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Intergenerational Exchange – Merry Petroski, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Nia-Amina Minor, Donald Byrd, Donna Uchizono, Dianne McIntyre, and Kristel Baldoz11 Jul 202500:42:05
In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with voices representing a span of 3 different generations. Dianne McIntyre, based in Cleveland, Ohio; Donald Byrd and Nia-Amina Minor, based in Seattle, Washington; and Donna Uchizono, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, and Kristel Baldoz, based in New York City. Merry Petroski, Project Manager of the Creative Aging Institute at the Akron Art Museum, also joins the conversation.  EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floco Torres Cover art by Micah Kraus Transcription by Arushi Singh LINKS: Join our mailing list - nccakron.org/engage Follow NCCAkron on Facebook - facebook.com/nccakron Follow NCCAkron on Instagram - instagram.com/nccakron
Committing to Curiosity – David Roussève11 Jul 202500:33:41
In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with West Hollywood, California-based choreographer, writer, director, filmmaker, and performer David Roussève. A Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner, Roussève has toured extensively domestically and internationally with his dance/theater company REALITY. Roussève is a Distinguished Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA and, at the time of this recording, was developing his first full-length evening solo performance in over 20 years.  EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floco Torres Cover art by Micah Kraus Transcription by Arushi Singh LINKS: Join our mailing list - nccakron.org/engage Follow NCCAkron on Facebook - facebook.com/nccakron Follow NCCAkron on Instagram - instagram.com/nccakron
Making Order Out Of Chaos – Pioneer Winter21 Jun 202400:19:36

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Miami FL-based choreographer and dancer, Pioneer Winter. Recognized in Dance Magazine's 2019 “25 to Watch," he directs Pioneer Winter Collective, a contemporary dance and physical theater company of allied bodies, who democratize performance in public spaces, museums, stages, and films. He develops work through local engagement practices with emerging LGBT+ artists and intergenerational labs and social activities with Lambda Living, a service program for LGBT elders. Outside of his company, Winter teaches in areas of social justice and art, epistemology, and dance at Florida International University.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Non-technique As Technique – Takahiro Yamamoto14 Jun 202400:20:52

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Portland, OR and Boston, MA- based multidisciplinary artist and choreographer, Takahiro Yamamoto. His current conceptual investigations revolve around the phenomenological effects of time, the embodied approach to the presence of nothingness, and the social/emotional implications of visibility. His performance and visual art works have been presented at Portland Art Museum, Diverseworks, and GoDown Arts Centre Nairobi, among others. Yamamoto, is currently a visiting professor at Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Dance As A Practice Of Freedom – J’Sun Howard07 Jun 202400:14:16

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Chicago IL-based dancemaker J'Sun Howard. Howard received the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events’ Esteemed Artist Award and was recognized as an Asian Cultural Council Fellow. His works have been showcased nationally and internationally and he has received commissions from Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago, World Dance Alliance, and The Art Institute of Chicago.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Listen To What Interests You – John Heginbotham31 May 202400:36:01

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with New York City-based choreographer John Heginbotham. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Heginbotham graduated from The Juilliard School, was a member of Mark Morris Dance Group. In 2011, he founded Dance Heginbotham and has received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. Other awards include fellowships at New York City Center  and at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Boundaries And Collaboration – Hélène Simoneau and Jie-Hung Connie Shiau24 May 202400:28:02

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Montréal, Québec and New York City-based Hélène Simoneau and Chicago IL-based dancer and collaborator, Connie Shiau. In addition to working with Simoneau, Shiau was recognized in Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch” in 2018. Hélène Simoneau explores themes of intimacy, agency, identity, sexuality, and power in her work and has been commissioned by Oregon Ballet Theatre, The Juilliard School, and BalletX, among others. She was recently a Choreography Fellow at New York City Center and received a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Embracing One's Identity In Different Contexts – Christopher Núñez17 May 202400:27:47

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with New York City-based Visually Impaired choreographer, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez. Núñez has been awarded Fellowships by Princeton University, The Jerome Foundation, Dance/USA, and Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. His performances have been presented in New York by The Joyce Theater, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Kitchen, among others.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Playing Within Structures – Angelina Ramirez10 May 202400:27:29

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Tucson Arizona based flamenco movement artist Angelina Ramirez. Ramirez explores what it means to be a queer, latinx flamenca practicing in a traditional Roma/Gitano form of dance. As a teaching artist she is interested in the intersections of art and healing, focusing on work with elders of all abilities and integrated flamenco for neurodivergent participants. She has toured the world with renowned companies like Noche Flamenca and continues to produce events and festivals throughout Arizona.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Pushing Beyond – The Era Footwork Crew03 May 202400:31:12

