Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast
188 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago - ★★★★★ - 31 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 36: Diane Grumet
November 22, 2016 08:00 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBAn interview with Diane Grumet, the Co-Artistic/Managing Director of Steps on Broadway in NYC, the world-renowned dance studio that has been training and supporting the professional dance community for almost 40 years.
MSP 35: Eva Yaa Asantewaa
November 08, 2016 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBAn interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa. Eva --who writes the InfiniteBody arts blog-- is a New York City-based critic, educator and curator specializing in dance and performance.
MSP 34: Shannon Hummel
October 25, 2016 07:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MBAn interview with Shannon Hummel, Artistic Director of The Cora Studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which is home to her professional company Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance and its pay-what-you-can dance school, Cora School for Dance.
MSP 33: Your Move Dance Festival and Heather Warfel Sandler
October 11, 2016 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBToday is a special 2-part podcast episode which begins by featuring the founders and producers of the Your Move Modern Dance Festival in Jersey City, NJ: Morgan Hille Refakis and Meagan Woods. Your Move is presented by Art House Productions in partnership with DeBaun Performing Arts Center, and is the 2016 recipient of the Dance New Jersey Jete Award. Today's podcast guest is Heather Warfel Sandler. Heather is a dancer, performance artist, and visual artist who currently runs the award wi...
MSP 32: Christian von Howard
September 27, 2016 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBAn interview with Christian von Howard, a New York City dance artist and the Artistic Director of the VON HOWARD PROJECT. Christian is a member of the teaching faculty at the Alvin Ailey School and is an Associate Professor of Performance and Choreography at Montclair State University.
MSP 31: Joanna Kotze
September 13, 2016 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBAn interview with Joanna Kotz, a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher who is also recipient of the 2013 New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer. A former long-time dancer with Wally Cardona, her choreographic work has been shown in such NY theaters as Baryshnikov Arts Center and Danspace Project, with residencies around the globe including at The Bogliasco Foundation in Italy and The Carmargo Foundation in France.
MSP 30: Christine Jowers
August 30, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBAn interview with Christine Jowers, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Dance Enthusiast, a vibrant, engaging digital news site, arts service organization, and extension of the non-profit company Moving Arts Projects based in NYC. Prior to this position Christine worked as a professional dancer, teacher, and producer, performing solo works and principal roles by the early masters of modern dance and in work created by contemporary choreographers and performance artists.
MSP 29: Crystal Michelle Perkins
August 02, 2016 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBAn interview with Crystal Michelle Perkins, a choreographer, dancer, and intermedia artist who currently serves as Associate Artistic Director of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) based in Dayton, Ohio.
MSP 28: Mitchell Rose
July 19, 2016 19:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBAn interview with Mitchell Rose, a professor of dance-filmmaking at The Ohio State University whose films have been viewed online over 5 million times. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Mitchell was a NYC-based choreographer who toured internationally for over 15 years. His most recent dance film "Exquisite Corps" features 42 American contemporary choreographers linked together through a chain love letter to dance.
MSP 27: Amy Miller
July 05, 2016 15:04 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBAn interview with Amy Miller, dancer, choreographer, educator, advocate, and Associate Artistic Director and Company Co-Director of Gibney Dance Company based in New York City. Prior to her positions at Gibney Dance, Amy spent a decade performing masterworks as a principal with Ohio Ballet and was a founding member and Associate Director of Cleveland's GroundWorks DanceTheater.
MSP 26: Tiffany Rea-Fisher
June 21, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBAn interview with Tiffany Rea-Fisher, the newly appointed Artistic Director of the NYC-based dance company Elisa Monte Dance. Starting as a principal dancer with the company in 2004, Tiffany is also founder/director of Inception to Exhibition (ITE), which supports NYC-based artists in the fields of Dance, Theater, Music and Film.
MSP 25: Dorian Wallace
June 07, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBAn interview with Dorian Wallace, a composer, improviser and pianist of contemporary classical music, new music, radical avant-garde, spontaneous improvisation, and music for dance. He is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Tenth Intervention, a contemporary classical presenter in NYC. Dorian is staff musician and composer for dance at Barnard College of Columbia University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Martha Graham Dance Company, The Julliard School, Ballet Hispanico, Kat Wildish, and ...
MSP: Special Announcement
May 31, 2016 07:00 - 1 minute - 1.06 MBA special announcement from podcast host Erin Carlisle Norton about upcoming interviews.
MSP 24: Kat Wildish
May 16, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBAn interview with Kat Wildish, a multi-level ballet and pointe technique teacher of teachers, mentor, and coach for professionals and students of all ages and levels, based in NYC. Kat is one of those rare ballerinas who appeared with both New York City Ballet (under Balanchine) and American Ballet Theatre (under Baryshnikov), as well as with such companies as Zurich Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet and The Eglevsky Ballet (under Edward Villella).
