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Profile of Gelsey Kirkland
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Gelsey Kirkland |
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29th December 1952 |
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Gelsey Kirkland (born December 29, 1952) joined the New York City Ballet at age fifteen, and she went on to create leading roles in many of the great twentieth century ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Anthony Tudor. These include Balanchine's Firebird Suite, Robbins' Goldberg Variations, and Tudor's Leaves are Fading. She soon joined American Ballet Theatre after meeting Mikhail Baryshnikov who would become her perennial partner.
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