Podcasts about restless creature

One of the most acclaimed dancers of our time, Wendy Whelan had a distinguished career for three decades as Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet, before becoming the first female to take on a leadership role with the company as Associate Artistic Director. Wendy and Alicia reminisce about taking classes together at Steps on Broadway, discuss Wendy's early struggles to be cast in a wider array of roles, and talk about Wendy's hope to leave a legacy of support for future generations of dancers.Check out Wendy Whelan on Instagram or at New York City Ballet.Learn more about Restless Creature here.Follow Moving Moments on Instagram.Follow Alicia on Instagram.You can find out more about Artful Narratives Media on Instagram or the web.The Moving Moments theme song was composed by Saul Guanipa for Videohelper.Moving Moments was co-created by Alicia Graf Mack, Jessica Handelman, and David Krauss. This interview has been edited and condensed to fit the time format.Episode copyright © 2023 Artful Narratives Media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's our highest honor to seal off Season One of the Artists Becoming Podcast with THE luminous Restless Creature herself: #HRH Wendy Whelan. While the journey of this fine Artist's blossoming is well known, the generosity of her conversation held us captive in the singular way her talent lit up stages across the globe for over 30 years. Join us, in welcoming this world-wide renowned Ballerina, choreographic muse, teacher, coach and current Associate Artistic Director of New York City Ballet. Wendy.

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Brooklyn New York based choreographer, Brian Brooks. Brian's work has toured internationally since 2002 with presentations by BAM, the Joyce Theater, Jacob's Pillow, the American Dance Festival, and Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum, among others. He has developed and toured work with former New York City Ballet prima ballerina, Wendy Whelan, titled Restless Creature and appears in the film by the same name, with Whelan. https://www.bbrooks.org

Host's Choice: Hayley! Play along as Aaron J Albano (Newsies, Hamilton) and Hayley Podschun (Chapin, Hello, Dolly) join Bryan, Kevin, and Kimberly via video chat to break down Center Stage, Restless Creature, and for Patreon, Billy Elliot. Come for the bad puns and wine but stay for the musical talk and Milagro tequila. Extended cut and full video is on Patreon. Become a supporter on our Patreon: https://bit.ly/2Q2zELG

Wendy Whelan spent 30 years with New York City Ballet, 23 of those years as a principal dancer. She has danced virtually every major Balanchine role, and worked closely with Jerome Robbins on many of his ballets. She originated leading roles in works by such notable choreographers as William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon. Wendy has been a guest artist with The Royal Ballet and the Kirov Ballet and has performed on nearly every major stage across the globe. She received the Dance Magazine Award in 2007, and in 2009 was given a Doctorate of Arts, honoris causa, from Bellarmine University. In 2011, she received both The Jerome Robbins Award and a Bessie Award for her Sustained Achievement in Performance. Since 2013, Wendy has been developing her own independent projects including, Restless Creature and Some Of A Thousand Words both co-produced by The Joyce Theater Productions, Whelan/Watson Other Stories co-produced by London’s Royal Opera House and Hagoromo, self-produced for the 2015 BAM Next Wave Festival. A documentary, entitled Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan, was released during the summer of 2016, in movie theaters across the country.

Wendy Whelan, whom The New York Times has called "America’s greatest contemporary ballerina," sits down to discuss her life and work with us in this week's episode of Still Spinning, The Joyce Theater's podcast about dance and the creative process. Read more about the duet First Fall that Brian Brooks created for Whelan, discussed in the episode.  Watch a mini-documentary we made on Whelan's and Brooks' evening-length show Some of a Thousand Words here.  Watch the documentary Restless Creature on Netflix.  More Info About The Joyce.  Tickets Facebook Instagram Thanks to Simon Kafka, the composer of our theme music, and the East West Quintet, who performed it. If you like it, you can purchase the song here.  Thank you to photographer Carrie Schneider and choreographer Kyle Abraham for providing the photograph for our show image. The photo features dancer Tamisha Guy in Abraham's Dearest Home.  

Peter Boal does a Q&A with Wendy Whelan, chatting about her first staging experience (with Ratmansky's Pictures at an Exhibition), her new documentary Restless Creature, and how she was recently published in The New York Times writing about her first time dancing a Balanchine ballet (which coincidentally was the same day he died).

Prima ballerina Wendy Whelan, is one of the most acclaimed dancers of our time. She had spent 30 years at the New York City Ballet, 23 of those as principal dancer, before her final performance in 2014. She started taking ballet lessons when she was only 3 years old, began intensive training at the Louisville Ballet Academy at age 9 and then continued to spend most of her life dedicated to the craft. Since leaving the New York City Ballet, Whelan has joined the faculty of New York City's Ballet Academy East and was appointed Artistic Associate at New York City Center. She also premiered her inaugural independent project "Restless Creature" followed by two more independent projects, Whelan/Watson Other Stories, at London's Royal Opera House and Hagoromo at BAM's Next Wave Festival. On May 24, 2017 Abramorama released the film, "Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan" in New York at Elinor Bunin Theater and Film Forum, a documentary giving an intimate look at Whelan as she prepares to leave NYCB. In this episode, Whelan discusses the dedication and difficulties associated with being a ballerina and also the rewarding experience of fully committing to her passion and the lessons she learned by letting it go. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Follow Sara Haines Twitter & Instagram: @SaraHaines Follow Jedidiah Bila on Twitter & Instagram: @jedediahbila Follow

You're about to meet and get to know one of ballet's most acclaimed dancers. The incomparable Wendy Whalen spent a record-setting 30 years dancing with the New York City Ballet. She's performed just about every major Balanchine role and worked closely with Jerome Robbins; has been a guest artist with the Royal and Kirov Ballets and has danced on nearly every major stage worldwide. Wendy's also the focus of the documentary "Restless Creature," that presents an intimate portrait of her 2014 departure from the NYCB. Simply put: you won't want to miss this conversation!

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