21.   Principal dancer Tony Randazzo left the company this year after the breakup of his longtime relationship with dancer Julia Adam.

22.   Principal dancers, therefore, had opportunities to play unconventional roles.

23.   Rickard enlisted another principal dancer -- now deceased -- when she came to enroll her two young daughters in his classes, Ho said.

24.   She was picked as one of the four principal dancers.

25.   Steifel is a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater, where Radetsky also dances, and Schull is a member of the San Francisco Ballet.

26.   The aim is to promote the company as a whole, and also to pacify principal dancers.

27.   The cause was cancer, said her husband, Jan Stripling, a former principal dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet.

28.   The dancers had to grow up quickly during the strike, Eddie J. Shellman, a longtime principal dancer with the company, said of his newer colleagues.

29.   The dramatically and technically challenging leading roles of Giselle and Albrecht were splendidly interpreted by two sets of principal dancers.

30.   The other two works were less consistent in their impact although the principal dancers in each were beyond reproach.