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![The choreographer George Balanchine, far right, while working on “Bayou,” circa 1952. Balanchine used to say he would be remembered more for his teaching than his ballets. The film “In Balanchine’s Classroom” provides a glimpse of that. [Sam Falk/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NYT-BALANCHINE_DOCUMENTARY_ADV26-320x200.jpg)
GIA KOURLAS
The setting is a ballet class, and the year is 1974. George Balanchine throws up his arms in exasperation at the sight of a dancer executing a step incorrectly at the barre.
Eight regional units – Argolida, Drama, Kastoria, Kavala, Imathia, Pella, Pieria and Xanthi – are now subject to a Covid curfew.
Athens and Thessaloniki are this year’s champions in residential rental rate hikes, as many areas of the country’s two biggest cities have recorded increases of more than 10% year-on-year.
A tour Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Nicholas at Ground Zero in New York, due to take place on Friday, has been canceled.
The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) on Thursday reported 2,125 new cases of Covid-19, arising from 151,279 tests conducted in the 24 hours until 3 p.m., meaning a positivity rate of 1.4%.
Public Power Corporation, Greece’s biggest utility, is about to launch a share capital increase amounting to some 750 million euros, the electricity company announced on Thursday.
The 2009-19 Greek adventure seemed to have a special place in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s farewell reflection. Quite reasonably so.
NEWS
The health certificates that citizens need to join gyms and use swimming pools can now be issued electronically following a medical check-up, the government announced on Thursday.
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![A picture taken at grid operator DEDDIE’s headquarters in Kryoneri, eastern Attica. [InTime News]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/deddie_intime-320x200.jpg)
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ECONOMY
![Do the right thing. Kyriakos Mitsotakis is under attack from the country’s traditional, popular right. [Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/mitsotakis_Iinterview_reuters-768x480.jpg)
The Greek economy’s growth rate reached 16.2% in the second quarter of 2021 and a forecast of 5.9% for the entire year may be an underestimation, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Bloomberg in an interview.
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![The head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs Ali Erbas prays at the opening ceremony of the Turkish House, as Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan looks on, in New York, on Monday. [Turkish Presidential Press Office/Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/turkish_house_ny_-_reuters-320x200.jpg)
SPORTS
![[Eric Gaillard/Reuters]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Tsitsipas-280x368.png?614d5d6a4c330)
A month after sparking controversy by saying he would only get the Covid-19 vaccine if it became mandatory to compete in tennis, world number three Stefanos Tsitsipas has said he plans to receive the jab later in 2021.
CULTURE
![[Yiannis Liakos/InTime News]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tourists_acropolis_-_intime_news-835x440.jpg)
Entrance to state-run archeological sites, museums and monuments will be free of charge this weekend (September 25-26) to mark European Heritage Days.
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