Dancing with Shadows | Legacy
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Ballet demands absolute sacrifice. Dancers push the limits of the human mind and body in the relentless pursuit of perfection.
For journalist Nicky Anderson, a childhood love for ballet has become a lifelong fascination, a fascination that has always drawn her back to one place: the New York City Ballet.
Home to some of the greatest works of the modern age, its legacy was shaped by the genius of its founder, the so-called father of American ballet, George Balanchine.
But behind the beauty lies a more complicated truth. Across its 76-year history, the New York City Ballet has faced allegations of power misuse, a major lawsuit, and an investigation into sexual harassment and physical and verbal abuse by a former Ballet Master-in-Chief.
Yet, the real story isn’t in the headlines. It’s in the voices of those who were there, the dancers who lived it.
You see, this isn’t just a story about ballet. It’s about devotion, ambition, and the cost of surrendering yourself entirely to something.
It’s about the people who graced that famous stage - and what became of them.
Dancing with Shadows launches Tuesday 18th February. Subscribe now for new episodes every Tuesday.
From Stak, this is Season Three of the award-winning Legacy. Extraordinary sporting stories that really matter.
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As a working class fan since 1990, who travelled home and away and experienced violence first hand, I struggled with this podcast. I felt it tried to sugar coat 'hooligans'' as misunderstood protagonists in a class war against an establishment that seeks to limit the opportunity and ambition of those from the working class. In my experience they were nothing more than testosterone fuelled thrill seekers with an inferiority complex and limited intelligence.