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This week on Finding Your Bliss, we have our annual holiday special! Life Coach and Bliss Expert Judy Librach is joined by Prima Ballerina Heather Ogden (The National Ballet of Canada) and our very own film critic, Thom Ernst!
In this episode, Tyler Lapkin of the Joseph Campbell Foundation sits down with Nancy Allison.Nancy Allison was a member of Jean Erdman's Theater of The Open Eye from 1976 – 1985 where among other roles she danced a principle role in Op Odyssey, awarded the prize for Best Company at the 15th International Festival d'Automne in Paris. At The Open Eye she also distinguished herself as a leading interpreter of Erdman's solo dance repertory of the 1940s and 50s. She is the executive producer and featured dancer of the three-volume video archive Dance & Myth: The World of Jean Erdman. Since 1986 she has performed Erdman's solo dance repertory throughout the US and abroad and has presented Erdman's work at national conferences and institutes including the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), the American Dance Legacy Institute (ADLI) and the Carl Jung Institute. She has staged Erdman's repertory on professional and student dancers throughout the U.S. and has curated an exhibit about Erdman for the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, New York.Her own choreography has been presented by the Athens Festival in Greece, Composers Union (Moscow, Russia), Baltimore Museum of Art, Artquake (Portland, OR,) Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, American Museum of Natural History, P.S. 122, and the 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Center among others. In addition to extensive training in classical, world and modern dance techniques Allison is also certified in Laban Movement Analysis and ISHTA Yoga. She has taught on faculty at NYU, Laban-Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS/NY), SUNY Purchase, Lincoln Center Institute, 92nd St Y Harkness Dance Center and as a guest artist at universities and institutes throughout the US and abroad including, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of Washington, University of Idaho, Oklahoma University, Ohio University, C'a Foscari (the University of Venice), Centro Teatrale di Ricerca Venezia, Laboratorio Danza Contemporanea di Laura Boato and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She has received grants from the NEA, NYSCA, Harkness Foundations for the Dance, the Leslie R. Samuels and Fan Fox Foundation as well as the Laurance Rockefeller gift in support of her work.Allison's award winning films have screened at film festivals throughout the world including the Venice International Film Festival (2017), International Festival of Films on Art in Montréal (2016) and Film Society of Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association Dance on Camera Festival (2015). Allison is also the editor of The Ecstasy of Being; Mythology and Dance (New World Library, 2017) and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body Mind Disciplines (Rosen Publishing 1999) selected as one of 1999's Best Books on Alternative Health by Body & Soul Magazine, as well as, the developmental editor for several series for young people including The Library of American Choreographers (Rosen, 2006).For more information about Nancy visit: http://www.jeanerdmandance.com/To find all three volumes of the Dance and Myth Series visit: http://jeanerdmandance.com/events.htmlFor more information on the MythMaker Podcast Network and Joseph Campbell, visit JCF.org. To subscribe to our weekly MythBlasts go to jcf.org/subscribeThe Podcast With A Thousand Faces is hosted by Tyler Lapkin and is a production of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. It is produced by Tyler Lapkin. Executive producer, John Bucher. Audio mixing and editing by Charles Mallett.All music exclusively provided by APM Music (apmmusic.com)
This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we're featuring a Q&A from the 60th New York Film Festival with director Albert Serra on Pacifiction, moderated by FLC's Senior Director of Programming Florence Almozini, and a special programmers preview with the curators behind the 51st Dance on Camera Festival, taking place through Monday and featuring 30 new films from 35 countries. Get tickets to the longest-running dance film festival in the world at filmlinc.org/dance. Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra reconfirms his centrality in the contemporary cinematic landscape with this mesmerizing portrait of a French bureaucrat (a monumental Benoît Magimel) drifting through a fateful trip to a French Polynesian island with increasing anxiety. Pacifiction charts the various uneasy relationships that develop between Magimel's autocratic yet avuncular High Commissioner, De Roller, and the Indigenous locals (including nonprofessional actor Pahoa Mahagafanau in a hypnotic breakthrough as De Roller's trusted right hand and maybe lover) who operate essentially under his faux-benevolent thumb, many of whom we meet at a resort that caters to the prurient exoticism of foreign tourists. Serra's gripping, atmospheric thriller is a slow-building fever dream that lulls before catching us by surprise with the depths of its darkness, a film that allows its incisive social commentary about the remnants of colonialism to surface through quiet observation and aesthetic audacity. Pacifiction opens February 17th in our theaters with in-person intros and Q&As with Serra on Feb. 17, 18 & 19. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/pacifiction.
Today'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 Taos Poetry Festival in Taos, New Mexico, and to the Dance on Camera Festival in New York City. Extended residencies have taken place at Thirak India in Jaipur, India, Playa Summer Lake in the dynamic outback of Oregon, Roehampton University in London, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts. Since becoming a parent and navigating a global pandemic, Hagan's work takes place a bit closer to home these days. She is working on a new book titled, Ritual is Both Balm and Resistance. For more on this episode: Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast
The 2022 Dance on Camera Festival is scheduled for February 11-14 in person at the Walter Reade Theatre at the Lincoln Center in New York. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dawn-davis-loring/support
A transcript of this episode is available here: https://thedanceedit.com/transcript-episode-99Subscribe to The Dance Edit Extra: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dance-edit-extra/id1579075769Links referenced in/relevant to episode 99:-Al Jazeera coverage of the viral dance video fueling women's rights debate in Egypt: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/13/viral-egypt-dance-video-fuels-womens-rights-debate-Broadway World story on the Dance on Camera Festival lineup: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/The-50th-Dance-on-Camera-Festival-Announces-Line-up-for-2022-Festival-20220110-New York Times article on Broadway's attendance slump: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/16/theater/broadway-omicron-closings.html-Dance Teacher story on the "radically welcoming" dance studio: https://dance-teacher.com/what-does-it-mean-for-the-dance-studio-to-be-radically-welcoming/-Sara Mearns' post on her diagnosis with depression and burnout: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYnIhgMO2GK/
This week on the Film at Lincoln Center podcast, we're featuring a special Q&A on Ailey, an affectionate portrait of the world-renowned dancer and choreographer, Alvin Ailey, with director Jamila Wignot, and producer Lauren DeFilippo. The two filmmakers discussed the new film with Liz Wolff, Co-Curator of the Dance on Camera Festival, following our outdoor screening at Lincoln Center's Restart Stages. Ailey poetically examines how its subject's fascinating life inspired his passion for dance, suffusing rare archival footage with Ailey's own words, in addition to interviews with celebrated company dancers and choreographers. Beginning with Ailey's early experiences in the rural South, which would eventually inspire some of his most memorable works, and culminating in the creation of a dance inspired by his life, this documentary captures the artist's enduring impact on modern dance and the preservation of the African-American cultural experience with fresh insight. Ailey is now playing in our theaters, with special Q&As with the director, Jamila Wignot, on July 23 & 24 at the 6:15pm screenings. Go to filmlinc.org/ailey for more information.
The guest on episode 7 of 'A Body's Language" is Guillaume Côté.Guillaume Côté was born in Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec and trained at Canada's National Ballet School. He joined The National Ballet of Canada in 1998 and became a Principal Dancer in 2004. In 2013, Guillaume was also appointed Choreographic Associate.With The National Ballet of Canada, Guillaume has danced most of the principal roles in both the classical and contemporary repertoire. He has created a number of lead roles in ballets by James Kudelka including Ferdinand in An Italian Straw Hat, Prince Charming in Cinderella and Will in The Contract (The Pied Piper). He also created the role of Romeo in Alexei Ratmansky's Romeo and Juliet and performed the role as a guest artist with The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow.Guillaume is in great demand as a guest artist at major ballet companies around the world, such as Teatro alla Scala, English National Ballet, The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, The Mikhailovsky Theatre, The Hamburg Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet. He also performed in Kings of the Dance, Gala des Étoiles, Stars of the 21st Century, The Vision of Manuel Legris, Roberto Bolle and Friends, The Hamburg Ballet's 40th Anniversary Gala and the 44th Annual Nijinsky Gala for Hamburg Ballet Days as well as many other international galas. With English National Ballet, he created the role of Gene Kelly in Derek Deane's Strictly Gershwin.Guillaume is an accomplished choreographer, musician and composer. His choreographic works for The National Ballet of Canada include Venom, Enkeli, Dance Me To The End of Love, Body of Work and Being and Nothingness. Awards for his choreography include the Audience Choice Award for Best Choreography at The International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize for Enkeli and third prize at Ballet Society Hanover's 25th International Competition for #24. He debuted his first full-length ballet, Le Petit Prince, during the National Ballet's 2015/16 season and created Dark Angels in 2017 for the National Arts Centre. Most recently in 2018, he created Frame by Frame, in collaboration with Robert Lepage.In 2012, Guillaume choreographed and starred in the short film Lost in Motion which was presented at Toronto's International Film Festival. The sequel, Lost in Motion II, was released in 2013 and was featured at the Dance on Camera Festival in New York City in 2014. He won a Gemini Award in 2007 and the Galileo 2000 A Life for Music Prize in 2008 for Moving to His Music: The Two Muses of Guillaume Côté. In 2012, Guillaume was awarded La médaille de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, a prestigious award from the province of Québec for his work in the arts. Mr. Côté is also the Artistic Director of the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, one of the largest summer dance festivals in the country.
