Inside the Dancer's Studio
63 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsInside the Dancer’s Studio is a podcast from NCCAkron that brings listeners into the process of creating dance. Through interviews with choreographers from across the United States, Inside the Dancer’s Studio dissolves the mystique of dance-making into engaging fun and deeply human conversation.
Inside the Dancer’s Studio is hosted by NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke, who poses a set series of questions about craft, process, and perseverance. This program is perfect for budding dancers, dance-makers, creatives, and anyone who has ever built something from scratch.
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Episodes
On The Edge Of Failure And Taking A Risk, Samantha Speis
June 18, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBIn this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with New York-based improviser and movement artist, Samantha Speis. Speis has worked with Gesel Mason, The Dance Exchange, Deborah Hay, is currently a member of The Skeleton Architecture collective of black womyn and gender non-conforming artists, and was recently awarded a Bessie for Outstanding Performer. She is also the Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women. urbanbushwomen.org/the-company
Creating In Relationship With Cultural Communities – Paloma McGregor
June 11, 2021 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBPaloma McGregor (New York, NY) is a Caribbean-born choreographer. As co-founder and Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse, McGregor has spent more than a decade centering Black voices through collaborative, community-specific performance projects. McGregor also facilitates technique, creative process, and community engagement workshops around the world. She toured internationally for six years with Urban Bush Women and two years with Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange and continues to perform in projec...
Creating In Relationship With Cultural Communities, Paloma McGregor
June 11, 2021 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Caribbean-born, New York-based choreographer and arts-leader Paloma McGregor. Paloma McGregor. McGregor is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse and the Dancing While Black project among others. Angela's Pulse Dancing While Black
Show Up For Yourself; Show Up For Others – Helen Simoneau
June 04, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBHelen Simoneau (Winston-Salem, NC), a native of Québec, Canada, has been commissioned by The Juilliard School, the American Dance Festival, Oregon Ballet Theatre, the Bessie Schönberg Residency at The Yard, Springboard Danse Montréal, and the Swiss Intl. Coaching Project (SiWiC) in Zurich. She was a resident artist at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Bates Dance Festival, and has received fellowships from Bogliasco Foundation and the NC Arts Council. Her work has been presented nationally and intern...
Show Up For Yourself; Show Up For Others, Helen Simoneau
June 04, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBIn this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' withWinston-Salem, NC, based choreographer, Helen Simoneau, who was recently recognized with a Guggenheim fellowship for her work which strives to hold space for individual agency and explores power dynamics through dance. A native of Rimouski, Québec, Simoneau is the artistic director of Helen Simoneau Danse and was recently described as “a Choreographer-on-the-rise” by Dance Magazine, and has b...
Moving In Multiple Directions At Once, Taja Will
May 28, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBIn this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Taja Will is a queer, Chilean adoptee, performer, choreographer, therapist, and restorative justice facilitator based in the Twin Cities (MN). Their approach integrates improvisation, somatic modalities, text, and vocals in contemporary performance. Will also works in healing justice and as an advocate for artists, especially serving as a liaison for artists in experimental forms, people of ...
Moving In Multiple Directions At Once - Taja Will
May 28, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBTaja Will (Minneapolis, MN) is a queer, Latinx (Chilean) adoptee, performer, choreographer, somatic therapist, and Healing Justice practitioner, on ancestral Dakota lands of Wahpekute and Anishinabewaki. Taja’s approach integrates improvisation, somatic modalities, text, and vocals in contemporary performance. Will’s work explores visceral connections to current socio-cultural realities through ritual, archetypes, and everyday magic. Taja is a recent recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fell...
The Transformation Of Memory, Bridgman|Packer Dance
May 21, 2021 16:39 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBIn this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, Artistic Directors of Bridgman|Packer Dance (Valley Cottage, NY). They are Guggenheim Fellows and 2017 NY Dance and Performance Award recipients (The Bessies). Their collaborative work focuses on integrating live performance and video technology to blur the line between image and reality, explore identity, and reveal multiple layers of consciousness. They are a...
The Transformation Of Memory – Bridgman | Packer Dance
May 21, 2021 16:39 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBArt Bridgman and Myrna Packer (Valley Cottage, NY), Co-Artistic Directors of Bridgman | Packer Dance, have collaborated in choreography and performance since 1978. In 2001, they expanded their choreographic vision, stretching the boundaries of dance by merging it with video technology. In 2017, they received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for Outstanding Production for their work Voyeur at The Sheen Center. The 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to Bridgman and Packer was ...
Returning To The Known – Jesse Factor
May 21, 2021 02:43 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBJesse Factor's (Slippery Rock, PA) growing repertoire of solo work combines a speculative view of queer histories and the archive with contemporary composition practices. He has created Mommie Queerest, presented at Queers in Revolt at Sam Houston University in 2019, Kween Kong presented at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival in 2017, and Marthagany: the Spectre-Acle series, which continues to tour at dance festivals, performance events, and nightclubs. Jesse Factor’s studied cha...
Returning To The Known, Jesse Factor
May 21, 2021 02:43 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MBIn this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Jesse Factor (Slippery Rock, PA). Factor's growing repertoire of solo work has been presented in North American venues such as TQ Live! at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), OUTsider Festival (Austin), Milton Art Bank (Milton), RADfest (Kalamazoo), St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery (NYC), and Fierce Queer Burlesque (Toronto). http://www.jessefactor.com https://blackcube.art/blog/chimera
Choreography As An Exercise In Resonance – Bebe Miller
May 21, 2021 01:36 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBBebe Miller (Columbus, OH), an American choreographer, dancer, and director, first performed her work at NYC’s Dance Theater Workshop in 1978. Interested in “finding a physical language for the human condition,” she formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985. The Company has performed extensively in the UK, Europe, Africa, and throughout the US. Miller's choreography, noted for its mix of virtuosic, athletic speed, and fragile humanity, has been commissioned by Oregon Ballet Theatre, Dayton Contempo...
Choreography As An Exercise In Resonance, Bebe Miller
May 21, 2021 01:36 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBIn this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Bebe Miller (Columbus, OH). Miller has been named a Master of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center, has received four “Bessie” awards, United States Artists and Guggenheim Fellowships, honorary doctorates from Ursinus College, and Franklin & Marshall College, and is one of the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artist Award recipients. http://bebemillercompany.org/ http://bebemill...