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Posted Wednesday, July 23, 2010

By Paul Ben-Itzak
The Dance Insider

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Three ballets into the one-night only season of Metropolitan Classical Ballet July 17 at Texas Hall, I approached Paul Mejia, the company's co-director and the author of all three dances, and posed the rhetorical question: "What I don't understand, purely from an artistic standpoint, is what Peter Martins is doing in New York and you're doing here." "Well, my family's here," Mejia answered, but the question persists: After seeing Mejia succeed brilliantly in three different formats -- a group piece and a duet to classical music, then a spicey contemporary work to Astor Piazzolla -- in which New York City Ballet chief Martins has consistently failed, one has to ask: How has it come to pass that the house that Balanchine built continues to be maintained by an incompetent architect when there is clearly other Balanchine-bred talent out there that actually understands and is able to perpetuate the Balanchine aesthetic in a way that lives up to his legacy?

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