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Podcast: The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
Episode: Cancel Culture Comes For Ballet: Choreographer Lincoln Jones's Problematic Journey
Description: Lincoln Jones is the director of the American Contemporary Ballet Company in Los Angeles, which he co-founded in 2011. Lincoln took an unusual path to dance and has an approach to performance and stage production that is worth discussing in its own right. But he came across Meghan's radar because of his unlikely involvement in the new free speech debates. In this conversation, Lincoln explains how that happened (spoiler alert: he didn't want to perfunctorily post a black square on his company's website in the summer of 2020) and talks about how even the ballet world has been affected by the c...