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Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-NOV-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: On the dance, the dancers ...(American Ballet Theatre Update)(dance director Kevin McKenzie)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
[DM] Ask Kevin McKenzie how, after ten years of directing American Ballet Theatre, he feels about rescuing the company from the brink of collapse and he replies without a beat. "It seems like yesterday that I was looking down the barrel of a gun."

No exaggeration; when McKenzie signed up a decade ago, ABT was ill parlous shape. The budget had shrunk to $13 million, touring had dried up, dancers were fleeing, and the mood around the company, according to administrators who lived through it to tell the tale, was positively sulphurous. Although dancers respected him enough to listen, nobody gave McKenzie, who had previously danced with ABT...

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