City Ballet The Podcast
Hosted by Wendy Whelan and Aarón and Claire · New York City Ballet
4.7from 193 ratings
- 149
- Episodes
- 50
- Transcribed
- 193
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About City Ballet The Podcast
Welcome to City Ballet The Podcast, an exploration of New York City Ballet where we'll journey through our history, delve into our new and existing repertory, and reveal insider tidbits. Each season of City Ballet The Podcast features episodes that span three topics: New Combinations hosted by Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, Hear the Dance hosted by dance educator and former NYCB dancer Silas Farley, and See the Music hosted by Music Director Andrew Litton.
- Publisher
- New York City Ballet
- Category
- arts · arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
50 of 149 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 163: New Combinations: Shared Rain
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 162: New Combinations: Auspicy
15 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 161: 25-26 Season Wrap-Up
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Episode 163: New Combinations: Shared Rain
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But in terms of me sort of prepping my mind for what that expectation was, I knew I was going to be dealing with the cream of the crop of dancers and really just trying to figure out how classical was classical. Right. And or what, how open... these dancers are right but that happens at any company that I go to right I think if you're on a lot of these contemporary bills you always have this um I don't want to say concern but like it's always a factor on what can be done with that company and how those dancers are gonna how open are they gonna be and if they're gonna be able to like you know do an isolation and make a hit and yeah and because that's what I I'm always looking for in movers yeah but um The casting definitely, it was successful in the sense of, I always think in the back of my mind, there's got to be at least four or five dancers in a company that has come from a background there where they've been asked to move in a different way and not just the classical route. […]
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- Jennifer Archibald
- Alysa Pires
- Jonathan Stafford
- Tiler Peck
- Alexei Ratmansky
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 153 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 40 ratings
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- 66
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 95
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Who hosts City Ballet The Podcast?
Wendy Whelan and Aarón and Claire host the show. Published by New York City Ballet.
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