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Article: Suzanne Farrell, teacher: holding onto Balanchine.(Interview)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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Since retiring from the New York City Ballet in 1989, Suzanne Farrell has discovered that teaching can be an adventure that keeps the studio at the center of her creative life and a way of recapturing the excitement of the 1960s when she and Balanchine, as she wrote in her memoir, Holding On to the Air, "broke one rule after the other ... to discover a whole new place to inhabit." Today Farrell lives a few blocks from Lincoln Center in a rambling, unpretentious apartment, with a fluffy brown poodle named Tex. Slender and pale -- Balanchine once called her "an alabaster princess" -- she has the fine lines that come with middle age (she turns fifty-two in August) and the ...