Founded in 1934 by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein as a training ground for what would become New York City Ballet , it is as rigorous as the Paris Opera Ballet School , the Royal Ballet School in London and its own most direct ancestor : the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg , where Balanchine trained .
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