What Ballet’s Best Choreographer Destroyed
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🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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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 | anti-mini cheddar they don't get cheddar than this could be the greatest cheese |
| 0:07.2 | no camera they might well breathe I just wish I had my own packet gives |
| 0:11.9 | another no chance you're better by your own well that's mature add some cheese |
| 0:16.6 | to the moment with mini-chedders baked with real cheese |
| 0:30.0 | welcome to the waves plates podcast about gender feminism and my |
| 0:40.1 | stro without equal every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about |
| 0:45.5 | the thing we can't get off our minds today you've got me Rebecca onion a |
| 0:49.3 | senior editor at slate and later in the show I'm going to be joined by |
| 0:53.8 | Erica Lance a reporter and producer who just put out the second season of her |
| 0:57.5 | podcast the turning at this one has the subtitle room of mirrors in the US |
| 1:04.4 | there is ballet before George Balanchine and ballet after George Balanchine |
| 1:09.6 | Balanchine grew up dancing for the czar in Russia he survived the Russian |
| 1:14.4 | revolution he turned classical ballet into something new this is a show about |
| 1:19.4 | the choreographer George Balanchine who died in 1983 but not really it's really a |
| 1:25.7 | show about the women who worked with him as ballerinas and how that work which |
| 1:29.8 | demanded a level of devotion people who aren't ballerinas like me always find |
| 1:34.0 | absolutely fascinating it's really beautiful has really great music and a good |
| 1:39.5 | vibe can't wait to talk to Erica about how she managed to pull this off we'll be |
| 1:44.1 | back after the break |
| 1:46.7 | the best thing I got on Deepa that's a good question this really nice 80s |
| 1:55.6 | Adidas jumper corduroy which I'm wearing this pink mini skirt this juicy |
| 2:00.2 | guitar hoodie probably my unif choke boots this pair of jeans I wear them all the |
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