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Resident choreographers thrive on the stability of a home base.

Bootleg videos of Atlanta Ballet's new hit big are circulating on YouTube as if the work was a sold-out rock concert. Actually, it kind of was.

Lauri Stallings choreographed the hip-hop ballet, set to live music by Antwan "Big Boi" Patton of OutKast, for its premiere in April. She saw the project, which brought together 80 dancers, musicians and children onstage, as the perfect culmination of her three years as the company's resident choreographer.

"This work was such a handful," says Stallings, a former dancer with Ballet British Columbia and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. "Could I have done it not being resident choreographer? ...

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