The Waves: What Ballet’s Best Choreographer Destroyed
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🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior editor Rebecca Onion is joined by Erika Lantz, host of the podcast The Turning to discuss the impact of ballet culture and the legacy of George Balanchine on dancers of all levels.
In Slate Plus, how ballerinas and nuns have more in common than you think.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Tori Dominguez with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're looking for a new podcast, might I recommend our podcast? |
| 0:09.3 | Hi, I'm Gabe Dunn, and I'm Allison Raskin. |
| 0:12.7 | We have a weekly show called Just Between Us where we explore every kind of topic out |
| 0:17.6 | there, from mental health to sexuality, to animal behavior, to science. |
| 0:24.9 | We love to interview fascinating people about their various expertise. |
| 0:29.2 | We also answer listener questions and play a very silly game called hypotheticals. |
| 0:34.6 | You're not going to want to miss it, it's unhinged. |
| 0:37.4 | And if you don't want to trust our word for it, because it's our show, you should know |
| 0:40.9 | that the IHAR podcast awards nominated us for Best Ensemble for 2023. |
| 0:47.2 | That means that we are good at our jobs. |
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| 0:53.9 | So check out Just Between Us, everyone's day. |
| 1:11.8 | Welcome to the Waves, Plates Podcast about gender, feminism, and of my strobe without |
| 1:19.2 | equal. |
| 1:20.7 | Every episode, you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off |
| 1:24.0 | our minds. |
| 1:25.0 | Today you've got me, Rebecca Onion, a senior editor at Slade. |
| 1:29.4 | And later in the show, I'm going to be joined by Erica Lance, a reporter and producer who |
| 1:33.6 | just put out the second season of her podcast, The Turning. |
| 1:37.0 | This one has the subtitle, Room of Mirrors. |
| 1:41.4 | In the US, there is ballet before George Balanchine and ballet after George Balanchine. |
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