line:85% position:50% size:80% MILLIONS KNOW WENDY IS AMERICA'S line:85% position:40% size:75% PREMIER BALLERINA BUT FEW KNOW line:85% position:50% size:80% THE WOMAN INSIDE THE DANCE ICON.

line:85% position:44% size:78% INSIDE THIS EPISODE KENTUCKY TO line:85% position:24% size:58% THE WORLD, AWARD WINNER line:85% position:44% size:78% HISTORIAN EMILY BINGHAM ENGAGES line:85% position:50% size:80% IN EYE CONVERSATION AS SHE TALKS line:85% position:40% size:75% ABOUT HER FUTURE AND EMBRACING line:85% position:19% size:48% HER CREATIVE POWER.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> DECADES INTO HER CAREER AS A line:85% position:50% size:80% PRINCIPLE DANCER WITH NEW YORK'S line:85% position:27% size:63% BALLET, WENDY SUSTAINED A line:85% position:19% size:48% SERIOUS HIP INJURY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SHE OVERCAME THAT CHALLENGE, TOO line:85% position:25% size:60% , RETURNING TO TOP NOTCH line:85% position:44% size:78% CONDITION AND GIVING HER FANS A line:85% position:36% size:73% FAIR FAREWELL PERFORMANCE FOR line:85% position:13% size:23% THE AGES.

line:85% position:33% size:70% NOW IN HER SECOND ACT, WENDY line:85% position:50% size:80% CONTINUES TO PERFORM FINDING NEW line:85% position:36% size:73% WAYS OF MOVING AND EXPRESSING line:85% position:13% size:20% HERSELF.

line:85% position:44% size:78% HAVING BEEN AMUSED-- A MUSE FOR line:85% position:50% size:80% SO LONG, NOW SHE IS CREATING AND line:85% position:13% size:25% DIRECTING.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SHE IS DECIDING WHAT PROJECTS TO line:85% position:36% size:73% PURSUE AND HOW TO BRING THOSE line:85% position:17% size:43% PROJECTS TO LIFE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SHE IS SHARING HER ART WITH US line:85% position:15% size:33% ON HER TERMS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AMAZINGLY, HER SECOND ACT RIVALS line:85% position:33% size:70% HER EXTRAORDINARY FIRST ACT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WENDY HAS FILLED HER CRACKS WITH line:85% position:11% size:13% GOLD.

line:85% position:27% size:63% SHE HAS CREATED SOMETHING line:85% position:36% size:73% BEAUTIFUL THAT WOULD NOT HAVE line:85% position:36% size:73% EXISTED BUT FOR THOSE CRACKS.

line:85% position:29% size:65% IN FACT, SHE HAS REDEFINED line:85% position:20% size:50% BEAUTY AND STRENGTH.

line:85% position:29% size:65% AND THANKFULLY FOR US, SHE line:85% position:25% size:60% CONTINUES TO CREATE ART.

line:85% position:31% size:68% PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING line:85% position:21% size:53% WENDY BACK HOME FOR A line:85% position:50% size:80% CONVERSATION WITH EMILY BINGHAM.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [ APPLAUSE line:85% position:37% size:5% ] line:85% position:11% size:13% OKAY.

line:85% position:13% size:25% HEY, GUYS.

line:85% position:16% size:38% IT'S SHOW TIME.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> ALMOST 100 YEARS AGO, THE line:85% position:33% size:70% FOUNDER OF THE NEW YORK CITY line:85% position:29% size:65% BALLET WAS AT A PARTY THAT line:85% position:25% size:60% HENRIETTA BINGHAM THREW.

line:85% position:20% size:50% HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD.

line:85% position:40% size:75% HIS BIG SISTER AND HEN YETIA-- line:85% position:40% size:75% HEN YET HENRIETTA WERE LOVERS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL JUNE NIGHT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THE BOYS HAD BEEN SENT TO BED.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I THINK THEY KNEW THAT LINCOLN line:85% position:33% size:70% WHO WENT ON TO FOUND THE NEW line:85% position:33% size:70% YORK CITY BALLET WAS IN LOVE line:85% position:14% size:30% WITH BALLET.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THEY GOT THE BOYS OUT OF BED, line:85% position:36% size:73% PUT THE GIRLS PAJAMAS ON THEM line:85% position:44% size:78% AND WENT DOWN TO THE GARDEN AND line:85% position:29% size:65% DID AN IMPROMPTU AMONG THE line:85% position:14% size:28% PERENNIALS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% 10 YEARS LATER, HE BROUGHT BALLA line:85% position:20% size:50% CHINE INTO NEW YORK.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S A SMALL WORLD IN THE DANCE line:85% position:15% size:33% WORLD, RIGHT?

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> IT'S A TINY LITTLE WORLD.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> AND YOU DANCED DOWN TACO ROAD line:85% position:50% size:80% IN YOUR BACK BRACE AS A NEIGHBOR line:85% position:50% size:80% OF MY GREAT FRIEND JOANNA AND WE line:85% position:29% size:65% WERE BOTH IN LOVE WITH HER line:85% position:13% size:23% BROTHERS.

line:85% position:17% size:43% >> TINIEST WORLD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> LOUISVILLE IS SMALL, TOO.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> JESUS, SHE JUST PULLED OUT line:85% position:14% size:30% SOME... WOW.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT'S A LOUISVILLE GIRL FOR YOU line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:40% size:75% >> SO I WANT TO DIAL WAY BACK, line:85% position:33% size:70% NOT TO 1923, BUT JUST TO THE line:85% position:29% size:65% EARLY 70s OR VERY LATE 60s line:85% position:40% size:75% WHEN YOU WERE A TINY CHILD AND line:85% position:50% size:80% SOMEHOW YOU ENDED UP IN A BALLET line:85% position:40% size:75% CLASS BECAUSE YOU STARTED VERY line:85% position:12% size:15% YOUNG.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I WONDER IF YOU HAVE A CONSCIOUS line:85% position:44% size:78% MEMORY OF THE BEGINNING OF YOUR line:85% position:13% size:20% DANCING?

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> I DO.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I REMEMBER LIVING ON PLYMOUTH line:85% position:31% size:68% ROAD UNTIL I WAS FOUR OR WE line:85% position:44% size:78% MOVED WHEN I WAS FIVE, I THINK.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND I WAS...

I WAS CLEARLY TWO line:85% position:36% size:73% AND A HALF OR THREE YEARS OLD line:85% position:40% size:75% AND I REMEMBER IT BEING EITHER line:85% position:33% size:70% THE, EITHER THE SUN HAD JUST line:85% position:36% size:73% GONE DOWN OR THE SUN WAS JUST line:85% position:13% size:25% COMING UP.

line:85% position:18% size:45% I REMEMBER THE LIG line:85% position:59% size:8% HT.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I HAD THAT EXTREME AMOUNT OF line:85% position:33% size:70% ENERGY WHAT WE WERE WRIEG TO line:85% position:40% size:75% FIGURE OUT AND IT WAS MY GRAND line:85% position:50% size:80% GRANDMOTHER'S IDEA AND I STARTED line:85% position:24% size:58% AT THREE AND THAT WAS I line:85% position:71% size:5% T. line:85% position:50% size:80% I DID MY OWN KIND OF THING FOR A line:85% position:13% size:25% LONG TIME.

line:85% position:29% size:65% THEN MY MOM TOOK ME TO THE line:85% position:44% size:78% NUTCRACKER WHEN I WAS SIX AND I line:85% position:27% size:63% SAW MY FIRST REAL BALLET.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I GOT TICKETS IN MY CHRISTMAS line:85% position:40% size:75% STOCKING TO SEE THE NUTCRACKER line:85% position:33% size:70% AND I SAW LISA LEAP ON STAGE line:85% position:40% size:75% WHEN I WAS SIX YEARS OLD DOING line:85% position:18% size:45% THE ARABIAN DANCE.

line:85% position:21% size:53% IT WAS UNFORGETTABLE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SHE WAS IN TURQUOISE, SHE WAS A line:85% position:22% size:55% BRUNETTE BACK THEN AND line:85% position:31% size:68% ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS DANCER.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND SHE MOVED ME SO MUCH AND I line:85% position:29% size:65% WOULD GET... AND I GOT THE line:85% position:36% size:73% RECORD THE NEXT YEAR AND THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% WAS MY... THAT WAS MY DANCE AND line:85% position:25% size:60% ACTUALLY THE NEXT YEAR I line:85% position:14% size:28% AUDITIONED.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I WAS IN THE SECOND GRADE AND I line:85% position:33% size:70% AWE DIGGED FOR THE NUT CRACK line:85% position:36% size:73% NUTCRACKER AND I GOT IN AND I line:85% position:14% size:30% WAS A MOUSE.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> GOT TO START SOMEWHERE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> I KNOW YOU A10ED-- ATTENDED line:85% position:50% size:80% THE BROWN SCHOOL BEFORE YOU LEFT line:85% position:14% size:28% LOUISVILLE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT TIME?

line:85% position:31% size:68% I MEAN WE REMEMBER THE 70s.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I ASSUME IT WAS STILL THE 70s line:85% position:29% size:65% WHEN YOU WERE STILL THERE.

line:85% position:12% size:15% >> 81. line:85% position:24% size:58% >> WHEN YOU WERE THERE.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> OH MY GOSH.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I'M SO MUCH OLDER THAN YOU.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WELL, SO,YOU WENT TO... YOU WERE line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE RIGHT BEFORE YOU LEFT, IS line:85% position:15% size:33% THAT CORRECT?

