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- ↑ Tucson Weekly article
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- ↑ ABT City Center – Week One – Ballet Talk
- ↑ NY Times Photograph
- ↑ American Ballet Theatre Fall Season: Two Americana Revivals
- ↑ "NFAA Page". Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2007-06-20.
- ↑ Jeffrey Golladay at IMDb
