Hear the Dance returns with guest host Jared Angle in conversation with former NYCB Principal Dancer Kyra Nichols. Nichols shares how having a dancer mother (former Company Member Sally Streets) has influenced her career; what it was like enrolling at the School of American Ballet at age 11; and the ways in which what she learned as a performer shapes her current work as a Professor at Indiana University. Her words of wisdom for this spring's dancers in the lead Spring role she originated in Jerome Robbins' The Four Seasons? "Have fun." (45:22)

Written by Jared Angle Edited by Emilie Silvestri

Music: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major (1931) by Igor Stravinsky I Vespri Siciliani (Les vêpres siciliennes) (1855) by Giuseppe Verdi I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (1843) by Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi Symphony No. 1 in C major (1855) by Georges Bizet Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (1837) by Robert Schumann All music performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra