There are those who, upon retiring from an eventful career, sigh with relief and sink contentedly into the new rhythms of a life unfettered by deadlines and pressure. And then there are people like ballerina Alessandra Ferri, who retired from American Ballet Theatre in 2007 and soon found herself waking up in the morning and asking: "Who am I?"

Ferri, one of the most admired ballerinas of her generation, did not have much patience for retirement. And so, at 53, she's returning to ABT Thursday to dance the role for which she's most famous: Juliet. She'll be dancing it for the first time since her ABT farewell on the same Metropolitan Opera House stage nine years ago, when glittering gold confetti rained down and an adoring crowd cheered for 20 minutes of curtain calls.

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