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Bayard

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5. I was just thinking,

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 26, 2025, 01:31 AM

Aug 26

He needs to watch the movie, 'White Nights."

"The movie tells the story of a Soviet ballet dancer who has defected to America and an American tap dancer who has defected to the Soviet Union. The Russian is on a flight to Japan when the jet is forced to crash-land in Siberia, and so he is once again in the hands of the society he has rejected. The Soviets do not imprison him, however; they hope to score a propaganda victory by re-programming him to accept his Russian homeland once again. And one of the ways they hope to do this is to send him to live with the American dancer and his Russian-born wife."

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Kennedy Center's New Dance Director Criticized 'Woke' Ballet Culture and "radical leftist ideologies in ballet" [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 26 OP

more: It is unusual for someone without that kind of experience to ascend to a management position at such a high-profi BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 26 #1

Not in trump world it isn't! choie Aug 26 #7

This sounds increasingly like the Soviet Union DavidDvorkin Aug 26 #2

I was just thinking, Bayard Aug 26 #5

What the actual f@ck is "radical left woke ballet"? Ocelot II Aug 26 #3

Im sure there will be no more Dance Theater of Harlem bookings BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 26 #13

I guess it must mean Dancing While Black. Ocelot II Aug 26 #19

All pirouettes must be anti-clockwise, with the eyes wide open muriel_volestrangler Aug 26 #21

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Where do they dig up these assholes from? choie Aug 26 #6

I don't see many MAGA trooping all the way to D.C. for ballet of any sort. tanyev Aug 26 #8

IT'S EFFIN' ART ! ! ! no_hypocrisy Aug 26 #9

Just shut it down. spanone Aug 26 #10

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The Producers, w/o talent, as a reality show Solly Mack Aug 26 #12

Word on the street is "radical woke" is getting overplayed and losing its punch Torchlight Aug 26 #14

Woke is used so much by maga youtubers whi review movies BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 26 #20

Gene Gene the Dancing Machine... Johonny Aug 26 #15

I'm imagining "Swan Lake" performed in army boots. nt Buns_of_Fire Aug 26 #16

Woke? Ballet? Aristus Aug 26 #17

I think he faked maga to get the job.. in 2022 he un-stereotyped a ballet BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 26 #26

Guy appreciates Jeffrey Epstein, too. Kid Berwyn Aug 26 #18

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Trump is set to be the host of the Kennedy Center honors on Dec 7, 2025 Beringia Aug 26 #23

Is this generic racism (black ballet dancer perhaps) or something new? I have never heard of a ballet being "woke." Vinca Aug 26 #24

I guess my sis Won't be Watching it This Dec! .... electric_blue68 Aug 26 #25

How about get the red out Aug 26 #28

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