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Chicago Illinois-based, The Era Footwork Crew members Sterling “Steelo” Lofton and Brandon “Chief Manny” Calhoun. The Era Footwork Crew are pioneers of the battle dance known as Chicago footwork. They have performed from Japan to Peru, performing and choreographing alongside leading artists such as Chance the Rapper, DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, and Theaster Gates. The Era's work has been in short documentaries by VICE, the Canadian Broadcast Company, and the Chicago Tribune.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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In Love With Potential – Ruby Morales03 May 202400:27:00

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Phoenix, Arizona-based artist and activist Ruby Morales. Morales describes her work as that of a ‘dance artivist,’ where she investigates culturally informed teaching methods, circular leadership models, and her relationship with movement as a bgirl and in Mexican style cumbia. She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, most recently, she was honored by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals with the Spark of Change Award.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Against All Odds: Moving In Museums – Brendan Fernandes and Jeff Katzin, PhD08 Sep 202300:41:26

This special edition of Inside The Dancer’s Studio podcast features content from the Creative Administration Research (CAR) Summit Convening and was recorded at the Akron Art Museum. CAR is made possible through a multi-year grant from the Mellon Foundation. We join Christy Bolingbroke, our Executive / Artistic Director, in dialogue with Chicago, IL-based multidisciplinary, Kenyan-Indian, Canadian-American artist Brendan Fernandes and Akron Art Museum Curator Dr. Jeff Katzin. The trio foreground their conversation titled, “Against All Odds: Moving In Museums,” with visual artist, Keith Haring's work, which was on exhibit at the time. Using this common ground, they explore how visual artists and choreographers are dancing in and around museum spaces today. 

http://www.brendanfernandes.ca/

https://akronartmuseum.org/

https://akronartmuseum.org/media/exhibition/keith-haring-against-all-odds/

https://www.nccakron.org/creativeadminresearch

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Integrating Technology – Myrna Packer, Art Bridgman, Peter Bobrow, Raphael Xavier, and Hanna Ali04 Jul 202500:24:22
In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with artists who integrate technology in their work and who participated as a Dancing Lab cohort researching immersive spaces for dance. Valley Cottage, New York-based Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Raphael Xavier, and Miami, Florida-based Hanna Ali all join the conversation with technical collaborators.  EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floco Torres Cover art by Micah Kraus Transcription by Arushi Singh LINKS: Join our mailing list - nccakron.org/engage Follow NCCAkron on Facebook - facebook.com/nccakron Follow NCCAkron on Instagram - instagram.com/nccakron
Afrofuturism, Technology, And Dance – André M. Zachery01 Sep 202300:29:30

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Brooklyn, New York-based interdisciplinary artist and the artistic director of Renegade Performance Group, André M. Zachery. Zachery is a 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Gregory Millard Fellow in Choreography and a 2019 Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Choreography. As a scholar, he speaks and writes on many topics including Afrofuturism, African Diaspora practices and philosophies, Black cultural aesthetics, technology in art and performance, and expanding the boundaries of art making within the community.

http://renegadepg.com

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Surprise Yourself – Lisa Berman and Joseph Tran of BRKFST Dance Company25 Aug 202300:35:22

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with two members of the Saint Paul Minnesota-based company BRKFST Dance Company. Lisa “MonaLisa” Berman is the founder and Artistic Director of BRKFST and Joseph "MN Joe" Tran is a founding member of BRKFST and a member of Knuckleheads Cali breaking crew. BRKFST’s egalitarian and virtuosic choreographic collaboration is deeply rooted in the Hip Hop adage, "Each One Teach One": regardless of class, race, experience, age or gender, everyone remains both teacher and student. 

http://brkfstdance.com

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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In The Spirit Of Community And Generosity – Errin Weaver18 Aug 202300:23:09

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Cleveland, OH-based artist Errin Weaver. Weaver is a choreographer and the Executive Artistic Director of Mojuba! Dance Collective and has created the Emerging Black Choreographers Incubator. Mojuba! Dance Collective (MDC) is an African contemporary dance company and platform dedicated to exploring spiritual and cultural dance traditions of the African Diaspora to restore community wellness, share and validate the Black narrative experience, and reestablish cultural connection. 

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Embodied Practice As An Invitation – slowdanger11 Aug 202300:39:04

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Pittsburgh, PA-based artists, taylor knight & anna thompson who are co-founding artistic directors of slowdanger. Through the process of making each piece, they work with a heightened understanding of energy, synergy, action, gender, time, and storytelling. slowdanger’s work has been presented in the US and Canada by venues including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, Springboard Danse Montreal, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Place Des Arts, among others. 

http://slowdangerslowdanger.com

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Equity In Motion – Raphael Xavier04 Aug 202300:30:28

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with with Philadelphia-based dancer, choreographer, musician, photographer, and writer, Raphael Xavier. Xavier’s extensive research in Hip Hop forms and culture, specifically Breaking, has led to the creation of Ground-Core, a Somatic dance technique. Originally from Wilmington, Delaware, Xavier is a 2013 Pew Fellowship Grantee and 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, and Princeton University professor.

https://www.raphaelxavier.org/

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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The Impact Of Moving Together: Big Dance Theater – Annie-B Parson, Donna Uchizono, And Tendayi Kuumba28 Jul 202300:54:26

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with three award-winning New York City based choreographers: Tendayi Kuumba, Annie-B Parson, and Donna Uchizono who were in Akron collaborating on a new work.

