Explore "jacob's pillow podcast" with insightful episodes like "Spoken Word in Dance", "Remembering Gus Solomons jr", "Trisha Brown: Choreographer and Visual Artist", "Creating with the Cosmos" and "Umfundalai Technique with Dr. Kemal Nance, Part 2" from podcasts like ""PillowVoices: Dance Through Time", "PillowVoices: Dance Through Time", "PillowVoices: Dance Through Time", "PillowVoices: Dance Through Time" and "PillowVoices: Dance Through Time"" and more!
Poet and dance writer Karen Hildebrand hosts this episode focusing on how text and spoken word are used in dance. Included are examples from works by Liz Lerman, Joe Goode, and Carmen de Lavallade. Hildebrand is the former editorial director for Dance Magazine, and a past editor in chief of Dance Teacher magazine.
Jennifer Edwards hosts this episode honoring Gus Solomons jr, the celebrated choreographer, writer, and teacher. As the first Black dancer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Solomons was both a trailblazer and a trendsetter, forming his own company and making more than 150 works before his death in August 2023 at the age of 84.
In this episode: Excerpts from Mondays with Merce: Episode 14 Merce as Model (2010). Director/Producer: Nancy Dalva. (c) Merce Cunningham Trust. All rights reserved.
Resources:
Mondays with Merce #14: Merce as Model, with Gus Solomons, Jr.
Remembering Gus Solomons Jr. 1938 - 2023
Gus Solomons Jr., 84, Dies; a Rare Black Presence in Experimental Dance
Choreography in Focus: Wendy Perron and Gus Solomons Jr.
Jennifer Edwards hosts this episode focused on Trisha Brown, one of the most celebrated choreographers to emerge from Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern era. Brown is in conversation with Deborah Jowitt, the influential choreographer, scholar, dance critic, and educator. We also hear from art historian and Brown specialist Susan Rosenberg.
Essay on Trisha Brown: https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/themes-essays/women-in-dance/trisha-brown/
Many choreographers draw inspiration from their ancestors, nature, and the spiritual world, and Teena Marie Custer explores some examples with help from Sandra Laronde, Christopher K. Morgan, Ananya Chatterjea, Michelle N. Gibson, and others.
In this second part of a 2-episode series, Dr. C. Kemal Nance examines the movements, meaning, and structure of the contemporary African dance technique known as Umfundalai.
Dr. C. Kemal Nance hosts this episode honoring Dr. Kariamu Welsh and celebrating the dance technique that she developed called Umfundalai.
Jennifer Edwards hosts this episode honoring the life and legacy of teacher and choreographic mentor, Bessie Schönberg. Included are excerpts of D.A. Pennebaker's documentary film entitled, "Bessie: A Portrait of Bessie Schönberg," with remembrances from Merce Cunningham, Jerome Robbins, Meredith Monk and from Schönberg herself.
Schönberg speaking about how to watch dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaAI6uyUn0Y
With the help of his colleague Elise Bernhardt, Stephan Koplowitz traces his early years at Jacob's Pillow, where ideas were planted that led to a fruitful, life-long career and his book entitled “On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation.” Featured are inside looks at Dancing In The Streets and Grand Central Dances, as well as Joanna Haigood's thoughts about her work process as a site choreographer.
Book, "On Site: Methods for Site-Specific Performance Creation" https://www.stephankoplowitz.com/onsitebook
Video, "Fenestrations" (1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxCkkMPypGc
Video, "Fenestrations2" (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcMW78qRuSo
Hosted by Brian Schaefer, this episode is an exploration of how gay history is intertwined with the Pillow’s very beginnings, often hiding in plain sight.
Related episodes of PillowVoices:
https://pillowvoices.org/episodes/barton-mumaw-a-cornerstone-of-the-pillow
https://pillowvoices.org/episodes/ted-shawn-jacobs-pillow-founder-in-his-own-words
*This episode was produced by Lisa Niedermeyer.
A recording of a conversation that took place in 2002, moderated by Reginald Yates. We hear the voices of Donald McKayle, Cleo Parker Robinson, and Julie Belafonte in addition to insights and reflections from Katherine Dunham herself.
As an artist, technologist, and former dancer with Doug Elkins and Friends, Lisa Niedermeyer reflects on her time with the company and her embodied memories of performing in Fräulein Maria, the uproarious and joyful dance based on The Sound of Music. We also hear from Elkins himself, recorded during two different Pillow engagements.
https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/doug-elkins-and-friends/fraulein-maria/
Hosted by Jacob's Pillow Associate Archivist Patsy Gay, this episode explores the intersection of dance and technology, diving into both history and current practice. Through the voices and perspectives of Marjani Forté-Saunders, Sydney Skybetter, Brian Brooks, Lily Baldwin, and Ilya Vidrin, we hear how technology can both hinder and enforce a dancer's embodied awareness.
Paloma McGregor remembers the life, work, and legacy of Blondell Cummings. McGregor frames this exploration through Cummings' dance work titled "Chicken Soup", designated as an American Masterpiece by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006.
https://www.dancemagazine.com/remembering-blondell-cummings-1944-2015/
https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/blondell-cummings/chicken-soup/
Adrian Madison Cario hosts this episode on the relationship between lighting design and dance, featuring some of the 20th century's most prominent designers—Tom Skelton, Beverly Emmons, Jennifer Tipton, and Mark Stanley. Now the CEO of San Francisco's Minnesota Street Project, Cario draws upon their beginnings in lighting design to illuminate different perspectives on design, collaboration, and building a world on stage.
Special thanks to New England Public Media, for their support of this episode of PillowVoices.
We join Pillow Scholar Maura Keefe in conversation with award-winning Ana Maria Alvarez, the founder of CONTRA-TIEMPO, a multilingual Los-Angeles-based activist performing company dedicated to transforming the world through dance. This is a recast of a PillowTalk presented live on July 11, 2021.
Special thanks to New England Public Media, for their support of this episode of PillowVoices.
Professor of dance at UCLA and Pillow Scholar, Lionel Popkin explores the complicated history and relationship between Indian dance, American modern dance, and Jacob's Pillow. Posing pointed questions about the 'use' of Indian dance movement and esthetics in the work of The Denishawn Company, the curatorial lens applied to Indian dance over time, and ultimately the influence and legacy of those choices on the dance landscape of today.
Lakshmi Vishwanathan: https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/lakshmi-vishwanathan/varnam/
Ragamala: https://www.ragamaladance.org
Shantala Shivalingappa: http://shantalashivalingappa.com/en/
Nrityagram: https://nrityagram.org
Akram Khan: https://www.akramkhancompany.net
Aakash Odedra: https://aakashodedra.com
Pramila Vasudevan: http://www.aniccha.org
Hari Krishnan: https://www.indance.ca
Lionel Popkin: http://www.lionelpopkin.org
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