Dancecast

In this episode of the DanceCast, Silva Laukkanen speaks to her third site-specific dance artist, Stephan Koplowitz, who has been producing site specific dances for over 30 years. He shares a peek into his research and choreographic process, as well as discusses the origins and status of site specific dance, and the considerations of history and politics when choreographing in a new space.
Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

http://bodyshift.org
http://stanceondance.com
http://stephankoplowitz.com/about.html

Dale Andree is the founder and director of National Water Dance, a biennial event that organizes dance artists and educators across the country into a movement choir to inspire environmental awareness and action. In this episode of DanceCast, Dale discusses her history teaching improvisation to children, her status as a re-emerging choreographer, and her larger vision of getting communities of dancers across the country to come together and dance for water.
Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

http://se.nationalwaterdance.org
http://stanceondance.com
http://www.bodyshift.org
https://globalwaterdances.org
http://www.ndeo.org

Morgan Teel choreographs in the larger world beyond the studio; her stage is Austin, TX, the city she calls home. In this episode of DanceCast, Morgan shares her process building her newest work at the local skate park, her experience building community through site specific dance, and her reflections on how site-specific dance can bring people into the dance world who might otherwise never enter it.
Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

http://dancewaterloo.org
http://stanceondance.com
http://bodyshift.org

Mark Travis Rivera is a choreographer, writer, public speaker and advocate who lives in the world of intersectionality. Latino, gay, gender-non conforming and disabled, Mark’s life is a testament to how much agency a young person can have. In fact, the 26-year-old holds the distinction of being the youngest person to found an integrated dance company in the United States, marked dance project. In this episode of DanceCast, Mark shares the ins and outs of his life, as well as what still needs to be done to ensure equal access and opportunity.

https://marktravisrivera.com
https://bodyshift.org
https://stanceondance.com

In this episode of DanceCast, Mary Verdi-Fletcher shares her history founding and directing Dancing Wheels, a company and school based out of Cleveland, OH that has been uniting the talents of dancers both with and without disabilities since 1980. Mary was one of the first professional wheelchair dancers in the US, and has inspired many to follow her path through her desire to provide full and equal access into the world of dance. In this interview, she looks both backward and forward, appreciating the strides that have been made for dancers with disabilities, as well as discussing what more still needs to be done.

https://stanceondance.com
https://bodyshift.org
http://www.dancingwheels.org

We're More Alike Than Different

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN

In this episode of DanceCast, Wayne M. Smith shares his experience working with Playback Memphis and Company d. Through Playback Memphis, Wayne helps bring together police officers and formerly incarcerated individuals to share and build a performance on their cumulative experience. Wayne also teaches at Company d, a dance company comprised of young adults with Down syndrome. Reflecting on his experiences, he arrives at the conclusion we're more alike than different.

Text by Emmaly Wiederholt/stanceondance.com

http://www.companyddancers.org/2015/#

http://playbackmemphis.org/

http://www.projectmotiondance.org

http://bodyshift.org

http://stanceondance.com

We All Have Our Shoes On

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN

Amii LeGendre has taught dance to incarcerated men in New York through two programs: the Bard Prison Initiative and Rehabilitation Through the Arts. She is a wellness coordinator and dance professor at Bard College, and is currently performing a new dance/theatre solo called "I'm looking at you as if" about her experience teaching dance to men in prison. In this podcast, she reads a piece she wrote for Contact Quarterly about her experience with the Bard Prison Initiative, and reflects why dance education for incarcerated communities is so powerful.

http://bpi.bard.edu/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_Through_the_Arts

https://stanceondance.com

https://bodyhift.org

http://museumofnarrowplaces.weebly.com/

In this episode of dancecast we talk about art in prison and the impact and experience of it for the teachers and participants and the fine line of who is a teacher to whom in this context.

http://www.truth-be-told.org/
http://www.bodyshift.org
http://stanceondance.com

In this episode of DanceCast I'm chatting with Emmaly Wiederholt about definitions of dance and everything dance related. She also tells us why she decided to start Stance on Dance and her over 50 project. It is delicious episode.

In this episode I discuss about the history and future of Keshet Dance Company with its founder and artistic director Shira Greenberg.

Shira will share the how all began and where they are now. She is talking about her different projects , some of them expanding through out the 20 year history of Keshet.

• Keshet Dance Company - http://keshetarts.org/

Judith and I talk about her work in Axis Dance Company and her 10 year plan about getting the integrated dance scene together in USA.

• Axis dance Company - http://axisdance.org
• Keshet Dance Company http://keshetarts.org
• Body Shift http://bodyshift.org
• VSA Texas http://vsatx.org

Talking about past, present and future of Marc's artistic endeavors.

Artistic Director and Choreographer Marc Brew trained as a professional dancer at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and The Australian Ballet School. He has been working in the UK and Internationally for the past 20 years as a dancer, choreographer, director, teacher and speaker; with the Australian Ballet Company, State Theatre Ballet Company of South Africa, Infinity Dance Theatre in New York and for 5 years up until early 2008 with CandoCo Dance Company. He was a guest performer, collaborator and media spokes person for the London Hand Over Ceremony for the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games Closing Ceremony and in 2009 was appointed Associate Director with Scottish Dance Theatre – ‘Scotland’s principal contemporary dance company’ where he co-directed ‘NQR’ and was Associate Artist at Tramway Theatre in 2015/16. Since 2001 Marc has been dedicating time to his own choreography with Marc Brew Company.

• Marc Brew Dance Company http://www.marcbrew.com/
• Axis Dance Company http://www.axisdance.org/
• Candoco Dance Company http://candoco.co.uk/