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Highlights from Mearns’s past season

Diamonds: “I did it first in the winter season with Jon Stafford, and we couldn’t believe we got it then. We were completely shocked. I was like, Oh my God, they didn’t have to give this to me. When I got to do it again this season, I thought, Okay, now I can really become myself in it. I just feel so good in that ballet. It feels so me.”

In G Major: “I never knew too much about it, but now it’s actually one of my favorite Jerry [Robbins] ballets to perform. The pas de deux? You want to cry, because the music is so beautiful and the choreography fits so well with it—you feel like no one else exists out there but your partner. It’s quite amazing.”

“Spring” in The Four Seasons: “In that, I feed off my partner, Philip Neal or Jared Angle. We fooled around so much onstage, in the way of feeding off each other. It wasn’t fake and it wasn’t put on—we were really just having fun out there, and it was hard, but it was great.”

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet: “Fourth-movement Brahms? There’s not a sad moment in that ballet. I just feel like I can let it all go.”

Rococo Variations: “In the beginning, we couldn’t really feel it out—it was hard for us, and it’s still really hard. It looks like it’s a nice, pretty ballet, but we are dying out there.”

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