Tendayi Kuumba: whostendayi.com

Donna Uchizono: donnauchizono.org

Annie-B Parson: bigdancetheater.org

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Money, Mindset, And Motivation: Where Artist Meets Enterprise – Elena Muslar09 Sep 202201:17:28

Today we are excited to share an excerpt of the closing plenary of the 2022 CAR convening facilitated by Ontario, California based arts administrator and professor, Elena Marie Muslar. Elena is the Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer of Confide Creative, a coaching and consulting practice dedicated to the collective cultural and economic progress of pre-professionals and working professionals. She is also Associate Director of Programs at Fractured Atlas, a national nonprofit arts service organization that helps artists and creative businesses thrive and a Lecturer at Loyola Marymount University teaching “Introduction to Business in the Arts.” honored by L.A. County for her leadership in the arts & creative economy, commitment to cultural equity & inclusion, and dedication to community affairs & civic pride.

Joining Elena in this Closing Plenary conversation, titled Money, Mindset, and Motivation: Where Artist Meets Enterprise are: New York City-based artist, Antuan Byers, Boston, MA - based artist Indira Goodwine, Durham, NC-based artist jumatatu m. poe, and Miami, FL-based artist Rosie Herrera. 

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Artist As Model For The New Socioeconomic Normal – Marc Bamuthi Joseph02 Sep 202200:31:07

Today we are excited to share an excerpt of the opening plenary of the 2022 CAR convening titled, “Artist as Model for the New Socioeconomic Normal.” In this portion of session, Christy Bolingbroke, our Executive / Artistic Director is in conversation with Washington DC-based performer, poet, director, and arts administrator, Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Bamuthi is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. While engaging in a deeply fulfilling and successful artistic career, Bamuthi also proudly serves as Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He is in high demand for his creative approach to organizational design, brand development, and community mediation, and has been enlisted as a strategic partner or consultant for companies ranging from Coca Cola to Carnegie Hall. Bamuthi is the founding Program Director of the exemplary non-profit Youth Speaks, and is a co-founder of Life is Living, a national series of one-day festivals which activate under-resourced parks and affirm peaceful urban life.  

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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The All-encompassing Nature Of Being A Choreographer – Christopher K Morgan26 Aug 202200:26:59

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with  Maui Hawaii-based choreographer Christopher K. Morgan. Christopher is the Executive Artistic Director of Christopher K Morgan & Artists as well as the Director of the Dance Residency Program at Art Omi. His choreography has been presented in 18 countries on 5 continents and has addressed issues including sexuality, gender identity, race, climate change, immigration and water conservation. Christopher recently joined the Maui Arts & Cultural Center to be Vice President of Programming through which he curates dozens of music, dance, and theater performances each year, oversees the Schaefer International Gallery, and a robust arts education program that serves thousands of Hawai'i youth, adults, and arts educators. Prior to joining the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Christopher served as Executive Artistic Director of Dance Place in Washington, D.C.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Listening As A Tool For Choreography – Helanius J. Wilkins19 Aug 202200:23:53

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Boulder, CO-based choreographer, performance artist and innovator, Helanius J. Wilkins, whose creative research and projects are rooted in the interconnections of American contemporary performance, cultural history, and identities of Black men. Wilkins founded and artistically directed EDGEWORKS Dance Theater, Washington, DC’s first all-male contemporary dance company of predominately African-American men, that existed for thirteen years (2001 – 2014). To date, he has choreographed and directed over 60 works. Helanius is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of Dance at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Keeping Good Ideas – George Staib27 Jun 202500:20:45
In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with Atlanta, Georgia-based George Staib, choreographer and artistic director of staibdance. Dance Teacher Magazine has recognized Staib as one of the “top five” dance educators in the US, and he has been commissioned as a teacher and choreographer for over 25 institutions. He is currently on the dance faculty at Emory University.  EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floco Torres Cover art by Micah Kraus Transcription by Arushi Singh LINKS: Join our mailing list - nccakron.org/engage Follow NCCAkron on Facebook - facebook.com/nccakron Follow NCCAkron on Instagram - instagram.com/nccakron
Letting Go Of Expectations – Courtney Lopes12 Aug 202200:23:07

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with New York City-based performer and educator Courtney Lopes. Born and raised in Bermuda, Courtney trained at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts for high school and went on to receive her BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase. She now dances with Dance Heginbotham, MeenMoves, Sue Bernhard Danceworks, Kathryn Alter & Dancers, and Megan Williams Dance Projects and is a professor at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Courtney is also trained in Dance for PD, a specialized dance class series for people living with Parkinson’s Disease, which she enjoys sharing with communities across the US and around the world. 

