Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of I Heart Radio and

Grim and Mild. Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book,

all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities. They say that trends happen in cycles. We often see resonances in fashion, food, music, you name it.

But every time something becomes popular again,

new generations add their own twist.

And in the digital age, trends spread faster and wider.

This means anyone's ideas can take hold and reshape our culture.

Let's start with the current day.

The fashion trend known as Ballet Core has become popular in recent years.

In turn, Ballet has been used a lot in fashion marketing and because of the

internet people on social media make fun. It seems like it's usually experienced ballerinas

who point out poor representations of ballet.

There's a whole Instagram account dedicated to making fun of ads

where the models obviously don't know what they are doing.

But the power of advertising prevails

because what started as a fashion trend has become a genuine

interest in ballet. There's a whole world of ballet on Instagram and Tik-Toc.

Novice dancers share videos of themselves practicing.

It's their ballet journey, if you will.

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