"No performance is a perfect performance but some performances allow for the feeling of perfection. Achieving this moment of ecstasy easily validates all the pain and struggle of the art form by taking us, and possibly our audience, for a moment to a world beyond our own."
Peter Martins and Heather Watts and two other dancers (obscured) as Apollo and the three muses in a 1980 performance of Balanchine’s “Apollo,” by New York City Ballet