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Article: D.C. GETS ITS OWN DANCE.(Suzanne Farrell Ballet plays the Kennedy Center)(Company Profile)
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- WWD
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- January 7, 2004
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WASHINGTON -- First intermission on opening night last month at the Kennedy Center for the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and the company's much-celebrated artistic director is working it. Up in the President's Box with First Lady Laura Bush and a collection of pals sipping champagne, Suzanne Farrell is busy making connections. "I told her three of the young students in the first act were from Tallahassee, where I have a professorship, Jeb Bush's city," she says, referring to Laura Bush's brother-in-law, the governor of Florida.
Farrell is wearing the diamond, ruby and sapphire necklace given to her by Sonia Grinberg, wife of the chairman of Movado Watch Co., at a ...