He has also been a long and close friend of the Kennedys'"a kind of choric figure," in the words of one of his friends, to that family's tragic saga.
Only the cautious conservatism of ballet's experts keeps her from being hailed unreservedly as a ballerina assoluta, a rank in the choric hierarchy attained in recent generations .
With a stageful of props that might have come out of surrealist painting, Graham and her troupe do the subtlest of choric portraits and satires.