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Dancecast
by Silva Laukkanen
We talk about dance as an art form when it is created, taught and explored in a non-traditional environment with non-traditional doers.
Episodes
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Following Curiosity
Following Curiosity In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Veera Suvalo Grimberg, the artistic director of Danskompaniet Spinn in Gothenburg, Sweden. Veera describes her path from her native Finland to building a life in Sweden, where she experienced disability for the first time through...
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Building Integrated Dance in Denmark
Building Integrated Dance in Denmark DanceCast is a podcast that spotlights non-traditional dance artists. It is produced by Silva Laukkanen, an advocate for inclusive dance based in Austin, TX. In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Janne Weidinger Kristensen, the Artistic Director of…
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The Link Between Dance and Health
The Link Between Dance and Health DanceCast is a podcast that spotlights non-traditional dance artists. It is produced by Silva Laukkanen, an advocate for inclusive dance based in Austin, TX. In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Joseph Jeffers, the CEO of Advice Support Knowledge...
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Embedded in Community
Embedded in Community Dance DanceCast is a podcast that spotlights non-traditional dance artists. It is produced by Silva Laukkanen, an advocate for inclusive dance based in Austin, TX. In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Bronwen Wilson Rashad, a UK-based dance artist who has worked...
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Rhythm of Resilience - Story of Dance and Determination
Rhythms of Resilience – A Story of Dance and Determination is an uplifting tale about a young boy from the Eastern Cape who discovers his passion for dance in new and unexpected ways. In a family where rhythm and joy are a part of everyday life, Tumi grows up surrounded by music and movement.…
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Nature in Motion Eve / Wind
Welcome to Nature in Motion, a project funded by European Union that explores how movement and nature come together to create a more inclusive, accessible, and enriching experience for all. Nature has the power to heal, strengthen, and restore. Whether through hiking, adaptive sports, or dance,...
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Nature in Motion - audio score by Rhiannon / Leaning in Nature
Welcome to Nature in Motion, a project funded by European Union that explores how movement and nature come together to create a more inclusive, accessible, and enriching experience for all. Nature has the power to heal, strengthen, and restore. Whether through hiking, adaptive sports, or dance,...
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Nature in Motion - Audio score Eve / Water
Welcome to Nature in Motion, a project funded by European Union that explores how movement and nature come together to create a more inclusive, accessible, and enriching experience for all. Nature has the power to heal, strengthen, and restore. Whether through hiking, adaptive sports, or dance,...
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Nature in Motion - audio score Rhiannon / Nature senses
Welcome to Nature in Motion, a project funded by European Union that explores how movement and nature come together to create a more inclusive, accessible, and enriching experience for all. Nature has the power to heal, strengthen, and restore. Whether through hiking, adaptive sports, or dance,...
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Nature in Motion - audio scores Silva / nature sounds
Welcome to Nature in Motion, a project funded by European Union that explores how movement and nature come together to create a more inclusive, accessible, and enriching experience for all. Nature has the power to heal, strengthen, and restore. Whether through hiking, adaptive sports, or dance,...
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Disability Belongs in Dance
Disability Belongs in Dance In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Melissa van Wijk, founder and director of Born Dancing, a nonprofit based in New York City that creates performances featuring dancers with and without disabilities, orchestrates dance education opportunities for children...
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Steering Dance into the Unknown
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Gladys Agulhas, a multi-award-winning independent dance artist, choreographer and dance facilitator who has pioneered inclusive dance practices in South Africa. Gladys shares her early love of dance and social work during apartheid and how an...
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Rethinking Disabled Leadership in Dance
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews disabled dance artist and researcher Kate Marsh. Based in the UK, Kate shares her perspective as an assistant professor at Coventry University. She reflects on how the discourse on disability has evolved during her career, from breaking literal...
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Exploring New Avenues of Disability Experience
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews dance artist Elisabeth Motley, a New York City-based choreographer, scholar, and teacher whose work is concerned with disability as a framework for creative practice. Elisabeth describes how her journey began in rigorous normative dance practice and...
