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How Ballet’s Leg Lifts Extended To 180 Degrees (And Sometimes Beyond)

DANCE Posted: January 8, 2019 7:05 am

To the end of the 19th century, no matter how virtuosic a ballet dancer could be, the leg was not to be lifted above the hip. Emma Sandall recounts how that changed, from Diaghilev through Balanchine to the pathbreaking hyperextension of Sylvie Guillem. — Dance Magazine

DANCE Published: 01.07.19

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