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Body and Soul
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Artists, advocates, and activists in dance, performance and more hosted by veteran dance critic and curator Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Episodes
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Katrina Reid: Mercury Rx--Review, Redo, Renewal
Katrina Reid (she/her) is a dancer and choreographer who crafts art projects rooted in improvisation, experimentation, and storytelling. Select presentations of her work include the Queens Museum, ISSUE Project Room, the Knockdown Center, Current Sessions, DoublePlus/Gibney Dance, AUNTS, the BMCC...
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Petra Kuppers: How to go on a crip drift
Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. She grounds herself in disability culture methods, and uses somatics, performance, media work, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. In these…
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Daniel Phoenix Singh: True change from the roots
Daniel Phoenix Singh has worked in higher education, the field of dance, queer communities, South Asian communities, and in arts practice, policy, and funding at local and national levels. His identities lie at the intersection of his queer, antiracist, South Asian, immigrant, artist, and…
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Alexandra Beller: Mindful recuperation
NOTE: For a glossary of Laban terms mentioned in this episode, click here. Alexandra Beller, Artistic Director of Alexandra Beller/Dances, (2002-present), was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 1995-2001. Alexandra created over 50 original Dance Theatre works, presented…
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Valencia James: Dancing ancestry
Valencia James is an interdisciplinary artist from Barbados interested in the intersection between dance, theater, technology, art installation and activism. Her works have explored remote interdisciplinary collaboration, artist-driven open-source software tools and the combination of live...
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Melanie George: The art of returning
Melanie George is Associate Curator and Scholar in Residence at Jacob’s Pillow, and guest curator for the 2024 American Dance Platform at the Joyce Theater. As a dramaturg, she has contributed to projects by Raja Feather Kelly, Helen Simoneau, Alice Sheppard, Urban Bush Women, and SW!NG OUT among...
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Bhumi B Patel: This world needs queerness
Bhumi B Patel directs pateldanceworks and is a queer, desi, home-seeker, science fiction choreographer, movement artist, and writer. She has presented her choreography in the Bay Area, Manoa (Hawai’i), Los Angeles, New York, and Columbus (Ohio). Bhumi was a 2022-2023 Dance/USA Fellow and a 2023...
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Olaiya Olayemi: Alive in All Senses
We welcome artist/educator olaiya olayemi who shares her view that resisting grind culture and living a sustainable life necessitates time for rest, play, and pleasure. olaiya olayemi is an antidisciplinary artist, radical educator, pleasure anarchist, and erotic witch. she creates texts, images,...
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Dr. Nina Angela Mercer: Mythologies of Erasure (Part Two)
In Part Two of Mythologies of Erasure, we continue our visit with playwright and scholar Dr. Nina Angela Mercer who draws from family roots in Washington, DC and her lifelong fascination with mythology and world-building to examine how stories a society or community tells about itself too often...
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Dr. Nina Angela Mercer: Mythologies of Erasure (Part One)
Next, we visit with playwright and scholar Dr. Nina Angela Mercer who draws from family roots in Washington, DC and her lifelong fascination with mythology and world-building to examine how stories a society or community tells about itself too often promote marginalization and erasure of history....
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Rebecca Fitton: Rethinking fiscal sponsorship and equity
In this episode of Body and Soul podcast, dance artist and administrator Rebecca Fitton (she/they) presents insights from her research into the ways current systems of fiscal sponsorship maintain the status quo of power and fail artists. Watch Fitton's film, Best Practices (2022).…
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Vicky Shick: The refuge we take in trust
In this episode of Body and Soul podcast, the respected, award-winning artist and educator Vicky Shick discusses the challenge and "universal necessity" of trust in a time of widespread distrust and anxiety. As an artist, she sources trust in "the innate intelligence in our bodies" and "in the...
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Heather Robles: Reclaiming aliveness
Heather Robles gently beckons us out of the numbness we might have slipped into as the world feels so hard right now. What do we desire and how can desire and curiosity awaken and guide us forward towards joy? You'll notice this episode has no background music. I didn't need or want that sound to...
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Stephan Koplowitz: History in place
Award-winning choreographer and writer Stephan Koplowitz discusses the importance of thorough research into the history of a place--and knowledge of one's own relationship to history--in the making of site-specific performance. He describes site work as disruptive and all performance as…
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Thomas Ford: For love of Black queer identity
Thomas Ford is a dance artist, writer and scholar whose research examines the mechanisms of identity and culture through an exploration of embodiment, choreography, and Black, queer, critical and performance studies. In today's episode, Ford reflects on the violent colonial history at the root of...
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Kate Mattingly: Troubling the silence
This Spring, author Kate Mattingly published Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, Equity, an analysis of many decades of dance criticism in the US (University of Florida Press). As a white woman, she accepts responsibility to speak out on white supremacy. In her talk today, she shares...
