What Ballet’s Best Choreographer Destroyed

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. 
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