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Attention, Intention, And Connection – Ashwini Ramaswamy05 Aug 202200:25:43

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Minneapolis-St. Paul-based performer and choreographer Ashwini Ramaswamy, who trained and performs in the lineage of Bharatanatyam. As a founding member of Ragamala Dance Company, she has toured extensively, throughout the U.S. and in Russia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, the U.K, and India, as well, she’s performed in  well-know US venues like Lincoln Center Out of Doors, and  the Kennedy Center. Her own choreographic work has been presented by venues including The Joyce Theater and The Yard, and has found support through the National Dance Project and US Artists International. The New York Times describes Ashwini as “weaving together, both fearfully and joyfully, the human and the divine…”

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Breaking Patterns, Building Relationships – Kate Wallich29 Jul 202200:25:20

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Seattle-based choreographer, director and educator Kate Wallich. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” her work has been presented nationally and internationally by venues including On the Boards, Seattle Art Museum, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Walker Art Center, MASS MoCa, and The Joyce Theater. In 2010 she founded an all-abilities, community-focused class called Dance Church® which, during the pandemic, gained traction as an online streaming platform and received attention from Wired, Vanity Fair, and The LA Times.

 

EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Choreography As A Way To Organize Information – Rosie Herrera22 Jul 202200:29:13

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Miami-based, Cuban-American dancer and choreographer Rosie Herrera. In addition to being the artistic director of Rosie Herrera Dance Theater, she is an independent director and creative consultant and a classically trained lyric coloratura soprano who performs with the Performers Music Institute Opera Ensemble. Rosie has been awarded choreographic fellowships by MANCC and Bates Dance Festival, among others and was awarded a Princess Grace Choreographic Fellowship for her work with Ballet Hispanico.

 

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Processing Emotions Through Creative Practice – Paula Mann05 Nov 202100:34:34

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Twin Cities-based dancer, choreographer, and educator, Paula Mann. Mann moved to the Twin Cities in 1987, has created 50 new works, and is co-artistic director of TIME TRACK PRODUCTIONS with visual artist Steve Paul.  She has been a driving force in Contemporary Dance and Performance-based out of Minneapolis for the past 30 years; challenging, educating, and engaging artists, audiences, and communities with passion, inventiveness, and rigor. She was full-time faculty at the University of Minnesota Department of Theater and Dance from 1993-2013 and is a 2019 McKnight Choreographer Fellow.

 

http://www.timetrackdance.org/about.html

A recreation of New Dance by Doris Humphrey (with my teacher Linda Tarnay in the main role)https://youtu.be/EA4KmKnYRwM

Bill T Jones   https://youtu.be/o4DD3dgfvS0

Donald McKayle's Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder    https://youtu.be/kXZ2ca066Lo

Daniel Nagrin's Strange Hero          https://youtu.be/rxWVYT3_Ccc

Robert Wilson Einstein on the Beach    https://youtu.be/a8kgAkTS7oM

Sharon Wehner performs "32 Fouettes" from Swan Lake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIADfYGc9Vw

https://www.artsmidwest.org/

 

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Connecting Cultures Through Dance – Guillaume Gabriel and Companie Hervé Koubi29 Oct 202100:30:17

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Guillaume Gabriel, cofounder of French company, Companie Hervé Koubi. The company’s work was born from a mixture of techniques and influences, at the crossroads of urban dances and ballet and with the coming together of Koubi’s French-Algerian and African family history. 

https://www.cie-koubi.fr

 

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Questioning Power With Race And Gender – Kayla Farrish22 Oct 202100:33:00

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with New York City-based dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and photographer, Kayla Farrish. Kayla is the founder and director of Kayla Farrish/Decent Structure Arts. Through which she shares her vision of intimate storytelling and makes work that delves into socio-political structures and the liberation of people. Her work has garnered residencies and film screenings across the country, as well as commissions by Gibney Dance and Danspace Project in New York. 

https://www.kaylafarrish.com/

https://www.dance-enthusiast.com/features/social-distance-video-series/view/Kayla-Farrish-Armstrong-Now-Louis-Armstrong-


 

 

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Creating From A Place Of Fascination With Human Behavior – James Graham15 Oct 202100:32:37

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with San Francisco, CA-based performer, choreographer, and teacher, James Graham. James dances with Lisa Wymore & Sheldon Smith’s Disappearing Acts, the Joe Goode Performance Group, and is the founder of James Graham Dance Theatre. This conversation was his second engagement with the Center, as he participated in the 2019 NCCAkron Dancing Lab: Dance as Cultural Diplomat, a multi-day symposium exploring the exchange between Israeli and American modern dance.

