Podcasts about dancemakers

Shonica Gooden (Hamilton Broadway's Woman 4) was born and raised in Atlanta, where she focused on what was supposed to be a thriving modern dance career. She had zero interest in musical theatre and didn't see herself as a triple threat. Luckily, her teachers at DanceMakers of Atlanta did see her as a triple threat and strongly encouraged Shonica to audition for Bring It On. This led to callbacks and work sessions with Alex Lacamoire and Andy Blankenbuehler, and it would prove to be the start of a beautiful friendship with The Cabinet.  Shonica had the incredibly unique experience working with Andy Blankenbuehler in the pre-production phase of Hamilton, and she was one of the dancers Andy called to help him visualize what would end up being the choreography in the show. It was a shock to everyone (especially Andy) when Shonica turned down the opportunity to be a swing when Hamilton was transferring to Broadway. As Shonica explains, it was a terrifying decision that ended up being the right move. Plus, Shonica talks about being a mother on Broadway including not feeling guilty about having a child, what needs to change in the industry, refusing to make excuses, and teaching her son that being busy is normal because she's not giving up her career anytime soon.  Shonica on Instagram The Black Artists Dance Collective Mutha Podcast /// Gillian's Website The Hamilcast on Twitter The Hamilcast on Instagram Join the Patreon Peeps

In this interview with Meryem Alaoui, a professional dancer and choreographer originally from Morocco, we explore the body's role in the fight for collective liberation and the power of sharing our gifts with the world. Meryem discusses the concept of 'rigorous play'—how she balances discipline in her training with creating space for magic to unfold. Bio: Meryem Alaoui is a Toronto-based dancer and choreographer from Morocco. Founder and artistic director of Jasad Dance Projects, her work is at the intersection of somatic research using movement and voice, and the exploration of contemporaneity through the reclamation of embodied performance practices, dances and knowledge from her culture as a Moroccan diasporic dance artist. A 2009 graduate of the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, she has danced for choreographers Amanda Acorn, Peggy Baker, Angela Blumberg, Antony Hamilton (with the company Dancemakers), Karen Kaeja (Kaeja d'Dance), among others. Her choreographic work has been presented nationally and internationally, notably in SummerWorks in Toronto, Tangente in Montreal and at the Théâtre National Mohammed V in Morocco. Meryem has received residency support nationally and internationally, and project funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario and Toronto Arts Councils. She is a certified Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator and she enjoys facilitating movement explorations for dancers in professional settings and in community and arts-education contexts, such as with Toronto Dance Theatre, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Haneen Women Choir and The Arab Community Centre of Toronto. Are you ready to connect with your creative life force? Schedule a free consultation ⁠⁠here⁠⁠!

Today'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 dedicated herself to solo performance, winning rapturous praise for the eloquence and depth of her dancing, and accolades for her collaborative partnerships with extraordinary choreographers, directors, musicians, and designers. Since 2010 her choreography has focused on works for small ensemble. Over its 32-year history Peggy Baker Dance Projects has been presented at major festivals and dance centres in North America, Asia and Europe, including Danspace, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, and the Harkness Festival in New York; the Luckman Center in Los Angeles; Jacob's Pillow; the Copenhagen International Dance Festival; the Time Festival in Ghent, Belgium; The Holland Dance Festival; the Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico; MoDaFe in Seoul, Korea; Landmark Tower in Yokohama, Japan; the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa, the High Performance Rodeo in Calgary, Tangente, L'Agora de la danse, and Danse Danse in Montreal, and Canadian Stage and Fall for Dance North in Toronto. Her evening-length multi-disciplinary work who we are the dark, created with composer/performers Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara of Arcade Fire, toured across Canada and internationally from winter 2019 to early in 2020. For more on Peggy and this episode: Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast

Guests: Denise H. Latimer & Lynise M HeardHosts: Courtney Ortiz & Lesley MealorDancemakers of Atlanta, an NYCDA 2021 Outstanding Studio Winner, has a simple mission - to promote creativity, diversity and innovation while building outstanding leaders with excellent characters. Owners Denise Latimer and Lynise Heard sit down with us to discuss what makes Dancemakers of Atlanta special today on Making the Impact - A Dance Competition Podcast!Follow Dancemakers of Atlanta on social media @dancemakersatlanta and be sure to check out:- Photo Patch, a business started by a Dancemakers of Atlanta dancer, to connect children with their incarcerated parents.- "Matter" NYCDA 2021 Performance- "Black Panther" The Dance Awards 2019 Performance- Dancemakers of Atlanta websiteIf you love Making The Impact and want to support our podcast, buy us a coffee now on Ko-Fi! Your donation will go directly towards helping us create quality content for future episodes. We appreciate your support! ❤️This episode is sponsored by:Dance Costumes by UrzúaCustom Dance Costumes and Dancewear for made every body! Use code: IMPACT15 for 15% off all costumes and dancewear! Follow your Hosts & Guests!Courtney Ortiz - @courtney.ortizLesley Mealor  - @miss.lesley.danceDancemakers of Atlanta - @dancemakersatlantaJoin our NEW Facebook Group and connect with us! Making The Impact - A Dance Competition Podcast Community Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! We would love to hear from you! Join our Newsletter for weekly episode releases straight to your inbox! For a list of affiliated dance competitions, visit our website at www.impactdanceadjudicators.comSupport the show (http://www.ko-fi.com/makingtheimpact)

