Julie Kent, formerly a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre, recalls her last role as Juliet after announcing in 2015 she would no longer perform on stage.

朱莉·肯特曾是美国芭蕾舞剧院的首席舞者，她回忆起自己在2015年宣布不再登台表演后出演的最后一个角色——朱丽叶。

Thousands came to see the last performance at New York's Lincoln Center.

数千人前来观看在纽约林肯中心的最后一场演出。

It was the most heartbreaking and beautiful experience that I had to date.

这是我到目前为止经历过的最令人心碎却又最美好的体验。

It was a huge sense of loss of life that I had known for three decades.

在我芭蕾舞事业的三十年历程中，这件事给我带来了巨大的失落感。

American Ballet Theater is considered to be one of the best dance companies in the country.

美国芭蕾舞剧院被认为是美国最好的舞蹈团之一。

Julie Kent has been part of it longer than anyone else, 29 years, and 23 of those 29 years, she was a prima ballerina.

朱莉·肯特参与其中的时间比任何人都长，有29年，在这29年里，有23年她都是首席芭蕾舞演员。

But despite a live in the stage as a dancer, Kent came back to it, if only in a slightly different role.

但尽管肯特曾以舞者的身份活跃于舞台，她还是回到了这个领域，即便只是扮演一个略有不同的角色。

In 2016, she came back to DC where she grew up and where she first fell in love with ballet.

2016年，她回到了华盛顿特区，那里是她长大的地方，也是她最初爱上芭蕾舞的地方。

She became artistic director of the Washington Ballet in the nation's capital.

她成为了美国首都华盛顿芭蕾舞团的艺术总监。

And her husband Victor Barbie, formerly the American Ballet Theatre principal dancer, helped her in this job as the associate artistic director.

她的丈夫维克多·芭比曾是美国芭蕾舞剧院的首席舞者，作为副艺术总监协助她完成这项工作。

With Kent at the helm, Washington Ballet has thrived. The number of sold tickets grew and so did the number of sponsors.

在肯特的领导下，华盛顿芭蕾舞团蓬勃发展。售出的门票数量增加了，赞助商的数量也增加了。

But despite her success, Kent doesn't like to compare Washington Ballet to other dance companies.

但尽管取得了成功，肯特并不喜欢将华盛顿芭蕾舞团与其他舞蹈团相提并论。