- Prima ballerina with the New York City Ballet.
- Balanchine reportedly said of Kent when he first laid eyes upon her, "I have never seen such raw talent".
- She was teaching private home ballroom dancing at night, mostly to Japanese men.
- She is remarkably close with her colleague from the New York City Ballet Edward Villella. Together they danced the original roles of "Bugaku" and the image of them doing the pas de deux is a famous one.
- She had an unnaturally long career performing in the tradition of Margot Fonteyn. Although there were many ailment that personally took a toll by so much as 1983, she endured. Although she developed arthritis in her hip, she struggled and continued dancing. She finally did retire in 1989.
- Long time companion of Aram Avakian.
- She had three children in her twenties, with Bert Stern.
- She says her mother that she wanted to become a ballerina.
- George Balanchine created her very first major role at age 17.
- She was accepted into the New York City Ballet at the age of 15.
- She began studying ballet at 11, in Los Angeles with Bronislava Nijinska and Carmelita Maracci .
- She danced the role of Dewdrop in the 1958 Playhouse 90 telecast of Balanchine's version of The Nutcracker.
- When she want to the beach with her family, the footprints she made in the sand revealed she had flat feet and was horribly embarrassed. Her mother took her to the doctor and was prescribed wedges in her shoes to give her arches. As painful as she remarked it was, it worked and was given especially high insteps. Afterwards, she began taking ballet.
- She went on to teach ballet at Barnard College.
- She writes frequently for Dance and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Vogue, and Allure. Most recently, she has contributed an essay to The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.
- By fourteen, she was teaching ballroom dancing at night in someone's private home, mostly to Japanese men.
- Jacques [d'Amboise], her very first dancer partner in adagio class presented her with the Dance Magazine award.
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