Archive: Dance Writing, Reviews, and Podcasts

Studio Stories airs Thursday, August 17 at noon with Deneane Richburg for Season 11, Episode 136.

Deneane is the founder and artistic director of Brownbody. Through Brownbody, the creative home for her choreographic work, she honors the complex narratives of U.S.-based Black diasporic communities by taking participants on journeys that disrupt assumptions and ideologies and disenfranchise popular narratives around blackness. Once a competitive figure skater, Deneane pushes the boundary of creative expression on the ice and stage.

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Studio Stories airs Thursday, August 17 at noon with Nic Lincoln for Season 11, Episode 135.

Take a listen and learn about Nic’s path in dance, from traveling to perform with Dayton Ballet and Cleveland San Jose Ballet –  landing in Minnesota to dance for years with James Sewell Ballet. He has been named one of “25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine in 2013 and one of the “Artists We Love” by MN Monthly magazine, and selected for numerous prestigious commissions from the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Dance, O’Shaughnessy Theater, and Momentum at the Southern Theater.

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Studio Stories airs Thursday, August 10 at noon with Suzanne Costello for Season 11, Episode 134.

Suzanne Costello joined Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater in New York City in 1979 and became its Artistic Co-Director in 1984. During her career with the company, she has been highlighted as a performer, choreographer, teacher, and rehearsal director. As Director of Arts & Education and Arts & Healthcare Programs for the company, she creates and facilitates the many community-inclusive projects SPDT has come to be known for nationally and internationally.

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Studio Stories airs Thursday, August 3 at noon with Jane Skinner Peck for Season 11, Episode 133.

Jane Skinner Peck is a researcher, choreographer, dance historian, teacher, writer/playwright, and performer. She has worked across the United States, Canada, and France for over thirty years. She found that dance history enables her to combine her love of history with her love of dance. She has extensive training in both modern dance and dance history, directing performances with her company, Dance Revels Moving History, since 1990. Jane’s period choreography conveys varied past cultures and economic classes of the Upper Midwest and Europe in a most immediate and authentic way.

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Studio Stories airs Thursday, July 27 at noon with husband and wife team, Matthew Keefe and Brittany Fridentstine-Keefe for Season 11, Episode 132.

Matthew Keefe and Brittany Fridenstine-Keefe – husband and wife dancers, choreographers, teachers and co-artistic directors of DanceCo Performance Company. Each have a depth of stories to share dancing throughout the country and internationally, and most know them as performers with James Sewell Ballet. 

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Studio Stories airs Thursday, July 20 at noon with Jess Forest (Jesse Neumann-Peterson) for Season 11, Episode 131.

Jess is a dancer, theater performer, choreographer, and visual artist that toured nationally as a company member, teacher, and community outreach worker with Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater (SPDT) for eight seasons. Before joining SPDT, he was a
company member, performer, and teacher with the intergenerational dance company Kairos Dance Theater (Kairos Alive!). As an independent dancer, he has performed with a number of local choreographers, such as Rosy Simas, Off-Leash Area, and many more. Jess is a 2014 Sage Award Recipient for Outstanding Dance Performer, awarded for his performances in The Student by Vanessa Voskuil, Under the Current by Sharon Picasso, and Azalea Nights by Christine Maginnis.

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The Studio Stories podcast returns Thursday, July 13 at noon with Stephen Yogi Rueff for Season 11, Episode 130.

Stephen’s professional career as a dancer spanned from the Ozone Dance studio days, to Rezone Dancers, to being a founding member of Zenon. He then spent 2 years with MN Jazz Dance and 2 years with New Dance Ensemble, performing across the US and Paris with these groups. As an independent dancer and choreographer, Mr. Rueff founded the Youth Movement dance company for 12 through 20-year-olds, touring the US with a rotating repertory of dances by various local and national choreographers.

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The Studio Stories podcast returns Thursday, July 13 at noon with Stephen Yogi Rueff for Season 11, Episode 130.

Stephen’s professional career as a dancer spanned from the Ozone Dance studio days, to Rezone Dancers, to being a founding member of Zenon. He then spent 2 years with MN Jazz Dance and 2 years with New Dance Ensemble, performing across the US and Paris with these groups. As an independent dancer and choreographer, Mr. Rueff founded the Youth Movement dance company for 12-20-year-olds that toured the US with a rotating repertory of dances by various local and national choreographers.

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Join us Thursday, April 20 at noon for Studio Stories with a CANDY BOX Dance Festival special conversation with featured artist, Megan Mayer for Season 10, Episode 129.

These special CANDY BOX editions of Studio Stories delve a little more into the dance works the artists will be sharing. Megan Mayer presents a pair of new works. Emerging from the early part of the pandemic when performance ghosted us and dance never texted back, grief, rage and old haunts are all invited to this party.

To learn more of Megan Mayer’s history go to our archives and listen in to Season 5, Episode 67.

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Studio Stories podcast airs this Thursday, April 13 at noon with a special CANDY BOX Dance Festival conversation with featured artist, J’Sun Howard for Season 10, Episode 128.

These special CANDY BOX editions of Studio Stories delve a little more into the dance works the artists will be sharing. J’Sun Howard of Chicago will be sharing his work, moonless night. The dance is the research/next iteration of a multi-year project titled The Righteous Beauty of the Things Never Accounted For that explores Black fugitivity. moonless night is about Black banality and mundanity and is loosely based on “Enacting Entanglements: A Score for Four,” a performance score conceived by scholar and artist Amber Rose Johnson.

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