Back with more brand new episodes for 2021, Nottingham Playhouse’s Amplify Producer Craig Gilbert chats to artists of national and international renown in our Amplify podcast series. These conversations cover career and process as well as offering a few ideas to explore from home during this time of social distancing. This week Craig is chatting to Sam Hodges, a theatre director, artistic director and producer with over 15 years’ experience across the not-for-profit and commercial sectors. A few years after graduating from Cambridge University, he founded the HighTide Festival Theatre which grew into one of the country’s leading new writing companies. He was Artistic Director for five years, during which time he produced early work by the leading writers and directors of his generation – including writers Nick Payne, Sam Holcroft, Ella Hickson and Beth Steel, and directors Mike Longhurst, Polly Findlay and Natalie Abrahami. Highlights include Stovepipe - which was co-produced with the National Theatre and named one of The Sunday Times ‘Ten Best Theatre Productions of the Decade’ - and Ditch, which opened the Old Vic Tunnels. In 2009, Sam was named in Esquire Magazine’s 60 Brilliant Brits for shaping British theatre. Between 2012 and 2014, he was invited by Stephen Fry and Sally Greene to become the Creative Producer for the Criterion Theatre in London’s West End. More recently, Sam was Artistic Director of Nuffield Southampton Theatres (NST) where he built on his reputation for commissioning new plays and musicals. Highlights include international award-winning tours of Fantastic Mr Fox the Musical and Billionaire Boy the Musical, London transfers for A Number to the Young Vic and SS Mendi to the Royal Opera House, and world premieres of The Shadow Factory by Howard Brenton and an adaptation of the Coen Brothers film The Hudsucker Proxy. After his first season in charge, NST was named Regional Theatre of the Year and Sam has been named in the Stage 100 power list for the last 4 years. As a director, his productions for NST include The Audience (nominated Best Design & Best Actress, UK Theatre Awards), The Shadow Factory (nominated Best Design, UK Theatre Awards), Dedication, and The Glass Menagerie (nominated Best Director, UK Theatre Awards). He has also written two short films, Player (nominated Best Short: Raindance Film Festival, Miami Short Film Festival) and Double Take (commissioned by BAFTA and Big Dance for Channel 4: Dance on Camera Festival 2013 ) which he also directed.
Directors David Barba and James Pellerito and dancer Marcelo Gomes discuss the documentary ANATOMY OF A MALE BALLET DANCER at Opening Night of the 45th Dance on Camera Festival (co-presented with Dance Films Association), and Jeff Nichols and Ruth Negga discuss LOVING, which is nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Actress category for Negga's performance. This podcast is brought to you by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Film Lives Here. www.filmlinc.org
Jessica and Clara returned to the Dance on Camera Festival this year. We were on-site on Saturday, February 4th, interviewing interns, filmmakers, dancers and audience members about a range of films including documentary, narrative and choreography. Here’s a quick breakdown of the topics you’ll hear covered in this episode, as well as an extended version […]
We were delighted to sit down again with Nel Shelby, dance videographer and entrepreneur, to follow up on our brief conversation from earlier this year at the Dance on Camera Festival. In this episode we delve deeper into Nel’s filmmaking process for PS DANCE!, her highly successful new documentary about dance education in public schools […]
Each year, the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center screens one Work-in-Progress. through the Dance Film Association‘s Production Grant, Alexandra Shilling’s latest video project The Other Side of Stillness | Installation was selected and screened as a special event on February 13. Alex talked to Pod de Deux about the process of making the project and what […]
We kicked off our day at the Dance on Camera Festival with Nel Shelby, Director and Producer of PS Dance!, a documentary about dance education in New York City public schools that has now spawned a movement to expand dance education. Nel runs a thriving dance video production company, which she founded based on her […]
An 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 at a PillowTalk at Jacob's Pillow's 2015 festival, and past films include The Altitude of Dance, a documentary on VIDF, which debuted on Rocky Mountain PBS; four short films for Wendy Whelan's Restless Creature; and a short created with Adam Barruch that screened at NYC's Dance on Camera Festival and San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
Nel Shelby Productions is New York City’s premier source for dance videography, editing promotional films and live-streaming performance. Now, Nel Shelby Productions has grown from a one-woman show to a thriving operation with an excellent team of creative videographers, editors, marketing minds, client relations and project managers. Nel’s company is deeply dedicated to the preservation of dance through documentation of live performances, while also focusing on digital marketing and promotion with fully edited marketing reels, documentaries and dance films. Nel’s company has filmed more than 700 dance events and performances in traditional theaters, outdoor plazas and gallery spaces.She also works as Festival Videographer for the internationally celebrated Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in the Berkshires and as Resident Videographer at the Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado. Be sure to check out her half-hour documentary (link below) on Vail’s festival, The Altitude of Dance, debuted on Rocky Mountain PBS in May 2013.Nel has also created four short films for Wendy Whelan’s Restless Creature project, and “Folie a Deux,”. Nel’s short dance film made in collaboration with Adam Barruch Dance, was selected and screened at the Dance on Camera Festival in New York City and the San Francisco Dance Film Festival. She recently edited a dance documentary titled Where Women Don’t Dance, featuring Nejla Y. Yatkin and filmed during a month-long tour in Central America.Her latest project, PS Dance! which is a documentary about dance education in public schools hosted by TV journalist Paula Zahn. (link below) BalancingPointe.com http://www.psdancenyc.com/ http://www.nelshelby.com/dance-video-portfolio/#.VUz1Yo5VhBc http://www.nelshelby.com/dance-video-portfolio/#.VUz1jY5VhBc