Explore " swan lake" with insightful episodes like "Serene Swan Lake", "Orchestral Maneuvers on the Playa", "S6E7: Conversations of Nutcrackers Past", "S6E6: Beyond the Nutcracker" and "Swan Lake: Raising The Bar For Ballet Music" from podcasts like ""Myths in Movies", "Burning Man LIVE", "Kinetic Conversations with the Fort Wayne Ballet", "Kinetic Conversations with the Fort Wayne Ballet" and "The Classical Music Minute"" and more!
This week we are covering a story that has featured so prominently in popular culture that is has become its own folktale! We are covering the ballet, Swan Lake and its Slavic origins.
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Some people are surprised to learn that Black Rock City is home to not just one but two full-fledged symphony orchestras. While the Black Rock Philharmonic kicks out the classical jams, the Playa Pops brings the big-ensemble sound to popular music.
Both are composed (ahem) of passionate volunteer musicians – classically trained, self-trained, and otherwise – who come together once a year to perform in the dust (or mud) the songs they have practiced all year at home.
In this installment, kbot and Stuart talk to members of the Playa Pops and the Black Rock Philharmonic about their process, their performances, and how the desert hates their instruments. And we get to hear some amazing live music performed by actual humans, recorded live at Burning Man 2023 in the Black Rock Desert.
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For this episode, we take a look back at some of the previous conversations we have had about The Nutcracker in the years we have been doing this podcast. Join us as we revisit discussions on the ballet's history and legacy with Karen Gibbons-Brown and an insightful discussion on the Tchaikovsky's music with the help of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic's Caleb Young.
In this episode, we've turned the tables on show host Jim Sparrow, as he takes a turn in the interview chair. In his roll as Fort Wayne Ballet's Executive Director, he gives us a glimpse into the structure and the day-to-day mechanics of operating a ballet company. Find out what goes into a production from a fiscal standpoint, with the behind-the-scenes costs of staging, costuming, sets, courting trusts, and satisfying sponsors. Jim gives us the ins and outs of ballet as a business, as Kinetic Conversations takes ballet Beyond the Nutcracker.
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Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky is now one of the most popular ballets of all time. It’s remarkable, then, that when Swan Lake premiered in 1877, the reception was lukewarm at best. Take a minute to get the scoop!
Fun Fact
When most of us think about Tchaikovsky, we think of his ballets — Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the latter as ubiquitous at Christmastime as Handel’s Messiah. Between the 1877 premiere of Swan Lake in Moscow and the debut of The Nutcracker in St. Petersburg in 1892.
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Fort Wayne Ballet is getting ready to stage its first big show of the 2023-24 season, entitled Opening Night! In this three part series, Kinetic Conversations looks at each of the three ballets the company will be perform in the show - each with a nod to New York City.
In our third installment of this miniseries, Jim Sparrow and Karen Gibbons-Brown discuss the Agnes de Mille comic ballet, Three Virgins and a Devil. We learn about de Mille’s career as a choreographer and her influential work on Broadway musicals in the 40’s and 50’s, and then Jim and Karen discuss Fort Wayne Ballet’s upcoming productions for season 67.
Tickets for Opening Night! can be purchased at fortwayneballet.org.
Fort Wayne Ballet is getting ready to stage it's first big show of the 2023-24 season, entitled Opening Night!. In this three part series, Kinetic Conversations looks at each of the three ballets the company will be perform in the show - each with a nod to New York City.
In part two of our series, Jim interviews Robert LaFosse, repetiteur for Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free. They discuss the history of the piece and Robbins' first collaboration with Leonard Bernstein in a partnership that would eventually lead to the making of West Side Story.
Fort Wayne Ballet is getting ready to stage it's first big show of the 2023-24 season, entitled Opening Night!. In this three part series, Kinetic Conversations looks at each of the three ballets the company will be perform in the show - each with a nod to New York City.
In part one, Jim Sparrow sits down with Arpino Foundation repetiteur Cameron Basden to discuss Italian Suite, the work by Gerald Arpino. They talk about Fort Wayne Ballet's efforts to restage this beautiful piece.
As we look ahead to the start of our fall semester at the Fort Wayne Ballet academy, we want to take a look at dance education in America in general and what it means to us at Fort Wayne Ballet to carry on this legacy in the fine arts.
In the second half of our discussion, Jim and Karen discuss the different paths a student might take in the academy, and the benefits of a dance education.
As we look ahead to the start of our fall semester at the Fort Wayne Ballet academy, we want to take a look at dance education in America in general and what it means to us at Fort Wayne Ballet to carry on this legacy in the fine arts.
In this first episode in a two-part discussion, Jim and Karen look at the deep past of dance education and how it has evolved into the modern American dance academy.
In this special Showdown episode, Conor and Caroline are continuing their non-Disney cycle with two princess films that dodged a Disney coronation: The Swan Princess and Anastasia. Did the Disney defectors manage to create a film that can compete with the films of the 90s Renaissance or is former animator Richard Rich's adaptation of Swan Lake the next tale as old as time? Let the sweet tones of Liz Callaway take you on a journey to the past to discover if the impact of these films lasts far longer than forever.
