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The incredible lightness of Kyra Nichols.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1251 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The incredible lightness of Kyra Nichols.(Balanchine Lives)(Biography)

Article Excerpt
"That exactness of execution--the kind that [Suzanne] Farrell and Kyra Nichols have--is God given," Russian-born ballet master George Balanchine told Russian musicologist Solomon Volkov for the 1985 book Balanchine's Tchaikovsky.

By 1981, when Balanchine was singling out Nichols to appear beside the renowned ballerina Farrell, the younger, California-born ballerina had been in his company some seven years. She had been asked to join the troupe's corps de ballet at sixteen, directly out of the company's affiliate School of American Ballet in 1974. She was made soloist in 1978, and principal in 1979. Today she is a happily married mother of two growing boys with a home in New Jersey, and is on the brink of the thirtieth anniversary of her golden career with NYCB. She remains arguably the last great exponent of Balanchine's tenure at New York City Ballet.

TO HEAR THE soft-spoken and calm ballerina tell it, she was not one of Balanchine's favorites. She expresses this view with some frequency when discussing her way of working, which is to say the way she's always preferred to prepare for performances, doing "a lot of rehearsing...

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