http://jamesgrahamdancetheatre.com

Also referenced in this episode: https://lizlerman.com/hiking-the-horizontal/

 

 

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Being Led By The Mystery Of The Creative Process – Nicole Klaymoon08 Oct 202100:28:45

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with San Francisco-based choreographer Nicole Klaymoon. Klaymoon is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Embodiment Project, whose recent work includes a piece titled “Ancient Children”, which explores the ways restorative justice can interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. This conversation was her second engagement at the Center, as she is an alumna of NCCAkron's Dancing Lab: Screendance that took place in July 2018.

https://www.embodimentproject.org

 

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Working From Inquiry And Discovery – Brian Brooks01 Oct 202100:34:35

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Brooklyn New York based choreographer, Brian Brooks. Brian's work has toured internationally since 2002 with presentations by BAM, the Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow, the American Dance Festival, and Works and Process at the Guggenheim Museum, among others. He has developed and toured work with former New York City Ballet prima ballerina, Wendy Whelan, titled Restless Creature and appears in the film by the same name, with Whelan. 

https://www.bbrooks.org

 

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Feedback Loops – Shaina and Bryan Baira20 Jun 202500:26:10
In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with Shaina and Bryan Baira of BAIRA MVMNT PHLOSPHY. Their New York City and Detroit, Michigan-based dance theatre company creates live performance, dance film, and immersive-virtual-reality experiences. Shaina and Bryan are recipients of the ‘Creators of Culture’ award through Culture Source Detroit and were honored as nominees for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer by the Bessie Award committee in 2023.  EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floco Torres Cover art by Micah Kraus Transcription by Arushi Singh LINKS: Join our mailing list - nccakron.org/engage Follow NCCAkron on Facebook - facebook.com/nccakron Follow NCCAkron on Instagram - instagram.com/nccakron
Organizing Around Rhythms In The Body – Abby Zbikowski24 Sep 202100:31:02

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Champaign-Urbana, IL-based choreographer, Abby Zbikowski. Abby is the founder of the company Abby Z and the New Utility. She is a 2020 United States Artists Fellow and received the 2017 Juried Bessie Award for her work. She is also a professor of Dance at the University of Illinois and on faculty at American Dance Festival.

Strange Tools by Alva Noe https://g.co/kgs/n9Fdyj
Artist Website:  www.abbyznewutility.org
Sandi Scheuber: https://dance.osu.edu/people/hadley.4

 

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Cultivating Spaces For Feeling Like One’s Self – Amy Miller17 Sep 202100:25:52

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with New York City-based dancer, choreographer and educator Amy Miller. A former member of the Ohio Ballet, and founding member and artistic associate of Cleveland-based GroundWorks DanceTheater, she is now a Gibney Company Director and a performing member of the Gibney Company. An Ohio native, Amy earned a 2010 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and in 2009 was voted Outstanding Artist in dance by the Akron Area Arts Alliance.

www.gibneydance.org
www.groundworksdance.org
Emergent Strategy  by adrienne maree brown
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

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Do We Make Popular Culture Or Does Popular Culture Make Us – Raja Feather Kelly10 Sep 202100:29:50

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Brooklyn New York based choreographer, Raja Feather Kelly. Raja is the artistic director of New Brooklyn Theatre and founder of the dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory. 

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Raja Feather Kelly (Brooklyn, NY) is a choreographer and director, and the Artistic Director of the dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory, for which he has created 18 premieres, most recently UGLY Part 3: BLUE at the Chelsea Factory. The company’s latest work, The Absolute Future, will premiere in 2024. His choreography can currently be seen in White Girl in Danger at the Second Stage Kiser Theater, written by Michael R. Jackson and directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. He also choreographed Jackson’s Broadway musical A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre, premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizon) winner of two Tony Awards, including Best Musical. In addition to Jackson and Blain-Cruz, his Off-Broadway collaborators include Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Sarah Benson. Among many recent works are the Pulitzer Prize-winning productions Fairview and A Strange Loop. In addition to White Girl in Danger, current projects include Lempicka and The Listeners. Recent works include Bunny Bunny (UC San Diego) and Scenes for an Ending for the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. His accolades include Princeton Arts Fellowship, three Princess Grace Awards, an Obie Award, an Outer Critics Circle honor, a Creative Capital award, and many others.

 

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Don't Dance In Your Head, Dance Out In The World – Dominic Moore-Dunson02 Jul 202100:29:48

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Akron Ohio based choreographer, Dominic Moore-Dunson. Moore-Dunson's recognitions and fellowships include the 2019 Cleveland Arts Prize, MOCA Cleveland’s “New Agent” award, Jacob’s Pillow Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship, the Devil Strip Magazine’s 2018 Breakout Artist, National Arts Strategies (NAS) Creative Community Fellowship, and others. His large-scale community-based dance theatre project called The ‘Black Card’ Project premiered in September 2018 and is currently in its second iteration. 

