"Swan Barbies and Seductive Whisks": Ballet

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🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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IF YOU THINK YOUR KITCHEN IMPLEMENTS HAVE BEEN FLIRTING WITH YOU - STAY TUNED, YOU'RE PROBABLY CORRECT. In this supercalifragilisticexpialidocious new episode we talk about some ballet, some barbies and one particularly alluring whisk. Enjoy!

Music Featured in this Episode:

"Swan Lake Op.20 - Mariinsky Version / Act 1: Scene 1: Finale (Andante)" - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy

"La fille mal gardée / Act 1: 17a. Clog Dance" - Ferdinand Herold

"The Firebird (l'oiseau de feu) - Suite (1945): Infernal Dance" - Igor Stravinsky

"La Revue de Cuisine: 2. Tango" - Bohuslav Martinů

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 28 of that classical podcast this time ballet.
0:10.0	Hello! Hello! Hello. My name's Chris Bland and my name's Kelly Harlog. And you're listening to
0:17.2	episode 28 of that classical podcast. Yes indeed you are welcome everybody.
0:21.6	Today we're going to talk about ballet because we've mentioned
0:24.6	it before on the podcast but we've never really gone into much depth so today we're going to change
0:29.2	that Chris why don't you give us the low down on the ballet?
0:33.3	I absolutely will.
0:34.2	We're taking a deep dive in.
0:35.4	We're learning all about ballet.
0:36.9	Yeah.
0:37.9	So at the risk of stating the obvious, ballet is dancing set to music.
0:42.2	Shocker. I know. Shocker, yeah.
0:43.0	I know.
0:44.0	So the word itself has its roots in the Latin Balare meaning to dance.
0:48.0	Oh wow!
0:49.0	You know I love to mention Latin whenever I can.
0:51.0	Oh dear.
0:52.0	And it has its origins in 15th century Italy, was the first time people like, hey, music's good, let's choreograph some proper dances to go along with it.
1:01.0	And it developed into the style of performance that we know it to be nowadays
1:05.0	through the centuries in France and Russia
1:08.0	primarily that's where we get ballet from
1:10.0	and the thing that makes ballet ballet is that it's all encompassing and emphasizing a sort of really beautiful
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