- A recipient of the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors. Other recipients this year were Al Green, Tom Hanks, Sting, and Lily Tomlin.
- She joined George Balanchine's School of American Ballet at age 14. At 18, she became his company's youngest-ever principal dancer. Over the years, she debuted many roles and partnered with leading male dancers of the era, including Edward Villella.
- She retired from the New York City Ballet in 1989. She and her husband, dancer Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, turned to teaching, first at Indiana University and then, since 1996, running the Charlotte Ballet (North Carolina).
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