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- ↑ "Balanchine the Way Balanchine Intended It". The New York Times. 11 August 1996. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ↑ Berg, Shelley C. (Summer 2005). "Reviewed Work: No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century by Nancy Reynolds, Malcolm McCormick". Dance Research Journal . 37 (1). JSTOR 20444628.