Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast
184 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsBringing to you the personal stories, experiences, and ideas from those who shape the dance field through autobiographical interviews. Hosted by Erin Carlisle Norton, Artistic Director of the NJ/NYC all-female dance company The Moving Architects. New interviews available every other week.
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MSP 172: Mimi Garrard
April 15, 2024 13:45 - 38 minutes - 28.1 MBThe Journey of Creating Dance for Video with Mimi Garrard Video dance work has become increasingly popular as technology has advanced, but not many dancers and choreographers have made it their primary medium of work. Today’s guest, Mimi Garrard, is the exception, having spent most of her extensive career focusing on video dance. In this episode of Movers & Shapers, we hear all about Mimi’s life, what led her to dance, her training under Alwin Nikolais, why she chose video dance, and what ...
MSP 171: Stefanie Nelson
March 25, 2024 20:46 - 38 minutes - 28.9 MBFinding Your Artistry Beyond Words with Stefanie Nelson One of the beautiful things about dance is the ability to express yourself without words. You can just dance. Joining Erin on the podcast today is Stefanie Nelson, Founder and Director of Stefanie Nelson Dancegroup (SND), a contemporary dance company based in NYC. Stefanie also established Dance Italia, an international summer dance program in Lucca, Italy. Today, she shares what kickstarted her lifelong love of dance and the influenc...
MSP 170: Kathy Dunn Hamrick
March 11, 2024 19:00 - 30 minutes - 30.9 MBCreating a Modern Dance Culture and Community with Kathy Dunn Hamrick Establishing a modern dance company is no easy feat, but today’s guest managed to create a successful organization and build a wonderful modern dance community in Austin, Texas. Today on Movers & Shapers, we welcome Kathy Dunn Hamrick, the Artistic Director of Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance, to discuss her work and how she helps dance grow in Austin. Kathy found a love for dance at a young age and quickly decided that she need...
MSP 169: Julie Lemberger
February 26, 2024 20:10 - 55 minutes - 38 MBEnjoying the Art, Expression, and Freedom of Dance with Julie Lemberger Welcome to the latest episode of the Movers and Shapers podcast, where today we're delighted to welcome our guest, Julie Lemberger. Julie is a multifaceted individual — she's had a life as a dancer, dance photographer, and educator. She has dedicated over 15 years to capturing the ephemeral beauty of concert dance. Her lens has encapsulated the essence of New York City's dance scene at the turn of the 21st century. Jul...
MSP 168: Betsy Miller
February 12, 2024 18:10 - 50 minutes - 44.8 MBBeing part of the global dance community can be deeply rewarding but it also has the potential to be exceptionally challenging and toxic. Not only are you competing for highly limited resources, but you also need to contend with how your self-worth can become contingent on the opinion of others. Today’s guest, Betsy Miller, has experienced many of the highs and lows familiar to almost any dancer but ultimately counts herself blessed and deeply fortunate to have found genuine places of commun...
MSP: Special Announcement from Erin Carlisle Norton
December 18, 2023 21:22 - 2 minutes - 3.01 MBHappy Holidays from Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast! Listen to a special announcement from Host and Artistic Director of The Moving Architects, Erin Carlisle Norton. Support this podcast with a tax-deductible donation! themovingarchitects.org/support Find Show Notes & More: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts Folow on Instagram and Facebook
MSP 167: Jeanne Ruddy
November 20, 2023 21:36 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBWhile dance is often underfunded and under-recognized, leaders in the field acknowledge the incredible talent that lives within every dancer, reminding them that they are, in fact, ‘Acrobats of God’. Today’s guest embodies the purpose of the Movers and Shapers: A Dance Podcast; to share insights from those who shape the dance field, and create an archive that preserves rich, personal experiences across generations. During this episode, Jeanne Ruddy shares what it was like to be a member of t...
MSP 166: Rukhmani Mehta
October 30, 2023 21:00 - 34 minutes - 47.1 MBCreating a Vision for Kathak with Rukhmani Mehta Today on Movers & Shapers, we are joined by Rukhmani Mehta (previously Rina Mehta). Rukhmani is a choreographer, dancer, educator, Artistic Director of Leela Youth Dance Company, and the Co-Artistic Director of Leela Dance Collective, which brings together leading artists from around the world to advance a collective vision for kathak, a classical North Indian dance. In this episode, Rukhmani speaks about her love for creating community thro...
