Sunday, September 17

[dirac]

Dancers from the original cast of "Jewels" reminisce about the creation.

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Edward Villella:

....Balanchine would spend years listening to scores. You would hear him, in the theater, taking scores apart, one note at a time, on the piano. When he came into the rehearsal room, it was never tense, because he was totally prepared and he knew us. Everything in our pas de deux was surprise, surprise, surprise. It was very difficult as a partner, there were so many unseen, extraordinary ideas. But I said to myself, He trusts me with this.