| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - From the opening striking tableau of ballerinas with right arms uplifted as if both saluting the past and heralding the future (a visual motif that Balanchine repeats several times), through to the closing ???apotheosis??? as the lead ballerina is carried away as if she were an emerging angel, the piece is a miracle of cohesive and coherent choreography and stagecraft despite its fortuitous genesi
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