MSP 165: Samantha Géracht
October 16, 2023 21:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBContinuing a Modern Dance Legacy with Samantha Géracht There are many legends in modern dance that are responsible for making the art form what it is today. But how do we continue their legacy? Today we hear from one of the people responsible for continuing the legacy of Anna Sokolow, Samantha Géracht. Samantha is the artistic director at the Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble and in this episode, she tells us all about her incredible career, the multitude of amazing dance practitioners she ha...
MSP 164: Alyssa Alpine
October 02, 2023 20:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBTranslating Vision into Action with Alyssa Alpine Whether it’s for communication, marketing, budgeting, scheduling, or meetings (and more!), we can attest to the level of detail, creativity, and make-it-happen-attitude required in the support to make dance happen! The role of the Arts Administration is dedicated to translating vision into action, and with great appreciation and admiration we introduce today’s guest, Alyssa Alpine. Alyssa, with her accompanying drive and passion, is the Fou...
MSP 163: Liz Lerman
September 19, 2023 00:01 - 49 minutes - 39.3 MBThe Independent Thinker, Liz Lerman Liz is a choreographer, performer, writer, teacher, and speaker. For the past forty years, she has infused her artistic exploration with a personal touch, humor, intellectual vibrancy, and a contemporary edge. Her choreography has delved into a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from her experiences as a go-go dancer to an exploration of the intricacies of choreography and connections with community. Today, she shares with us insights into what ignited her...
MSP 162: Anna Pasternak and Blair Brown with Movement Exchange
September 04, 2023 21:04 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBBuilding Community through Arts Education with Anna Pasternak and Blair Brown of Movement Exchange Our guests today are passionate about dance, dance education, and serving communities. Join us today as we share a podcast with you featuring an interview with Anna Pasternak, the Founder of Movement Exchange, and Blair Brown, the organization's current Executive Director. During our conversation, we hear about their journeys with dance, what captivates them about the arts, and how their life...
MSP 161: Mark Morris
July 31, 2023 21:00 - 56 minutes - 59 MBAround the World with Mark Morris From the age of seven, Mark Morris was enamored with dance. Immersing himself in everything from flamenco to Israeli folk to ballet to modern, Mark has lived, trained, and worked in many different parts of the world. In this episode, Mark takes us on a journey from the audition that signaled the start of his career to the Mark Morris Dance Company’s first show in 1980 to his years in Brussels, where he did his “grandest work.” We also take a look at the wo...
MSP 160: Melissa M. Young
July 03, 2023 21:00 - 45 minutes - 62 MBTake Up Your Space with Confidence with Artistic Director Melissa M. Young Often, as dancers, we have a choice to take up space with confidence or feel defeated and hold back. Our guest on today’s episode is one that continuously chose to take up space and inspired others to follow their intuitions, pursue what they love, and embrace their curiosity. This is an inspiring interview with the Artistic Director of Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT), Melissa M. Young. Our conversation with Melis...
MSP 159: Susan Klein
June 19, 2023 21:00 - 43 minutes - 37.2 MBCreating a Technique that Honors the Individual with Susan Klein Today’s guest Susan Klein is a true luminary, having shaped the modern dance landscape with her groundbreaking theories as creator of the renowned Klein Technique. In this episode, we explore her transformative journey as a movement pioneer, uncovering her dance background, the hurdles she overcame following a series of debilitating knee injuries, and her return to the world of movement. We discover how her experience ignited...
MSP 158: Hope Mohr
June 05, 2023 20:30 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBActivism, Dance, and Co-Leadership with Hope Mohr Dance, movement, performance, and art-making can play many roles in one’s life. And how they are expressed can change shape over the course of a career. Our guest today, Hope Mohr, has woven together a life of art and activism as a choreographer, curator, and advocate. She has had a fascinating career journey, dedicating herself to both dance and activism and finding new and innovative ways to integrate the two. We talk with Hope about the ...