Hillary and Tina interview artist, writer, and podcaster, Maya Gurantz. Maya Gurantz is an artist and writer whose work interrogates social imaginaries of American culture, and how constructions of gender, race, class, and progress operate in our shared myths, public rituals, and private desires. Maya's videos, performances, installations, and social practice projects have been shown and commissioned by (solo): Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Grand Central Art Center, Catharine Clark Gallery, Greenleaf Gallery, Pieter PASD; (group) the Museum of Contemporary Art Utah, Angels Gate Cultural Center, the Oakland Museum of California, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Navel LA, Art Center College of Design, The Goat Farm Atlanta, The Great Wall of Oakland, High Desert Test Sites, Autonomie Gallery, and Movement Research at Judson Church, among others. She is the recipient of the inaugural Pieter Performance Grant for Dancemakers and an Artist Residency at the McColl Center For Art + Innovation. Maya is a regular contributor to The LA Review of Books (where her essay, Kompromat, was the most-read article of 2019), and has written for This American Life, The Frame at KPCC, The Awl, Notes on Looking, Avidly, Acid-Free, Baumtest Quarterly, RECAPS Magazine, and an anthology, CRuDE, published by the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Bourges. She co-translated Be My Knife and Someone to Run With by Israeli novelist David Grossman. In 2018 she received a grant from the UC Humanities Research Institute for “Out of the Archive,” an ongoing project making archives more widely accessible to citizen-researchers. She co-hosts the culture and politics podcast, The Sauce. For show notes and links to our sources, please click here (https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/articles/lmep33notes). Special Guest: Maya Gurantz.

Show notes below:   Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com    © 2021 Tara Cheyenne Performance   Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify.   Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to:  https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386   Links:  Balancing Act: http://balancingactcanada.com/ Intersections of Care: https://www.cda-acd.ca/docs/Regional%20Activities%202020%20-%2021/Artist%20Caregiver%202021/Intersections-ENG.pdf Dance Makers: http://dancemakers.org/ Susie Burpee:   http://susieburpee.com/   About Susie: Active in the performing arts in Canada for over 25 years, dance artist Susie Burpee is a performer, creator, teacher, and mother to two young children. She danced for many years with Dancemakers, Le Groupe Dance Lab, and Tedd Robinson (10 Gates Dancing) and recently with Hanna Kiel (Human Body Expression) and Alyssa Martin (Rock Bottom Movement). Augmenting her dance training with studies in Bouffon and character work, Susie has collaborated on projects with Crow’s Theatre, Dusk Dances, Nightwood Theatre, and with longtime colleague Linnea Swan. Her work has received Dora Mavor Moore Awards for both Outstanding Choreography and Performance and she is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Dance. Susie is on guest faculty at many post-secondary dance programs across the country, and in 2020, she completed a Master of Arts in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at The University of Toronto.  She is originally from rural Manitoba, a second-generation settler on the original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. Since 2001, Toronto/Tkaronto has been her home; she now works there with Theatre Direct as producer of Balancing Act, a national platform to support caregivers in the performing arts.  About Tara: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight). Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.

Show notes below: Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Productionwww.taracheyenne.comInstagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP  /  FB: Tara Cheyenne PerformancePodcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewartwww.marcstewartmusic.com  © 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts/iTunes Donate to keep this podcast ad-free go to: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386 Show Notes and links:  Alanna Kraaijeveldhttps://www.alannamoves.com/ VIDF (Vancouver Int'l Dance Festival: MODUS OPERANDIMade and sustained by Alanna Kraaijeveld in collaboration with Modus Operandi artists and Kate Franklin, Line, Starting line, Practical questions, Disappear, Solos and small groups, Swirling, Space, All together is a scored improvised performance. https://vidf.ca/performance/modus-operandi/Modus Operandi:https://www.outinnerspace.ca/mo/ Fighting Monkey/Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek: https://fightingmonkey.net/aboutSerge Bennathan: https://balletbc.com/bio/serge-bennathan/Dancemakers: http://dancemakers.org/Peter Boneham: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peter-bonehamLe Groupe Dance Lab: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/le-groupe-dance-labSusanna Hood: http://susannahood.ca/Cirque du Soliel: https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/Ballet BC: https://balletbc.com/Dave St-Pierre: https://www.dansedanse.ca/en/dave-st-pierreCompany 605: http://company605.ca/ImpulsTanz: https://www.impulstanz.com/en/  About Tara:Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director and writer. Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, she is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level"(The Georgia Straight).Tara is celebrated nationally and internationally for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. The string of celebrated full-length solo shows to her credit includes bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember, and she partners regularly on multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary-bending ensemble creations. When she isn’t creating innovative movement for theatre, Tara performs around the world- highlights include DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, and High Performance Rodeo/Calgary. Recent works include The Body Project (premiering 2020/21 season) The River with dance artist Miriam Colvin and artist and activist Molly Wickham (premiering 2021 in Wet'suwet'en Territory), empty.swimming.pool with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver, B.C.), how to be (Vancouver, B.C.) , and I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember (currently touring). Tara lives on the unceded and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)/East Vancouver with her partner composer Marc Stewart.© 2020 Tara Cheyenne Performance 

