Ballet demands absolute sacrifice.

Dancers push the limits of the human mind and body in the relentless pursuit of perfection.

I'm Nicky Anderson and my childhood love for ballet has become a lifelong fascination.

And that fascination has always drawn me back to one place.

The New York City Ballet. New York City Ballet, New York City Ballet, New York City Ballet.

New York City Ballet.

Its sparkling legacy was shaped by the genius of its founder, the so-called father of American Ballet, George Balanchine.

But behind the beauty lies a more complicated truth.

Throughout its 76-year history, the New York City Ballet has faced allegation. But behind the beauty lies a more complicated truth.

Throughout its 76-year history, the New York City Ballet has faced allegations of misuse of power, a major lawsuit, and an investigation into sexual harassment, physical and verbal abuse by a ballet master-in-chief.

Now to that bombshell lawsuit against the New York City Ballet, a ballerina is claiming a male dancer secretly took and shared intimate photos of her. Yet the real story isn't in the

headlines. It's in the voices of those who were there, the dancers who lived it. Balanchin was

incredibly sensitive person and a religious person and a funny person.

Complicated.

You see, this isn't just a story about ballet.

It's about devotion.

I am eternally grateful for that man.

Ambition.

I remember walking out of there and going, I'm going to be up there.

That's going to be me.

And the cost of surrendering yourself entirely to something.

It shows humanity, and it wasn't there at that time.

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