Episodes
Carolina Czechowska – Born to Dance
Release Date: 7/23/2024
Duration: 182640 Mins
Description: Carolina Czechowska (iMod Director, Community Research and Engagement, California) found dance almost before she was old enough to read books without pictures. She spent her childhood and teen years in the most prestigious arts vocational school in Sweden. From this foundation, she grew to become one of the busiest and most respected freelance dancers in the San Francisco Bay Area dance scene. Listen as she tells you how she grew from a seedling to a mighty oak in dance.
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Patrizia Herminjard – Director of Cinematic Engagement
Release Date: 2/28/2024
Duration: 148260 Mins
Description: Like most of the members of the International Museum of Dance team, Patrizia has had a rich background in dance. From her time dancing with the Martha Graham Company to her current role as a college professor of dance, she has been able to experience and to share many aspects of her dance life. Join us today as Patrizia gives us a guided tour of her path to IMOD.
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Sneha Chakradhar - Dancing from Northern India to the American Southwest
Release Date: 2/8/2024
Duration: 174240 Mins
Description: Sneha Chakradhar, born of an artists' family, has embarked upon an inspiring journey performing one of the eight dance styles of classical Indian dance. From a childhood filled with dance and music is Delhi to sharing the roots of her personal artistry with the art-loving community of Santa Fe, New Mexico, hers has been a journey of self-discovery and cultural authenticity. Join us as Sneha discusses the roots of her art form.
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B-Boy Bamm - From Country Boy to B-Boy
Release Date: 11/17/2023
Duration: 216480 Mins
Description: At first glance, Lawrence, Kansas is an improbable place to birth an internationally acclaimed hip hop artist. But indigenous dancer, Brandon Roberts (aka B-Boy Bamm) found a community in the American heartland and grew his art to become a member of Jabbawokeez, one of the most celebrated hip hop dance crews in the world. B-Boy Bamm shares his journey and perspective in this episode.
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Lizz Roman Builds Her Own Road Less Traveled
Release Date: 6/30/2023
Duration: 242640 Mins
Description: For almost 40 years, Lizz Roman has been finding her own path through the dance world. First, by self-financing almost all her work, by choice, and with an improvisational and highly unstructured collaborative dance-making process that yields astonishing results. In this episode, Lizz Roman tells you the story of her journey and development of her art-making philosophy.
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Lara Jean Mummert - The Benefits of Giving Everything a Shot
Release Date: 5/27/2023
Duration: 226020 Mins
Description: Lara Jean Mummert is a dancer who's path has taken many fortuitous turns. She has performed as a contemporary dancer, as a touring musical theater artist, and even as an award-winning actress in horror films with more than 40 credits (look her up on imdb). How did a budding ballerina find so much varied work? She tells you how in this episode.
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Lynn Brilhante Reflects on a Life in Jazz Dance
Release Date: 3/8/2023
Duration: 283260 Mins
Description: Lynn Brilhante shares her perspective on the jazz dance art form, drawing on her many years of experience as a performer, choreographer, and educator. Follow her journey from her Oakland childhood, through her dance influences, and her sparkling career in dance. Also, glimpse her encyclopedic knowledge of the most celebrated prime movers and how she believes their legacy connects to the present.
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Reflections on the Role of Black Dance In the Contemporary Scene
Release Date: 8/29/2022
Duration: 252360 Mins
Description: ArVejon Jones has a passion for jazz dance and for documenting the contributions of the African Diaspora to the wider culture. This performer and dance educator talks about the influences in his practice and shares his thoughts on cultural appropriation and the erasure of some of the prime movers in contemporary dance. In this direct and unvarnished conversation, AJ pulls no punches in the service of his art.
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Explicit: No
Irene Hsiao's Honest Journey as a True Dance Artist
Release Date: 7/10/2022
Duration: 184500 Mins
Description: Listen in on the honest journey of Irene Hsiao, a remarkable dance artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Hsaio tells the honest story of her dance career and where it started in San Francisco. Her curiosity for dance and what it became for her out of a life with little exposure or support is moving and encouraging.
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Jodi Lomask’s Creative Journey
Release Date: 7/10/2022
Duration: 187440 Mins
Description: Jodi Lomask has spent a career finding new ways of expression, with the goal of inspiring others to chart their own way. Whether is through her long-running dance company, Capacitor, mixing dance, science, and circus arts, or through her most recent endeavors, Sculptural Fitness (jodilomask.com) or Creative Journey, Jodi seeks to free everyone who comes into her life from the repression that denies their creative selves. Find out if Jodi Lomask’s journey is a reflection of your own.
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A Road to Artistry
Release Date: 4/4/2022
Duration: 187200 Mins
Description: Robert Moses is one of today's most ground-breaking choreographers. Follow us as Robert guides us on the journey that has informed his life as a dancer and his current work as Artistic Director of Robert Moses Kin. Listen as he opens up about his work and life with uncharacteristic candor.
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How Rising Rhythm Is Lifting Up Community
Release Date: 3/15/2022
Duration: 165840 Mins
Description: Jessica Maria Recinos, Pedro Gomez, and Shireen Rahimi discuss the mission of Rising Rhythm - promoting body positivity, mental and physical health, inclusion, and self-empowerment. These three incredible artists and collaborators discuss their individual journeys in the performing arts world and how these paths combine to inform the Rising Rhythm mission and aesthetic.
