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American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre
(
ABT
) is a
classical ballet
company based in
New York City
. It has an annual eight-week season at the
Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)
in the spring and a shorter season at the
David H. Koch Theater
in the fall; the company tours around the world the rest of the year. ABT was founded in 1937 by
Lucia Chase
and
Mikhail Mordkin
and is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies. ABT is also the parent company of the
American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School
, and was recognized as "America's National Ballet Company" in 2006 by the
United States Congress
.
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