YVONNE BORREE'S FAREWELL PERFORMANCE

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On Sunday afternoon, principal ballerina Yvonne Borree gave her farewell performance at New York City Ballet. I always find farewell performances so sad, especially for the ballerinas, for some reason. And Yvonne just doesn't seem old enough to retire! At all.

Anyway, it was a really lovely program and she looked beautiful. She danced the third, "Andante,"  movement in Balanchine's Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. She was partnered by Benjamin Millepied, a very good partner for her, as she looks...