MSP 23: Tiffany Mills
May 03, 2016 07:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBTiffany Mills is a choreographer and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn-based Tiffany Mills Company, a visceral and emotionally-charged dance company celebrating its 15th Anniversary Season at NYC's La MaMa, May 12-15, 2016.
MSP 22: Wendy Osserman
April 19, 2016 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBAn interview with Wendy Osserman. Wendy is the Artistic Director of Wendy Osserman Dance Company which celebrates its 40th anniversary season this year. Before forming the company in 1976, Wendy performed with Kei Takei, Frances Alenikoff, and Valerie Bettis. For four decades the company has toured and performed in New York City and internationally, creating performances and workshops for all ages and collaborating with a wide range of artists and utilizing alternative spaces for performan...
MSP 21: Samuel Pott
April 05, 2016 07:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBAn interview with Samuel Pott. Samuel Founded Nimbus Dance Works and the School of Nimbus Dance Works based in Jersey City, outside of NYC. He has toured internationally as a soloist for the Martha Graham Dance Company and has performed as a lead dancer in many ballet and jazz dance companies. This interview is part of the special 5-part series "Starring New Jersey" that features interviews with prominent "shapers" in the dance field who call NJ home. The series is made possible by a gra...
MSP 20: Sharron Miller
March 22, 2016 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBAn interview with Sharron Miller. Sharron is a former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater principal dancer and veteran of seven Broadway shows who is currently the Founder/Director of Sharron Miller's Academy of the Performing Arts (SMAPA) in Montclair, NJ located 15-miles outside of NYC. This interview is part of the special 5-part series "Starring New Jersey" that features interviews by prominent dance "shapers" in the dance field who call NJ home. The series is made possible by a grant ...
MSP 19: Maxine Lyle
March 09, 2016 02:43 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBAn interview with Maxine Lyle, a choreographer, teaching artist, dancer, and producer, specializing in African-American step dance. Maxine founded the step company Soul Steps in 2005 in NJ/NY, with the mission to expand the presence of stepping throughout the world while creating avenues for cultural exchange and awareness among diverse communities. Soul Steps brings step everywhere - from school workshops in Brooklyn, to partnerships with U.S. Embassies throughout the world, to Paris Fashio...
MSP 18: Jeff Friedman
February 24, 2016 00:18 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBAn interview with Jeff Friedman. Jeff is a dancer, choreographer, and scholar at the Dance Department at Rutgers University-New Brunswick as Associate Professor of Dance Studies, and as Graduate Director will launch the new MFA in Dance program this coming academic year. Jeff danced in NYC with Twyla Tharp, as well as for nearly a decade with Oberlin Dance Collective (ODC), touring nationally and internationally. Jeff created Legacy, an oral history project for the San Francisco Bay Area ...
MSP 17: Doug Post
February 09, 2016 08:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBAn interview with Doug Post, Gallery Artist Representative and Office Manager at Pentacle, an artist service organization based in New York. He has served as president of Beyondance Inc.'s Board of Directors, was founding member of Freespace Dance's Board, and is on the Advisory Board of ACF Dance, Reverb Dance, and the Brooklyn Dance Festival. Doug curates Dixon Places's (NYC) Under Exposed and Moving Men series. He publishes a weekly newsletter of performances, auditions, and other item...
MSP: Special Announcement
February 02, 2016 08:00 - 1 minute - 944 KBA special announcement from podcast host Erin Carlisle Norton about upcoming interviews.
MSP 16: Helen Simoneau
January 18, 2016 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBA native of Québec, Canada, today's guest Helen Simoneau is director of Helen Simoneau Danse, a North Carolina based dance company with strong New York City ties and acclaimed international presence. Her work has been presented at notable venues such as Dance Place (DC), New York Live Arts, Joyce Soho (NYC), Tangente (Montréal), The Aayama Round Theatre (Tokyo), Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Stage (MA), the L.I.G Art Hall Busan (South Korea), and Athens International Dance Festival (Greece).
MSP 15: Julie Mayo
December 15, 2015 23:30 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBAn interview with Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer, and director Julie Mayo. Julie has had her work presented on both coasts and in the Midwest, and was a 2014-2015 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artist in Residence. She has recently been commissioned by Gibney Dance in NYC to create an evening-length work for their Fall 2016 season. Originally from Richmond, VA, Julie has lived and been a part of the dance communities in Seattle, San Francisco, Richmond, Chicago, and NYC.
