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Balanchine – A Teacher Above All

DANCE Posted: January 12, 2017 2:31 pm

“As he saw it, that job, teaching, was his main job. Most of us think of him preëminently as a choreographer, but he insisted that he was above all a teacher. Class or not, he said that all dancers had to do a complete barre (supported exercises, executed while holding onto the rail) every day. It was like brushing your teeth, he said. You didn’t think about it; you just did it.”

DANCE Published: 01.11.17

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 01.11.17

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