Ballet Arizona Pays Homage To The Russian/American Master
By Margaret Regan
THERE'S ONE moment in Michael Uthoff's life he'd change now if
he could.
"I was offered a position in New York City Ballet with George
Balanchine," says Uthoff, the artistic director of Ballet
Arizona, whose dancers this weekend will perform an all-Balanchine
concert in Tucson. "If I had my life to live over again,
I would take it."
Married and the father of a small child at the time, Uthoff turned
Balanchine down so that he could dance in another troupe with
his wife. But Uthoff did get several chances to work with the