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Can we still love ballet in the #MeToo era?

A Ukrainian dancer of the Kyiv City Ballet. (Thibault Camus/AP)
A Ukrainian dancer of the Kyiv City Ballet. (Thibault Camus/AP)

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Harvard lecturer, author and dancer Glory Liu, whose piece in The Nation titled “Mind and Body: The domineering logic of ballet” examines an institutional and physical culture in ballet that she finds disturbing.

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