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Access is An Ongoing Process
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews dance artist Devin Hill. Devin describes their experience growing up with a rare eye condition and how it affected their motor skills. Their mother put them in dance to help with balance and coordination. Devin shares their experience pursuing dance…
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The Value of Studying Dance
The Value of Studying Dance DanceCast is a podcast that spotlights non-traditional dance artists. It is produced by Silva Laukkanen, an advocate for inclusive dance based in Austin, TX. In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Jasmiina Sipilä, who works as a leading teacher in the dance...
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Inclusive Dance Education in Ireland
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Rhona Coughlan, the artistic director of Inclusive Dance Cork in Cork, Ireland, along with project coordinator Dr. Kaylie Streit. Inclusive Dance Cork is a professional dance training program for people with and without disabilities who want to…
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Seeking Barrier-Free Dance Education
Seeking Barrier-Free Dance Education DanceCast is a podcast that spotlights non-traditional dance artists. It is produced by Silva Laukkanen, an advocate for inclusive dance based in Austin, TX. In this episode of DanceCast, Silva Laukkanen is actually the interviewee. She is interviewed by...
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Breadth of Bodies; Mary Verdi-Fletcher
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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Breadth of Bodies; Discussing Disability in Dance. Jung Sun Krops Lee
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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Breadth of Bodies:Discussing Disability in dance. Hai Cohen
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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Breadth of Bodies:Discussing Disability in Dance. Isabel Cristina Jimenez
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance. Nastija Fijolic
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance. Lusi Insiati
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance, Hanna Cormick
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance, Hannah Sampson
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance, Kazuyo Morita
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance, Redo Aitt Chitt
Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance seeks to investigate stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by Emmaly Wiederholt and Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team interviewed 35 professional…
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I "I Have Terrible Anxiety but I Love Being Onstage" / Emily Heath
“I Have Terrible Anxiety but I Love Being Onstage” In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews her intern Emily Heath, a dance student at Bennington College. As a young person, Emily reflects on the economic uncertainty of pursuing dance and their desire to learn more entrepreneurial and...
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Exploring How Performance is Experience / Jess Curtis
Exploring How Performance is Experienced In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Jess Curtis, an award-winning choreographer, performer, and scholar based in San Francisco and Berlin. Jess reflects on his entrance to dance through skiing and how he was immediately hooked to being onstage.…
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How Dance is Taught / Daniel Levi-Sanchez
How Dance is Taught / Daniel Levi-Sanchez. In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews the dance educator Daniel Levi-Sanchez. Daniel reflects on his formative years teaching himself street forms as well as eventually receiving more traditional training from the Inner-City Ensemble Theatre and...
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Changing the Community Perspective / Joseph Tebandeke
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Tebandeke Joseph, an African contemporary dance artist based in Uganda. He shares how athletics led him to contemporary dance, and how he sees dance as an engine for change. Tebandeke aims to change the community perspective on disability through...
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Creative Expression through Creative Aging / Magda Kaczmarska
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Magda Kaczmarska, a dancer, researcher, and creative aging teaching artist based in New York City. Magda describes how her path as an immigrant with a background in dance and the sciences shaped her interest in and commitment to community based dance...
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What Movement Means to the Student / Rachel McCaulsky
Rachel describes how she had always wanted to teach special education, but her path led her on a professional dance track first. She eventually switched careers to public education through the New York City Teaching Fellows Program. To her surprise, her principal (no “s”) requested she teach...
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Advocating for Inclusive Dance in the Public Schools / Sandi Stratton-Gonzales
Advocating for Inclusive Dance in the Public Schools In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews New York-based dance educator and advocate Sandi Stratton-Gonzalez. Sandi shares her dance beginnings and describes how she always identified as a teacher, even as she pursued performance...
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Dance as Integration / Kadar Kristan
In this episode he describes how he reluctantly came to dance after learning about it from another wheelchair user, and how he found integrated dance to be radically different than the dances of his culture. Kadar reflects on the therapeutic and social benefits of dance, and how performing…
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X Dance Festival / Perch by Amy Voris and Katye Coe
You can see Perch on Tuesday the 8th of June 2021. This performance is donation based and you can register here. Perch is part of the X Dance Festival 2021. You can find out more about Amy Voris and Katye Coe and about their impressive work in the field of dance and Somatics.
