Latest Jacob's Podcast Episodes
Dancing Puppets & Emerging Technology
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - April 27, 2024 12:45 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsLisa Niedermeyer hosts this episode exploring the connections between puppetry in contemporary dance and emerging technologies such as augmented reality, artificial intelligence and spatial computing. The episode focuses on a piece titled "Underground River" which was conceived and directed by ...
Susan Marshall and Ralph Lemon: A Compelling Conversation
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - March 30, 2024 12:45 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsJacob's Pillow Associate Archivist Patsy Gay hosts this episode featuring excerpts of a 1998 PillowTalk. In this conversation between choreographers Ralph Lemon and Susan Marshall, we hear insights about their own beginnings in dance along with their individual ways of creating work.
Spoken Word in Dance
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - February 24, 2024 13:45 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPoet and dance writer Karen Hildebrand hosts this episode focusing on how text and spoken word are used in dance. Included are examples from works by Liz Lerman, Joe Goode, and Carmen de Lavallade. Hildebrand is the former editorial director for Dance Magazine, and a past editor in chief of Danc...
The Dance Between Choreography & Technology
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - January 27, 2024 13:45 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsChristy Bolingbroke, Executive / Artistic Director of the National Center for Choreography - Akron, hosts this episode focused on the the relationships of choreographic practice and various technologies. Referenced in this episode are works by David Parsons, David Rousseve, Compagnie Kafig, Renn...
Remembering Gus Solomons jr
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - December 30, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsJennifer Edwards hosts this episode honoring Gus Solomons jr, the celebrated choreographer, writer, and teacher. As the first Black dancer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Solomons was both a trailblazer and a trendsetter, forming his own company and making more than 150 works before his d...
Trisha Brown: Choreographer and Visual Artist
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - November 25, 2023 13:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsJennifer Edwards hosts this episode focused on Trisha Brown, one of the most celebrated choreographers to emerge from Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern era. Brown is in conversation with Deborah Jowitt, the influential choreographer, scholar, dance critic, and educator. We also hear from a...
Creating with the Cosmos
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - October 28, 2023 13:43 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsMany choreographers draw inspiration from their ancestors, nature, and the spiritual world, and Teena Marie Custer explores some examples with help from Sandra Laronde, Christopher K. Morgan, Ananya Chatterjea, Michelle N. Gibson, and others.
Umfundalai Technique with Dr. Kemal Nance, Part 2
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - September 30, 2023 12:45 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn this second part of a 2-episode series, Dr. C. Kemal Nance examines the movements, meaning, and structure of the contemporary African dance technique known as Umfundalai. https://www.umfundalai.net
Kariamu Welsh, Founder of Umfundalai, with Dr. Kemal Nance, Part1
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - August 26, 2023 12:45 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsDr. C. Kemal Nance hosts this episode honoring Dr. Kariamu Welsh and celebrating the dance technique that she developed called Umfundalai. https://www.umfundalai.net
Remembering Bessie Schönberg
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - July 29, 2023 12:45 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsJennifer Edwards hosts this episode honoring the life and legacy of teacher and choreographic mentor, Bessie Schönberg. Included are excerpts of D.A. Pennebaker's documentary film entitled, "Bessie: A Portrait of Bessie Schönberg," with remembrances from Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins, Meredit...
On Site Dance with Stephan Koplowitz
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - June 24, 2023 12:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsWith the help of his colleague Elise Bernhardt, Stephan Koplowitz traces his early years at Jacob's Pillow, where ideas were planted that led to a fruitful, life-long career and his book entitled “On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation.” Featured are inside looks at Dancing In T...
Dramaturgy at Jacob’s Pillow
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - May 20, 2023 12:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPoet and dance writer Karen Hildebrand hosts this two-part podcast, focusing on dramaturgy and dance. In this second part, Hildebrand explores how dramaturgs have worked with choreographers at the Pillow, focusing on works by Bebe Miller, Jane Comfort, and Rennie Harris. Hildebrand is the former...
What is Dramaturgy in Dance?
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - April 29, 2023 12:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPoet and dance writer Karen Hildebrand hosts this two-part podcast focusing on dramaturgy and dance. In this first part, Hildebrand defines the role of a dramaturg, drawing extensively upon a 2014 PillowTalk with dramaturg Anne Davison and Scholar-in-Residence Maura Keefe.
Black Joy & Milton Myers with Dr. Iquail Shaheed
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - April 01, 2023 12:45 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsDr. Iquail Shaheed offers a personal reflection on the life, work, and profound impact of his teacher and mentor, Milton Myers. Shaheed frames this exploration with thinking from his recent doctoral dissertation on Myers, a mainstay of The School at Jacob’s Pillow since 1985.
'Studio/Theater' at MoMA with Yve Laris Cohen
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - February 25, 2023 13:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsVisual artist Yve Laris Cohen reflects on his exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art entitled 'Studio/Theater' with Jacob's Pillow Director of Preservation Norton Owen. The exhibition featured remnants of the Pillow's Doris Duke Theatre, which was destroyed by fire in November 2020. This is a se...
