Template:Did you know nominations/Stars and Stripes (ballet)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:23, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Stars and Stripes (ballet)

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Melissa Hayden and Andre Prokovsky in Stars and Stripes

... that Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine made the ballet Stars and Stripes (pictured) as a tribute to the United States, his adopted country? Source: "George Balanchine’s “Stars and Stripes” has all the pomp and circumstance of inaugural parades and Fourth of July fireworks. Yet the U.S. capital’s own ballet company has never staged the brisk, 28-minute work that was the Russian choreographer’s ode to American spirit and industriousness." ([1])
- ALT1:... that George Balanchine's ballet Stars and Stripes (pictured) is set to music by John Philip Sousa, who was known for writing marches? Source: "On Saturday afternoon, there was an exuberant performance of Stars and Stripes, one of George Balanchine's excursions into Americana, accompanied by Hershey Kay's adaptations and orchestrations of marches by John Philip Sousa." ([2])

Reviewed: Happy Ending (Schitt's Creek)

5x expanded by Corachow (talk). Self-nominated at 19:52, 12 March 2021 (UTC).

Somehow DYKCheck says it was expanded fivefolds in 2007, so please check manually. It went from 1302 characters on 3 March 2021 to 7132 characters now. Corachow (talk) 20:04, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Ample expansion, and all points check out, image is licensed, ready to go. Moonraker (talk) 23:04, 12 March 2021 (UTC)