Ballet Dancer Wendy Whelan

Ballet Dancer Wendy Whelan

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Whelan danced for the New York City Ballet for three decades. The documentary ‘Restless Creature,’ available on Netflix, chronicles Whelan’s recovery from hip surgery and her final performance with the New York City Ballet in 2014. “It was terrifying to lose that mode of expression that I was so in touch with, that I so loved, that I so cultivated for my whole entire life,” she says. (Originally broadcast July 2017).

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