And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

Guare likens the New York City Ballet’s art to perpetual resurrection: each performance renews itself, yet the company’s vitality is not merely a cyclical “return” but an ongoing state of being. The image of “Easter Sunday” evokes rebirth, radiance, and a sense of miracle, suggesting that dance—because it exists only in the moment of performance—embodies a uniquely intense present-tense life. The quote also implies continuity amid change: dancers, casts, and seasons turn over, but the institution’s artistic spirit persists as something continually reanimated and immediately alive rather than preserved as a static monument.