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Italy Bianca: Pleasure Within
"My life is a dance," says dancer-healer-teacher Italy Bianca, "How am I going to stage it, each and every day?" Body and soul are connected, she knows from personal experience of trauma, healing, and creativity. In this talk to inspire other artists, teachers, caregivers, and anyone, Italy…
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Catherine Kirk: an artist of many measures
Like her bestie Tamisha A. Guy, who spoke in our previous episode, Dallas native Catherine Kirk is a ten-year veteran of A.I.M by Kyle Abraham and a thrilling performer. Kirk describes herself as "an artist of many measures," one fascinated by stories and questions of "why humans are the way we...
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Tamisha A. Guy: Bring it back home
Caribbean-born dancer Tamisha A. Guy celebrates her tenth year with A.I.M by Kyle Abraham--the New York-based, award-winning troupe which recently completed a triumphant spring season at The Joyce Theater. Acknowledging a time of deep contemplation and yearning for home, Guy speaks of her own...
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Dr. Iquail Shaheed: Blackness. Social justice. Joy.
My guest, Dr. Iquail Shaheed, Artistic Director of Philadelphia-based DANCE IQUAIL!, sits in to talk about his desire to reflect the "three pillars of creating a new world" and how working with incarcerated populations has led to his new work, Public Enemy. Learn more about Dr. Shaheed on...
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Ricarrdo Valentine: Rest for freedom
During the pandemic, dance artist and photographer Ricarrdo Valentine continued to work towards a graduate degree in Dance, keenly aware of academia's toll on body, mind, and spirit. Influenced by healing philosophies, such as the famed Nap Ministry of Tricia Hersey, Valentine shares what he has...
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Samar Haddad King: on time
US-raised Palestinian artist Samar Haddad King (Artistic/Founding Director of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre) ruminates on what pregnancy, birth, and raising her daughter have taught her about time. Learn more about Samar Haddad King on InfiniteBody blog here. And read The New York Times' review of the...
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Megan Curet: in collective rhythm
In her work with Afro-Puerto Rican bomba traditions and contemporary dance, Megan Curet considers the relationship between movement, sound, and decolonization within communal practice in Black diaspora. She says, "I wanted to be a part of the conversation that shakes up the body, that shakes up…
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Elena Demyanenko: The art of disobedience
Russian-born dance artist and educator Elena Demyanenko traveled from her adopted home in New York to Berlin to support the growing community of artists fleeing Russia's devastating war on Ukraine. In this moving talk, Demyanenko reflects on questions for herself and other artists making work in...
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Cory Nakasue: embracing complexity
Cory Nakasue sees complexity all around us and within us--from the cosmic realm above to the most intimate spaces below here on planet Earth. Self-described as "a theater artist, writer, and astrologer whose work includes choreography, dramaturgy, and video," Nakasue likely inhabits far more than...
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george emilio sanchez: Information is medicine
My guest today, george emilio sanchez, is a passionate and critical voice for our times. A skilled artist and activist, he brings a gift for blending factual historical and cultural knowledge, lived experience, and creative storytelling in solo performances that inform, captivate, and challenge...
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Stephanie Skura: intention and surrender
Bessie Award-winning Stephanie Skura is widely noted not only for her long career as a performer, maker, and teacher of post-modern dance but for being a magical catalyst for other artists' creativity. In today's talk, she shares how her imaginative practice, called scores, opens up liberating...
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Daphne Lee: Prepare for touring. Prepare for leadership.
Ballet dancer Daphne Lee, currently with world-renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem, has learned much about the joys and rigors of touring. In this talk, she shares her observations, concerns, and tips for young performers and challenges the dance field to consider how it develops new leaders. Listen...
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Judith Sánchez Ruíz: no better time than now
Initially trained in dance in her native Cuba, Judith Sánchez Ruíz has enjoyed an illustrious international career that includes performing for one of the towering figures of post-modern dance, Trisha Brown, who died in 2017. Fans of both Sánchez and Brown rejoiced last year when the Trisha Brown...
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Travis Knights: making sound on Mars
As Canadian tap dancer and podcaster Travis Knights recorded this episode, he used a great word to describe one of his beloved colleagues, and I, in turn, will choose the same word to describe Knights's performing--impeccable. I first learned of Travis through another tap artist you've heard on...
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Brinda Guha: Melting down the wall
"As the original nomads knew, I needed to affirm, accept, and embrace the idea that home is where our bodies already are and that migrating to new homes is a human right." Journey along with Brinda Guha through memories of family, community, culture, the inner world, and performance--from Kathak…
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Kayhan Irani: stories from the waters of memory
Kayhan Irani--writer, performer, mother--finds herself in a swirling constellation of stories, savoring books by writers of color pointing the way to liberatory values and a possible future. Learn more about Kayhan and her work on InfiniteBody blog here.
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Maxine Montilus: To teach is to learn
Maxine Montilus has served many roles in dance--performer, choreographer, administrator, writer, and educator. I asked her to focus this podcast episode on her experience and ideas as a passionate and imaginative dance teacher across ages and levels. It was a delight to listen to her, and I hope...