MSP 14: Nel Shelby
December 01, 2015 08:00 - 53 minutes - 49 MBAn interview with a woman who is all things dance video, Nel Shelby. Nel preserves and promotes dance by filming performances and creating marketing videos and original films. Her company Nel Shelby Productions, based in NYC, boasts a diverse list of dance clients in New York and beyond. Nel serves as Festival Videographer for Jacob's Pillow Dance and is Resident Videographer at the Vail International Dance Festival (VIDF). Her documentary about choreographer Nejla Y. Yatkin was screened...
MSP 13: Pat Graney
November 16, 2015 08:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBAn interview with Seattle-based choreographer Pat Graney. Pat has received numerous honors throughout her career as a choreographer including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for 11 consecutive years, the Alpert Award, US Artists Award in Dance, and was one of 20 Americans to receive a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2013. Pat also founded Keeping the Faith/The Prison Project, the longest running prison-arts program in the United States.
MSP 12: Leslie Anderson-Braswell
November 03, 2015 18:36 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBAn interview with Pittsburgh-based ballet instructor Leslie Anderson-Braswell, a former dancer with Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Stuttgart Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Leslie has taught for over 35 years in the Pittsburgh area, and is currently on faculty at the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Leslie is the namesake of the "Brazzy Award", an honor awarded annually to promising young artists in the Pittsburgh area in honor of Leslie's lifetime spent in dan...
MSP 11: Heidi Latsky
October 20, 2015 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBAn interview with NYC-based choreographer and performer Heidi Latsky. Heidi is a former dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. In 2001, she launched her own contemporary dance company, Heidi Latsky Dance, which promotes Heidi's definition of a dancer as all-inclusive through the use of disabled and non-disabled performers.
MSP 10: Elizabeth McPherson
October 06, 2015 17:31 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBInterview with Dr. Elizabeth McPherson, a New York City-based writer, dance historian, dance notator, dance educator, and Associate Professor at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey. Beth is the author of two dance history books, regularly contributes to multiple dance publications, and has staged numerous 20th century works from Labanotion.
MSP 9: Karen Love
September 22, 2015 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBInterview with Karen Love, a New Jersey-based choreographer and dance educator. Karen is the Founder/Artistic Director of Umoja Dance Company and Usaama Dance Company, Coordinator for Wofabe African Dance & Drum Festival, Director of the Dance Department at Hillside High School, and owner of Umoja Dance studio located in Vaux Hall, NJ.
MSP 8: Caitlin Trainor
September 08, 2015 07:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBAn interview with NYC-based dance artist Caitlin Trainor. Caitlin has danced for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Sean Curran, and Amy Marshall, and was assistant to Mr. Curran and site-specific choreographer Stephen Koplowitz. She is currently Artistic Director of Trainor Dance and on the dance faculty at Barnard/Columbia University.
MSP 7: Paula Kellinger
August 11, 2015 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBAn interview with Paula Kellinger, choreographer and Professor of Dance at Wilson College located in Chambersburg, PA. Prior to teaching at Wilson College, Paula danced for such choreographers as Meredith Monk, Laura Dean, Susan Rethorst, Wendy Perron, and as apprentice for Trisha Brown, alongside creating her own body of choreographic work.
MSP 6: Anabella Lenzu
July 27, 2015 07:00 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBOriginally from Argentina, Anabella Lenzu is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer, and Artistic Director of Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama, a dance theater company based in New York City.
MSP 5: Rachel Neville
July 14, 2015 07:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBRachel Neville is a dance and movement photographer based in New York City. She has photographed for such companies as Dance Theater of Harlem, Grishko, Lululemon, Power Pilates, and The Moving Architects.
MSP 4: Carolyn Dorfman
June 30, 2015 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBAn interview with NJ/NYC-based Carolyn Dorfman, Artistic Director of the contemporary dance company Carolyn Dorfman Dance. She is a master teacher, mentor, and guest artist/choreographer/lecturer at major universities and pre-professional programs across the U.S. and internationally, while also a leader in many community dance initiatives throughout the state of New Jersey.
MSP 3: Alexandra Beller
June 16, 2015 07:00 - 1 hour - 62 MBAn interview with NYC-based dance artist Alexandra Beller. Alexandra is a former member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and is Artistic Director of Alexandra Beller/dances. She is currently on faculty at Gibney Dance Center and is Associate Professor at Long Island University.
MSP 2: Tracie Stanfield
June 02, 2015 07:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBAn interview with NYC-based dance artist Tracie Stanfield, Artistic Director of the contemporary jazz dance company SynthesisDANCE and dance instructor at Peridance Capezio Center and Broadway Dance Center.
MSP 1: Sidra Bell
May 29, 2015 17:15 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBAn interview with NYC-based dance artist Sidra Bell, Master Lecturer at University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Artistic Director of Sidra Bell Dance New York.