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> I SPENT EIGHT YEARS IN line:85% position:17% size:43% PAROCHIAL SCHOOL.

line:85% position:31% size:68% WENT TO HOLY SPIRIT SCHOOL.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I WAS IN A UNIFORM FOR EIGHT line:85% position:44% size:78% YEARS AND STUDYING BALLET AND I line:85% position:50% size:80% HAD THE WHOLE BACK BRACE AND THE line:85% position:36% size:73% WHOLE SITUATION IN GETTING MY line:85% position:44% size:78% FIRST CATAPULT TO NEW YORK WHEN line:85% position:44% size:78% I WAS AT HOLY SPIRIT AND I WENT line:85% position:50% size:80% TO THE SUMMER SCHOOL RIGHT AFTER line:85% position:40% size:75% MY EIGHTH GRADE, AND THEN THEY line:85% position:50% size:80% ASKED ME TO STAY IN NEW YORK AND line:85% position:31% size:68% I WAS JUST GETTING READY TO line:85% position:50% size:80% START HIGH SCHOOL AND MY PARENTS line:85% position:44% size:78% THOUGHT MAYBE IT'S A LITTLE TOO line:85% position:14% size:28% SOON TO GO.

line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU ARE GOING TO GET DOWN TO THE line:85% position:50% size:80% BOOKS I WANT TO DO THE BOOKS BUT line:85% position:40% size:75% I REALLY WANT TO DANCE AND THE line:85% position:33% size:70% BROWN SCHOOL SEEMED LIKE THE line:85% position:50% size:80% PERFECT PLACE FOR ME TO EXPLORE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% MY MOM AND DAD DECIDED IT WOULD line:85% position:25% size:60% BE REALLY GOOD FOR ME TO line:85% position:40% size:75% PRACTICE THE LOUISVILLE PUBLIC line:85% position:33% size:70% TRANSIT BY MYSELF INSTEAD OF line:85% position:36% size:73% GETTING CARPOOLED SO, THEY'RE line:85% position:36% size:73% SAYING YOU ARE GOING TO GET A line:85% position:40% size:75% CARD AND TAKE THE TARC DOWN BY line:85% position:44% size:78% YOURSELF TO THE SCHOOL AND THEN line:85% position:31% size:68% TAKE IT TO BALLET CLASS AND line:85% position:44% size:78% WE'LL PICK YOU UP AT THE END OF line:85% position:13% size:20% THE DAY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% INSTEAD OF GETTING DRIVEN AROUND line:85% position:40% size:75% AND, YOU KNOW, CHAUFFEUR, SO I line:85% position:11% size:10% DID.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IT WAS MY REHEARSAL FOR NEW YORK line:85% position:31% size:68% AND I MET ALL KINDS OF KIDS line:85% position:44% size:78% EVERY RELIGION EVERY RACE EVERY line:85% position:33% size:70% KIND OF KID WAS THERE AND MY line:85% position:44% size:78% GRADES WENT FROM C TO B TO A BY line:85% position:50% size:80% THE END OF THE YEAR AND IT WAS A line:85% position:50% size:80% VERY CREATIVE PLACE TO FOR ME TO line:85% position:31% size:68% GO TO SCHOOL AND I ACTUALLY line:85% position:29% size:65% LOVED THAT SCHOOL SO MUCH.

line:85% position:36% size:73% IT WAS A VERY SPECIAL SCHOOL.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SO IT WAS A REAL JOY AND A LOT line:85% position:17% size:40% OF GREAT ENERGY.

line:85% position:27% size:63% SO WAS IT JUST A FOREGONE line:85% position:40% size:75% CONCLUSION THAT YOU WERE GOING line:85% position:36% size:73% TO HEAD TO NEW YORK AFTER ONE line:85% position:27% size:63% YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL HERE?

line:85% position:17% size:43% >> IT WAS A PLAN.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> AND WE HOPED THE PLAN WAS line:85% position:50% size:80% GOING TO STICK AND THEY ASKED... line:85% position:36% size:73% SO I WENT BACK TO S.A.B., THE line:85% position:44% size:78% SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET FOR A line:85% position:40% size:75% SECOND SUMMER AND THEY INVITED line:85% position:50% size:80% ME AGAIN AND I'M LIKE, I'M READY line:85% position:50% size:80% SO I BACKED...

I GOT LUGGAGE FOR line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT BIRTHDAY WHEN I WAS 14. line:85% position:29% size:65% MY PARENTS GAVE ME TWO BIG line:85% position:27% size:63% SUITCASES AND THAT WAS MY line:85% position:15% size:35% BIRTHDAY GIFT.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND I PACKED THEM AND... 35 line:85% position:13% size:20% YEARS... line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:36% size:73% >> NOW THERE ARE A LOT OF SAD line:85% position:44% size:78% PARENTS IN LOUISVILLE WHO DON'T line:85% position:36% size:73% WANT THEIR CHILDREN TO GO TOO line:85% position:33% size:70% FAR AWAY BUT IT'S OKAY TO DO line:85% position:36% size:73% WHAT YOU DID, RIGHT, PARENTS?

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> THEY WOULD COME AND VISIT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% MY DAD CAME UP EVERY COLUMBUS line:85% position:36% size:73% DAY AND THANKSGIVING AND THEY line:85% position:40% size:75% WOULD MAKE TRIPS UP TO SEE ME.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> SO WAS THAT A BIG FAMILY line:85% position:13% size:23% DECISION?

line:85% position:50% size:80% HOW DO YOU REMEMBER THE DECISION line:85% position:36% size:73% BEING MADE BECAUSE THERE MUST line:85% position:36% size:73% HAVE BEEN A FINANCIAL PART OF line:85% position:18% size:45% THAT, OBVIOUSLY... line:85% position:13% size:20% >> HUGE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> FAMILY IMPACT ON WHO WAS HERE line:85% position:36% size:73% AND HOW YOU WOULD MANAGE YOUR line:85% position:12% size:15% LIVES?

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> THERE WAS A TEAM AT THE TIME line:85% position:50% size:80% I REMEMBER MY BALLET TEACHER SEA line:85% position:50% size:80% SEAL HELLER, SHE IS NOW SEA SEAL line:85% position:40% size:75% HELLER GIBB SOP FROM THE PARIS line:85% position:12% size:15% OPERA.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND SHE IS THE ONE THAT GOT ME line:85% position:12% size:15% GOING.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO line:85% position:44% size:78% FIND OUT WHEN THAT AUDITION IS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SHE SENT ME TO... MY MOM DROVE line:85% position:40% size:75% ME TO CINCINNATI, AND I DID AN line:85% position:36% size:73% AUDITION WITH SUZANNE FERRELL line:85% position:31% size:68% FROM CINCINNATI AND SHE WAS line:85% position:36% size:73% THERE GIVING THE AUDITION AND line:85% position:40% size:75% EASILY 300 KIDS, AND I GOT IN.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THE BIG QUESTION WAS WHO IS line:85% position:50% size:80% GOING TO PAY FOR YOUR EDUCATION.

line:85% position:13% size:23% >> RIGHT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> SO MY TEACHER, CECILE HELLER line:85% position:33% size:70% AT THE TIME WAS FRIENDS WITH line:85% position:44% size:78% LOCALLY HILLIARD AND LOOL LOLLY line:85% position:13% size:23% HILLIARD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IT 'TWAS A BIG SECRET TO ME.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I KNEW SOMEBODY WAS GOING TO line:85% position:13% size:20% HELP ME.

line:85% position:24% size:58% DIDN'T KNOW WHO IT WAS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SHE DIDN'T WANT ALL THE OTHER line:85% position:44% size:78% PARENTS SAYING WILL YOU HELP MY line:85% position:11% size:10% KID.

line:85% position:27% size:63% AND SO THAT WAS A PRIVATE line:85% position:40% size:75% BENEFACTOR AND SHE PAID FOR MY line:85% position:25% size:60% PRIVATE EDUCATION AT THE line:85% position:50% size:80% PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL WHICH WAS $5 line:85% position:29% size:65% ,000, MORE THAN MY PARENTS line:85% position:33% size:70% WERE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND ONCE I GRADUATED I FOUND OUT line:85% position:50% size:80% WHO IT WAS AND I WROTE HER A BIG line:85% position:17% size:43% THANK YOU LETTER.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> I KNEW OF LOLLY HILLIARD.

line:85% position:14% size:30% SMALL WORLD.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> I GOT TO MEET HER A LITTLE line:85% position:11% size:10% BIT.

line:85% position:24% size:58% >> SHE WAS A WONDERFUL, line:85% position:24% size:58% WONDERFUL CHARACTER AND line:85% position:18% size:45% PASSIONATE PERSON.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO THAT'S NOT TOTALLY SURPRISING line:85% position:33% size:70% SO I WAS THINKING ABOUT, AND line:85% position:50% size:80% SOMETHING YOU SAID WHEN WE SPOKE line:85% position:44% size:78% BRIEFLY BECAUSE WE'VE NEVER MET line:85% position:14% size:30% UNTIL TODAY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% WAS ABOUT YOUR MOM AND WHAT SHE line:85% position:44% size:78% WAS DOING WHEN YOU WERE A YOUNG line:85% position:36% size:73% CHILD AND THEN, YOU KNOW, HOW line:85% position:44% size:78% HER OWN WORK MAYBE HAS INFLUENC line:85% position:12% size:18% ED YOU.

line:85% position:25% size:60% EITHER CONSCIOUSLY OR UN line:85% position:18% size:45% CONSCIOUSLY MAYBE.

line:85% position:27% size:63% CAN YOU SPEAK ABOUT THAT?

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> MY MOM, WHEN I WAS A BABY, line:85% position:33% size:70% YOUNG CHILD SHE TAUGHT P.E., line:85% position:29% size:65% PHYSICAL EDUCATION AT HOLY line:85% position:40% size:75% SPIRIT... DON'T YELL OUT, MOM.

line:85% position:14% size:30% HOLY SPIRIT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THEN SHE WENT AND COACHED HIGH line:85% position:31% size:68% SCHOOL BASKETBALL AT SACRED line:85% position:29% size:65% HEART AND THEN SHE COACHED line:85% position:50% size:80% COLLEGE BASKETBALL AT BELLERMAN, line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY WERE STATE CHAMPIONS, WOMEN line:85% position:15% size:35% 'S BASKETBALL.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:44% size:78% SO MY WHOLE LIFE, MY MOM WAS IN line:85% position:44% size:78% THE GYM, SHE WAS COACHING, YELL line:85% position:31% size:68% ING, CUSSING AND I WAS VERY line:85% position:14% size:30% OFTEN THERE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I WOULD GO ON THE ROAD TRIPS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I LOVED GOING ON THE ROAD TRIPS line:85% position:44% size:78% WITH THE TEAM AND I WAS SORT OF line:85% position:40% size:75% THE ASSISTANT P.T., I WAS LIKE line:85% position:31% size:68% HAND THE TAPE AND SCISSORS.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I WAS REALLY INTERESTED THIS line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT ASPECT AND I LOVED, I HAD line:85% position:50% size:80% ALL THAT ENERGY AND I LOVED THAT line:85% position:21% size:53% BIG BASKETBALL COURT.

line:85% position:24% size:58% I COULD RUN EVERYWHERE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I LOVED TO RUN BUT THEN THE line:85% position:40% size:75% FOCUS OF IT ALL AND HEARING MY line:85% position:36% size:73% MOM YELL, GET YOUR ASS TO THE line:85% position:50% size:80% OTHER END OF THE COURT, YOU KNOW line:85% position:25% size:60% , AND I WAS GETTING, YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% KNOW, MY TEACHERS WEREN'T SAYING line:85% position:40% size:75% THOSE WORDS, BUT THEY HAD THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% ENERGY, LITTLE WENDY GET YOURING line:85% position:27% size:63% LY UP AND THAT WAS CECILE line:85% position:40% size:75% WHO WAS VERY SIMILAR IN THAT W line:85% position:89% size:5% AY line:85% position:36% size:73% AND SO, YEAH, I REMEMBER...

