I Traveled Around the World Because of a DNA Test

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Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

There are plenty of ways to see the world: through its food, through nature, or even just by slipping on a pair of sneakers and taking a walk. But for Mickela Mallozzi, a professional dancer and host of the award-winning PBS travel show Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi, there is no better way to connect with a new place—and its people—than by dancing, whether it be with the Gnawa tribe in Morocco or the Georgian National Ballet. This episode, we sit down with Mickela to find out how she got the idea for her show in the first place, where it's taken her since, and what to expect from her upcoming season, which sees her tracing her DNA across the globe.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condoness Traveler.
0:07.7	I'm Lale Ari Kogu, and with me, as always, is my co-host Meredith Carey.
0:12.1	Hello.
0:12.9	And for this week's episode, we're also joined by Michaela Molozzi,
0:16.8	a professional dancer and host of the award-winning PBS travel show Bare Feet with Michaela Molozzi,
0:22.1	which has taken her pretty much everywhere, I would say.
0:25.1	A lot of places, yeah.
0:26.6	And I have no doubt that she's full of stories to share.
0:29.8	So thank you so much for joining us.
0:31.6	Thank you for having me.
0:33.3	I'm so curious how you got started with the project of going places to dance in the first place.
0:40.5	So I studied abroad sophomore year, the summer of sophomore year at NYU.
0:45.6	And like all of us that study abroad, you get that travel bug.
0:48.4	And it was the first time traveling independently.
0:50.8	But when I really caught that bug of like, I need to travel again,
0:55.7	no matter how it is, cheaply, inexpensively crashing on people's couches, whatever it is.
1:00.6	This was back in 2002.
1:02.9	And when I would travel to international destinations where I couldn't speak the language,
1:07.2	I used dance to communicate with people for fun.
1:10.7	This is how I traveled for fun.
1:11.6	For me, it was so much fun dancing, but what came out of the dance was all of a sudden I'm invited to a family's dinner, where their mother's cooking for me.
1:19.6	I'm invited to a wedding in Mumbai.
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