People, Sep. 11, 1978

"My colleagues will hate me for saying it," says Hungarian-born Dancer Ivan Nagy, 35, "but the ballet is the original women's liberation profession. It is created for females." The impeccable partner to such ballerinas as Dame Margot Fonteyn and Natalia Makarova, Nagy is now planning to retire from the American Ballet Theater before weary leg muscles make him earthbound. Pouts Makarova: "He is the most lyrical dancer, and I will miss him." What will Nagy miss the most? "When I am dancing with a woman onstage and it works, I feel that I love...

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