I line:85% position:40% size:75% WAS ALWAYS DANCING AND I WOULD line:85% position:50% size:80% GET PICKED UP AND DROPPED OFF AT line:85% position:36% size:73% THE GYM AND I WOULD RUN AND I line:85% position:50% size:80% WOULD BE LIKE SHOW THE GIRLS HOW line:85% position:44% size:78% TO STRETCH AND I WOULD SHOW THE line:85% position:40% size:75% GIRLS STRETCHES AND THEY WOULD line:85% position:13% size:25% BE LIKE... line:85% position:33% size:70% >> AND NOW THEY'RE ALL DOING line:85% position:13% size:20% PILATES.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> THEY WENT HAND IN HAND FOR A line:85% position:15% size:33% LITTLE WHILE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WHEN I WENT TO NEW YORK AND I line:85% position:50% size:80% WAS STARTING TO GET A LITTLE BIT line:85% position:40% size:75% OF ROLL ROLES LIKE SOLO THINGS line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I WAS A LITTLE NERVOUS AND I line:85% position:50% size:80% WOULD CALL HOME AND MY MOM WOULD line:85% position:31% size:68% TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW DO YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% FOCUS ON WHAT IS YOUR GOAL?

line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU WANT TO MAKE A BASKET, YOU line:85% position:21% size:53% WANT TO DO THAT STEP?

line:85% position:33% size:70% YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF AIMING, line:85% position:24% size:58% SHOOTING AND MAKING IT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF LANDING line:85% position:17% size:43% , THE SAME THING.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND SO SHE KIND OF TAUGHT ME line:85% position:50% size:80% FOCUS AND MEDITATE ON HOW I WANT line:85% position:22% size:55% ED THINGS TO TURN OUT.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE line:85% position:44% size:78% SEEN THE MOVIE NATIONAL VELVET.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I SEE YOU AS A CHAMPION ATHLETIC line:85% position:36% size:73% MOM WHO HELPS VERY QUIETLY IN line:85% position:13% size:23% HER OWN W line:85% position:35% size:8% AY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> IT DOES SEEM TO BE THAT IN line:85% position:40% size:75% THE SEAR AOF TITLE 9, THIS WAS line:85% position:50% size:80% STILL REALLY NOT TOTALLY COOL IN line:85% position:40% size:75% THE CULTURE AT LARGE FOR WOMEN line:85% position:31% size:68% TO BE PURSUING ATHLETIC AND line:85% position:31% size:68% PHYSICAL CAREERS AND BALLET line:85% position:36% size:73% OBVIOUSLY SOMEWHAT DIFFERENCE line:85% position:36% size:73% FROM WOMEN'S BASKETBALL WHICH line:85% position:40% size:75% NOW HAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT line:85% position:40% size:75% PROFILE THAN IT DID THEN BUT I line:85% position:44% size:78% STILL THINK THERE MAY HAVE BEEN line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT PERMISSION TO FOLLOW, YOU line:85% position:17% size:40% KNOW, YOUR STAR.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> I LOOKED EIGHT AS A SPORT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I ACTUALLY DID, AS A KID I LOOK line:85% position:27% size:63% ED EIGHT FROM AN ATHLETIC line:85% position:40% size:75% POINT OF VIEW, AND LATER DID I line:85% position:44% size:78% START TO REALLY DEVELOP ANOTHER line:85% position:15% size:35% IDEA ABOUT IT.

line:85% position:16% size:38% >> INTERESTING.

line:85% position:33% size:70% SO WHEN YOU LAND IN NEW YORK line:85% position:19% size:48% CITY, I'M TRYING TO line:85% position:15% size:33% IMAGINE THIS.

line:85% position:31% size:68% IT WAS 1980... YOU FILL IN.

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> 1982. line:85% position:15% size:33% >> E.P.A.

82. line:85% position:31% size:68% THIS IS LIKE-- '82, THE EAR line:85% position:50% size:80% AFTER CENTRAL PARK KILLER, AIDS, line:85% position:33% size:70% NOT THE FRIENDLY JOLLY TIMES line:85% position:50% size:80% SQUARE WHERE EVERYBODY GETS, YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% KNOW, SOME CARTOON CHARACTER.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THERE WAS NO ERNIE, YOU KNOW, line:85% position:18% size:45% SHAKING YOUR HAND.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IT WAS PRETTY, I REMEMBER IT line:85% position:11% size:13% THEN.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IT WAS PRETTY GRITTY, RIGHT?

line:85% position:33% size:70% SO TELL US ABOUT YOUR ENTREÉ line:85% position:20% size:50% INTO THIS BIG WORLD.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> I DIDN'T TAKE THE SUBWAY line:85% position:36% size:73% UNTIL I WAS EASILY IN MY 20s.

line:85% position:17% size:40% I REALLY DIDN'T.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I JUST WENT FROM...

I LIVED ON line:85% position:33% size:70% WEST 71st STREET IN THE HOME line:85% position:14% size:28% OF JACQUES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND HE RENTED HAD HIS BROWN line:85% position:36% size:73% STONE TO A FEW STUDENTS AND I line:85% position:25% size:60% GOT A SPOT IN THAT HOME.

line:85% position:17% size:43% IT WAS A MIRACLE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I LANDED IN THAT HOME AND I line:85% position:36% size:73% WOULD LEAVE THE HOME, WALK TO line:85% position:50% size:80% SCHOOL, ABOUT TO BALLET, GO BACK line:85% position:50% size:80% TO SCHOOL, GO BACK TO BALLET, GO line:85% position:36% size:73% HOME, DO MY HOME WORK, THAT'S line:85% position:13% size:25% ALL I DID.

line:85% position:40% size:75% EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WE WOULD line:85% position:40% size:75% GO ACROSS THE STREET AND GET A line:85% position:33% size:70% LITTLE SOMETHING TO EAT, YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% KNOW, I DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE.

line:85% position:20% size:50% I JUST WENT TO WORK.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> WOW.

line:85% position:19% size:48% >> FOR A LONG TIME.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> SO EVENTUALLY, THE CITY MUST line:85% position:17% size:40% HAVE TAKEN ON... line:85% position:31% size:68% >> SO WHAT ABOUT JUST THOSE line:85% position:31% size:68% THINGS THAT WOULD WORRY ANY line:85% position:15% size:33% PARENT TODAY?

line:85% position:44% size:78% SENDING THEIR CHILD, ESPECIALLY line:85% position:36% size:73% INTO A SUPER COMPETITIVE COON line:85% position:44% size:78% TEXT-- CONTEXT LIKE THE ONE YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% WERE ENTERING, JUST THE CUT line:85% position:33% size:70% THROAT, YOU KNOW, SCENE, THE line:85% position:36% size:73% EATING DISORDER, COMPETITION, line:85% position:40% size:75% THE JOCKEYING AND DEALING WITH line:85% position:24% size:58% ALL THAT WHILE YOU WERE line:85% position:33% size:70% DEVELOPING DLENT ADOLESCENT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THOSE AGES, 15, 14, 13, 16, ARE line:85% position:27% size:63% TUSH LENT TIMES FOR DIDZ.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> LUCKILY SOME OF THAT I DID line:85% position:29% size:65% BEFORE I WENT TO NEW YORK.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I DID HAVE AN EAT EATING DIS line:85% position:29% size:65% ORDER BEFORE I WENT TO NEW line:85% position:17% size:40% YORK FOR A YEAR.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I WAS SOLID BY THE TIME I WENT line:85% position:14% size:30% TO NEW YORK.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT WAS PART OF THE REASON WHY line:85% position:33% size:70% I WAITED BECAUSE I WANTED TO line:85% position:33% size:70% MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS GONE line:85% position:27% size:63% BECAUSE THAT WASN'T COOL.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND THE BRACE, HAD THE BACK line:85% position:33% size:70% BRACE AND I HAD GONE THROUGH line:85% position:31% size:68% THAT EMOTIONALALLY AS WELL.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I HAD GONE THROUGH TWO REALLY line:85% position:36% size:73% HIGHLY INTENSIVE THINGS FOR A line:85% position:14% size:30% YOUNG WOMAN.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AT AGE 15, I WAS VERY SOLID line:85% position:31% size:68% ASHED MY PARENTS KNEW THAT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT'S THE ONLY REASONS BECAUSE line:85% position:15% size:33% WE REHEARSED.

line:85% position:15% size:33% WE PRACTICED.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> THAT'S A LOT OF TO ACCOMPLISH line:85% position:17% size:43% BY THE AGE OF 15. line:85% position:44% size:78% SO ONE OF THE THINGS LISA REFER line:85% position:29% size:65% RED TO IN HER INTRODUCTION line:85% position:40% size:75% WAS JUST THE WAYS IN WHICH THE line:85% position:50% size:80% BALLET AT THE TIME HAD A PRETTY, line:85% position:44% size:78% SOME SAY VERY NARROW CONCEPT OF line:85% position:40% size:75% WHAT THE BALLERINA SHOULD LOOK line:85% position:50% size:80% LIKE ESPECIALLY A STAR BALLERINA line:85% position:33% size:70% AND WERE YOU STILL YOUNG AND line:85% position:50% size:80% DEVELOPING, CAN YOU REFLECT ON A line:85% position:44% size:78% LITTLE FOR THE GROUP ON HOW YOU line:85% position:24% size:58% FELT YOU FIT INTO THAT?

line:85% position:40% size:75% WAS IT SOMETHING YOU WERE VERY line:85% position:29% size:65% CONSCIOUS OF OR NOT AND... line:85% position:50% size:80% >> THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION AND I line:85% position:29% size:65% WENT TO NEW YORK AND ALL I line:85% position:33% size:70% THOUGHT ABOUT WAS WORKING MY line:85% position:50% size:80% HARDEST, FOCUSING, DOING MY BEST line:85% position:24% size:58% , IN FACT MY TEACHER IN line:85% position:50% size:80% LOUISVILLE CECILE, SHE SAID, SHE line:85% position:40% size:75% CALLED ME LITTLE WENDY BECAUSE line:85% position:25% size:60% THERE WAS ANOTHER WENDY.

line:85% position:33% size:70% SHE SAID LITTLE WENDY, DON'T line:85% position:50% size:80% WEAR MAKEUP BECAUSE THEY WANT TO line:85% position:40% size:75% MAKE...

THEY WANT TO SHAPE YOU line:85% position:12% size:15% THERE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% SO DON'T GO THERE FINISHED.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND SO I'M LIKE THAT'S FINE line:85% position:33% size:70% BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO WEAR line:85% position:15% size:35% MAKEUP ANYWAY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY'RE LIKE, PUT SOME MAKEUP ON line:85% position:16% size:38% I WAS LIKE, NO.

line:85% position:17% size:40% I DIDN'T GET IT.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I THOUGHT I'M JUST GOING TO line:85% position:15% size:33% SWEAT IT OFF.

line:85% position:27% size:63% I'M AN ATHLETE, YOU KNOW.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND LITERALLY, THE TEACHERS WERE line:85% position:27% size:63% LIKE FOLLOWING ME AROUND, line:85% position:13% size:23% LIPSTICK.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> WOW.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> AND I JUST, I WAS...

