One Step Removed

February 13, 2003 | This article appeared in the March 3, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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Those of us who have followed the New York City Ballet and the repertory
of the world's greatest choreographer, George Balanchine, since the
mid-1950s are filled with spine-tingling memories of

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