We chatted a little about him as a person and as a dancer/choreographer, the astonishing ballon he showed as the sole male dancer in Balanchine's Danses Concertantes, the influence he had on Balanchine's "grotesqueries," particularly in The Four Temperaments and Agon, and Todd's own choreography, such as The Still Point, which Jacques had danced with Melissa Hayden in New York City Ballet's 1956 staging, a year after its creation at Jacob's Pillow.

In contrast, Corder will use Thrussell's precise technical skills in his playful Baroque-styled Danses Concertantes, set to the Stravinsky score.

Bouder's parents, divorced by then, yielded to the inevitable, and she spent a year at SAB, dancing lead roles in Danses Concertantes and Stars and Stripes at the school's 2000 annual workshop.