How native speakers pronounce “dancer”

(Laughter) Gillian and I had lunch one day. I said, "How did you get to be a dancer?" It was interesting.

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"Mrs. Lynne, Gillian isn't sick. She's a dancer. Take her to a dance school."

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He was the mayor of Sacramento. She won a Pulitzer Prize. He's a Russian ballet dancer." And I kind of grew up assuming

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It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different

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But, the tricky bit comes the next morning, for the dancer himself, when he wakes up and discovers that it's Tuesday at 11 a.m., and he's no longer a glimpse of God.

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at American Ballet Theater, I wasn't yet a principal dancer. I was still a soloist, 12 years into the company,

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and beauty into legacy. In 2015, I was promoted to principal dancer at American Ballet Theater, the first Black woman in the company’s then 75-year history.

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Then I met Arthur Hall, a preeminent dancer and choreographer, and he invited me to do a project

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