Dance and Belonging with Crystal U. Davis
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - January 28, 2023 13:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsCrystal U. Davis, dancer, movement analyst, scholar, and author of Dance and Belonging: Implicit Bias and Inclusion in Dance Education, unpacks implicit and explicit bias as it relates to the relationship between audiences, dance-makers, and styles of dance.
Yve Laris Cohen's 'Studio/Theater'
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - December 17, 2022 13:45 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThe remains of the Pillow's Doris Duke Theatre were memorialized in an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art by visual artist Yve Laris Cohen. In conversation are exhibition curator Martha Joseph and two participants in related performance events, former Pillow Director Liz Thompson and Preserv...
Artistic Directorship: Lourdes Lopez with Theresa Ruth Howard
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - November 26, 2022 13:45 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn this episode, we join Pillow Scholar Theresa Ruth Howard in conversation with Lourdes Lopez on the occasion of her tenth anniversary as artistic director of Miami City Ballet. The entire talk can be experienced here: PillowTalk: Celebrating Lourdes Lopez *This episode was produced by Lisa ...
The ‘Secret’ Gay History of Jacob’s Pillow
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - October 29, 2022 12:45 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsHosted by Brian Schaefer, this episode is an exploration of how gay history is intertwined with the Pillow’s very beginnings, often hiding in plain sight. Related episodes of PillowVoices: https://pillowvoices.org/episodes/barton-mumaw-a-cornerstone-of-the-pillow https://pillowvoices.org/episo...
The Legacy of Katherine Dunham
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - September 24, 2022 12:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsA recording of a conversation that took place in 2002, moderated by Reginald Yates. We hear the voices of Donald McKayle, Cleo Parker Robinson, and Julie Belafonte in addition to insights and reflections from Katherine Dunham herself.
Disrupting Complacency with Jane Comfort
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - August 27, 2022 12:45 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsDance scholar Cynthia Williams guides a deep dive into two different political works made by choreographer Jane Comfort in the 1990s, revealing the striking connections to American social injustices escalating today. *This episode was directed by Lisa Niedermeyer.
The Body as Radical Canvas: Liz Lerman
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - July 30, 2022 12:45 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsEllen Chenoweth hosts this exploration into the work of influential dance artist Liz Lerman, including the voices of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, James Frazier, and Pamela Tatge, as well as numerous passages in Lerman's own words.
1941, When Ballet Came to Jacob's Pillow
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - June 25, 2022 12:45 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsIn this episode, hosted by dance and costume historian Caroline Hamilton, we learn about the summer of 1941 and the events that led to the incorporation of the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and the building of the Ted Shawn Theatre.
Barton Mumaw: A Cornerstone of the Pillow
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - May 28, 2022 12:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAs a founding presence at Jacob's Pillow from 1931 to 2001, Barton Mumaw embodied much of the institution's history, brought into the light by episode host Lisa Niedermeyer with Mumaw's own words.
An Homage to Martha Graham
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - April 30, 2022 12:45 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPillow Scholar Jennifer Edwards considers the imprint left by Martha Graham at Jacob's Pillow, with reflections from those she impacted, the work of Richard Move, and the words of Graham herself.
Regional Ballet: Pacific Northwest Ballet, Boston Ballet, Houston Ballet
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - March 26, 2022 12:45 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPillow Scholar Nancy Wozny explores the history of regional ballet in America through conversations and stories of three distinct ballet companies. Featured are artists with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Boston Ballet, and Houston Ballet - three companies who came together here in 2021 for a program...
Lisa Niedermeyer Revisits Doug Elkins’ Fräulein Maria
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - February 26, 2022 13:45 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsAs an artist, technologist, and former dancer with Doug Elkins and Friends, Lisa Niedermeyer reflects on her time with the company and her embodied memories of performing in Fräulein Maria, the uproarious and joyful dance based on The Sound of Music. We also hear from Elkins himself, recorded du...
Dancerly Creativity and Technological Innovation
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - January 29, 2022 13:45 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsHosted by Jacob's Pillow Associate Archivist Patsy Gay, this episode explores the intersection of dance and technology, diving into both history and current practice. Through the voices and perspectives of Marjani Forté-Saunders, Sydney Skybetter, Brian Brooks, Lily Baldwin, and Ilya Vidrin, we ...
Remembering Blondell Cummings, with Paloma McGregor
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - December 18, 2021 13:45 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPaloma McGregor remembers the life, work, and legacy of Blondell Cummings. McGregor frames this exploration through Cummings' dance work titled "Chicken Soup", designated as an American Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006. https://www.dancemagazine.com/remembering-blondel...
Dance On Screen
PillowVoices: Dance Through Time - November 20, 2021 13:45 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPillowVoices composer and audio engineer Ellis Rovin ruminates on some of the ways that dance has been seen on film, drawing upon a PillowTalk by David Gere and considering examples from Fred Astaire to Merce Cunningham. Special thanks to New England Public Media, for their support of this epi...
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