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Sara Mearns was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and began her dance training at the age of three with Ann Brodie at the Calvert-Brodie School of Dance, also in Columbia.

At the age of 13, Ms. Mearns trained with Patricia McBride at Dance Place, the School of North Carolina Dance Theatre, in Charlotte. She continued her studies at age 14 with Stanislav Issaev at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville.

Ms. Mearns entered the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, full time in the fall of 2001. In the fall of 2003 Ms. Mearns became an apprentice with New York City Ballet.

As an apprentice, Ms. Mearns danced a featured role in Michel Fokine's Chopiniana, performed by SAB as part of New York City Ballet's 2004 winter season.

In June of 2004, Ms. Mearns joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet.

In March of 2006 she was promoted to soloist and in June 2008, Ms. Mearns was promoted to principal dancer.

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Edouard LALO

Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer born in Lille, at No. 10 rue des Tours, January 27, 1823, and died in Paris April 22, 1892. It lies in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise in Paris. His family is not of Spanish origin, contrary to what would make people believe his son, Pierre Lalo. The latter was a monarchist, while his father was a staunch Republican, also relatively antimilitarist. Contents [hide] Edouard Lalo came at the age of ten years at the Conservatory of Lille where he learned the violin and the cello perhaps, under the direction of professors Müller and Baumann, then at the age of sixteen, went to Paris to continue his musical studies, against the wishes of his father. There was as a violin teacher Pierre Baillot, then F. -A. Hanabeck. In 1843 the pianist Julius Schulhoff introduced him to the composition. He perfected himself in contact with J. -E. Crèvecoeur (second Grand Prix de Rome). His earliest known compositions, songs accompanied by piano, dating from 1848, during which he submitted two of his scores to Hector Berlioz. He became

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City Ballet is doing everything it can to cope with its annual problem: how to stimulate box office in its traditionally weaker spring season. They’ve reduced the number of performance weeks from nine to eight. They’ve programmed seven-that’s right, seven-premieres of new works. They’ve planned four-that’s right, four-galas to celebrate the retirement of four principal dancers (of whom only one, Darci Kistler, will be seriously missed, and she’s waited too long to bow out). And they’ve come up with a concept called “Architecture of Dance,” which involves new stage designs for five of the new ballets by the famous architect Santiago Calatrava (he’s now at work on the new transit hub at the World Trade Center site). Finally, there are four newly commissioned scores.

At this point, we’ve seen three of the new ballets, and the results are mixed, though significantly better than they might have been considering the dismal results of the Diamond Project clusters of new work in previous years. The best news is that Alexei