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What was George Balanchine influence in the ballet?

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As the major figure in mid-20th-century ballet Balanchine established both a new Russian-American dance culture and the dynamic inventive modern style of classical American ballet while freeing ballet from the symmetrical and ornamental forms that had dominated since the 19th cent.

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