I DON'T line:85% position:13% size:23% GET THAT.

line:85% position:24% size:58% I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND THE NEW YORK GIRLS WERE VERY line:85% position:33% size:70% DIFFERENT THAN ME, YOU KNOW.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY HAD THE PRETTY BER RECEIPT line:85% position:40% size:75% B BARETTES AND THE WHOLE THING line:85% position:22% size:55% AND IT JUST WASN'T ME.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I GO IT IN THE COMPANY AND IT line:85% position:36% size:73% WAS BECAUSE I WAS STRONG AND, line:85% position:13% size:23% YOU KNOW.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THE PRETTY DWIRLS WERE GETTING line:85% position:44% size:78% ROLES AND I WAS STRUGGLING, HOW line:85% position:14% size:30% DO I FIT IN.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT TOOK TIME AND IT JUST WASN'T line:85% position:25% size:60% ... WHAT I GREW UP THINK line:85% position:13% size:25% ING ABOUT.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> THERE WEREN'T A LOT OF line:85% position:27% size:63% KENTUCKIANS ON THAT RIDE.

line:85% position:27% size:63% CAN WE JUST CONFIRM THAT?

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> THERE WERE NO KENTUCKIANS line:85% position:13% size:20% WITH ME.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I'M WONDERING WHEN YOU WOULD line:85% position:50% size:80% EVER SEE A KENTUCKIAN UNTIL YOUR line:85% position:14% size:30% FAMILY CAME?

line:85% position:25% size:60% PROBABLY NEVER, TO GIST?

line:85% position:14% size:30% >> YEAH, NO.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND DID YOU EXPERIENCE OF THIS line:85% position:33% size:70% KIND OF TEASINGS ABOUT BEING line:85% position:15% size:35% FROM KENTUCKY?

line:85% position:13% size:23% >> I DID.

line:85% position:24% size:58% >> WHAT WAS THAT LIKER?

line:85% position:14% size:28% >> -- LIKE?

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> ONE OF THE NEW YORK BOYS, WHO line:85% position:44% size:78% IS STILL MY FRIEND, HE WAS LIKE line:85% position:19% size:48% WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

line:85% position:27% size:63% I SAID I'M FROM KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND HE IS LIKE, YOU ACTUALLY line:85% position:17% size:43% TELL PEOPLE THAT?

line:85% position:44% size:78% I WAS LIKE, WHAT DO YOU... WHAT line:85% position:14% size:30% DO YOU MEAN?

line:85% position:14% size:30% I WAS PROUD.

line:85% position:17% size:40% I DIDN'T GET IT.

line:85% position:13% size:23% SO, YEAH.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> WELL, WE DO STILL HEAR THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% SOMETIMES, BUT WE ARE HERE TO... line:85% position:50% size:80% >> THEY'VE CHANGED THEIR MINDS A line:85% position:33% size:70% LOT SINCE THEN 30 YEARS AGO.

line:85% position:17% size:43% >> IT'S ALL OVER.

line:85% position:19% size:48% >> THEY GET IT NOW.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> YOU COVERED THAT FOR US.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> SO YOU SPENT YOUR ENTIRE line:85% position:50% size:80% PROFESSIONAL CAREER UP UNTIL THE line:85% position:50% size:80% LAST COUPLE OR FEW, WITH THE NEW line:85% position:18% size:45% YORK CITY BALLET.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE CAREER, line:85% position:44% size:78% INCREDIBLY FRUITFUL, INCREDIBLY line:85% position:20% size:50% LONG FOR ANY DANCER.

line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU STARTED AS AN APPRENTICE IN line:85% position:44% size:78% '84, TWO YEARS LATER YOU BECAME line:85% position:31% size:68% YOU JOINED THE COMPANY, YOU line:85% position:17% size:43% BECAME A SOLOIST.

line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU WERE A PRINCIPAL BY THE 1991 line:85% position:33% size:70% YOU HAD YOUR FINALE IN 2014. line:85% position:33% size:70% THIS IS A REMARKABLE, I MEAN line:85% position:44% size:78% SCORES AND SCORES AND SCORES OF line:85% position:15% size:33% PERFORMANCES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I HAVE A QUESTION THAT IS FROM line:85% position:40% size:75% LIKE THE PERSPECTIVE OF A NON- line:85% position:33% size:70% DANCER, AND MAYBE ONE OR TWO line:85% position:21% size:53% OF YOU ARE OUT THERE.

line:85% position:21% size:53% WHEN YOU ARE STUDYING line:85% position:50% size:80% CHOREOGRAPHY... A PIECE, WHAT IS line:85% position:21% size:53% IT LIKE TO EMBODY THE line:85% position:15% size:33% CHOREOGRAPHY?

line:85% position:17% size:43% HOW DO YOU DO IT?

line:85% position:17% size:40% DO YOU DREAM IT?

line:85% position:40% size:75% I MEAN ARE YOU THINKING IT ALL line:85% position:13% size:23% THE TIME?

line:85% position:50% size:80% OR IS IT PHYSICAL OR THAN MENTAL line:85% position:40% size:75% CAN YOU JUST DESCRIBE A LITTLE line:85% position:33% size:70% ABOUT THE DANCE AND WHAT YOU line:85% position:40% size:75% WERE BEING ASKED TO DO AND DID line:85% position:33% size:70% SO OFTEN DURING THOSE YEARS?

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> WHEN I FIRST JOINED THE line:85% position:33% size:70% COMPANY, I WAS NOT KNOWN FOR line:85% position:19% size:48% PICKING UP QUICKLY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I WAS RATHER SLOW LEARNING THE line:85% position:44% size:78% CORE CHOREOGRAPHY BECAUSE I WAS line:85% position:16% size:38% NERVOUS ENERGY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I HAD...

IT WAS SORT OF LIKE A line:85% position:40% size:75% DYSLEXIA TYPE OF THING WHERE I line:85% position:44% size:78% COULDN'T LEARN IT FROM BEING IN line:85% position:40% size:75% IT AS FAST AS OTHER PEOPLE, SO line:85% position:50% size:80% THIS WERE GETTING IN THE COMPANY line:85% position:44% size:78% FASTER THAN ME BECAUSE THEY WER line:85% position:31% size:68% IC LOO, WELL, SHE'S GOT IT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SHE IS GOING TO GO ON AND YOU line:85% position:15% size:33% HAVE TO WAIT.

line:85% position:29% size:65% SO STRESSED AND THE STRESS line:85% position:27% size:63% DIDN'T HELP THE LEARNING.

line:85% position:33% size:70% SO I WOULD GO HOME AND WRITE line:85% position:17% size:40% DOWN EVERY STEP.

line:85% position:13% size:20% LIKE...?

line:85% position:13% size:25% LONG HAND?

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I WILL NOT MAKE THAT MISTAKE line:85% position:12% size:15% AGAIN.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO SPELL THEM, line:85% position:50% size:80% AND THEN I WOULD GO SHINET, SHIN line:85% position:29% size:65% ET... AND I WOULD REMEMBER line:85% position:50% size:80% IT THE NEXT DAY BUT THEN I START line:85% position:21% size:53% ED GETTING BETTER AND line:85% position:33% size:70% BETTER AND BY THE TIME I WAS line:85% position:36% size:73% WORKING WITH CHOREOGRAPHIES A line:85% position:29% size:65% LOT, AND ENJOYING THAT AND line:85% position:36% size:73% LOVING THAT, I WOULD TAKE THE line:85% position:36% size:73% MUSIC HOME WITH ME AND REALLY line:85% position:36% size:73% DIVE INTO THE MUSIC AND FOCUS line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THINK AND I COULD CALMLY GO line:85% position:40% size:75% THROUGH THE STEPS, DIDN'T HAVE line:85% position:29% size:65% TO WRITE THEM DOWN SO MUCH line:85% position:40% size:75% ANYMORE BUT, YEAH, IT WAS VERY line:85% position:36% size:73% DIFFERENT WAY FROM WHEN I WAS line:85% position:44% size:78% EARLY ON AND THEN WHEN I WAS AT line:85% position:40% size:75% THE END AND NOW I JUST, I TAKE line:85% position:44% size:78% THE MUSIC OFTEN HOME AND I JUST line:85% position:33% size:70% LET IT...

I SWIM IN IT IN MY line:85% position:13% size:23% HEAD AND.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> THANK YOU BECAUSE I'VE NEVER line:85% position:36% size:73% BEEN ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT.

line:85% position:15% size:33% >> IT'S HARD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IT'S NOT... YOU HAVE TO FIND line:85% position:15% size:33% YOUR OWN WAY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% YOUR OWN WAY OF LEARNING, YOUR line:85% position:21% size:53% OWN WAY OF MEMORIZING line:85% position:27% size:63% MULTIPLICATION NUMBERS OR line:85% position:13% size:25% SOMETHING.

line:85% position:27% size:63% I HAVE TO DO IT THIS WAY.

line:85% position:11% size:8% SO.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> MY VERY BRIEF EXPERIENCE WITH line:85% position:22% size:55% BALLET WENT LIKE THIS.

line:85% position:22% size:55% I WAS IN BALLET CLASS.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I ASKED TO DO THAT, FOR SOME line:85% position:36% size:73% SEASON AND THEN I GOT TO WEAR line:85% position:50% size:80% PINK TIGHTS AND BLACK LEE TARRED line:85% position:50% size:80% AND WAS EXCITED AND HAD THE SHOE line:85% position:33% size:70% S AND THEN MY MOTHER WHO WAS line:85% position:40% size:75% A DANCER, TOO, AND APPRECIATED line:85% position:36% size:73% IT, SIGNED ME UP FOR A MODERN line:85% position:14% size:30% DANCE CLASS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I THINK I WAS SIX OR SEVEN AND I line:85% position:50% size:80% ARRIVED AND WAS TOLD TO ACT LIKE line:85% position:24% size:58% AN ANIMAL ON THE STAGE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I WAS JUST IN COMPLETE SHOCK line:85% position:50% size:80% I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AN ANIMAL line:85% position:44% size:78% I'M SUPPOSED TO BE A BALLERINA.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I DIDN'T LIKE IT AT ALL, BUT NOW line:85% position:40% size:75% FINALLY I WENT TO THE AMERICAN line:85% position:36% size:73% DANCE FESTIVAL AND UNDERSTOOD line:85% position:29% size:65% WHEN I WAS OLDER THAT THIS line:85% position:44% size:78% MOVEMENT THAT HAD COME INTO THE line:85% position:31% size:68% WORLD OF DANCE, NOT BEING A line:85% position:36% size:73% PRETTY BALLERINA NECESSARILY, line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT TO EXPRESS A RANGE OF WIDE line:85% position:36% size:73% RANGE OF THINGS IN DANCE THAT line:85% position:19% size:48% WERE NOT CLASSICAL.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND SO I WONDER WHEN YOU, COULD line:85% position:19% size:48% YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR line:85% position:50% size:80% UNDERSTANDING, AS IT GREW, ABOUT line:85% position:50% size:80% AND WHETHER YOU FIRST GOT TO NEW line:85% position:25% size:60% YORK, THIS WAS A DIVIDE line:85% position:36% size:73% BETWEEN CLASSICAL AND MUSICAL line:85% position:12% size:15% DANCE.

line:85% position:18% size:45% >> SHE IS SO GOOD.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> I JOINED NEW YORK CITY BALLET line:85% position:50% size:80% AND NOT AMERICAN BALLET THEATER.

