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Article: Hartford Ballet in a 'try anything year. (dance company's effort to survive firing of Kirk Peterson and financial problems)(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
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- November 1, 1998
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HARTFORD--Hartford Ballet is going through one of its most dramatic metamorphoses in its twenty-six-year history. In early May, just days after the company's critically acclaimed Sleeping Beauty, the ballet's board fired Kirk Peterson, charging the artistic director with cost overruns and failure to plan adequately for the financially strapped company [See Presstime News, August, 1998, page 29].
The new Hartford Ballet is decidedly different: smaller; more modern, and more bottom-line oriented. Enid Lynn, who has run the company's school since 1971, and Peggy Lyman, chairwoman of its bachelor's degree program in dance at the University of Hartford, are co-artistic ...