MSP 157: Rosalynde LeBlanc
May 22, 2023 21:00 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MBBuilding a Dancer with Rosalynde LeBlanc Rosalynde LeBlanc built her career dancing for some of the biggest names in dance. Today, she is Professor and Chair of Dance at Loyola Marymount University. Social justice awareness has always underpinned her work as a choreographer, which is why she creates pieces that are related to the world and not the mirror. During today’s conversation, she shares her perspective on what it truly means to build a dancer beyond just the physical. Tune in to he...
MSP 156: Remembering Agnes De Mille with Elizabeth Ferrell and Jenna Rae Herrera
May 09, 2023 01:00 - 34 minutes - 30.1 MBRemembering Agnes De Mille with Elizabeth Ferrell and Jenna Rae Herrera Today’s episode is a special one, where we look back and remember world-renowned dancer, choreographer, writer, lecturer, and director, Agnes De Mille. Agnes had a successful, yet tempestuous, career that spanned almost 70 years through the world of 20th-century American theater and ballet. We take a look at her through the eyes of Elizabeth Ferrell, formerly a member of the American Ballet Theater, and Jenna Rae Herre...
MSP 155: Remembering Jennifer Muller
April 24, 2023 21:00 - 56 minutes - 50.5 MBRemembering Jennifer Muller (1944-2023) Today’s podcast is a re-airing of an interview with Jennifer Muller on Movers & Shapers from September 2019. Jennifer was the Artistic Director/Founder of Jennifer Muller/The Works, and was an influence in the dance world for over 50 years. Jennifer passed away March 29 peacefully in her home. A maverick in the dance field, in this episode you will hear from the determined, tenacious, and passionate Jennifer Muller of Jennifer Muller/The Works. F...
MSP 154: Miguel Gutierrez
April 10, 2023 17:30 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBFierce, Fragile, Empathetic, Political, and Poetic Art with Miguel Gutierrez Our guest today, Miguel Gutierrez, is irrevocably passionate about making works of art and creates empathetic and irreverent spaces outside of traditional discourse. Our conversation starts with Miguel sharing more about his upbringing as the child of two immigrants, how he came to love the arts and dancing, and what he wanted to be when he grew up. He tells us about his time at Brown, Queer Activism, working wit...
MSP 153: Margaret Beals
March 27, 2023 20:32 - 42 minutes - 38 MBThe Art of Improvisation with Margaret Beals For today’s guest, dancing without inhibitions is what has fed her soul for more than 8 decades. Joining us on Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast is the incredible dance improvisation innovator Margaret Beals to tell us all about her years of dancing and her new documentary, Dancing Without Steps. Tuning in, you’ll hear all about our guest’s privileged upbringing, her longing to be free, dancing in her home and the streets of New York City, and ...
MSP 152: Renée Jaworski
March 10, 2023 19:01 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBThe Magic of Creativity with Renée Jaworski Being a successful dance performer requires a combination of technical skills, artistry, professionalism, dedication, and networking. In today’s episode, we sit down with Renée Jaworski, the Executive Director and Co-Artistic Director of the rebellious dance company, Pilobolus, as she shares her experience working there throughout her illustrious 20+ year career and unpacks the magic of creativity, risk, collaboration, artistic expression, and t...
MSP 151: Lynn Peterson and Kate Sutter
February 27, 2023 20:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBSharing the Power of Dance with Lynn Peterson and Kate Sutter The power of dance can be harnessed and shared with people from all walks of life. The connection facilitated by the art form is undeniable when witnessing the fortuitous friendship between Lynn Peterson and Kate Sutter. The two visionary leaders behind SYREN Modern Dance join us today to share their respective dance journeys, and the process of starting, sustaining, and now celebrating 20 years of SYREN. We learn about their ro...
MSP 150: Alessandra Corona
February 06, 2023 19:30 - 39 minutes - 53.9 MBA Legacy of Dance with Alessandra Corona Today’s episode is sure to inspire you! Joining us in conversation today, we have a joyful spirit, Alessandra Corona. Tuning in, you’ll hear about her time as a principal dancer for Ballet Hispánico, overcoming a language barrier, and falling in love with modern dance. Alessandra shares how Ann Reinking was a revolutionary influence on her, and invited her to join the international Fosse tour. Alessandra’s life took an unexpected twist when she star...
