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Ballet Company Founder Diana Byer: Classical Ballet Offers Us Perspective

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Ballet Company Founder Diana Byer: Classical Ballet Offers Us Perspective
Diana Byer, founder and artistic director of the New York Theatre Ballet, correcting children's dance positions.
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 What classical ballet can offer, not only to dancers but to the general public, is an idea of what came before us, says Diana Byer, founder and artistic director of the New York Theatre Ballet (NYTB).

Diana Byer, founder and artistic director of the New York Theatre Ballet, correcting children's dance positions.
Diana Byer, founder and artistic director of the New York Theatre Ballet, correcting children's dance positions.
Sharon Kilarski
Sharon Kilarski
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Sharon writes theater reviews, opinion pieces on our culture, and the classics series. Classics: Looking Forward Looking Backward: Practitioners involved with the classical arts respond to why they think the texts, forms, and methods of the classics are worth keeping and why they continue to look to the past for that which inspires and speaks to us. To see the full series, see ept.ms/LookingAtClassics.
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