Although there is not a lot of downtime, she will get an opportunity to go to the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.

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What happens when these social-media savants go back to the ballet (which I hope they do) and wind up at a program of "only" Balanchine and Robbins?

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In December, principal Cory Sterns will perform with London's Royal Ballet, and soloist Isabella Boylston will go to the Royal Danish Ballet.

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And you were on to Tory Burch long before her ballet flats became the universal go-to footwear.

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When it does go out into the world, as it did first in 1995 to the National Ballet of Canada, the ballet's original leading man, Anthony Dowell, often accompanies it, as he will for the lead up to the ABT premiere.

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