Summary
Considering every broad and her mother owns a pair of ballet flats these days, it’s safe to say ballet has successfully re-infiltrated popular culture. But that might not be a good thing. In this episode, Hannah and Maia, along with movement artist Susanna Haight, trace the evolution of dance in the Western zeitgeist - from the days of George Balanchine, to the introduction of camera phones into the training space. If we’re living in a time of girlhood, and girlhood is all about ballet, and ballet is all about hyper femininity, and femininity is all about self-regulation, and self-regulation is the prevailing force of our social media surveillance society… then we may just be trapped in a dance panopticon. But what does this mean for dancers? Tangents include: Maia being hit on by her pre-recorded, virtual Peloton instructor.
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Sources:
Sarah Crompton, “‘Ballet has the same appeal as Princess culture’: Alice Robb on how would-be ballerinas are taught to be thin, silent and submissive” Independent (2023).
Elizabeth Kiem, “George Balanchine: the Human Cost of an Artistic Legacy” Huffington Post (2014).
Cecily Parks, “The arts are slowly diversifying but ballet needs to catch up” New School Free Press (2023).
Irene E. Schultz, “What is a Ballet Body?” Medium (2020).
Frances Sola-Santiago, “Balletcore Is Still Huge In 2023 — Here’s Why It’s More Exciting Than Ever Before” Refinery 29 (2023).
Avery Trufelman, “On Pointe” Articles of Interest (2023).
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| 0:00.0 | The sublet I'm staying in New York has a Peloton bike, and I use it like every morning because, but of course. |
| 0:06.3 | Really? I love it. It's amazing. Well, it's like the classes. Basically, if you don't know what a Peloton bike is, it's like a spin bike. It's like a stationary bike. But attached to it is like an iPad at the front. And the iPad has all these classes on it. And so you have like a teacher built |
| 0:21.7 | into your thing. It's basically like your own virtual spin class. Right. I feel like I have heard about |
| 0:26.6 | this. Pelotons are such a foreign land to me. They're so fascinating. The teachers are known for being |
| 0:32.7 | kind of flirty, like, but it's not live. Like it's all recorded, but i've even noticed this where like it's like all |
| 0:38.6 | these like hot british people and they're on their bikes and they're really peppy and then like |
| 0:42.6 | sometimes the camera angle will change and they like look at the second camera angle and they just |
| 0:46.2 | give you this look and you're like are we about to kiss like that's so crazy what's going on |
| 0:50.8 | and my one favorite guy bradley rose he's like this white dude. He's just like a funny, silly guy. I don't know. And I kind of like his classes. They're challenging, but they don't feel like painful or anything. And today in the class I was using, like I don't know when these are recorded, right? So I have no idea what's going on. At one point, he literally goes, and then he just got to do the old hawk to a twizzle on that thing. |
| 1:14.9 | Oh my God. Okay. So like, stop. They have them in the studio. Weekly. That's crazy. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. They got their list of memes on like a whiteboard behind the camera. |
| 1:27.0 | They're like, you gotta hit one of these. |
| 1:28.4 | He's gonna be commenting on the election or something. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm gonna imagine he makes like a Kamala coconut joke. |
| 1:34.7 | Oh my God. |
| 1:35.8 | Crazy. |
| 1:36.5 | Do you think people have parisocial relationships with their Peloton instructors? |
| 1:40.4 | A thousand percent. |
| 1:41.4 | Like he has me laughing and like blushing blushing sometimes. Like, I'm like, |
| 1:45.5 | are you, are we going to look for him on Raya? I bet he's on Raya. Bradley Rose. I just love |
| 1:52.6 | the name Bradley Rose. So funny. That can't be real. Like, cannot be a real name. He's so |
| 1:58.0 | funny. Peloton is the weirdest phenomenon. I don't fully understand it. Like, I have some friends who just do Peloton or, like, have subscriptions to it, but I feel like the bike is, like, heavy duty. And that's how Mr. Big died. Spoiler. And famously, that's how Mr. Big dies. And I think about that. Mr. Big was dead or whatever. Just like that, he died. What does she say after he died? She says something. She says exactly that. Yeah, that's how the show, like that's the first and just like that, I think. She goes, and just like that, Mr. Big was dead. I think she goes, and just like that, everything had changed or something, which fair. Well, that's a bit more classy than Mr. Big is dead, but yeah. Hannah and I actually did, like, reviews of interest like that on my YouTube Patreon when it had come out, and I feel like they're pretty good, so. I had to abandon ship with, and just like that. I'm sorry, everyone. I thought you liked the last season. Oh, that was me. Yeah. I walked to the first episode and I was like, I can't do it. Miranda and Che are in L.A. It's better. It gets better. I can't do it. I'm tolerating it. I was pretty against it, but the last season was, it was okay. It's okay. My main thing is just like, I thought Big Dying was such a cop-out because I feel like it was copping out of writing their marriage. And like I would love to see an older couple in like these older stages of their marriages, what their sex life is like that kind of thing. And I feel like they just kind of like wrote that out. And I understand she's supposed to have this like singlescence. But I don't know. I would have like to see like an older couple. I think the thing with Sex and the City is that there was almost never a moment where she and big were just in domestic bliss, and I don't think they ever knew how to write it. I think he's such a one-dimensional character for the most part that, like, even in the movies, when they're supposed to be together, they found ways to keep them apart. I don't think he's one-dimensional, but I do think a lot of the draw of him is that he's elusive. Well, that's what I mean. There's not like a lot to show. I think he's a bit complicated, but no, I know. Breaking up Miranda and Steve, too, I'm like, that's a couple you actually did know how to write. So it's like, yeah. I can't, yeah. And I know someone needs to be single in the show. Like, I get it. And if Samantha's not there anymore, then it's like you need. |
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