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In this episode of the Ducks Unlimited podcast, host Katie Burke interviews author Steve Knutson about his book "Minnesota Duck Camps: 160 Years of History and Tradition". Knutson shares his background in duck hunting and how he got into the outdoors and waterfowl as a child growing up in West Central Minnesota. The conversation dives deeper into the history and significance of duck camps in Minnesota, including their unique culture and traditions. If you're interested in hunting or the history of Minnesota's duck camps, this episode is definitely worth a listen.
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In our three-part miniseries, Kinetic Conversations looks at the life, career, and legacy of Eddie Stierle. In our third and final installment, we meet again with Eddie’s sister, Rose, to talk about the lasting impact, the international recognition, and the touching tribute from the dance world that all stand as part of the deserving legacy of Eddie Stierle.
Order your tickets today for Dancer’s Legacy: An Evening of Stierle at fortwayneballet.org and artstix.org.
Kinetic conversations is hosted by Fort Wayne Ballet Executive Director Jim Sparrow and Artistic Director Karen Gibbons-Brown. Our Guests for this series are Rose Worton and Kim Sagami. Original music composed by John Dawkins. Produced and engineered by John Dawkins and Wayneshout Productions.
Join us for Part 2 of our podcast miniseries on Stierle!
In our three-part miniseries, Kinetic Conversations looks at the life, career, and legacy of Eddie Stierle. In this heartfelt second episode, we talk to Kim Sagami, the repetiteur working with Fort Wayne Ballet to restage Eddie’s works. Kim shares with us what it meant to her to not only dance in Eddie’s ballets, but to be there as part of the team that kept him going in the last stages of his fight with AIDS.
Order your tickets today for Dancer’s Legacy: An Evening of Stierle at fortwayneballet.org and artstix.org.
Kinetic conversations is hosted by Fort Wayne Ballet Executive Director Jim Sparrow and Artistic Director Karen Gibbons-Brown. Our Guests for this series are Rose Worton and Kim Sagami. Original music composed by John Dawkins. Produced and engineered by John Dawkins and Wayneshout Productions.
Fort Wayne Ballet is set to make history in May, as we perform three ballets by Edward Stierle together for the first time. A gifted young dancer and choreographer for the Joffrey Ballet, Eddie passed away in 1991 just after the premier of his last ballet. He was 23 years old.
In our three-part miniseries, Kinetic Conversations looks at the life, career, and legacy of Eddie Stierle. In this first episode, we talk to his sister, Rose Worton, about what made Eddie a unique light in the ballet world – the man who could have been the next Balanchine if fate had not intervened.
Kinetic conversations is hosted by Fort Wayne Ballet Executive Director Jim Sparrow and Artistic Director Karen Gibbons-Brown. Our Guests for this series are Rose Worton and Kim Sagami. Music composed by John Dawkins. Produced and engineered by John Dawkins and Wayneshout Productions.
“I have been dancing since I was three..." In this special episode of Kinetic Conversations, we hear from trainers, educators, and the dancers themselves what it means to them to be a dancer. Join with us as we celebrate these wonderful people who are the heart and soul of our company.
We take a look back at some past sound bites from Raymond Lukens and Kim Sagami, and a never-before-aired interview with Cameron Basden, as well as some fun and thought-provoking ballet stories from our dancers - Avalou Burns, Brittany Focht, David Claypoole, and Tatum Farlow.
In the final part of this miniseries, we Look at Fort Wayne Ballet’s upcoming production of Swan Lake and take a look at the plot and characters in Tchaikovsky’s famed tragic tale.
Do you know who defied convention to dance in shorter skirts, paving the way to the tutu? When did ballets transition from tragedies to happy-ever-afters? When did we start dancing on point? The Ballet 101 conversations are here to fill us in on the basics of the ballet world in bite-sized doses.
This three-episode miniseries discusses the components of romantic and classical era story ballets, examining their history and the evolution their choreography, their structure, and audiences’ expectations, with a special look at our upcoming production of Swan Lake. The series will drop on consecutive Fridays in March.
Every good story needs a villain. Some are evil, some are misunderstood, and some are merely careless in their intentions, but they drive the plot. What makes up a ballet villain, and how are they overcome? Let’s take a look.
This three-episode miniseries discusses the components of romantic and classical era story ballets, examining their history and the evolution their choreography, their structure, and audiences’ expectations, with a special look at our upcoming production of Swan Lake. The series will drop on consecutive Fridays in March.
This three-episode miniseries discusses the components of romantic and classical era story ballets, examining their history and the evolution their choreography, their structure, and audiences’ expectations, with a special look at our upcoming production of Swan Lake. The series will drop on consecutive Fridays in March. Series is hosted by Jim Sparrow and Karen Gibbons-Brown. This episode debuts new theme music by John Dawkins.
Episode 1: The Story Ballet
In our first episode, we look at the history of story ballets, from the supernatural tragedies of Giselle and Swan Lake to the playful dreamlands of Nutcracker. How did dancers’ roles evolve over time, and how did audience demands reshaped the expectations of the story.
Choreographer Stephanie Lake gets dancers to perform with a kind of joy and discipline which would hold the attention and the wonder of anyone. She currently has work on the way for the Sydney Dance Company, Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Festival, and even more in the pipeline.
Also, a company of dancers from war-torn Ukraine are now in Australia with a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Adelaide's Restless Dance Theatre, which creates work by dancers with and without disability, take their collaboration with Chunky Move, Rewards for the Tribe, to the UK.
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