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NYCB Soloist Emily Kikta Has Found Her Power Onstage and Off

Onstage, Emily Kikta isn’t afraid to take up space. Dancing the Choleric variation in George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, she enters with a bang, propelling herself across the Koch Theater stage, throwing out razor-sharp arabesques and hitch-kicks with wild fierceness. But in rehearsal for the role a few weeks earlier, the New York City Ballet […]

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Emily Kikta

NYCB Soloist Emily Kikta Has Found Her Power Onstage and Off