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Good Morning! Welcome to the Dance to Learn Podcast - Where I help dance teachers and studio owners dance, learn and grow right along with your students. I’m your host Jessica Strong, I’m the Creative Director and owner here at Dance to Learn. In Today’s episode I am very excited to sit down and interview Tricia Gomez - the Global Dance Director of Rhythm Works Integrative Dance.

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Experimentation and Inclusivity

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Eric Kupers, a director, choreographer and performer in the Bay Area. He is the co-director of Dandelion Dancetheater and director of Bandelion (the interdisciplinary ensemble within the company). Eric discusses his experimental approach to dance-making, the creative significance of inclusivity (both in terms of different bodies as well as different artistic genres), his intro to performance through folk dance at his public elementary school and why exposure to dance is imperative in education, and his development of an inclusive dance program at Cal State University East Bay.
Text by Emmaly Wiederholt and photo by Luiza Silva

http://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/
http://keshetarts.org
http://stanceondance.com
https://www.dancemagazine.com

Creating a More Inclusive World

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Marisa Hamamoto, founder and director of Infinite Flow, the first inclusive ballroom dance company in the US. She shares her myriad experiences with inclusion and why it became such an important concept for her, her difficult history pursuing dance before founding Infinite Flow, why the #MeToo conversation needs to be integrated more into the dance world, and how the discovery of ballroom put her on a new trajectory empowering herself and others to dance.
Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

http://stanceondance.com
http://keshetarts.org
http://www.infiniteflowdance.org
https://www.danceusa.org
http://bodyshift.org

Embodying the Conversation on Arts and Social Justice

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Adam McKinney, cofounder of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization committed to dialogue and healing through the arts. He discusses how he became involved in race and trauma work; how dance can build community and address oppression; DNAWORKS programming exploring layers of identity; and the importance of keeping intersectionality in mind when teaching and leading.

Adam McKinney is a classically trained dancer and former member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. He holds an M.A. in Dance Studies with concentrations in Race and Trauma theories. Adam served as the inaugural Chair of the Dance Department at the New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe for six years, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

http://dnaworks.org
http://keshetarts.org
http://stanceondance.com
http://bodyshift.org
https://finearts.tcu.edu/dance/

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Wagner Moreira, a Brazilian dancer, choreographer and teacher living and working in Dresden, Germany. Wagner and Silva discuss the in-between place of living in one country but being from another, the role of Wagner’s father in helping him find dance and his choreographic tribute to him 18 years after he took his own life, the use of nudity in dance and the idea of provocation instead of confrontation, the process of making/becoming/identifying as a dancer, and how technology is changing our modern concept of time.
Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

https://wlmoreira.wordpress.com
https://keshetarts.org
https://stanceondance.com
https://bodyshift.org

In this episode I speak with Maija Karhunen about her work and life as a dancer.

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Maija Karhunen, a dancer and performer based in Helsinki, Finland. Maija discusses the practicalities of touring as a disabled dancer, attitudes in Europe toward disability, how to navigate the special attention that disability voices receive, and her desire to grow in both her professional and personal identity. Text by Emmaly Wiederholt.

Maija Karhunen is a dancer and performer based in Helsinki. She works with choreographers and directors in Finland and Europe. She studied dance and choreography in Finland, the Netherlands and Germany. Karhunen's interests lie in the all-encompassing performativity of the human, questions of power, intimacy, the personal and the grotesque. She works also in the field of (dance) writing and critique.

http://keshetarts.org
http://danceabilityfinland.com/kaaos/?lang=fi
https://vimeo.com/196710873
http://stanceondance.com
http://www.bodyshift.org