Dance life in quarantine: Teresa Reichlen knows there’s a time for everything

New York City Ballet (NYCB) Principal Teresa Reichlen had been dancing since she was a teenager — as in not really ever taking a break. Then came COVID. She was touring in Budapest when it hit, and had to get a ticket back fast because it seemed like the U.S. border was closing to flights from Europe. Through time upstate with friends she had been touring with, and then at her parents’ house, and finally back in New York, she took a well-deserved break from dancing. She gra