Gelsey Kirkland (born December 29 1952) joined the New York City Ballet at age fifteen, and she went on to create leading roles in many of the great twentieth century ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Anthony Tudor. These include Balanchine's Firebird Suite, Robbins' Goldberg Variations, and Tudor's Leaves are Fading. She later joined American Ballet Theatre after meeting Mikhail Baryshnikov who would become her perennial partner. Along with Suzanne Farrell, she is considered a quintessential Balanchine ballerina.
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