There are high school dropouts and people with advanced degrees; Shakespeare neophytes and buffs; theatergoers, balletomanes, devoted Lincoln Center volunteers; retired teachers, economists and one former chorus girl.
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Balletomanes touring Russia stop in St . Petersburg to gaze reverentially at the musty classrooms that produced luminous dancers like Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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A piece by Merce Cunningham was one of my first experiences of modern dance, as a fledgling New York balletomane who had wandered astray with no great knowledge of that area of dance.
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Garis, the Katherine Lee Bates Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College, has written dance reviews for publications including Partisan Review and The New Republic, but a balletomane he's not.
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Maryellen Cabot, a Boston balletomane who has served on the boards of both SAB and City Ballet, recalls the theatricality of Kirstein's house, where she was an occasional dinner guest.
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Wassily Leontief, a balletomane and connoisseur of fine wines, said he also thought of himself as a squire of Willoughby Brook in northern Vermont, where he and his family had a summer home.
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Fortunate are the balletomanes of this city, the only one on earth that is home to two of the dozen or so greatest classical companies in the world : American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet.
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Miss Spellbinder's ballet teacher Mathilde Kschessinska is also a historical figure, legendary to balletomanes, real to Swift, whose night job is delivering floral tributes to the bowing ballerinas of the American Ballet Theatre.
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On May 30, however, with the release of " The Balanchine Library " on the Nonesuch label, balletomanes were treated to a grand entrance that could ignite fresh enthusiasm for dance on the home screen.
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Some balletomanes might choose " Romeo and Juliet, " as choreographed by Ashton, Cranko, Kenneth MacMillan or Leonid Lavrovsky, or Balanchine's adaptation of " A Midsummer Night's Dream ."