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NAC Dance with Cathy Levy
by Canada's National Arts Centre
From ballet to contemporary dance, these podcasts (each about 30 minutes long) feature fascinating conversations between NAC Dance Producer Cathy Levy and some of the world's most exciting dance artists, all of whom will be appearing, or have appeared, at the National Arts Centre.
Episodes
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Cathy Levy, Executive Producer, Dance, National Arts Centre - Farewell Interview
In this special podcast episode, Annabelle Cloutier, Executive Director of Strategy and Communications at Canada’s National Arts Centre, chats with Cathy Levy about her career at the NAC as Executive Producer of Dance. Over the course of her 22.5 years with the institution, she programmed 23...
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Wen Wei Wang, Choreographer and Artistic Director, Ballet Edmonton
This episode of NAC Dance with Cathy Levy features a fascinating conversation with Wen Wei Wang, Artistic Director of Ballet Edmonton, choreographer, and NAC Associate Dance Artist. Born and raised in Xi’an, China, Wen Wei dedicated his life to dance at a very early age upon seeing the famous...
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Gregory Maqoma, Creative Director, Producer and Dancer, Vuyani Dance Theatre
Cathy chats with internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer Gregory Maqoma on the eve of the National Arts Centre presentation of Broken Chord, a work created in collaboration with composer and musical director Thuthuka Sibisi and inspired by the multi-media installation The African Choir...
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Hope Muir, Joan and Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director, The National Ballet of Canada
Hope Muir became Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada on January 1, 2022, replacing Karen Kain who had served in this position since 2005. During her first NAC visit for the company’s February 2023 presentation of Romeo and Juliet, Hope spoke with Cathy Levy over the course of a...
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Cathy Levy, Executive Producer of Dance at Canada’s National Arts Centre
Carleton University Professor Janne Cleveland and playwright Lawrence Aronovitch engage Cathy Levy in conversation about her exceptional 22 and a half-year career at the helm of the National Arts Centre Dance Department as she approaches the end of her term. The discussion touches on audience...
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Shay Kuebler, Performer, Director, Choreographer and Artistic Director of Radical System Art
Cathy Levy chats with Vancouver-based multi-dimensional performer, creator and educator Shay Kuebler about his performing arts influences and trajectory, his philosophy of life and movement, and the massive importance he attaches to education and building awareness and appreciation of creativity.
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Dimitris Papaioannou, Stage director, Choreographer, Performer, and Visual Artist
Cathy Levy chats with world-renowned Greek artist Dimitris Papaioannou on the eve of the North American exclusive National Arts Centre presentation of his new work Transverse Orientation. He speaks of his early years as a visual artist and student of the iconic Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis…
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A Conversation with Alan Lucien Øyen, writer, director, choreographer, and artistic director of winter guests
In this special NAC Dance podcast, Cathy Levy (Executive Producer of Dance at Canada’s National Arts Centre), Nathalie Bonjour (Director of Performing Arts at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre), and Jim Smith (Artistic and Executive Director of Vancouver’s DanceHouse) chat with Alan Lucien Øyen, one…
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Mélanie Demers, choreographer, Founder and Artistic Director of MAYDAY
Mélanie Demers’s fascination with creation led her early on the path of the performing arts, eventually choosing contemporary dance. A successful decade-long dancing career with O Vertigo gave her the confidence to have her own company, tell her own stories, embrace chaos. She is adamant to...
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Dana Gingras, Artistic Director and Choreographer, Animals of Distinction
Dana Gingras, Artistic Director of Animals of Distinction and a boundary-pushing choreographer, chats with Cathy while her latest multimedia work FRONTERA is presented at the NAC. The conversation touches on how Dana’s formative years influence the nature of her artistic practice, her work with…
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Louise Lecavalier, Choreographer and Dancer, Fou glorieux
In this podcast interview, the incomparable Louise Lecavalier chats with Cathy about her initial encounter with dance, the guidance she received as a novice, and how Edouard Lock came to invite her to join La La La Human Steps where she performed for 18 years, revolutionizing dance and doing…
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Greta Hodgkinson, Principal Dancer, The National Ballet of Canada
The sublime Principal Dancer Greta Hodgkinson spoke with Cathy Levy in December 2019 on the eve of her retirement from The National Ballet of Canada following an extraordinary 30-year career with the company. Dance found her at a very early age and she credits Principal Artistic Coach Magdalena...
