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Letting Their Hair Down: 4 Dancers on the Waltz Girl’s Signature Moment in “Serenade”

Letting Their Hair Down: 4 Dancers on the Waltz Girl’s Signature Moment in “Serenade”

by Leigh Witchel | Apr 19, 2022 | Company Life

One of the trickiest moves in Balanchine’s Serenade isn’t a dance step, and it wasn’t even part of the ballet until it was well past 40. It’s the moment where the Waltz Girl undoes her hair onstage before the final movement. It can go beautifully or badly, including...
NYCB's Sterling Hyltin on Dancing the Waltz Girl in “Serenade,” Balanchine’s Beloved Masterpiece

NYCB's Sterling Hyltin on Dancing the Waltz Girl in “Serenade,” Balanchine’s Beloved Masterpiece

by Sterling Hyltin As Told To Gavin Larsen | Oct 29, 2017 | Career, Profiles, Technique

I just can’t help feeling joy when I dance the Waltz Girl. Afterwards, I feel so at peace and nourished as a ballerina. I love to scuba dive, and Serenade reminds me of a reef, with schools of fish in all these different groupings, and singular entities darting...
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