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Article: Still beautiful and going strong. (New york City Ballet principal Nichol Hlinka)(Interview)
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- Dance Magazine
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- February 1, 1998
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New York City Ballet principal Nichol Hlinka looks back on her career on the eve of her retirement--and at the start of a marriage.
It's hard to believe that the girlish woman in practice clothes with the ready smile and wayward wisps of hair is thirty-eight. Or that she's a ballerina, intensely musical, with the lightness of a sylph and the ever-vernal charm of a soubrette, a virtuoso who takes your breath away but is always her own unassuming self. Nichol Hlinka joined New York City Ballet in 1975 as a fifteen-year-old wunderkind. She became a principal dancer in 1990; in 1995 she choreographed her first ballet, Three American Pieces, for the School of American ...