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For the Irvine show,Williams, Paige Nyman and Adeline Melcher, all from Texas Ballet Theater, will perform the piece.

She told host Emily Nyman that her insurance provider actually paid the $300,000 to Bauer, who then paid the sum to Hill.

There’s also late-season addition Jani Nyman, a 6-4, 207-pound winger from Finland and second-round draft pick from 2022, who is still only 19.

Nyman’s music still drones on, but since 2019, when the ballet premiered, the dancers have found greater ease and stamina as they weave through in its jaunty combinations of dance forms.

While there is no Garland premiere this season — he wants to get to know his dancers better before he creates a new ballet for them — Thursday’s program featured his charming, upbeat “Nyman String Quartet No. 2,” which braids social dance with classical ballet.