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… regarded by their fellow company artists with mixed envy, respect, and collegiality. However, there were often rival ballerinas competing for roles as well as for gentleman patrons. Relationships with patrons gave admittance into fringes … 10 . Ebers did not coin the term, Green Room. The roots of this term are unknown. Jennifer Homans notes: ‘Onstage, ballerinas acted like aristocrats even when they were in real life most emphatically were not’ (Homans 64). In British …
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