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It was a fairy-tale moment, a life-imitates-art moment, a moment for ballet fans to remember. After the Pennsylvania Ballet's June 11, 2005 performance of Romeo and Juliet, Julie Diana and Zachary Hench, playing the ballet's lovers, came out for their bow. With just the two of them onstage, Hench knelt on one knee, offered a ring to Diana and, in front of several hundred witnesses, asked her to marry him.
"I was shocked!" Diana recalled recently, sitting and talking in the now quiet performance hall of Philadelphia's Academy of Music, where it happened. "I had no idea he would do it onstage and in front of all those people. I forgot I was onstage. I pretty much threw myself at him, and he's like, Julie, you've got to take your bow."
The drama continued after the curtain came down: "The dancers came out onstage, and everyone was really excited. Zach had this bizarre look on his face." In her surprise, Diana had never given him an answer to his proposal. "And I said, 'Well, I assumed you would understand that it was a yes!'"
As a dancer, Diana...
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