Archive: Dance Writing, Reviews, and Podcasts

This Thursday, July 18 at noon we hear from Steve Paul for episode 156!

Steve is mostly known within the dance community from his days as Technical Director and Lighting Designer at Minnesota Dance Alliances’ Studio 6A, or maybe as Paula Mann’s husband!

Steve is currently the co-artistic director of Time Track Productions with Paula and the  lead of a Visualization Team for AE COM, creating visual communication tools, 3D and 2D images, animations, videos, interactive and immersive experiences for a broad range of projects nationally and internationally.

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.

Five interviews (so far) with local choreographers/dancers over 60: Mary (Moore) Easter, Erin Thompson, Laurie Van Wieren, Byron Richard, and Judith Howard.

I am interested in questions of what accomplishment, failure, struggle, and “making it,” might mean as accumulated over time through the day-to-day life of an artist. Each of this series of interviews is edited from a longer conversation in which I asked them about beginnings, high and low points of their careers so far, and where they are now. I am interested in how their lives shape and describe the life we inhabit, how their knowledge and experience might inform us, and the way familiar landmarks of humanity emerge from the geography of age.

If you’re a local choreographer/dancer over 60, I’d love to listen to your story. Please contact me.

This Thursday, July 11 at noon we hear from Raymond Terrill for episode 155!

Ray is originally from the Pacific Northwest. He is a performer, choreographer, teacher, presenter, arts administrator and artistic director of Ray Terrill Dance Group. Read more about Ray

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.

This Thursday, July 4 at noon we hear from Rebecca Frost for episode 154!

Rebecca is a longtime performer and is an advocate for all things related to human development, consciousness, and how we express it. As a Somatic Therapist, her passion lies in helping each person take his/her next step, providing support for that exhilarating reach beyond one’s own edge.

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.

This Thursday, June 27 at noon we hear from Erika Thorne for episode 153!

Erika has been a progressive activist, writer, facilitator and cultural worker since 1974. She focuses on cross-race coalition-building, anti-racism work with other whites, and diversity work. Within the dance community, most likely remember her from the Women’s Performance Network.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or here.

Stories are among our most potent tools. We need to unearth old stories that live in a place and begin to create new ones. We are story makers, not just storytellers. All stories are connected, new ones woven from the threads of the old. – Robin Wall Kimmerer, paraphrased

Join ARENA DANCES for our Studio Stories Podcast, where we reminisce on Twin Cities dance history.  This week, we sat down with Melanie Lien Palm to learn about her journey and kick off Season 14!

Melanie has an illustrious career, coming to the Twin Cities to dance with Minnesota Dance Theater and later perform with the Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal for over 6 years in 11 countries. She is currently the owner, practitioner, instructor, and presenter of Managing Body Wisdom LLC in South Dakota.

I cannot wait for you to hear her Pina audition story!

Visit http://www.arena-dances.org to listen, or check it out wherever you get your podcasts!

A Studio Stories special with one of CANDY BOX Dance Festival’s Featured Artists, jess pretty – Episode 151.

As part of the eighth annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival, jess pretty presents call and response:

“call and response is a methodology for building connection and community; a celebration and appreciation for black life; an archival tool; and a lens for embodiment. This work is personal and archival; calling on me to turn towards my own story, lineage, and memory as the site of choreographic creation. In looking at myself, I aim to build a black queer archive to provide proof of life (instead of the constant images of black death we experience) for future generations.”

Listen here or wherever you get your podcast.

A Studio Stories and CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with featured artists Tristan Koepke and Benny Olk – Episode 150.

As part of the eighth annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival, Tristan and Benny will share There’s More Than One Bed. The second collaboration between the two inspired by the creative and amorous relationship between Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Instagram thirst traps, speculative masculinities, and romance novel tropes, Koepke, Olk, and their collaborators interrogate what devotion and commitment to love, longing, and process can look like when you make room for more than two.

Listen here or wherever you get your podcast.

A Studio Stories and CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with featured artist Paula Mann – Episode 149 on Thursday, March 28 at noon.

As part of the eighth annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival, Paula Mann is sharing “Everything and Nothing,” a three-part series of dance performances that question and interrogate our understandings of our realities through movement. Performed by Leila Awadallah, Paula Mann, and Roxanne Wallace.

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.

Closing out Season 13 of Studio Stories is Margie Fargnoli with Episode 148 on Thursday, March 21 at noon.

Margie is a dancer who toured with Anna Sokolow upon graduating from Julliard. She moved to Minneapolis in 1978 and has been a teacher, choreographer, and the founder/artistic director of Whispers of America in the early eighties. Margie is now a certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering and a Somatic Psychotherapist.

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.