MSP 149: Dante Puleio and Michelle Preston
January 23, 2023 17:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBSustaining the Legacy of the Limón Dance Company with Dante Puleio and Michelle Preston The Limón Dance Company is approaching its 75th anniversary and in today’s episode, we are joined by its Artistic Director, Dante Puleio, and Executive Director, Michelle Preston. Dante and Michelle’s passion for their work is palpable and over the next few years they plan to inject new energy into Limón while also preserving the company’s rich heritage. Tune in today to hear how dance changed the lives...
MSP 148: Davalois Fearon
January 09, 2023 18:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBStepping Out into the World with Davalois Fearon Today we bring you a beautiful and inspiring conversation with Davalois Fearon, whose work as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer brings together her family history, early years in Jamaica, and a dedication to moving the art form and community forward. Expect to come away with some fascinating insight into her process of connecting the different parts of her life and experience into a unified artistic voice. Make sure to join us for this ...
MSP 147: Annie Rigney
December 26, 2022 14:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBDancing Across Continents, Finding Your Body, and Discovering the Ilan Lev Method with Annie Rigney Who you are as an artist is undoubtedly influenced by the teachers you encounter along the way. Similarly, being exposed to different artistic practices can have a significant impact on your development. Today’s guest, Annie Rigney, started dancing at the tender age of three and hasn’t looked back since. In our conversation, Annie recounts how she was first introduced to new techniques (like...
MSP 146: Elizabeth Yilmaz-Dobrow, Mara Driscoll, and César Abreu
December 12, 2022 20:00 - 55 minutes - 75.9 MBPerformers are always looking for fulfilling artistic endeavors and creative communities. In this episode, we hear from three incredible people, Elizabeth Yilmaz-Dobrow, Mara Driscoll, and César Abreu, who have come together to form an exciting new project with a shared vision for performance. Art Bath is an immersive performance salon series that fosters community, exploration, and exchange within the community. Our guests share how they met while dancing at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet an...
MSP 145: Carmen Caceres
November 28, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBDance artist Carmen Caceres – passionate, driven, and inspiring! Hear what it was like for Carmen to: Move to NYC from Buenos Aires, Argentina and her deeply personal immigrant experience as a dancer and choreographer pulled between two cultures. How a childhood dream came true with an encounter with world-renowned dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. What it’s like to follow your artistic voice and create important immersive creative work today. “When I'm dancing, I get to be this person that'...
MSP 144: Amanda Selwyn
November 14, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBChoreographer, dance educator, arts leader Amanda Selwyn - resilient, hard-working, and inspiring! Hear what it was like for Amanda to: Grow up wanting to be a performer, and then eventually finding her niche as a choreographer and arts leader. How her college experience at Northwestern University shaped her as an artist as well as connecting with her Jewish roots and spending a year living in Israel. What it was like for her to create and develop a thriving dance organization with an a...
MSP 143: McClaine Timmerman
October 31, 2022 13:30 - 56 minutes - 47.6 MB"I'm grateful for the whole journey" - McClaine Timmerman, Founder and Artistic Director of the Contemporary Dance Choreography Festival (CDCFest) Today's guest is McClaine Timmerman. McClaine is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Contemporary Dance Choreography Festival (CDCFest) in Orlando, Florida. She is an awarded choreographer, Nationally Certified Pilates instructor, business owner, and dance educator. Applications for CDCFest are open now, and due January 25th! For guidelin...
MSP 142: Austin Hartel
October 03, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MB"Dancers dance because we have to, I don't know how else to explain it." - Austin Hartel, MSP 142 Today's guest is Austin Hartel. Austin is a former longtime member of Pilobolus Dance Theater, and has been connected with the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond for almost 20 years as teacher and founder/artistic director of the University's School of Dance. As Artistic Director of Dalton-Hartel Dance and Hartel Dance Group, he toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim...
MSP 141: Adele Myers
September 19, 2022 21:00 - 57 minutes - 46.3 MB"I've always chased that thrill." - Adele Myers on her lifetime in dance Today's guest is Adele Myers. Adele is a Miami based dance maker and Artistic Director of Adele Myers and Dancers (AMD), a national touring contemporary dance theater company made up of female athletes of the heart. For over a decade, AMD has been presented throughout the U.S with funding from the New England Foundation of the Arts, National Dance Project, and National Performance Network. Since relocating to Miami,...
