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Dance design is not simply one element it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.
Lincoln Kirstein
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Lincoln Kirstein
Age: 88 †
Born: 1907
Born: May 4
Died: 1996
Died: January 5
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Lincoln Edward Kirstein
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