Editing Suzanne Farrell (section)

===Career at the Kennedy Center===
In 2000, Farrell started her own company, the [[Suzanne Farrell Ballet]], which became a full-fledged company produced by the [[Kennedy Center]] but was disbanded in 2017.

[[File:2005 Kennedy Center honorees.jpg|thumb|300px|right|President [[George W. Bush]] and [[Laura Bush]] pose with the Kennedy Center honorees, from left to right, actress [[Julie Harris (actress)|Julie Harris]], actor [[Robert Redford]], singer [[Tina Turner]], Farrell, singer [[Tony Bennett]] on December 4, 2005, during the reception in the [[Blue Room (White House)|Blue Room]] at the [[White House]].]]
Farrell's engagement with the Kennedy Center began in 1993 and 1994, when the Center offered two series of ballet [[master class]]es for students with Farrell. This series provided intermediate-to-advanced level ballet students, ages 13 to 17, an opportunity to study with one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. Due to the uniqueness of Farrell's place in the ballet world and the quality of her teaching, the Kennedy Center expanded the program to a national level in 1995, in order to fulfill the center's mission to enhance the arts education of America's young people. Farrell's students learned to "turn up the technicolor in [their] movement", in order to achieve greater amplification in their dancing.<ref name=Fragos/> This three weeks' long yearly initiative of intense study grew into a full-fledged program, ''Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell''.

In the fall of 1999, Farrell received critical acclaim for the successful Kennedy Center engagement and [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] tour of ''Suzanne Farrell Stages the Masters of 20th-century Ballet''. Following the Kennedy Center's debut, the newly named Suzanne Farrell Ballet, a group of professional dancers hand selected by Farrell, has since performed at the Kennedy Center during engagements in 2001 and 2002, been on an extensive East Coast tour, and returned to the Kennedy Center as part of the 2003–2004 Ballet Season following a seven-week national tour. Farrell was selected as one of the five recipients of the 2005 [[Kennedy Center Honors]], one of the highest honors for lifetime artistic achievement.

In 2007, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet formalized the creation of the Balanchine Preservation Initiative. This initiative introduces lost or rarely seen Balanchine works to audiences. As a result, ballets like ''Ragtime'' (Balanchine/Stravinsky), ''[[Metastaseis and Pithoprakta|Pithoprakta]]'' (Balanchine/Xenakis) and ''Divertimento Brillante'' (Balanchine/Glinka) were recreated and performed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/ballet/farrell/about.cfm |title=The Suzanne Farrell Ballet |access-date=August 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202011956/http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/ballet/farrell/about.cfm |archive-date=February 2, 2012  }}</ref>

Despite positive reviews and an annual budget ranging from $1-$1.4 million, the center announced in September 2016 that the company would be disbanding at the end of the 2017 performance season. [[Deborah Rutter]], President of the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]], noted that the center would be undergoing a new expansion project to include additional performance and rehearsal space. Farrell's new role in the organization remained unclear, however, Rutter emphasized that Farrell would continue to be an "artistic partner" at the center.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/suzanne-farrell-ballet-to-disband-in-2017/2016/09/21/c9877a2e-8025-11e6-b002-307601806392_story.html|title=Suzanne Farrell Ballet to disband in 2017|last=Kaufman|first=Sarah L.|date=September 21, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=February 9, 2017|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>