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157. [PAS DE DEUX]

Choreography: By George Balanchine.

In the middle or late 1930s, for a party at the Persian Room of the Plaza Hotel, New York City, Balanchine choreographed a pas de deux for Marie-Jeanne and William Dollar to a Mozart adagio, with costumes by Pavel Tchelitchew.

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Information provided by William Dollar, at the suggestion of Gisella Caccialanza.