Katie Boren: Being A Ballerina & Balancing Life

Berner Phone

Des Bishop

Comedy, Stand-up

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Katie is a top professional ballerina in NYC. She explains to Hannah why she chose ballet, how she turned into a professional ballerina, how often she's contemplated quitting, the politics and pettiness of dance, how she mentally and physically prepare for performances, being a perfectionist, what it's like to date as a ballerina/if they have crazy sex, the prevalence of disordered eating in ballet, and her opinions of black swan.Follow Hannah Berner on Instagram & Twitter: @beingbernzFollow Katie Boren on Instagram: @katieboren1--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/berninginhell/support

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Depths of Hell. I'm your host Hannah Burner and today we have a ballerina.
0:21.5	Hello. Her name is Katie Borin. Did I pronounce it right?
0:25.6	Yep. That sounds right. Amazing.
0:27.7	And she is in the Corp. Stibalai of the American Ballet Theater. At age six she began studying
0:34.1	at the Ballet Academy of Texas. And here she is now in New York City, one of the top
0:38.5	ballerinas. And she decided to come to hell with me and I don't know why yet.
0:43.3	I don't either. You wanted to go to hell. And I kind of love that.
0:47.6	I wanted to. I did. I seek you out.
0:51.3	You're clearly a masochist. Oh, completely. Yeah.
0:54.8	Change yourself aware, which I respect after answering that.
0:58.1	Yeah. So I kind of want to start from the beginning.
1:00.9	Okay. Where do we begin?
1:03.6	So when you were young, what were your hobbies? What were some things that brought joy to
1:08.0	your life?
1:09.0	So I did. I started taking ballet lessons when I was like three and my parents tried to
1:14.5	get me into other sports and activities and whatever. And I really just didn't enjoy
1:18.5	anything else. So any free time or any thing when my mom was like, what do you need for
1:24.7	fun? Like when you do on Friday, Saturdays, I was like, I want to go to ballet class.
1:27.6	I want to go to do you. I loved it. Oh, much.
1:31.6	What did you love about it? I don't know.
1:34.1	Did you like other dance? I did. Like I took modern and tap and jazz, but I would take
1:39.7	ballet every day from really young age. It was like six days a week. I'd be taking class.
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