<p>Ballet is flowering today. The nations of the world exchange great companies, a vast array of teachers instruct the young in numerous ballet schools in the hope that from the millions of students another Makarova of perhaps another Nureyev will emerge, composers bring their contributions with ever new ballet music, and choreographers invent or perfect the ballet techniques. Whether it is trivial or profound, dramatic or abstract, a ballet can live and communicate life in all its facets. The range of ballet is seemingly limitless.</p>