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Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director of Boston Ballet
Over the course of a fast-paced conversation with Cathy Levy, Helsinki-born Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director of Boston Ballet, describes how he stumbled into dance and how a strong technique and infectious enthusiasm for the art form rapidly led him to soloist roles with The Finnish National...
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Margaret Grenier, Artistic Director, and Andrew Grenier, Creative Producer, Dancers of Damelahamid
Guest host Lindsay Lachance, Artistic Associate with the National Arts Centre’s brand new Indigenous Theatre Department, chatted with Margaret and Andrew Grenier of the family-led Indigenous dance company Dancers of Damelahamid a few days before its NAC debut and world premiere presentation of...
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Peggy Baker, Artistic Director, Peggy Baker Dance Projects
Cathy Levy’s conversation with acclaimed Canadian contemporary dance performer, choreographer, master teacher and mentor Peggy Baker opens with memories of Wim Wenders and Pina Bausch. From there, Peggy speaks of her youth, her fateful encounter with Patricia Beatty, her professional dance career...
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Crystal Pite, Choreographer and Artistic Director, Kidd Pivot
Cathy converses with internationally acclaimed, award-winning Vancouver dance artist Crystal Pite following the NAC opening night performance of Revisor, her most recent choreographic work co-created with Canadian actor/writer Jonathon Young. They touch on Crystal’s childhood aspiration to be a...
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Karen Kain, Artistic Director and Rex Harrington, Artist-in-Residence, The National Ballet of Canada
In this NAC 50th Anniversary podcast, Karen Kain, Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, and Rex Harrington, Artist-in-Residence, both acclaimed former principal dancers with the company, share memories about performing at the National Arts Centre and during Karen’s farewell tour...
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Jean Grand-Maître, Artistic Director and choreographer, Alberta Ballet
Cathy Levy chats with Jean Grand-Maître, Artistic Director of Alberta Ballet, choreographer and recent recipient of the Order of Canada, about the full-evening portrait ballet Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle and the Drum that will close the National Arts Centre 2018-2019 Dance season. Co-created with...
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Alonzo King, Founder and Artistic Director of Alonzo King LINES Ballet
Cathy Levy leads a captivating conversation with Alonzo King the day of his company’s NAC presentation of SUTRA, an ensemble work created in honour of the 35th Anniversary of Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Born in Albany, Georgia, to a prominent 1960s civil rights family with ties to Dr. Martin Luther...
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Tedd Robinson and Charles Quevillon
Cathy Levy chats with NAC Associate Dance Artist Tedd Robinson, choreographer and artistic director of 10 Gates Dancing Inc, and composer Charles Quevillon on the eve of the NAC presentation and premiere of their latest creation Love & Other Things… a drama for flower, clay and bone. The two met…
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Aaron S. Watkin, Artistic Director, Semperoper Ballett Dresden
Cathy chats with Canadian-born Aaron S. Watkin one day before the National Arts Centre debut of Semperoper Ballett Dresden with his production of Swan Lake. Since graduating from the National Ballet School of Canada in 1988, Aaron has enjoyed a dizzyingly rich and varied classical and…
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Contemporary dance performer and choreographer Daina Ashbee
Cathy speaks with contemporary dance performer and choreographer Daina Ashbee on the eve of the presentation of her first creation Unrelated, a dark duet inspired by the fate of Indigenous women in Canada. A native of Nanaimo, British Columbia, of Cree, Metis and Dutch descent, Daina credits...
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Tero Saarinen, Artistic Director and Dancer-choreographer, Tero Saarinen Company
On the occasion of the October 2017 National Arts Centre return of the Finnish contemporary dance troupe Tero Saarinen Company, Cathy Levy has a fascinating conversation with artistic director, dancer and choreographer Tero Saarinen. Tero came late to dance but quickly went from dance school to...
