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Article: Keeper of the flame Suzanne Farrell.(Interview)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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SUZANNE FARRELL is back. "And do you know what really feels great about what I'm doing?" she muses before offering a detailed list: "The lack of sleep, the working all day long, the wonderful exhaustion that I remember from when I was a dancer. It is such joy."
What Farrell was doing was bringing great ballets to life in the latest and most surprising of her collaborations with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a project billed simply "Suzanne Farrell Stages the Masters of 20th Century Ballet." The masters in question are the unlikely trio of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Maurice Bejart. And the whole affair found Farrell's hand-picked ...