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Dominic Moore-Dunson hails from Akron, OH, where he attended the University of Akron and Firestone High School (Akron School for the Arts). Recently recognized as a “New Agent” by MOCA Cleveland, Dominic has received numerous fellowships and recognitions as an emerging artist and arts leader. He was a 2019 Jacob’s Pillow Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellow, a 2018 Breakout Artist by the Devil Strip Magazine (Akron), a 2016 National Arts Strategies (NAS) Creative Community Fellow (DC), and an inaugural member of Leadership Akron’s Diversity on Board Program. His solo work, CAUTION, was a 2018 commission by Akron Art Museum.

Dominic completed a certificate program with the National Arts Strategies Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategies (University of Pennsylvania) to enhance his capacity in all aspects of running a thriving arts & non-profit culture organization. Moore-Dunson currently serves on the board of ArtsNow and the Akron Cultural Plan Steering Committee.

Dominic was a dancer, rehearsal coordinator, and educator with Inlet Dance Theatre (Cleveland, OH). During his time with Inlet, he developed a community-based dance theatre project called ‘Black Card’ Project that premiered in Sept 2018. The ‘Black Card’ Project is a live-action dance-theatre cartoon that examines the narrow definition of blackness and the African-American ideal of the “Black Card”.

 

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Mining The Personal, From Immigration To Movement – Mustapha Braimah25 Jun 202100:32:21

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Asheville, NC/Cleveland, OH based choreographer, educator, curator, performer, musician, and administrator, Mustapha Braimah. Braimah brings over two decades of international experience and high artistic acclaim to his roles as an artist-scholar from Ghana, West Africa. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of Dance Program at UNC Asheville. His art practice and creativity are deeply rooted in contemporary, popular, and traditional forms.

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Mustapha Braimah (Asheville, NC) brings over two decades of international experience and high artistic acclaim to his roles as an artist-scholar from Ghana, West Africa. He is a choreographer, educator, curator, performer, musician, and administrator. He holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland, an MA in African Studies from Ohio University, and a BFA in Dance from the University of Ghana. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor and Director of the Dance Program at UNC Asheville. His art practice and creativity are deeply rooted in contemporary, popular, and traditional forms. His works utilize diverse virtuosic approaches in applying 21st-century skills and creativity, including improvisation.

 

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On The Edge Of Failure And Taking A Risk – Samantha Speis18 Jun 202100:28:21

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with New York-based improviser and movement artist, Samantha Speis. Speis has worked with Gesel Mason, The Dance Exchange, Deborah Hay, is currently a member of The Skeleton Architecture collective of black womyn and gender non-conforming artists, and was recently awarded a Bessie for Outstanding Performer. She is also the Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women.

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Samantha Speis (New York, NY) is an improviser and movement artist based in the Bronx, and is the Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women. She has worked with Gesel Mason, The Dance Exchange, Jumatatu Poe, Deborah Hay, Marjani Forte, and Liz Lerman. She is currently a member of The Skeleton Architecture collective of black womyn and gender non-conforming artists and was recently awarded a Bessie for Outstanding Performer. She has developed a teaching practice that explores pelvic mobility as the root of powerful locomotion and as a point of connection to the stories, experiences, and lineages that reside in each of us.

 

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Creating In Relationship With Cultural Communities – Paloma McGregor11 Jun 202100:39:28

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Caribbean-born, New York-based choreographer and arts leader Paloma McGregor. McGregor is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse and the Dancing While Black project. 

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Paloma McGregor (New York, NY) is a Caribbean-born choreographer. As co-founder and Artistic Director of Angela’s Pulse, McGregor has spent more than a decade centering Black voices through collaborative, community-specific performance projects. McGregor also facilitates technique, creative process, and community engagement workshops around the world. She toured internationally for six years with Urban Bush Women and two years with Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange and continues to perform in project‐based work, including Skeleton Architecture, an acclaimed collective of Black women(+) improvisers with whom she received a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for performance in 2017. 

Alongside her choreographic work, McGregor founded Dancing While Black (DWB), a platform for community-building, intergenerational exchange, and visibility among Black dance artists. Since 2012, DWB has produced more than two dozen public dialogues and performances, supported the development of 22 Black artists through the DWB Fellowship, and published the country’s first digital journal by and for Black experimental dance artists.

 

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Show Up For Yourself; Show Up For Others – Hélène Simoneau04 Jun 202100:28:30

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Winston-Salem, NC, based choreographer, Hélène Simoneau, who was recently recognized with a Guggenheim fellowship for her work which strives to hold space for individual agency and explores power dynamics through dance. A native of Rimouski, Québec, Simoneau is the artistic director of Hélène Simoneau Danse and was recently described as “a Choreographer-on-the-rise” by Dance Magazine, and has been commissioned by The Juilliard School, Oregon Ballet Theatre, American Dance Festival, Springboard Danse Montréal among others. 