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"We Can Invent Anything" / Vertigo Power of Balance
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Tali Wertheim and Hai Cohen, artistic directors of Vertigo Power of Balance, an Israeli based inclusive dance company. Hai describes how he came to dance almost by accident, meeting Tali in a workshop led by Adam Benjamin that culminated in a...
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Retracing Her Steps / Georgie Goater
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Georgie Goater, a dance artist and pedagogue based in Helsinki, Finland where she moved from Aotearoa (New Zealand). Georgie describes her early attraction to dance as a place of nonverbal communication where she discovered through improvisation that...
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X Dance Festival / Ida Mokki
Today my episode is with a dance student Ida Mokki who talks about her journey to the dance world and her dreams after graduating in December from Live Vocational College. Ida is teaching with her fellow student two of the Daily Dances that are happening for the first seven mornings (6-12.6.)...
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X Dance Festival 2021 / Kati Raatikainen
In this episode I spoke with Kati Raatikainen, choreographer, performance artist, dance and yoga teacher, and a thinker that likes to write. We spoke about Kati's interests and her latest work Kvartetto that will be performed at the X Dance Festival on the Wednesday the 9th and Thursday the 10th…
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Art as a Tool for Access and Transformation / Kat Rampackova
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Kat Rampackova, a choreographer, performer, and dance activist based in Barcelona, Spain. Kat shares her journey finding herself as a freelance dance artist after studying theater, contemporary dance, and improvisation across Europe. She is the...
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Experimenting with the Experimental / Maija Nurmio and Teemu Mäki
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Finnish artist/theater director Teemu Mäki and Finnish dance artist Maija Nurmio about their collaborative work Éliane, which is based on the French composer Éliane Radigue's composition L'Île Re-Sonante. Teemu describes why he was drawn to Radique’s...
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Discussing Disability in Dance; interview with Emmaly Wiederholt and Liz Brent-Maldonado
In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews her collaborators from the Discussing Disability in Dance Book Project: dancer/writer Emmaly Wiederholt, and visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado. The project has been a four-year process interviewing 25 professional dancers around the world who…
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Interview with Zazel-Chavah O'Garra ; Turning Setbacks into Comebacks
Turning Setbacks into Comebacks In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Zazel-Chavah O’Garra, founder and artistic director of ZCO/DANCE PROJECT, a physically integrated dance company in New York City. Zazel shares the story of her benign brain tumor that left her partially paralyzed and…
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Interview with Karen Daly
Interview with Karen Daly; Being Seen as A Dancer In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Karen Daly, a dancer in Eugene, OR with DanceAbility International. Karen shares the story of her entrance into dance in her 40s and some highlights from her career working with DanceAbility. She also...
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Interview with Roman Baca
Interview with Roman Baca; Dancing the Veteran Experience In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Roman Baca, who is an Iraq War veteran, the director of EXIT12 Dance Company, and an MFA candidate in Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London. He describes his upcoming MFA final...
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Interview with Karenne Koo
There’s No Such Thing As “We Can’t Do Something” In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Karenne Koo, a dance artist in Tucson, AZ, committed to developing and practicing multidisciplinary approaches to encourage and stimulate the art of inclusive dance as an instrument for building...
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Interview with Michaela Knox
Interview with Michaela Knox: Expanding the Dance Community In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Michaela Knox, a DanceAbility instructor who recently initiated an inclusive dance program in Maine. Michaela looks back on her early desire to work with people who don’t identify as…
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Interview with Veronica DeWitt and Olivia O'Hare
A Philosophy of Inclusion In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Olivia O’Hare and Veronica DeWitt, her colleagues at Body Shift in Austin, TX. They each share their entry points into improvisational dance and DanceAbility in particular, as well as discuss the strengths of DanceAbility…
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We talk about dance as an art form when it is created, taught and explored in a non-traditional environment with non-traditional doers.
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Silva Laukkanen
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