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Dance is supposed to keep one young--but centenarians are still comparatively rare in the business, with even the unsinkable Martha Graham making it only to 97. In fact, the only truly celebrated dance centenarian I can think of offhand is the founder of Britain's Royal Ballet, Ninette de Valois, who died about five years ago at the healthy age of 102, having by unusual chance lived in three different centuries. This month on the 21st, the Russian Igor Moiseyev, the man who first theatricalized folk dance, joins dance's exclusive 100-plus club. And what perhaps is most remarkable--for Dame Ninette had long effectively abandoned the institution she once created--is that until recently Moiseyev was still in executive command of his mighty Moiseyev Ensemble,...
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