Ballerina Makes Move to Russia

Studs Terkel loved to talk to dancers. Dick sits down with Keenan Kampa, a U.S.-born dancer, about the rigorous work it takes to find a place in a dance company, and how she was invited into the storied company The Mariinsky Ballet. She studied at the school that is associated with the ballet company called the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. She loves the history of the stage, and the historic boxes where tsars have watched the dancers.

Dame Margot Fonteyn

The legendary dancer spoke with Studs Terkel about dance and famous dancers such as Martha Graham and Isadora Duncan. She tells Studs that the waltz was scandalous when it was first introduced.

Studs at 100

We end our series with a musical and voice mediation on Studs Terkel. This "sound drop" comes to us from the Third Coast Audio Festival and producer Alan Hall.

And you can read about Dick's conversation with Studs on Salon.

Music in this show: “Magic Garden Dryad Queen Solo,” “Pas de Deux (Act III),” “Ensemble Dance of the Dryads” and “Quiterias Variationas Dulcinea” from Don Quixote, performed by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust.

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