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Adolphe Binder, Intendant and Artistic Director, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Cathy Levy, Executive Producer of Dance at Canada’s National Arts Centre, chats with Adolphe Binder, the new Artistic Director of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, on the eve of the company’s NAC presentation of Pina’s iconic Café Müller and The Rite of Spring. Adolphe describes her introduction...
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Performing Stranger: A Dialogue On The Choreographic Universe Of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
On the occasion of the November 2016 National Arts Centre presentation of Fractus V by Eastman, Dr. Yana Meerzon, Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa, chats with Guy Cools, Belgian dance dramaturge and author of the books In-Between Dance Cultures: On the...
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Michelle Dorrance
In this captivating NAC Dance podcast interview, Cathy Levy talks with New Yorker Michelle Dorrance, tapper extraordinaire and recipient of a MacArthur Genius grant, on the eve of her company’s National Arts Centre debut. Michelle always knew she was destined to be a tapper. Her mentor Gene…
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Catalan dance artist María Muñoz
Cathy Levy speaks with Catalan dance artist María Muñoz on the eve of her National Arts Centre debut in April 2016. María explains the significance of her separate encounters with Japanese dance theatre artist Shusaku Takeuchi, and with Pep Ramis, her long-time partner, collaborator and…
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Cathy chats with Madeleine Onne, Artistic Director of Hong Kong Ballet
In this NAC Dance podcast, Cathy Levy chats with Madeleine Onne, Artistic Director of Hong Kong Ballet, on the occasion of the company’s March 2016 National Arts Centre debut. Madeleine notes that dance chose her from an early age and explains how a passion for this art form led her to the role…
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Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation
A panel discussion, January 28, 2016 Cathy Levy hosts a pre-show talk with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Artistic Director André Lewis, choreographer Mark Godden, novelist Joseph Boyden, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq, and composer Christos Hatzis on the genesis, development and collaborative…
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Pontus Lidberg
Meet Pontus Lidberg, Sweden’s award-winning young dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. Over the course of this interview, he relates his early desire to create contemporary dance works and the opportunities that followed withStockholm 59°North, The Norwegian National Ballet, Morphoses, The Royal...
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Face 2 Face - 2/2
In this second of two episodes, the artists featured in Face 2 Face 2015, Experiences of Africa, describe the work they have done in their respective countries –alongside successful international careers-- in an effort to develop contemporary dance on the African continent. The podcast ends with…
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Face 2 Face - 1/2
In this first of 2 episodes of a bilingual podcast, we meet the 5 artists featured in the National Arts Centre's 2015 Face 2 Face series, Experiences of Africa. They speak of their background and how they came to work in dance.
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Lourdes Lopez, Miami City Ballet
National Arts Centre Executive Producer of Dance Cathy Levy speaks with Lourdes Lopez, Artistic Director of Miami City Ballet, shortly before the company’s March 5-7, 2015 NAC presentation. Lourdes talks about her early introduction to ballet and her 24-year career with New York City Ballet where...
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Virginia Johnson, Dance Theatre of Harlem
Cathy Levy talks with Virginia Johnson, artistic director, founding member, and former principal dancer of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. They discuss her career, the life of the dance company, the school, founding Pointe Magazine, and becoming Artistic Director of Dance Theatre of Harlem.
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Kyle Abraham
Cathy Levy chats with dancer-choreographer Kyle Abraham who was at Canada’s National Arts Centre in February 2014 to perform The Radio Show with his company Abraham.In.Motion. Kyle talks about his childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and how his passion for music led him to dance. With the...
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Aakash Odedra (3/3)
In this third and final episode, Aakash Odedra describes his projects in development, including Murmur, an exploration of dyslexia through dance and technology, and Inked, a solo created in collaboration with French-Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet, about the markings on the body of Aakash’s...
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Aakash Odedra (2/3)
In this second of three episodes, Aakash talks about his first encounter with celebrated British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan and how their meeting changed the course of his destiny. In 2011, Akram and world-renowned choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Russell Maliphant each made a…
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Aakash Odedra (1/3)
In this first of three episodes, Cathy Levy speaks to the up-and-coming young star of British dance Aakash Odedra who performed Rising at Canada’s National Arts Centre in February 2014. Aakash describes his early obsession with dance and the degree to which his family recognized his gift and...
