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By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 31, 2008

Last year’s défilé, with just the company members, looked underwhelming; this year it led off with students from the Boston Ballet School and then the members of Boston Ballet II. Next year, perhaps each principal could do a 10-second signature turn.

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