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Hélène Simoneau (Winston-Salem, NC), a native of Québec, Canada, has been commissioned by The Juilliard School, the American Dance Festival, Oregon Ballet Theatre, the Bessie Schönberg Residency at The Yard, Springboard Danse Montréal, and the Swiss Intl. Coaching Project (SiWiC) in Zurich. She was a resident artist at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Bates Dance Festival, and has received fellowships from Bogliasco Foundation and the NC Arts Council. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally at notable venues such as The Guggenheim Museum (NYC), Dance Place (DC), Joyce SoHo (NYC), Tangente (Montréal), The Aoyama Round Theatre (Tokyo), the L.I.G. Art Hall Busan (South Korea), Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out (MA), PACT-Zollverein in Essen (Germany), and Athens International Dance Festival (Greece).

Simoneau founded Hélène Simoneau Danse (HSDanse) in 2010. Dance Magazine described Simoneau as “a choreographer-on-the-rise with a style that is both athletic and smooth."

 

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Moving In Multiple Directions At Once - Taja Will28 May 202100:25:36

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Taja Will is a queer, Chilean adoptee, performer, choreographer, therapist, and restorative justice facilitator based in the Twin Cities (MN). Their approach integrates improvisation, somatic modalities, text, and vocals in contemporary performance. Will also works in healing justice and as an advocate for artists, especially serving as a liaison for artists in experimental forms, people of color, and the LGBTQIA2+ communities. 

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Taja Will (Minneapolis, MN) is a queer, Latinx (Chilean) adoptee, performer, choreographer, somatic therapist, and Healing Justice practitioner, on ancestral Dakota lands of Wahpekute and Anishinabewaki. Taja’s approach integrates improvisation, somatic modalities, text, and vocals in contemporary performance. Will’s work explores visceral connections to current socio-cultural realities through ritual, archetypes, and everyday magic.

Taja is a recent recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, in the dance field, awarded in 2021. Their work has been presented at the Walker Art Center Choreographer’s Evening, the Red Eye Theater’s New Works 4 Weeks, the Radical Recess series, Right Here Showcase, and the Candy Box Dance Festival. Will is the recipient of a 2018 McKnight Choreography Fellowship, administered by the Cowles Center and funded by The McKnight Foundation. Will has recently received support from the National Association of Latinx Arts & Culture, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council.

Taja maintains a dynamic Healing Justice practice that includes consulting with individuals, organizations, and communities in the context of workshops, conflict mediation, one-on-one somatic healing sessions, nervous system triage, board development and organizational cultural competency, and individual coaching on unwinding from white body supremacy culture. They ground their work in indigenous solidarity and decolonization as a means to undo white body supremacy and its pervasive relationship to capitalism, Taja is committed to working for healing and liberation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

 

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The Transformation Of Memory – Bridgman | Packer Dance21 May 202100:37:19

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, Artistic Directors of Bridgman | Packer Dance (Valley Cottage, NY). They are Guggenheim Fellows and 2017 NY Dance and Performance Award recipients (The Bessies). Their collaborative work focuses on integrating live performance and video technology to blur the line between image and reality, explore identity, and reveal multiple layers of consciousness. They are also recipients of four NPN Creation Fund Awards and numerous grants from the NEA, National Dance Project, NYSCA, and NYFA.

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Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer (Valley Cottage, NY), Co-Artistic Directors of Bridgman | Packer Dance, have collaborated in choreography and performance since 1978.

In 2001, they expanded their choreographic vision, stretching the boundaries of dance by merging it with video technology. In 2017, they received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for Outstanding Production for their work Voyeur at The Sheen Center.

The 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to Bridgman and Packer was the first in the history of the Guggenheim Foundation to be given to two individuals for their collaborative work. Bridgman and Packer are recipients of eleven grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (2007-2019) and grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, National Dance Project, USArtists International, Performing Americas Project, and La Red. They have received two Choreography Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, four National Performance Network Creation Fund Awards, and choreographic commissions from Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts), Portland Ovations, Danspace Project, and the 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund.

Based in New York City, they have been presented by City Center Fall For Dance Festival, Lincoln Center, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop (now NYLA), Danspace Project, The Sheen Center, and Central Park's Summerstage.

