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dot com and secure your seats today welcome to the moth podcast i'm blaise ferre and with a five six

seven eight yes on this episode And with a five, six, seven, eight...

Yes. On this episode, we'll take a page from the great dancers throughout history. We'll put on her dance shoes, we'll find her pelvis, and we'll move through the joy and the self-expression that anybody at any age can get from dance.

First up is Katie Rivard. With a story she told at a New York City story slam.

Here's Katie live at the mall.

So a few years ago, I decided to move on my own from Boston to Tucson, Arizona in July. And the trip was ominous. My car broke down

twice. I got there. It was 120 degrees. It was brown. Everything looks like Mars to me because I'm from

Michigan. And so I spent the first two weeks on my own just like watching Amy Schumer's train rack over and over in

the theaters and like crying to myself.

But I moved out there for a teaching job and I felt pretty confident in my teaching abilities.

I'd been teaching for a while and so I thought I've got this.

But then the school year started and I realized that the school I had signed up to teach at was

similarly a train rack.

And I switch into type A teacher mode.

I'm like doing anything I can to get control back into my life,

like cutting up tennis balls and putting them on the bottom of chairs.

So there's no extra noise with the already excessive noise that's going on in my classroom.

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