"Olga is a very natural and gifted teacher, hard-working and extremely devoted to her students, " the school's artistic director and faculty chairman, PeterMartins, said in an e-mail.
These were joined, to sorry effect, on several bills by "Bal de Couture, " a recent creation by company ballet-master-in-chief PeterMartins, which, with its gaudy Valentino costume designs, began life last spring as desperate gala fare and which continues now as program filler.