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Akram Khan, choreographer, performer and Artistic Director, Akram Khan Company (3/3)
In this final episode, Akram Khan explains the origin and development of his first full-length solo piece, the autobiographical DESH, which took him and his team of close collaborators including Tim Yip, Jocelyn Pook, Michael Hulls and Karthika Nair to Bangladesh, the homeland of his parents. He...
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Akram Khan, choreographer, performer and Artistic Director, Akram Khan Company (2/3)
In this second episode, Akram Khan describes his fascination with learning about the science of movement and the similarities and contradictions of ballet, contemporary dance and kathak. This exploration leads to the development of his signature style and the creation of a short solo followed by…
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Akram Khan, choreographer, performer and Artistic Director, Akram Khan Company (1/3)
In this first of three episodes, the celebrated British choreographer-performer Akram Khan talks about his very early training and performing in kathak, the north Indian classical dance form. At the age of 10 he joins the acting cast of the stage adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book…
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Emily Molnar, Artistic Director of Ballet BC (3/3)
In this third and final episode, Emily Molnar describes the tremendous opportunity she saw in heading Ballet BC at a turning point in its history. She outlines the three-year plan she developed before taking on its artistic directorship out of concern for its survival and place in the dance...
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Emily Molnar, Artistic Director of Ballet BC (2/3)
In this second of three episodes, Emily Molnar speaks about the difficult decision of leaving Frankfurt Ballet, as she was turning 26, to branch out on her own. After contemplating quitting dance altogether, she chooses to become a principal dancer with Ballet BC where she interprets many roles,...
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Emily Molnar, Artistic Director, Ballet BC (1/3)
In this first of three episodes, Cathy speaks to Emily Molnar, Artistic Director of Ballet BC, the day after the company’s return to the National Arts Centre Southam Hall stage following a 10-year absence. Emily recalls her early dream of becoming a prima ballerina; her training at the National...
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Stanton Welsh, choreographer and Artistic Director, Houston Ballet (3/3)
In this final episode, Stanton Welsh speaks about his full-length classical ballet Marie based on the life of the legendary 18th-century French queen Marie Antoinette. He comments on the task of finding new talent, and describes the Houston Ballet Center for Dance, the company’s new...
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Stanton Welsh, choreographer and Artistic Director, Houston Ballet (2/3)
In this second of three episodes, Stanton Welch shares his impressions of Houston, Texas, its people and its arts and culture. He touches on his artistic vision, comments on his dual role of choreographer and artistic director, and tells us what he looks for in a dancer.
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Stanton Welsh, choreographer and Artistic Director, Houston Ballet (1/3)
In this first of three episodes, Stanton Welsh, Artistic Director of Houston Ballet, reminisces about his youth in Australia, his ballet training, and his career as a dancer. Since turning to choreography in 2000, he has created an impressive number of works. He was appointed Artistic Director of...
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Masazumi Chaya, Associate Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2/2)
In this second of two episodes, Masazumi Chaya talks about the 21-year tenure of Judith Jamison –former star dancer and muse to Alvin Ailey– as Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He describes his own 40-year contribution to the company as well as his future plans, and speaks...
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Masazumi Chaya, Associate Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1/2)
In this first of two episodes, Masazumi Chaya, former dancer, rehearsal director and current Associate Artistic Director at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, reminisces about his young life in Japan, his move to New York City in 1970, and his early years at the company. Chaya shares fond…
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Marie Chouinard, choreographer and Artistic and Executive Director, Compagnie Marie Chouinard (2/2)
In this second of two episodes, Marie Chouinard reacts to the view that her early solo work was provocative, and that she pushes her dancers to extremes, referring in particular to bODY_rEMIX / gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS. She talks about her latest choreographic achievement, THE GOLDEN MEAN (LIVE)…
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From ballet to contemporary dance, these podcasts (each about 30 minutes long) feature fascinating conversations between NAC Dance Producer Cathy Levy and some of the world's most exciting dance artists, all of whom will be appearing, or have appeared, at the National Arts Centre.
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