The 1962 ballet A Look at Lightning, by the American choreographer Martha Graham, was titled after a poem by Belitt.
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A bachelor, he became a good friend of the dancer (and fellow teacher at Bennington) Bill Bales, of his wife, the actress Jo Van Fleet, and of their son, Michael Bales, and regularly spent the important holidays of the year with this family at Bennington or in New York City.
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