Your Majesties: With New Members and a New Rep, the Kings of the Dance Are Back

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No ladies necessary. A spectacular new crop of dance royalty presides over the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles Feb. 16-17 and New York City Center Feb. 19-21. American Ballet Theatre's Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, and Jose Manuel Carreno; Complexions' Desmond Richardson; The National Ballet of Canada's Guillaume Cote; the Kirov's Denis Matvienko; and the Bolshoi's Nikolai Tsiskaridze form the current "Kings of the Dance." Coming off of a nine-city tour of Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine last November, where New York City Ballet's Joaquin De Luz danced in place of Richardson and the Bolshoi's Ivan Vasiliev filled in for Gomes in St. Petersburg and …