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Dancing as Juliet, Young and Old by Marina Harss

Ask any young female ballet dancer what role she'd most like to dance one day, and the answer is almost always the same: Juliet. "Swan Lake" may be the Mount Everest of the profession, but "Romeo and Juliet" is the ballet that dancers love the most. It's not hard to see why. There's the cinematic score, by Prokofiev, that tugs insistently at your heart, telling you what to feel at every moment. (If you close your eye…

SOURCE: The New Yorker at 10:22AM on June 28, 2016

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