In 1959 the Danish dancer Erick Bruhn arrived to spend a season with the New York City Ballet. Choreographer George Balanchine decided to revive his 1946 ballet Night Shadow (La Sonnambula) for Bruhn as the Poet and Allegra Kent as the Sleepwalker. Kent recounts in her autobiography that she’d fallen in love with ballet as […]

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