MSP 140: Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy
September 05, 2022 18:15 - 58 minutes - 47.5 MB"We are the carriers of the culture." - Ranee Ramaswamy Today's guests are Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy, the Artistic Directors of Ragamala Dance Company, a pioneering company rooted in the South Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam. Over the last four decades, Ranee and Aparna have forged a path for culturally rooted performing arts organizations and made Ragamala a standard-bearer within the American dance landscape. The New York Times says, “Ragamala shows how Indian forms can be some o...
MSP 139: Gloria McLean
August 22, 2022 15:50 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB"This is who I am. I am a dancer and this is what I have to offer the world." - Gloria McLean Today's guest is Gloria McLean. Gloria is artistic director of LIFEDANCE/Gloria McLean and Dancers. LIFEDANCE is dedicated to the integration of body, mind and spirit through the creative process. Gloria's dances often collaborate with new music, art, language and the environment. Her choreography has been presented in NYC and internationally, including the American Dance Festival, festivals in ...
MSP 138: Joan Myers Brown and Kim Bears-Bailey
August 08, 2022 13:10 - 1 hour - 57.9 MBToday’s guest on Movers & Shapers are Joan Myers Brown and Kim Bears-Bailey of Philadanco. Joan is the founder of Philadanco which was created in 1970 out of a need to provide performance opportunities and training for Black dancers. PHILADANCO! has since grown into a professional dance company that is recognized around the world for its artistic integrity, superbly trained dancers, and captivating performances. Of her many honors, she is the honorary chairperson for the International Ass...
MSP 137: Lar Lubovitch
June 20, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBToday's guest is Lar Lubovitch. Lar is one of America’s most versatile and widely seen choreographers. He founded the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968. Over the course of 54 years, it has gained an international reputation as one of America’s top dance companies, produced more than 120 dances and performed before millions across the U.S. and over 40 countries. Many other major companies throughout the world have performed the company’s dances, including American Ballet Theatre, New York C...
MSP 136: Nadia Adame
June 06, 2022 11:30 - 42 minutes - 35.1 MBToday's guest is Nadia Adame. Nadia is a Spanish multidisciplinary award-winning artist with a spinal cord injury and the Artistic Director at AXIS Dance Company. She was a company member with AXIS (2001-2003) and Candoco Dance Company (2007-2008). In 2004, she co-founded and was the Co-Artistic Director of Compañía Y in Spain, a multimedia and performance collective. Nadia’s credits include dance, theatre, commercial, and independent film projects in the UK, Spain, US, and Canada. As a perf...
MSP 135: Erica Hornthal
May 23, 2022 15:30 - 59 minutes - 51.5 MBToday's guest is Erica Hornthal. Erica, a licensed clinical professional counselor and board-certified dance/movement therapist, is the CEO and founder of Chicago Dance Therapy. Since graduating with her MA in dance/movement therapy and counseling, Erica has worked with thousands of patients from age 3 to 107. Known as “The Therapist Who Moves You,” Erica has truly changed the way people see movement with regard to mental health: moving people toward unlimited potential, greater awareness, a...
MSP 134: Shamel Pitts
May 09, 2022 19:15 - 57 minutes - 51.4 MBToday's guest is Shamel Pitts. Shamel is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, as well as performance, conceptual, and spoken word artist. Since 2019, he is the artistic director/founder of TRIBE, a New York-based multidisciplinary arts collective which was a 2020-21 Artist-In-Residence at 92Y Harkness Dance Center. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he started his professional dance career with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Hell’s Kitchen Dance and BJM_Danse Montreal. Between 2009-2016, he was a company mem...
MSP 133: Cara Hagan
April 25, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes - 35.1 MBToday's guest is Cara Hagan. Cara is a mover, maker, writer, curator, champion of just communities, and a dreamer. Cara's adventures take place as live performance, on screen, as installation, on the page, and in collaboration with others in a multitude of contexts. In recent years, Cara and her work have traveled to such gatherings as the Performática Festival in Cholula, Mexico, the Conference on Geopoetics in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Loikka Dance Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland, the ...
