NEW YORK CITY BALLET Ballets in which a female dancer impersonates a doll are no rarity--think “Petrouchka,” “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” “The Nutcracker”--but perhaps the greatest doll ballet of all is “Coppélia,” derived from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s sinister “Der Sandmann.” Balanchine created his “Coppélia” for N.Y.C.B. in . . .

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