New York City Ballet
In 1946, Balanchine and Kirstein founded the Ballet Society, renamed the New York City Ballet in 1948. He served as the company's General Director from 1946 to 1989.
Kirstein wrote in a 1959 monograph called "What Ballet Is All About":
- "Our Western ballet is a clear if complex blending of human anatomy, solid geometry and acrobatics offered as a symbolic demonstration of manners—the morality of consideration for one human being moving in time with another."
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