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  1. An interview with Peter Martins
    An interview with Peter Martins

    with Peter Martins on Jan 3, 1996

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Peter Martins is the Danish Ballet Master in Chief of New York City Ballet. In 1967 he danced the title role in George Balanchine?s “Apollo” during the Company?s appearance at the Edinburgh Festival, and was later named Ballet Master for the New York City Ballet. He served as Co-Ballet Master in Chief, then assumed sole directorship of the Company in 1990.  In addition, Martins is Chairman of the Faculty of the School of American Ballet, and Artistic Director of the New York Choreographic Institute.

Martins? autobiography, “Far From Denmark”, was published by Little, Brown in 1982.  He was made a Knight of The First Order of Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in September 1983.

Source- http://www.nycballet.com/company/history/martins.html