George Balanchine & Lincoln Kirstein:
The Birth of American Ballet

One of the first magazine articles to be written about “balletomanes” Lincoln Kirstein (1907 – 1996) and his efforts with George Balanchine (1904 – 1983) and philanthropist Edward M.M. Warburg (1910 – 1992) to form the first American ballet company (the corps was later called the New York City Ballet).

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