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To Never Look Away
Release Date: 1/21/2022
Duration: 245640 Mins
Description: For 50 years, Eiko and her husband Koma have been pushing the edges of how we define dance movement. Join Eiko as she talks about her beginnings, process, and philosophy for making her choreographic work. Eiko discusses the work she created with Koma, her emergence as a solo artist, and the challenges of making performance art in public or in a non-proscenium environment. She shares how her relationship with dance has changed as she has grown older.
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Designing a Life in Dance
Release Date: 11/4/2021
Duration: 177180 Mins
Description: Kristin Damrow shares her evolution as a dance artist, beginning in rural Wisconsin, studying in Chicago, to her present career as a dance educator and choreographer in San Francisco, California. She discusses the challenges and triumphs of following her love for dance and movement, and the mentors that helped pave her path. Damrow muses on the different influences that drive her current process and aesthetic.
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Rick Darnell | Coast to Coast: Rick Darnell's personal story of love, collaboration, activism and community through dance
Release Date: 5/19/2021
Duration: 192660 Mins
Description: Dance artist, community activist, and eloquent storyteller Rick Darnell shares his 30-year professional journey from the rural Southern United States to the northern coast of California. Follow Rick as he illustrates his diverse experiences, including dancing at Bennington College in the '70s to bringing healing and awareness to the AIDS crisis in San Francisco through his professional company's performances. Enjoy his detailed accounts of dance's ability to transform, uplift, and heal.
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Anna Holter | Keeping Creation Alive - The Story of Moving Isolation
Release Date: 5/11/2021
Duration: 0 Mins
Description: Scandinavian dance artist Anna Holter takes us on her journey to dance - through the exploding artistic world of the European contemporary dance scene of the 1990s, to today. She highlights her current international collaborative project Moving Isolation – a series of short films with dancers from all over the world, and a project born as a sudden response to the restrictions of the Covid 19 pandemic.
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Clyde Evans | From Foreigner to Founder: How Hip-Hop helped the Fight to Fit In
Release Date: 3/25/2021
Duration: 237420 Mins
Description: Afro-Trinidadian immigrant and Museum of Dance Artist in Residence, Clyde Evans Jr, shares his challenges landing in the United States as a child, how Hip-Hop helped him weave into the fabric of American culture, and the doors dance opened for him. His journey allowed him to work with A-list celebrities like Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Redford, Jay Leno, Mark Wahlberg, even at the beginning of his career. He also became a founding member of the groundbreaking Hip Hop company, Rennie Harris Pure Movement. From there, Clyde Evans became an educator and the founder of his own dance company, Chosen Dance, with the goal of spreading positivity.
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Antwan Davis | The Holistic Side of Step Dancing and Body Percussion: Community and Healing
Release Date: 3/25/2021
Duration: 194520 Mins
Description: Museum of Dance Artist in Residence, Antwan Davis, tells us about his path from playing the football gridiron, to performing as a dancer/stepper/body percussionist in Las Vegas, to acting as an ambassador for the art form of body percussion and Step Dance. He has taken these experiences to create a Step Dance crew that bridges the gaps between art forms and dance styles, and to imagining youth in education and community programs to enhance healing, personal expression, and universal human understanding.
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Jason Nious | They Took Our Drums Away: Stepping and Body Percussion in America
Release Date: 3/25/2021
Duration: 189180 Mins
Description: Jason Nious, artist in residence for the Museum of Dance, joins us to explore the social history of Stepping and Body Percussion and other folkloric dance forms of the African Diaspora, particularly of North America. He talks about his own journey, development, and creative process as he examines the roots and development of Stepping, and it's legacy for adding to the rich diversity and evolution of American dance.
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Janice Garrett & Charles Moulton | Limitless Capacity and Human Connection
Release Date: 2/8/2021
Duration: 173220 Mins
Description: Ready to be moved? Experience the incredible lives of award-winning choreographers, Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton. With 60 years of professional experience, spanning from New York to Europe to California, Garrett and Moulton retrace their contributions to the dance field. Listen in as they share their vision of dance as a transformative medium that fosters community.
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Consuelo Faust & Dudley Flores | Everyone Can Dance!
Release Date: 2/8/2021
Duration: 140160 Mins
Description: Everyone can dance! Skeptical? Learn more about San Francisco’s Rhythm & Motion, founded in 1979 by acclaimed dancer, teacher, and choreographer, Consuelo Faust. For over 40 years, this Bay Area staple has cultivated a vibrant dance community — bringing health, wellness, and the joy of movement to all people regardless of age, ability, or background. Join Faust and Artistic Director, Dudley Flores for an inspiring dance conversation.
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Sasha De Sola | No Choice but to Dance!
Release Date: 2/8/2021
Duration: 185520 Mins
Description: Ever wondered what life is really like for a professional ballet dancer? Get an inside look with San Francisco Ballet principal dancer, Sasha de Sola, as she eloquently articulates the joys, challenges, and triumphs of her day-to-day life. Learn what it takes to maintain one of the most prestigious careers in the dance world.
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Carlos Carvajal | The Joy of Living and Dancing
Release Date: 2/8/2021
Duration: 202740 Mins
Description: Hear the stories and life experiences of Carlos Carvajal, a first-generation Filipino American and dance professional who co-founded the Bay Area’s widely popular Ethnic Dance Festival. Join Carvajal on his life travels in dance, beginning in Folklore steps to wearing the Red Shoes, embracing Europe in the ’60s, and San Francisco’s Summer of Love in the ’70s. Share in Carvajal’s wisdom and learnings, whether persevering through a shattered ankle or the pandemic.
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