Ep. 26: Kick off the holiday season with a peek behind the curtain of ballerina Sudarsna Mukund's life
An absolute delight to speak to this young Boston-based ballerina about her journey as a professional dancer! Sudarsna dropped by my house (apologies for the audio quality in my dining room) to give me a back stage look at the world of ballet, her full-time work as a South Asian ballerina in a very white world, and her part-time life as a computer science major at Northeastern University.
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P.S. Boston area friends - Sudarsna is starring in the Urban Nutcracker at the Shubert Theatre from Dec 19-28! Take your kids to this fun and diverse holiday show if you can! Tickets and other links below!
Photo: Theik Smith
SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 26:
BOOKS and OTHER STUFF we discussed:
To Dance by Siena Cherson Siegel and Mark Siegel - a graphic memoir which captures a dancer’s life beautifully (Mark Siegel is also the creator of the fab 5 Worlds graphic novel series that my daughter and I love)
Life in Motion Misty Copeland’s memoir
Firebird kid picture book by Misty Copeland
I just picked up this YA novel (in verse!) from a Bharatnatyam dancer’s perspective: A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
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Special thanks to Aman Moroney @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!
