I can perform, i can choreograph, i can assist you. And i got a note back saying come on. [ laughs ] jerry was making money hand over fist and balanchine had although he had done good work on broadway had never been terribly successful, the way jerry was being. I mean, jerry was really the king of broadway. Jerry was connected to a different audience and had a popular point of view that he felt would be useful. And remember in those days new York City Ballet was considered very, very elite. It was high tone. Sometimes on a matinee thered be more dancers onstage than in the audience and we were like 40 people in the company. The whole idea of him choosing to work with balanchine, somebody whom he clearly admired and somebody whom he thought was better than him, that said a lot about jerry. Mikhail baryshnikov he made this really extraordinary choice and he changed his life. He just admired a man who sometimes treated him roughly, too, you know, in front of a lot of people, you know. But
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