and Balanchine, especially when she danced under his tutelage, often softens into vulnerability through her lens."
"Mr. d’Amboise is clear that Apollo is “a wild, untamed youth who learns nobility through art.” Balanchine, he said, loved to recall the Paris critic who, reacting negatively to the original 1928 production, said, “Whoever saw Apollo on his knees?” (Balanchine’s response: “Whoever saw Apollo?”)"
"Enroll in dance or percussion classes at the National Dance Institute."
