Notes

• "Twenty years after his death, George Balanchine still dominates the world of dance. He worked with Serge Diaghilev - and Sam Goldwyn. He made ballets to the music of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky - and to "The Stars and Stripes Forever." A Russian emigre who fell hopelessly in love with American culture, his four marriages and countless affairs (all of them with beautiful young ballerinas) became tabloid fodder. Though he turned ballet into a truly modern art, his plotless, seemingly abstract dances were as romantic as the genius who made them."– BOOK JACKET