Volume 37, Number 15 · October 11, 1990
Dancing for Balanchine
By Joan Acocella
Holding On to the Air: An Autobiography
by Suzanne Farrell, with Toni Bentley
Summit, 322 pp., $19.95
George Balanchine once told the dance historian Nancy Reynolds that when he set out to choreograph The Nutcracker in 1954 the one thing he insisted on to the money people was that he had to have a big, expensive Christmas tree, a tree like the one he remembered from childhood, loaded with treats, and all of them you could just reach up and take:
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