line:85% position:27% size:63% VERY DIFFERENT COMPANIES.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AMERICAN BALLET THEATER IS GEAR line:85% position:33% size:70% ED MORE TOWARDS THE CLASSICS line:85% position:21% size:53% , TOWARD STORY BALLET line:85% position:21% size:53% TOWARD THE BEAUTIFUL.

line:85% position:40% size:75% NEW YORK CITY BALLET IS GEARED line:85% position:40% size:75% TOWARDS THE BEAUTIFUL BUT ALSO line:85% position:50% size:80% MUCH MORE TOWARDS THE, I'M GOING line:85% position:50% size:80% TO SAY IT, THE INTELLECTUAL, THE line:85% position:33% size:70% MUSICAL ENERGY ABSTRABILITY, line:85% position:44% size:78% NEO-CLASSICAL, DIFFERENT WAY OF line:85% position:50% size:80% THINKING ABOUT BALLET, BALLANCHI line:85% position:11% size:8% NE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT'S WHAT I WAS DRAWN TOWARD.

line:85% position:44% size:78% HE LOVED BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, WOMEN line:85% position:50% size:80% WHO LOOKED LIKE MODELS, IN FACT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I NEVER FELT LIKE THAT BUT I DID line:85% position:40% size:75% HAVE A CERTAIN FIDZ EEK THAT-- line:85% position:31% size:68% PHYSIQUE THAT PEOPLE SAY HE line:85% position:29% size:65% WOULD HAVE LIKED, A LENDS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND IN TIME I THINK MY BEAUTY line:85% position:31% size:68% FOUND ITSELF IN THOSE WORKS line:85% position:14% size:28% QUITE WELL.

line:85% position:25% size:60% A LOT OF HIS BALLETS ARE line:85% position:27% size:63% CONSIDERED NEO-CLASSICAL, line:85% position:33% size:70% LEOTARD STRAVINSKY ABSTRACT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THOSE ARE THE THINGS I LOVED AND line:85% position:36% size:73% FIRST DID AS A COMPANY MEMBER line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I REMEMBER BEING TAUGHT ONE line:85% position:44% size:78% OF THOSE BALLETS AND HE LITERAL line:85% position:22% size:55% LY SAID TO ME, PRETEND line:85% position:29% size:65% YOU HAVE A TARANTULA TAIL.

line:85% position:31% size:68% SO A LOT OF THE BALLETS HAD line:85% position:36% size:73% ANIMALISTIC QUALITIES TO THEM line:85% position:40% size:75% AND I GOT IT AND THAT WAS PART line:85% position:50% size:80% OF MY MODERNNESS AND WHEN I WORK line:85% position:31% size:68% ED WITH JEROME ROBINS ABOUT line:85% position:36% size:73% AN INSECT COLONY AND I WAS IN line:85% position:33% size:70% HEAVEN I DID THAT AS A YOUNG line:85% position:12% size:18% DANCER.

line:85% position:31% size:68% THIS IS ME, THIS IS WHO I A line:85% position:82% size:5% M. line:85% position:44% size:78% >> SO THERE WASN'T A GULF SINCE line:85% position:21% size:53% YOUR EARLY AWARENESS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I LOVED THE ARABIAN DANCE IN THE line:85% position:14% size:28% NUTCRACKER.

line:85% position:17% size:43% IT WAS DIFFERENT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I DIDN'T LIKE THE SUGAR PLUMB line:85% position:13% size:25% FER FAIRY.

line:85% position:24% size:58% I DIDN'T RELATE TO HER.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SHE WASN'T A PERSON I CONNECTED line:85% position:17% size:43% WITH AS A DANCER.

line:85% position:17% size:40% OTHER PEOPLE DO.

line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT'S JUST WHO I WAS CALLED line:85% position:13% size:20% TOWARDS.

line:85% position:16% size:38% SO I'M CURIOUS.

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line:85% position:40% size:75% WHAT WAS IT ABOUT YOU THAT YOU line:85% position:18% size:45% WERE ABLE TO TAKE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> WHEN I WAS GOING THROUGH THE line:85% position:31% size:68% SCOLIOSES, CURVATURE OF THE line:85% position:44% size:78% SPINE, FEELING MOO I BODY TRANS line:85% position:31% size:68% FORM AND SHIFT FROM AN S TO line:85% position:36% size:73% A LIGHTER S, FEELING HOW THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% WENT THROUGH MY WHOLE BODY AND line:85% position:44% size:78% THE DIFFERENCE THAT LITTLE INCH line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT I GREW MADE TO THE REST OF line:85% position:44% size:78% MOO I BODY, I LEARNED THAT WHEN line:85% position:33% size:70% I WAS 13 YEARS OLD, AND SO I line:85% position:36% size:73% KNEW THAT THIS MUCH CAN EQUAL line:85% position:27% size:63% THIS MUCH SO I REALLY WAS line:85% position:25% size:60% ABSOLUTELY...

I JUST WAS line:85% position:31% size:68% CAPTIVATED WITH THE IDEA OF line:85% position:40% size:75% CHANGING MY BODY AND WHAT THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% WOULD DO FOR ME PHYSICALLY AND line:85% position:15% size:33% ARTISTICALLY.

line:85% position:29% size:65% I WAS ALWAYS AN ENERGETIC, line:85% position:15% size:35% STRONG PERSON.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I HAD A GOOD MUSCULAR NEWS CLA line:85% position:11% size:13% TOUR.

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line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT THEN IN MY LATE 40S, MY BODY line:85% position:44% size:78% REALLY STARTED TO BREAK, BREAK, line:85% position:17% size:40% IT REALLY BROKE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% MY HIP, MY SPINE WAS DEVELOPING line:85% position:36% size:73% QUITE A BIT OF ARTHRITIS, YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% KNOW, AFTER 30 YEARS OF DOING line:85% position:36% size:73% THESE BALLETS, IT JUST WREAKS line:85% position:15% size:33% HAVOC ON YOU.

line:85% position:31% size:68% YOU GIVE YOURSELF TO IT, IT line:85% position:36% size:73% TAKES IT FROM YOU AND YOU ARE line:85% position:31% size:68% LEFT WITH WHAT DO I DO NOW?

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line:85% position:50% size:80% THIS IS THE TITLE OF A FILM THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% WAS RELEASED JUST A COUPLE OF line:85% position:31% size:68% WEEKS AGO THE NEW YORK FILM line:85% position:29% size:65% FESTIVAL, OUR PREMIER FILM line:85% position:31% size:68% FESTIVAL IS CALLED RESTLESS line:85% position:40% size:75% CREATURE ABOUT WENDY WAY LAN'S line:85% position:50% size:80% DANCE CAREER AND TRANSITION INTO line:85% position:21% size:53% A NEW PHASE OF DANCE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET THAT FILM line:85% position:44% size:78% SOON IT IS AMAZING YOU LET FILM line:85% position:36% size:73% MAKERS INTO YOUR LIFE BECAUSE line:85% position:40% size:75% IT'S A DOCUMENTARY THAT TRACES line:85% position:36% size:73% WENDY'S COURSE THROUGH THIS A line:85% position:40% size:75% MAZING TIME IN HER DEVELOPMENT line:85% position:20% size:50% AS AN ARTIST REALLY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT I'M WONDERING HOW...

THIS IS line:85% position:31% size:68% A BOLD CAREER MOVE, AND I'M line:85% position:40% size:75% WONDERING WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE line:85% position:29% size:65% TO TAKE THIS STEP, HOW YOU line:85% position:27% size:63% CONCEPTUALIZED IT, WAS IT line:85% position:36% size:73% SOMETHING YOU HAD MODELS FOR?

line:85% position:33% size:70% MOST PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THE line:85% position:44% size:78% LONG CAREER YOU'VE HAD WOULD GO line:85% position:40% size:75% INTO TEACHING OR SOMETHING NOT line:85% position:33% size:70% AS ENERGETIC PERHAPS, NOT AS line:85% position:18% size:45% DIRECTLY CREATIVE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WAS THIS SOMETHING YOU ALWAYS line:85% position:14% size:28% DREAMED OF.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WHAT HAS MADE YOU AS AN ARTIST line:85% position:33% size:70% DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU WERE line:85% position:12% size:18% BEFORE?

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> I DID WANT DO SOMETHING LIKE line:85% position:40% size:75% THIS WHEN I LEFT NEW YORK CITY line:85% position:12% size:18% BALLET.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I WASN'T THINKING ABOUT LEAVING line:85% position:50% size:80% NEW YORK CITY BALLET WHEN I CAME line:85% position:44% size:78% UP WITH IT BUT WHAT REALLY PUSH line:85% position:33% size:70% ED ME TO DO IT WAS I HAD HAD line:85% position:36% size:73% A MEETING WITH MY BOSS AND HE line:85% position:31% size:68% THOUGHT MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE line:85% position:36% size:73% MYSELF OUT OF A BALLET OR TWO line:85% position:50% size:80% BECAUSE I WAS 46 AT THE TIME AND line:85% position:31% size:68% , BALLET IS A YOUNG CAREER.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IT BROKE MY HEART TO HEAR THIS line:85% position:36% size:73% AND I WAS FEELING THE THOUGHT line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT THAT I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO line:85% position:15% size:33% STOP DANCING.

line:85% position:40% size:75% HOW COULD I EVER STOP DANCING?

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND IT JUST LITERALLY, I REFOCUS line:85% position:27% size:63% ED MY LENS AND I WAS LIKE line:85% position:29% size:65% , WELL YOU ARE GOING TO DO line:85% position:44% size:78% THIS AND YOU ARE GOING TO DANCE line:85% position:14% size:30% DIFFERENTLY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT ON line:85% position:36% size:73% YOUR OWN TERMS AND YOU ARE GO line:85% position:40% size:75% FOR EXAMPLE TO DO IT UNTIL YOU line:85% position:18% size:45% ARE READY TO STOP.

line:85% position:27% size:63% YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE line:85% position:31% size:68% SOMEBODY TELL YOU MAYBE YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% DON'T, YOU SHOULDN'T DO THIS line:85% position:13% size:20% ANYMORE.

line:85% position:14% size:30% IN THIS WAY.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT'S THE MOVIE YOU ARE GOING line:85% position:40% size:75% TO SEE NEXT YEAR WHEN IT COMES line:85% position:40% size:75% HERE AND I LITERALLY, OVER ONE line:85% position:50% size:80% NIGHT AFTER THE MEETING HAPPENED line:85% position:20% size:50% , I CRIED ALL NIGHT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I PERFORMED THE NEXT NIGHT IN A line:85% position:36% size:73% PIECE AND IN THAT PIECE THERE line:85% position:22% size:55% WAS A PIECE CREATED BY line:85% position:44% size:78% CHRISTOPHER ON ME AND I PERFORM line:85% position:17% size:43% ED THAT PIECE AND line:85% position:27% size:63% ACTUALLY LITERALLY IN THE line:85% position:50% size:80% PERFORMANCE I SAW PICTURES IN MY line:85% position:11% size:13% HEAD.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IT WAS LIKE A POEM THAT WAS IN line:85% position:44% size:78% MY IMAGINATION AS I WAS DANCING line:85% position:36% size:73% AND BASICALLY I SAW A HOLE IN line:85% position:36% size:73% THE GROUND WHILE I'M DANCING, line:85% position:40% size:75% I'M PICTURING THIS WHOLE THING line:85% position:40% size:75% UNFOLD, A HOLE AND IT WAS LIKE line:85% position:44% size:78% SOMEBODY WAS DIGGING THIS HOLE.

line:85% position:29% size:65% OBVIOUSLY I'M GOING TO DIE line:85% position:36% size:73% BECAUSE ICE OVER MY CAREER IS line:85% position:11% size:13% DONE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT BY THE END OF THE DUET I HAD line:85% position:50% size:80% IMAGINED THE BASE OF A BUILDING.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I THOUGHT YOU HAVE TO DIG DOWN line:85% position:13% size:23% TO GO UP.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THE NEXT DAY I CALLED THE AGENT line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I SAID I'M GOING TO DO THIS line:85% position:13% size:20% PROJECT.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> WOW.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> SO IT CAME TO ME IN A DANCE.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT line:85% position:27% size:63% SENSESSALITY-- SENSALITY.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> CAN I HAVE SOME WATER?