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devynn emory: dancing in the liminal
There's no reason to build a wall of labels around devynn emory and their work in this world and between worlds. They care for body, spirit, and community in a multitude of ways--from nursing to choreography, from mediumship to bodywork, from writing to work with death and grieving. This rich...
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María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez: Earth and Spirit
I first learned about María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez and her research when I was invited to an upcoming dance-and-ecology symposium presented by the New York Public Library's Jerome Robbins Dance Division (January 27; livestream February 3). I was immediately drawn to the direction of her...
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Lisa La Touche: Tap 4 The People
I'm delighted to feature the wonderful tap artist and filmmaker Lisa La Touche as my next guest. Born in Canada and, for a time, residing in New York's Harlem, Lisa has traveled the world with her tap shoes--drumming the earth, finding community, and realizing the power of artistic legacy. Read...
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Ziiomi Law is not playing small!
Hello, again, everyone! It certainly has been a long, long time! I'm reviving my long-abandoned podcast Body and Soul and, in the course of doing so, reviving my InfiniteBody blog as well! I hope you'll inspired by this first new episode featuring dance and interdisciplinary artist Ziiomi Law, US...
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Listen.: Cristiane Bouger
Cristiane Bouger muses on time. Cristiane Bouger is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer. She explores the intersection of performance, theater, philosophy, literature, do-it-yourself practices and post-punk influences. Her work reveals existential examinations reflecting upon the female body,...
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Listen.: Jennifer Monson
Dancer Jennifer Monson, artistic director of iLAND (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance), talks about her new project, "Live Dancing Archive" which will be presented in New York City at The Kitchen, February 14-16, 21-23. For more information, see http://www.ilandart.org/ or my...
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Raimund Hoghe: US premiere of "Pas de deux"
Eva's review of German choreographer Raimund Hoghe's "Pas de deux," a duet with Takashi Ueno, at Baryshnikov Arts Center, October 10, 2012. (c)2012, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody http://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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Listen.: JoAnna Mendl Shaw
Listen to JoAnna Mendl Shaw, choreographer and artistic director of The Equus Projects, as she talks about how an Arabian stallion named Hamlet influenced her creative process. Visit The Equus Projects site: http://www.dancingwithhorses.org/ (c)2012, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody...
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Listen.: Camille A. Brown
Dance artists who happen to be both female and Black often find it tough to forge a viable, sustainable career, says Camille A. Brown, the well-regarded choreographer and Artistic Director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers. They need role models. Listen as this inspiring artist shares her experience…
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Listen.: Steven Reker
Listen to the multitalented Steven Reker (dancer, choreographer, musician, songwriter) talk about "creating sonic landscapes" with his band of musicians and dancers, People Get Ready. People Get Ready/Steven Reker will present the world premiere of Specific Ocean at New York Live Arts (October...
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Listen.: Todd Shalom
Listen as Elastic City's director/founder Todd Shalom takes us on an improvised walk to his local post office. For information on Catastrophe!, the final "way" of the Elastic City season, with Spanish artist Xavier Acarin--tomorrow, Tuesday, October 2, 7pm, on the Lower East Side--visit the…
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Listen.: Dan Safer
Listen to my guest Dan Safer (Artistic Director of the great dance/theater hybrid troupe, Witness Relocation) talking about the importance of listening. (c)2012, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody (http://infinitebody.blogspot.com)
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Listen.: Imani Uzuri
Listen to vocalist/composer Imani Uzuri talk about deep listening to the ocean and her own need, as an artist and a woman, for meditative time alone. For more information about Imani Uzuri and her new album, The Gypsy Diaries, visit her site at http://www.imaniuzuri.com. (c)2012, Eva Yaa…
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Listen.: Maria Bauman
Listen to dancer-choreographer Maria Bauman talk about everything she's inspired to listen to, with great care, these days. Bauman fun facts: *Premiered "Stand" at SummerStage, August 11, 2012 *Setting "Stand" at Long Island University Dance Department this semester *Guest Artist at Connecticut...
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Listen.: Deborah Hay
Listen to choreographer Deborah Hay talk about what she has learned from working with highly-skilled performers and about her plans for a sabbatical to re-set, refresh and see what comes next in her work. (c)2012, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, InfiniteBody (http://infinitebody.blogspot.com)
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Listen.: Edisa Weeks
Listen to director/choreographer/educator Edisa Weeks (DELIRIOUS Dances) talk about the role of storytelling and justice in her work and the inspiration of the political insights of Thomas Paine. Edisa Weeks premieres To Begin the World Over Again at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn....
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Listen.: Saifan Shmerer
Listen as Saifan Shmerer relates how being present with impermanence launched a dreamlike journey of discovery for a choreographer at the start of her career. saifan shmerer | SASSON premieres Nothing Lasts Forever, Nothing is Lost Forever at The End (18 Kent Street, Brooklyn: map/directions)....
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