Word of the Day: stamina

The word stamina has appeared in 123 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on April 24 in “‘So Far From Ukraine’: A Princely Dancer Finds a Home in Miami” by Marina Harss:

The move also meant adjusting to a new way of dancing. The Miami troupe specializes in the ballets and technique of the Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine: quick, light and constantly in motion. Olshanskyi was trained in the slower, more grounded and stately technique of the Russian and Ukrainian school.

… “I didn’t have the stamina for Balanchine,” he said. “When you’re onstage, you’re dancing all the time. The first time I danced ‘Square Dance’” — a 1957 Balanchine ballet — “I was dying. I couldn’t breathe.”

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