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:50% size:80% >> ALL OF YOUR CAREER, BUT LET'S line:85% position:29% size:65% JUST SAY RESTLESS CREATURE line:85% position:33% size:70% BROUGHT TO STAGE A SERIES OF line:85% position:25% size:60% DUETS PERFORMED WITH THE line:85% position:40% size:75% CHOREOGRAPHY BY YOU THAT THESE line:85% position:50% size:80% ARE PIECES THAT YOU COLLABORATED line:85% position:11% size:8% ON.

line:85% position:13% size:25% WHY DUETS?

line:85% position:36% size:73% I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE line:85% position:29% size:65% ELEMENT OF TOUCH IN DANCE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IS THIS SOMETHING THAT IS A PART line:85% position:36% size:73% OF WHAT YOU THINK DREW YOU TO line:85% position:12% size:15% DANCE?

line:85% position:25% size:60% IS IT A CRAVING OR IS IT line:85% position:44% size:78% SOMETHING THAT HAS EVOLVED OVER line:85% position:11% size:13% TIME?

line:85% position:50% size:80% THIS IS VERY TOUCHY STUFF, RIGHT line:85% position:36% size:73% THIS IS NOT LIKE OUT THERE ON line:85% position:22% size:55% YOUR OWN DOING A SOLO.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THIS IS REALLY PHYSICALLY INTER line:85% position:16% size:38% ACTIVE CONTACT.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% REFLECT ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF line:85% position:15% size:35% DANCE FOR YOU.

line:85% position:15% size:33% THEN AND NOW.

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line:85% position:50% size:80% IT WAS THIS RELATIONSHIP, IT WAS line:85% position:21% size:53% A VERY INTIMATE TIME.

line:85% position:33% size:70% WE JUST CONNECTED, YOU KNOW.

line:85% position:31% size:68% LIKE LOVERS, YOU KNOW, IN A line:85% position:13% size:25% WEIRD WAY.

line:85% position:27% size:63% AND I LOVED THAT SPARK OF line:85% position:25% size:60% CREATIVITY AND JUST COME line:85% position:50% size:80% TOGETHER IN THE ROOM YOU SPEND A line:85% position:33% size:70% COUPLE OF HOURS AND YOU HAVE line:85% position:36% size:73% THIS BEAUTIFUL THING THAT YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% HAVE TOGETHER, LIKE MAKING A line:85% position:11% size:13% BABY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE BABIES, line:85% position:13% size:23% YOU KNOW?

line:85% position:33% size:70% I DON'T HAVE BAY ABOUT IS IN line:85% position:50% size:80% REAL LIFE BUT I DO IN THE WORK I line:85% position:44% size:78% MAKE WITH A CHOREOGRAPHER AND I line:85% position:40% size:75% JUST WANTED TO...

I REALIZED I line:85% position:29% size:65% WAS GOOD AT MAKING BABIES.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO MAKE MORE line:85% position:40% size:75% AND HAVE THESE REALLY INTIMATE line:85% position:44% size:78% CONNECTIONS WITH CHOREOGRAPHERS line:85% position:50% size:80% AND RESTLESS CREATURES THAT WERE line:85% position:33% size:70% GOING TO BE REALLY DIFFERENT line:85% position:25% size:60% THAN ME, REALLY TEACH ME line:85% position:50% size:80% SOMETHING AND I WOULD TEACH THEM line:85% position:13% size:25% SOMETHING.

line:85% position:36% size:73% IT WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT MORE line:85% position:12% size:15% SPARK.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> YOU EVEN TOLD ONE OF THEM I line:85% position:24% size:58% WANT TO BE TRANSFORMED.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I DON'T WANT TO BE RECOGNIZABLE line:85% position:50% size:80% AS WENDY WAYLAND WHEN WE PERFORM line:85% position:14% size:28% THIS PIECE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SO I GUESS THAT BRINGS ME TO A line:85% position:44% size:78% REAL, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE SO MUCH line:85% position:50% size:80% YOUR OWN PERSON, YOUR OWN WOMAN, line:85% position:50% size:80% CLEARLY AS WELL, YOU ARE GETTING line:85% position:40% size:75% THE TO CALL A LOT OF SHOTS NOW line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT YOU DIDN'T ALWAYS GET TO line:85% position:50% size:80% CALL WHEN YOU WERE IN A COMPANY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE MODEL OF line:85% position:44% size:78% A BUSINESS OF A CAREER THAT YOU line:85% position:31% size:68% ARE CRAFTING, IT FEELS VERY line:85% position:40% size:75% CONSCIOUSLY AND IS THIS... ARE line:85% position:33% size:70% YOU HAVING TO FIGURE OUT THE line:85% position:13% size:25% FINANCING?

line:85% position:44% size:78% ARE YOU, DO YOU HAVE A BUSINESS line:85% position:13% size:20% PARTNER?

line:85% position:33% size:70% CAN YOU JUST GIVE US A THUMB line:85% position:44% size:78% NAIL ABOUT THAT OR A STORY THAT line:85% position:15% size:35% MIGHT TELL IT?

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> I AM REALLY INTERESTED IN line:85% position:40% size:75% WHAT BA RISH NA COULD HAVE DID line:85% position:50% size:80% AFTER HIS BALLET DAYS BARYSHNIKD line:85% position:44% size:78% HE DOES WHAT HIS HEART WANTS TO line:85% position:11% size:8% DO.

line:85% position:29% size:65% AND GOES WITH THAT AND I'M line:85% position:44% size:78% TRYING TO DO THAT AS WELL IN MY line:85% position:36% size:73% OWN WAY AND SO YEAH, I HAD TO line:85% position:44% size:78% FIND FINANCING TO MAKE RESTLESS line:85% position:13% size:23% CREATURE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I FUNDRAISED AND I FUNDRAISED line:85% position:44% size:78% FOR ANOTHER PROJECT OF MINE AND line:85% position:31% size:68% I FINANCED BOTH PROJECTS BY line:85% position:36% size:73% MYSELF I HAVE A MANAGER AGENT line:85% position:33% size:70% WHO HELPS ME KNOW HOW MUCH I line:85% position:25% size:60% NEED TO MAKE AND HE PUTS line:85% position:50% size:80% TOGETHER THE PIECES WITH PRESENT line:85% position:27% size:63% ERS, AND FINDING OUT, YOU line:85% position:25% size:60% KNOW, HOW THIS CAN TOUR.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T WORK.

line:85% position:44% size:78% WHAT THE PRESENTERS WANT FROM A line:85% position:13% size:20% PROJECT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% YES, SO I HAVE A TEAM AND THE line:85% position:33% size:70% TEAM IS GETTING STRONGER AND line:85% position:50% size:80% TIGHTER, AND WE KNOW EACH OTHER.

line:85% position:18% size:45% THEY CALL ME BOSS.

line:85% position:14% size:30% I LIKE THAT.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:44% size:78% EVEN THOUGH I DON'T REALLY FEEL line:85% position:44% size:78% LIKE THE BOSS AND I HAVE TO SAY line:85% position:40% size:75% MY HUSBAND IS VERY MUCH A PART line:85% position:15% size:33% OF WHAT I DO.

line:85% position:36% size:73% HE IS REALLY LIKE MY SOUNDING line:85% position:12% size:15% BOARD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% HE HELPS ME DECIDE WHAT IS A line:85% position:31% size:68% GOOD IDEA AND WHAT IS NOT A line:85% position:44% size:78% GREAT IDEA AND SO I TRUST HIM A line:85% position:11% size:10% LOT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WE'VE DONE A PROJECT TOGETHER line:85% position:31% size:68% AND HE IS A CREATIVE VISUAL line:85% position:36% size:73% ARTIST WITH A LONG CAREER AND line:85% position:24% size:58% VERY SUCCESSFUL CAREER.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> IT HELPS TO HAVE SOMEONE line:85% position:17% size:40% IN-HOUSE, RIGHT?

line:85% position:14% size:28% >> IT DOES.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> WELL, I THINK I NEED TO START line:85% position:33% size:70% WINDING UP, WHICH SEEMS LIKE line:85% position:29% size:65% THIS HAS GONE REALLY FAST, line:85% position:17% size:40% BALANCE AN CHEEN line:85% position:50% size:80% BALLANCHINE WHO FOUNDED NEW YORK line:85% position:15% size:33% CITY BALLET.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> HE USED TO WEAR A BOY SCOUT line:85% position:13% size:20% UNIFORM.

line:85% position:13% size:25% >> DID HE?

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> OH MY GOSH, YOU MET HIM.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> WOW.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SO HE SAID DON'T SHOW ME YOUR line:85% position:11% size:13% SOUL.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I WANT TO SEE YOUR FOOT WHICH line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU HAVE BEEN VERY NICE TO SHOW line:85% position:40% size:75% US FOR FOOT BUT I ALSO CAN SAY line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU ARE SO GOOD AT SHOWING YOUR line:85% position:11% size:13% SOUL.

line:85% position:25% size:60% AND I KNOW WE ARE REALLY line:85% position:18% size:45% GRATEFUL FOR THAT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I WONDER IF THERE IS ONE LIKE line:85% position:50% size:80% JESTER OR FACE OR SOMETHING THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHOW US THAT line:85% position:31% size:68% ...

