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Byline: Jane Herman
By the time I hear my mother calling, I've almost forgotten that I am outside my balcony," says Callie Bachman, describing dancing the grand pas de deux in New York City Ballet's production of Romeo and Juliet. A sixteen-year-old student at the School of American Ballet, she was cast-along with nineteen-year-old Robert Fairchild-without auditioning by Peter Martins because, he says, "I wanted to evoke that exuberance and the inexperience of first love." Conceived in honor of the centennial of Lincoln Kirstein's birth, the ...