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Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

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The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

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Lincoln Kirstein

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Born: May 4, 1907
Died: January 5, 1996 (aged 88)
Bio: Lincoln Edward Kirstein was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet.
Known for:
  1. Movement & metaphor (1970)
  2. Paul Cadmus (1984)

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