MSP 132: Peggy Baker
April 11, 2022 02:36 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBToday's guest is Peggy Baker. Peggy Baker has been a vivid presence in contemporary dance since 1973, performing internationally in the work of Lar Lubovitch, Mark Morris (with Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project), Doug Varone, Tere O’Connor, Molissa Fenley, and Charles Moulton (NYC); with Fortier Danse-Creation (Montreal); and Dancemakers, Toronto Dance Theatre, and James Kudelka, (Toronto). She established Peggy Baker Dance Projects in 1990, and for the first 20 years she dedicat...
MSP 131: Moses Pendleton
March 27, 2022 22:09 - 53 minutes - 54.5 MBToday's guest is Moses Pendleton. Moses has been one of America’s most innovative and widely performed choreographers and directors for over 40 years. A co-founder of the ground-breaking Pilobolus Dance Theater in 1971, he formed his own company, MOMIX, in 1980. Mr. Pendleton has also worked extensively in film, TV, and opera and as a choreographer for ballet companies and special events. Moses is an avid photographer with works presented in Rome, Milan, Florence, and Aspen. Images of his ...
MSP 130: Netta Yerushalmy
March 13, 2022 21:00 - 18 minutes - 15.5 MBToday's guest is Netta Yerushalmy. Netta is an award winning choreographer and performer originally from Galilee, Israel. Based in New York City since 2000, her work aims to engage with audiences by imparting the sensation of things as they are perceived, not as they are known, and to challenge how meaning is attributed and constructed. Most recently recognized with a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, Netta has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Princeton Arts Fellowship, Res...
MSP 129: Hannah Kahn
February 21, 2022 22:15 - 52 minutes - 41.7 MBToday's guest is Hannah Kahn, founder and artistic director of the Hannah Kahn Dance Company. Hannah is a master teacher with fifty-two years of experience creating over one hundred and forty dances. Some of the strongest influences on her choreography were her childhood classes in Ithaca, New York with Iris Barbura, her studies of the techniques of Jose Limon and Martha Graham, and her performance of dances by Doris Humphrey and Anna Sokolow. The practice of Tai Chi has also influenced he...
MSP 128: Lisa La Touche
January 23, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBToday's guest is Lisa La Touche. As a proud Canadian and former New Yorker, Lisa’s credits are world renowned. She was an original cast member in Broadway’s Shuffle Along, choreographed by Savion Glover and Directed by George C. Wolfe, where she received both the Fred Astaire Award and the Actor’s Equity Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. Her TV credits include the 70th Annual Tony Awards and Amazon’s Original “Z, The beginning of everything”. Previous highlights have also included tour...
MSP 127: JoAnna Mendl Shaw
January 09, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBToday's guest is veteran choreographer and dance educator, JoAnna Mendl Shaw. JoAnna has been devising performance works for stage, rural and urban landscapes since the 1980’s. Her body of interspecies work initiates visceral engagement with the natural and cultural environment. Redefining the possibilities for dance-making, Shaw’s research into the human-equine dialogue began in 1998. Her company, The Equus Projects, tours throughout the States and Europe creating site-specific works thro...
MSP 126: Remembering Nai-Ni Chen
December 26, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBToday’s podcast is a re-airing of an interview with Nai-Ni Chen on Movers & Shapers from February 2018. Nai-Ni passed away unexpectedly on December 12, 2021 in a swimming accident in Hawaii. Since starting her dance company Nai-Ni Chen Dance in 1998, her choreography has brought the dynamic freedom of American modern dance together with the elegant splendor of Asian art. Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company has been one of the most visible Asian American dance companies in America, touring national...
MSP 125: Loni Landon
December 12, 2021 21:55 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBToday's guest is Loni Landon. Loni is a Dancer, Choreographer, and Movement Consultant based in New York City. In addition to creating dances for her own collective Loni Landon Dance Project, her work is commissioned by dance companies and film directors across the country. Born and raised in New York City, Loni performed with Aszure Barton and Artists, Ballet Theater Munich, Tanz Munich Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera, and is a Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Winner. As a sou...
MSP 124: Margaret Jenkins
November 14, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBToday's guest is Margaret Jenkins. Margaret Jenkins, founder and artistic director of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, celebrating the 50th anniversary of her Company in 2022, is a choreographer and mentor to many artists as well as a designer of unique community-based dance projects. In the 1960's, Margaret moved to New York to study at Juilliard, continued her training at UCLA and returned to New York to dance in the companies of Jack Moore, Viola Farber, Judy Dunn, James Cunningham, ...