 

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Obsessions and Containers – Reggie Wilson13 Jun 202500:30:54
In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with Brooklyn, New York-based Reggie Wilson, Executive/Artistic Director, Choreographer, and Performer with Fist and Heel Performance Group. Wilson's work draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and is combined with post-modern elements to create what he calls “post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances.” Wilson has lectured, taught, conducted community workshops, and has been presented nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of awards, including a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a Joyce Foundation Award.  EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floco Torres Cover art by Micah Kraus Transcription by Arushi Singh LINKS: Join our mailing list - nccakron.org/engage Follow NCCAkron on Facebook - facebook.com/nccakron Follow NCCAkron on Instagram - instagram.com/nccakron
Returning To The Known – Jesse Factor21 May 202100:27:53

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Jesse Factor (Slippery Rock, PA). Factor's growing repertoire of solo work has been presented in North American venues such as TQ Live! at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), OUTsider Festival (Austin), Milton Art Bank (Milton), RADfest (Kalamazoo), St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery (NYC), and Fierce Queer Burlesque (Toronto).

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Jesse Factor's (Slippery Rock, PA) growing repertoire of solo work combines a speculative view of queer histories and the archive with contemporary composition practices. He has created Mommie Queerest, presented at Queers in Revolt at Sam Houston University in 2019, Kween Kong presented at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival in 2017, and Marthagany: the Spectre-Acle series, which continues to tour at dance festivals, performance events, and nightclubs. Jesse Factor’s studied channeling of divas in exile–from time and body–hauntingly reflects the impressions they’ve left behind.

Awards include the Twin Cities Arts Reader Critics Pick and Minnesota Fringe Staff Pick for RELIC at the Minnesota Fringe Festival and Outstanding Dance Performance for Marthagany at the Fresh Fruit Festival-NYC. Jesse received the Kelly Strayhorn Alloy Studios Freshworks residency grant (Pittsburgh, PA) for a collaborative work with multimedia artist Scott Andrew.

Factor’s work has been presented in many American and international venues including TQ Live! at the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), OUTsider Festival (Austin), Milton Art Bank (Milton), RADfest (Kalamazoo), St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery (NYC), Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC), House of Yes, (NYC), and Fierce Queer Burlesque (Toronto).

Factor received the Iowa Arts Fellowship (2015-2016) and an Obermann Graduate Institute Fellowship (2017) at the University of Iowa. Jesse danced professionally with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Graham II, received a BFA in Drama with honors from Tisch/NYU, and an MFA in Dance from the University of Iowa.

 

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Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Choreography As An Exercise In Resonance – Bebe Miller21 May 202100:28:13

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Bebe Miller (Columbus, OH). Miller has been named a Master of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center, has received four “Bessie” awards, United States Artists and Guggenheim Fellowships, honorary doctorates from Ursinus College, and Franklin & Marshall College, and is one of the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artist Award recipients.

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Bebe Miller (Columbus, OH), an American choreographer, dancer, and director, first performed her work at NYC’s Dance Theater Workshop in 1978. Interested in “finding a physical language for the human condition,” she formed Bebe Miller Company in 1985. The Company has performed extensively in the UK, Europe, Africa, and throughout the US. Miller's choreography, noted for its mix of virtuosic, athletic speed, and fragile humanity, has been commissioned by Oregon Ballet Theatre, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Boston Ballet, Philadanco, the UK’s Phoenix Dance Company, and PACT Dance Company of Johannesburg, South Africa. She was named a Master of African American Choreography by the Kennedy Center, has received four Bessie awards, United States Artists and Guggenheim Fellowships, honorary doctorates from Ursinus College and Franklin & Marshall College, and is one of the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artist Award recipients.

 

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Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio
Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz
Theme music by Floco Torres
Cover art by Micah Kraus
Transcription by Arushi Singh

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Baking Intuition – Joe Bowie06 Jun 202500:32:59
In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with Evanston, Illinois-based interdisciplinary dance artist Joe Bowie. Bowie uses autoethnography to unlock narratives that layer the past, present, and future as archival choreographic methods. His creative and scholarly research convenes at the intersection of Blackness, queerness, and Black joy. Bowie danced professionally for over twenty-five years with The Paul Taylor Dance Company and The Mark Morris Dance Group before prioritizing his own work as a dance maker. Bowie received his MFA in Dance with a Graduate Minor in Queer Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floco Torres Cover art by Micah Kraus Transcription by Arushi Singh LINKS: Join our mailing list - nccakron.org/engage Follow NCCAkron on Facebook - facebook.com/nccakron Follow NCCAkron on Instagram - instagram.com/nccakron
Creating Content Game – Kara Jenelle30 May 202500:30:26
In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Los Angeles, California-based Kara Jenelle, aka KJ. A choreographer, spoken word artist, and international arts educator with a global reach of over 19 million views via her YouTube channel, KJ's repertoire highlights street dance, African diaspora dance and music, and Black culture.   EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floco Torres Cover art by Micah Kraus Transcription by Arushi Singh LINKS: Join our mailing list - nccakron.org/engage Follow NCCAkron on Facebook - facebook.com/nccakron Follow NCCAkron on Instagram - instagram.com/nccakron
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