I DON'T WANT TO YOU GET line:85% position:36% size:73% UP AND DANCE, NO NEED DO THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU COULD SHOW US THAT WOULD EN line:85% position:31% size:68% CAPSULE SOMETHING ABOUT YOU line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT WE MAY NOT SEE AT FIRST line:85% position:12% size:18% GLANCE.

line:85% position:19% size:48% >> ABOUT... A MOVE?

line:85% position:25% size:60% >> YES, A MOVEMENT OR... line:85% position:17% size:40% >> I DON'T KNOW.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH HAVING line:85% position:36% size:73% SHOWN YOUR BEAUTIFUL LEGS AND line:85% position:17% size:40% FEET WHICH WE... line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:36% size:73% BUT I ALSO WONDER IF YOU WERE line:85% position:29% size:65% ALWAYS CONSCIOUS THAT YOUR line:85% position:44% size:78% SENATE MINORITY LEADER WAS LIKE line:85% position:33% size:70% -- WHAT YOUR SPIRIT WAS LIKE line:85% position:44% size:78% I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ALWAYS line:85% position:36% size:73% BEEN LIKE THIS AS A CHILD BUT line:85% position:40% size:75% YOUR FRIENDLINESS AND KINDNESS line:85% position:33% size:70% WERE APPARENT, THEY WERE THE line:85% position:50% size:80% MINUTE I PICKED UP THE PHONE AND line:85% position:50% size:80% SPOKE TO YOU FIRST AND YOUR GOOD line:85% position:50% size:80% FRIEND IN RESTLESS SPIRIT CALLED line:85% position:44% size:78% OUT THESE QUALITIES AND HE SAID line:85% position:44% size:78% YOU CHANGED THE CULTURE AT CITY line:85% position:12% size:18% BALLET.

line:85% position:36% size:73% BEFORE YOU, DANCERS WERE LIKE line:85% position:21% size:53% GET OUT OF MOO I WAY.

line:85% position:31% size:68% -- GET OUT OF MY WAY AND IT line:85% position:50% size:80% SOUNDS LIKE THE ABSOLUTE BEST OF line:85% position:36% size:73% YOUR HOMETOWN, AND I THINK WE line:85% position:24% size:58% HERE IN KENTUCKY AND IN line:85% position:31% size:68% LOUISVILLE ARE PROUD OF OUR line:85% position:36% size:73% WARMTH AND OUR WELCOMING, YOU line:85% position:44% size:78% KNOW, OUR GOOD MANNERS, MOST OF line:85% position:50% size:80% THE TIME, OUR COMPASSIONATE CITY line:85% position:33% size:70% , BUT REALLY THE HOSPITALITY line:85% position:50% size:80% AND WARMTH THAT WE LIKE, WE LOVE line:85% position:17% size:40% ABOUT OURSELVES.

line:85% position:33% size:70% IT FEELS LIKE IT IS EXTENDED line:85% position:40% size:75% COMPLETELY THROUGH YOU, TO THE line:85% position:16% size:38% WORLD OF DANCE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT'S THE WAY IT FEELS TO ME line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR line:85% position:29% size:65% SO GLORIOUSLY REPRESENTING line:85% position:22% size:55% KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:14% size:30% >> THANK YOU line:85% position:41% size:3% line:85% position:44% size:78% >> SO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND WE NOW GET TO HEAR FROM YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% GUYS AND WHAT QUESTIONS YOU HAVE line:85% position:40% size:75% FOR WENDY AND I THINK SOMEBODY line:85% position:25% size:60% HAS SOME QUESTION CARDS.

line:85% position:20% size:50% THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND WE'LL GO THROUGH AS MANY OF line:85% position:17% size:40% THESE AS WE CAN.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I THINK WE ARE GOING GET SOME line:85% position:40% size:75% LIGHT SO WE CAN SEE YOU AS YOU line:85% position:13% size:25% SEEING US.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO THIS QUESTION IS FROM EMILY S line:85% position:33% size:70% TROBLE HOW DO YOU BRANCH OUT line:85% position:40% size:75% INTO THE BIG INDUSTRIES IN THE line:85% position:33% size:70% ARTS FROM A SUPPOSEDLY SMALL line:85% position:21% size:53% CITY LIKE LOUISVILLE?

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> WELL, THERE IS SO MUCH ART line:85% position:50% size:80% HERE IN LOUISVILLE, SO MUCH ART.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I MEAN WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I WAS line:85% position:50% size:80% TAKEN TO THE CHILDREN'S THEATER, line:85% position:31% size:68% WHICH I THINK PERFORMS HERE line:85% position:24% size:58% MAYBE NOW A LITTLE BIT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I WENT TO THE JUNIOR ART GALLERY line:85% position:36% size:73% EVERY SUMMER, BALLET, I THINK line:85% position:21% size:53% YOU STUDY YOUR CRAFT.

line:85% position:29% size:65% YOU MAKE FRIENDS, YOU MEET line:85% position:13% size:20% FRIENDS.

line:85% position:18% size:45% THEY HAVE FRIENDS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE ALL COME TOGETHER IN THE ARTS line:85% position:19% size:48% AND IT'S VERY EASY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IT'S, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT line:85% position:40% size:75% CAN BE A VERY SMALL WORLD, THE line:85% position:50% size:80% WORLD OF THE ARTS, AND YEAH, YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% STAY OPEN AND IT COMES TO YOU SO line:85% position:11% size:8% ... line:85% position:13% size:23% >> GREAT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO ANOTHER QUESTION FROM JIM, IF line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU HADN'T DANCED, WHAT WAS YOUR line:85% position:12% size:18% PLAN B?

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> OOOH.

line:85% position:15% size:33% PLAN B, WHOA.

line:85% position:14% size:28% BASKETBALL?

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:36% size:73% >> WELL GOOD KENTUCKY ANSWER.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> LET'S JUST SAY WHEN I WAS line:85% position:29% size:65% YOUNG, AND I HADN'T REALLY line:85% position:50% size:80% CHOSEN BALLET, I WASN'T TO BE AN line:85% position:31% size:68% AT LEAST OR AN ARTIST, SO I line:85% position:40% size:75% PROBABLY WOULD HAVE FOCUSED ON line:85% position:17% size:43% MY ART, ACTUALLY.

line:85% position:15% size:33% >> EXCELLENT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WELL YOU DEFINITELY BECAME AN line:85% position:12% size:18% ARTIST.

line:85% position:25% size:60% I THINK THAT WORKED OUT.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> YEAH, BOTH.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> A FORMER CLASSMATE OF YOURS, line:85% position:44% size:78% LEANNE, ASKS HOW MANY HOURS PER line:85% position:44% size:78% DAY DID YOU DANCE WHEN YOU WERE line:85% position:14% size:30% A PRINCIPAL?

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> AT MY HIGHEST WORK PERIOD, I line:85% position:36% size:73% WAS MOSTLY LEARNING WORKS AND line:85% position:40% size:75% PERFORMING THEM SO IT WAS SOLO line:85% position:19% size:48% IST PRINCIPAL TIME.

line:85% position:33% size:70% 10:30 UNTIL 11, 10:30 IN THE line:85% position:50% size:80% MORNING UNTIL 11:00 EVERY NIGHT, line:85% position:31% size:68% EVERY DAY, SIX DAYS A WEEK.

line:85% position:11% size:13% YEAH.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> COLLECTIVE GASP, RIGHT?

line:85% position:44% size:78% I GUESS YOU JUST SLEPT THE REST line:85% position:14% size:30% OF THE TIME?

line:85% position:33% size:70% IT WAS HARD TO GET UP IN THE line:85% position:25% size:60% MORNING, LET'S SAY THAT.

line:85% position:29% size:65% I WAS LATE FOR CLASS EVERY line:85% position:13% size:20% MORNING.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> HERE'S A QUESTION FROM THIS line:85% position:12% size:15% WENDY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IF YOU HAD A BAD CLASS OR A BAD line:85% position:50% size:80% DAY, HOW DO YOU MAKE IT A BETTER line:85% position:27% size:63% DAY AND KEEP LEARNING AND line:85% position:13% size:25% IMPROVING?

line:85% position:18% size:45% >> GREAT QUESTION.

line:85% position:21% size:53% I OFTEN HAD BAD DAYS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I STILL DO, BUT THE THING I line:85% position:36% size:73% LEARNED EARLY ON, AND I DON'T line:85% position:44% size:78% KNOW IF MY MOM OR DAD TAUGHT ME line:85% position:50% size:80% THIS OR A FRIEND, BUT I GOT THIS line:85% position:50% size:80% SORT OF MOTTO AS A YOUNG DANCER, line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT TO CALM MY NERVES, WAS LIKE line:85% position:31% size:68% , WELL, YOU ARE NEVER GOING line:85% position:40% size:75% TO LOSE BECAUSE YOU ARE ALWAYS line:85% position:33% size:70% GOING TO LEARN SOMETHING, SO line:85% position:22% size:55% LOOK FOR THE LESSON IN line:85% position:33% size:70% EVERYTHING I DID AND I WOULD line:85% position:40% size:75% TAKE THAT AND BE LIKE, YEAH, I line:85% position:50% size:80% GOT A LESSON, EVEN IF IT WAS BAD line:85% position:36% size:73% , I TOOK THE LESSON AND I WAS line:85% position:22% size:55% LIKE, I GOT SOMETHING.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SO AND EVEN IF IT'S THE LESSON line:85% position:50% size:80% OF DEALING WITH A BAD CLASS, YOU line:85% position:24% size:58% KNOW, LEARN, LET IT GO.

line:85% position:15% size:33% MOVE FORWARD.

line:85% position:20% size:50% MOVING FORWARD YEAH.

line:85% position:20% size:50% >> THAT'S WONDERFUL.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SO DAFFNEY LOUIS JONES FROM THE line:85% position:40% size:75% LOUISVILLE BALLET SCHOOL ASKS, line:85% position:40% size:75% MISS WENDY, WHAT IS YOUR DAILY line:85% position:40% size:75% ROUTINE NOW I GUESS AND HOW DO line:85% position:27% size:63% YOU KEEP YOUR BODY TONED?

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> HARDER NOW, I'LL TELL YOU line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I DO TAKE A CLASS EVERY DAY, line:85% position:12% size:15% STILL.

line:85% position:36% size:73% FROM 10:00 TO 11:30 OR 11:45. line:85% position:40% size:75% THEN I'LL EITHER REHEARSE WITH line:85% position:33% size:70% MY PROJECTS, THAT'S ALWAYS A line:85% position:27% size:63% DIFFERENT AMOUNT OF TIME, line:85% position:24% size:58% SOMETIMES IT'S AN HOUR, line:85% position:27% size:63% SOMETIMES IT'S SIX HOURS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% OCH I'LL TEACH AS WELL, SO I'LL line:85% position:36% size:73% TEACH FOR AN HOUR OR TWO, YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% KNOW, ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK, JUST line:85% position:29% size:65% DEPENDS ON WHAT I'M DOING.

line:85% position:36% size:73% IT'S A LOT LESS PHYSICAL WHAT line:85% position:29% size:65% I'M DOING NOW, BUT IT GOES line:85% position:24% size:58% THROUGH EBBS AND FLOWS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IT COMES AND THEN I HAVE A REST.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SO IT'S A LOT LESS THAN IT WAS, line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT I TRY TO STAY FOCUSED ON THE line:85% position:40% size:75% DIFFERENT THINGS I'M DOING AND line:85% position:13% size:23% TEACHING.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> SO YOU ARE AT THE GYM ALL line:85% position:13% size:20% MORNING?

line:85% position:12% size:15% >> NO.

line:85% position:13% size:20% >> GOOD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> BUT I DO G DWR ROTONNICS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT HELPS MY BACK AND BODY A LOT line:85% position:17% size:40% AND I LOVE THAT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> YOU WILL SEE HAVE TO SHOW ME line:85% position:14% size:28% THAT LATER.

line:85% position:16% size:38% >> GYRO TONICS.

line:85% position:27% size:63% I CAN'T DO IT IN A DRESS.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> ANOTHER QUESTION FROM A line:85% position:13% size:20% STUDENT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START DANC line:85% position:13% size:25% ING FIRST?

