Wendy Whelan on Letting Go

Still Spinning: On Dance and the Creative Process

Wendy Whelan, whom The New York Times has called "America’s greatest contemporary ballerina," sits down to discuss her life and work with us in this week's episode of Still Spinning, The Joyce Theater's podcast about dance and the creative process.

Read more about the duet First Fall that Brian Brooks created for Whelan, discussed in the episode.

Watch a mini-documentary we made on Whelan's and Brooks' evening-length show Some of a Thousand Words here.

Watch the documentary Restless Creature on Netflix.

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Thanks to Simon Kafka, the composer of our theme music, and the East West Quintet, who performed it. If you like it, you can purchase the song here.

Thank you to photographer Carrie Schneider and choreographer Kyle Abraham for providing the photograph for our show image. The photo features dancer Tamisha Guy in Abraham's Dearest Home.