The Suzanne Farrell Ballet October 9, 2009

One of George Balanchine’s most celebrated muses, Suzanne Farrell remains a legendary figure in the ballet world. She joined Balanchine’s New York City Ballet in 1961 by the mid-1960s had become not only one of Balanchine’s most renowned ballerinas but also a symbol of the era. During her 28 years on the stage, she danced a repertory of more than 100 ballets, nearly a third of which were created expressly for her, in which she expanded the limits of ballerina technique to a degree not before seen. She founded The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, housed at the Kennedy Center, in 2000 as a way of preserving Balanchine’s legacy. Over the past decade, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet has become a highly lauded company, hailed by the New York Times as “one of the most courageous projects in ballet today.”

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