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American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City.

It has an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spring and a shorter season at the David H.

Koch Theater in the fall; the company tours around the world the rest of the year.

ABT was founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant and is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies.

ABT is also the parent company of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, and was recognized as "America's National Ballet Company" in 2006 by the United States Congress.

A Living Human Treasure is, according to UNESCO, a person who possesses to a high degree the knowledge and skills required for performing or re-creating specific elements of the intangible cultural heritage.

This title or a form of it is awarded by the nation's government to a person who is regarded as a national treasure while still alive.

The title is also known as Living National Treasure.

The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of about, New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States.

Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world.

A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term .

Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world.

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

It has since become a widespread, highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology.

It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres.

Becoming a ballet dancer requires years of training.

Ballet has been taught in various schools around the world, which have historically incorporated their own cultures to evolve the art.