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> WELL, IT WAS BEFORE I COULD line:85% position:36% size:73% DECIDE SO MY ENERGY, I GUESS.

line:85% position:14% size:30% INSPIRED ME.

line:85% position:21% size:53% >> COULDN'T STOP HER.

line:85% position:13% size:23% RESTLESS.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> YES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> REBECCA ASKED WHICH IS MORE line:85% position:17% size:40% MENTALLY TAXING?

line:85% position:24% size:58% BALLET OR MODERN DANCE?

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> OH WELL, THAT'S A GREAT line:85% position:17% size:43% QUESTION AS WELL.

line:85% position:20% size:50% BOTH VERY DIFFERENT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IN VERY DIFFERENT WAYS, SO FOR line:85% position:33% size:70% ME, WHAT IS TAXING ABOUT THE line:85% position:36% size:73% CONTEMPORARY WORK NOW IS THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% THERE IS NOT A LOT OF NAMES FOR line:85% position:12% size:18% THINGS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO SIGHTS LIKE, YOU CAN'T SAY AN line:85% position:14% size:28% AEROBESQUE.

line:85% position:20% size:50% IT'S JUST THIS MOVE.

line:85% position:25% size:60% I DID A REASONSY HEREIN' line:85% position:40% size:75% RESIDENCY HERE LAST MAY ON THE line:85% position:40% size:75% PROJECT THAT WILL BE HERE NEXT line:85% position:40% size:75% MARCH CALLED SUM OF A THOUSAND line:85% position:31% size:68% SAND WORDS AND A LOT OF THE line:85% position:33% size:70% MOVEMENT WAS GENERATED RIGHT line:85% position:40% size:75% HERE IN THIS BUILDING FOR WHAT line:85% position:36% size:73% BECAME OUR HOUR LONG PROGRAM, line:85% position:33% size:70% AND WE HAVE NAMES IN IT LIKE line:85% position:14% size:28% LOUISVILLE.

line:85% position:25% size:60% WE HAVE A SECTION CALLED line:85% position:14% size:28% LOUISVILLE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% WE HAVE A SECTION CALLED NEW line:85% position:11% size:13% YORK.

line:85% position:31% size:68% WE HAVE ALL KINDS OF NAMES.

line:85% position:27% size:63% WE MAKE UP OUR OWN NAMES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT THAT HELPS ME REMEMBER THE line:85% position:44% size:78% SEQUENCES WHICH WERE VERY, VERY line:85% position:36% size:73% HARD TO LEARN AND A FRIEND OF line:85% position:40% size:75% MINE, LEANNE IN THE FRONT ROW, line:85% position:44% size:78% AND HER KIDS WERE AT ONE OF THE line:85% position:29% size:65% REHEARSALS WATCH MING JUST line:85% position:29% size:65% REALLY TRY TO GRAP WL THIS line:85% position:33% size:70% REALLY STRANGE AND DIFFICULT line:85% position:44% size:78% CHOREOGRAPHY, AND I GOT IT NOW.

line:85% position:36% size:73% BUT IT TOOK A WHILE BUT I DID line:85% position:12% size:18% GET IT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> WE NEED TO COME BACK AND SEE line:85% position:22% size:55% YOU DO THE LOUISVILLE.

line:85% position:15% size:35% >> NEXT MARCH.

line:85% position:14% size:28% THE BRO UN.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> MAYBE IT WILL TURN INTO A line:85% position:25% size:60% RAGE LIKE THE DHARLSTON.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> THE-- THE LOUISVILLE STEP, line:85% position:18% size:45% YOU MIGHT LOVE IT.

line:85% position:15% size:33% I DON'T KNOW.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> AMELIA ASKED WHAT DO YOU DO line:85% position:36% size:73% TO PREPARE FOR A PERFORMANCE?

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> I LIKE TO HAVE QUIET TIME line:85% position:17% size:43% BEFORE I PERFORM.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I'LL PUT MY MAKEUP ON AND GET line:85% position:40% size:75% ORGANIZED AND I DO A NICE LONG line:85% position:50% size:80% WARM YAWP, TRY TO GIVE MYSELF AN line:85% position:44% size:78% HOUR TO WARM UP I DON'T HAVE TO line:85% position:50% size:80% DO AS DRAMATIC BALLET AND MAKEUP line:85% position:50% size:80% NOW SO I GIVE MYSELF A GOOD HOUR line:85% position:36% size:73% AND A HALF BEFORE THE SHOW TO line:85% position:50% size:80% GET FOCUSED IN AND, YEAH, THAT'S line:85% position:14% size:28% KIND OF IT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> PAM GREENWELL ASKS GIVEN ALL line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED, WHAT line:85% position:24% size:58% IS YOUR NEXT CHALLENGE?

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> EVERY SINGLE THING I'M DOING line:85% position:27% size:63% RIGHT NOW IS A CHALLENGE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% EACH PROJECT THAT I PUT TOGETHER line:85% position:44% size:78% EACH CLASS THAT I TEACH BECAUSE line:85% position:44% size:78% I'M NOT...

I DON'T TEACH A LOT, line:85% position:44% size:78% LOT, LOT SO EVERY TIME I TEACH, line:85% position:44% size:78% I GET A LITTLE NERVOUS BUT THEN line:85% position:44% size:78% I GET INTO IT AND IT'S FUN, BUT line:85% position:40% size:75% EVERYTHING IS NEW I'M GOING TO line:85% position:24% size:58% SET A BALLET THEX YEAR.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I'VE NEVER SET A BALLET CALLED line:85% position:33% size:70% PICTURES IN AN EXHIBITION IN line:85% position:17% size:43% SEATTLE NEXT MAY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THERE IS A PIECE, THE LAST PIECE line:85% position:44% size:78% HE MADE ON ME, TWO WEEKS BEFORE line:85% position:50% size:80% I RETIRED AND HE ASKED ME TO SET line:85% position:36% size:73% IT AND AND I'M GOING TO DO MY line:85% position:11% size:13% BEST.

line:85% position:12% size:18% >> WOW.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> THAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT YEAR.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SO I'M GOING TO START VERY SOON line:85% position:36% size:73% GETTING THAT THE IN MY BRAIN.

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> ONE OF THE DRAMATIC CHANGES line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU'VE MADE IN THIS NEW PHASE OF line:85% position:29% size:65% YOUR CAREER IS THAT YOU GO line:85% position:50% size:80% BAREFOOT ON STAGE AND THAT'S NOT line:85% position:31% size:68% A REFERENCE FROM BEING FROM line:85% position:13% size:23% KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:27% size:63% THAT WAS A CHOICE, RIGHT?

line:85% position:15% size:33% >> MY CHOICE.

line:85% position:11% size:10% YES.

line:85% position:18% size:45% >> AND NOT ALWAYS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I KNOW SOMETIMES YOU WEAR SOME line:85% position:12% size:15% SHOES.

line:85% position:13% size:23% >> SOCKS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> BUT THERE IS A QUESTION FROM line:85% position:22% size:55% A DANCE STUDENT, ELLA.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WRAPPED OF line:85% position:14% size:30% POINT SHOES?

line:85% position:31% size:68% >> WELL, WITH NEW YORK CITY line:85% position:33% size:70% BALLET, WE MOSTLY WEAR FREED line:85% position:14% size:30% POINT SHOES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT'S KIND OF THE SHOE OF THE line:85% position:21% size:53% NEW YORK CITY BALLET.

line:85% position:17% size:40% FREED OF LONDON.

line:85% position:27% size:63% >> SO JUST A COUPLE MORE.

line:85% position:27% size:63% THIS ONE HAS A LOT ON IT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IS THIS IS A DANCE TEACHER AND line:85% position:31% size:68% CHOREOGRAPHER AND PERFORMER line:85% position:33% size:70% RACHAEL, WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS line:85% position:25% size:60% WITH WORKING WITH FUTURE line:85% position:33% size:70% CHOREOGRAPHERS AS TO HOW YOU line:85% position:50% size:80% WANT YOUR DANCE WORKS TO INSPIRE line:85% position:44% size:78% AND HELP COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE line:85% position:18% size:45% USA AND THE GLOBE?

line:85% position:11% size:8% SZ.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> YOU KNOW THAT'S A GREAT line:85% position:13% size:23% QUESTION.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I'M REALLY SELFISH SO I'M REALLY line:85% position:40% size:75% DOING IT RIGHT NOW FOR MYSELF.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I'M NOT THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW line:85% position:29% size:65% , ABOUT MAKING A POLITICAL line:85% position:50% size:80% STATEMENT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I HOPE THAT WHAT I'M DOING IN line:85% position:50% size:80% CHOOSING WHO I WANT TO WORK WITH line:85% position:18% size:45% , WILL EXPRESS OUR line:85% position:44% size:78% DIFFERENCES COMING TOGETHER AND line:85% position:44% size:78% WHAT OUR DIFFERENCES... BECAUSE line:85% position:50% size:80% I'M ALWAYS CHOOSING SOMEONE VERY line:85% position:36% size:73% DIFFERENT FROM MYSELF TO WORK line:85% position:44% size:78% WITH SO I'M HOPING THAT THAT IS line:85% position:25% size:60% AN EXPRESSION OF ITSELF.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I'M HOPING THAT YOUNGER DANCERS line:85% position:44% size:78% SEE THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE BEING line:85% position:33% size:70% PHYSICAL AND CREATIVE AND IN line:85% position:29% size:65% CHARMING OF YOUR OWN LIFE, line:85% position:33% size:70% ESPECIALLY AFTER A CAREER IN line:85% position:44% size:78% BALLET WHERE, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE line:85% position:40% size:75% TOLD WHAT TO DO FOR YOUR WHOLE line:85% position:17% size:43% LIFE PRETTY MUCH.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SO MAYBE THAT'S AN EXPRESSION.

line:85% position:33% size:70% BUT I'M REALLY JUST KIND OF, line:85% position:50% size:80% AGAIN, FOLLOWING MY HEART AND DO line:85% position:29% size:65% ING WHAT APPEALS TO ME AND line:85% position:29% size:65% WHAT I THINK WILL TEACH ME line:85% position:13% size:25% SOMETHING.

line:85% position:15% size:33% >> ALL RIGHT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WELL I THINK THAT DONE CLUEDS line:85% position:40% size:75% OUR-- CONCLUDES OUR QUESTIONS.

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