Darci Kistler To Retire After 30-Year Career

“Darci Kistler, the last remaining ballerina at New York City Ballet to have been molded and hired by its co-founder George Balanchine, plans to retire in the 2010 season, she said on Wednesday… ‘I don’t want to walk around in pain,’ Ms. Kistler said. ‘I didn’t want to see myself with a plastic hip in 10 years.'”