I sat down with Brooke Paulsen-Zelus to talk about her life as a dancer, choreography and teacher. She shared some experiences and how you have to work for your career. There are ups and downs but it is rewarding. Follow Brooke on Instagram at _brookepzCheck out DanceMakers at dancemakersinc.com

Rachel sat down with me to discuss “One Glimpse Inside”, a work she performed in Choreographic Works 2019. We talked about her journey through multiple versions of this solo piece, including her residencies at Lake Studios Berlin and at Dancemakers in Toronto. As well, we touched upon the ideas of patience, social perception, and performer-audience relationships. Instagrams: @rachelfacchini @nearfarprojects Website: https://nearfarprojects.com/ Original air date: March 18, 2019 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brianna-clarke/message

Meet Amelia Ehrhardt, a dancer, choreographer, curator, and teacher working and living in Tkaranto, on land that is and has been the territory of the Wendat, Haudenosaunee, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and other Indigenous peoples documented and undocumented. Amelia is currently the Curator at Dancemakers, a choreographic residency and research centre and has recently premiered their new creation, a solo entitled "plain nature". I had the chance to meet Amelia on my visit to Toronto last April. Amelia and I sat down and recorded this interview on their recent visit to Stockholm. more info: https://www.ameliaehrhardt.net www.pavleheidler.com ***musical score by Sunna Ardal and Josef Ask***

Cathy Levy's conversation with acclaimed Canadian contemporary dance performer, choreographer, master teacher and mentor Peggy Baker opens with memories of Wim Wenders and Pina Bausch. From there, Peggy speaks of her youth, her fateful encounter with Patricia Beatty, her professional dance career that brought her to Toronto's Dancemakers and then to New York's Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mark Morris and the White Oak Dance Project. She returned to Toronto in 1990 to form her own company to support her solo career and has been choreographing for small ensembles since 2010. Her most recent creation who we are in the dark that features Sarah Neufeld and Jeremy Gara of Arcade Fire was performed at the NAC in April 2019.

Bio: Victoria Cheong is a multi-disciplinary artist from Toronto who performs under the concept-title New Chance; apart from making performance-based electronic music she produces video and installation work, and co-runs Healing Power Records with Wolfgang Nessel (DJ HVYWTR). Recording notes: This interview was recorded at the now shuttered venue and cafe the Holy Oak, which formerly resided on Bloor street by Lansdowne in Toronto, ON. This landmark venue was forced to close by prohibitively escalating rent. The background DJ set with espresso machine improvisations was incidentally provided by Chrissy Reichert (Tenderness) Links: Artist: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/new-chance Tumblr: http://ear-rationelle.tumblr.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vicsanointedfavourites/ Healing Power: https://healingpowertoronto.bandcamp.com/ References: Tenderness :http://tendernessmusic.com/ Zoja Smutny: http://dancemakers.org/zoja-smutny/ Dancemakers: http://dancemakers.org/ Wolfgang Nessel: https://soundcloud.com/hvywtr

Choreographer, Jolene Konkel, joins us to tell her story about finding God but discovering a lack of acceptance in the Christian culture that welcomed her dance talents.  This led her to be a pioneer in merging the arts and faith in new ways that broke down walls her peers had about concert dance being used to reflect the heart of God.  This also led her to her mission of equipping and encouraging "the orphaned artist" to discover there is a place and purpose for them for God to use their gifts.  Jolene has an undergrad degree in Christian studies(emphasis in theater) from North Central University and an M.F.A. in Performance and Choreography from Univ. of Milwaukee.  She is the founder of Youth With a Mission(YWAM's) global Univ. of the Nations School of Dance Studies.  She is choreographer and adjunct faculty in the University of Northwestern's Theater program and has choreographed over 30 local musical productions.  She has been showcased in the DanceMakers series at UWM, Choreographer's Evening at the Ritz Theater,  Jazz Here, Jazz Now at the Univ. of MN and Rhythmically Speaking at The Southern Theater.  Her most recent work was presented at the 2016 MN Fringe Festival.  

Serge Bennathan founded the Vancouver based company Les Productions Figlio in 2006 after spending 16 years as the artistic director of Toronto’s Dancemakers. This 12-time Dora Award nominee (two-time winner) [ … ]

Chat with Amelia Ehrhardt on Thursday January 28th 2016 at the Dancemakers Crentre for Creation.