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Article: Attitudes.(Frederic Franklin honored at the Cincinnati Ballet)
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- Dance Magazine
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- February 1, 2003
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There I was in Cincinnati, wondering when I was last there and why. It must have been years ago, to see a theater company, because, to my doubtless shame, I had never seen the Cincinnati Ballet before. I was in the city to assist (I love that French term for attending a performance; it sounds so positive and helpful)at the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Cincinnati Ballet's founding with a performance (see Reviews, page 50) honoring 88-year-old Frederic Franklin, a former artistic director of the company, and the troupe with which Franklin will always be associated, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Franklin is never simply honored--he always jumps ...