Lindsay
Mack
Lindsay Mack, founder of Wild Soul Healing and Tarot for the Wild Soul, is an intuitive healer, holistic counselor and tarot reader based in Brooklyn, NY. She offers and facilitates Soul Tarot Readings, Intuitive and Spiritual Coaching, Mentorship, and Tarot Trainings for those who desire to heal, evolve and live fully on their true soul path. She is the creator of Soul Tarot, a way of interpreting, understanding and intentionally utilizing the Tarot as wild medicine for our soul's growth and evolution. Soul Tarot is a fusion of channeled wisdom from her guides, her 22 years of experience reading and studying Tarot, and her own healing journey.
Lindsay is the host of the weekly podcast, Tarot for the Wild Soul. She was the weekly and monthly Tarotscope contributor for The Numinous for two years, and created the monthly channeled Tarot column for Of The Wolves. She has had pieces on Tarot and spirituality published in Nourished Journal, Stone Fox Bride, MindBodyGreen, and Life as Ceremony. Lindsay has contributed pieces on the Tarot for Modern Women's Many Moons workbook, and to Ruby Warrington's book, Mystical Girl, Material World. Her work with the Tarot has been written about and featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Well + Good, Nylon Magazine, and Free + Native, to name a few.
Lindsay regularly offers readings, healing sessions, and tarot classes in her space in Brooklyn and all over the world via phone or Skype. She is available for one on one Soul Tarot Readings whenever she travels to teach.
Episode: 34
Anula
Maiberg
Anula Maiberg, co-owner of Sixth Street Pilates, was born in Israel and moved to New York City in 2001 in order to pursue a career in photography. While working on her degree at the School of Visual Arts she fell in love with Pilates. After college and a few years at a 'desk' job she realized happiness wasn't in front of the computer screen. In 2010 Anula began her training at the Kane School for Core Integration and was fully certified by Kelly Kane. In 2014 she graduated the Kathy Grant Heritage Training® led by Cara Reeser of Pilates Aligned in Denver. A journey that has led her to a deeper understanding of the Method. She is currently developing the potato method.
Episode: 9
Erin
Markey
Erin Markey is an American writer, comedian, and performance artist. Markey's work combines elements of cabaret theater and comedy and often incorporates stories of her childhood in the Midwest. The New York Times has described Markey as having "a cult following as an alt-cabaret star with swaggering confidence and off-kilter sense of humor."
In SINGLET, genre-defying artist Erin Markey draws on their longstanding friendship and working relationship with actor Emily Davis to create a performance that maps the bonds and hysteria of earned intimacy. Combining Markey’s singular style with a host of influences—spanning Genet’s The Maids, celebrity psychotherapist Esther Perel’s available-on-Audible couples counseling sessions, Notes on a Scandal, Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Quartet and Precious Moments® Collectible Dolls — this kaleidoscopic world premiere production grapples with the desire, rivalry, vulnerability, and subterfuge that bind two people together. By turns tenacious and tender, SINGLET reimagines the economies of power between friends, families, and wrestlers.
Episode: 49
The Dance And Stuff Show: Episode 11
The Dance And Stuff Show (LIVE): May 12th, 2020
Sara
Mearns
Sara Mearns was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and began her dance training at the age of three with Ann Brodie at the Calvert-Brodie School of Dance, also in Columbia. At the age of 13, Ms. Mearns trained with Patricia McBride at Dance Place, the School of North Carolina Dance Theatre, in Charlotte. She continued her studies at age 14 with Stanislav Issaev at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville. Ms. Mearns entered the School of American Ballet (SAB) full time in the fall of 2001. In the fall of 2003 Ms. Mearns became an apprentice with New York City Ballet. In June of 2004, Ms. Mearns joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. In March of 2006 she was promoted to soloist and in June 2008, Ms. Mearns was promoted to principal dancer at New York City Ballet. She has dance for many downtown choreographers, most notably Jodi Melnick.
Andrea
Miller
Andrea Miller, Artistic Director and choreographer of Brooklyn-based company, Gallim, has established herself as a perpetually groundbreaking artist who brings unbridled empathy, intimacy, and sensitivity to her work. A sought-after creator and collaborator in dance, art, film, theater, tech, and fashion, Miller was named 2017/2018 Artist in Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, becoming the first choreographer to hold that distinction, and in October 2018 she was featured in Forbes as a female entrepreneur and leader in the dance world.
Episode: 86
Rashaun
Mitchell
Rashaun Mitchell is a choreographer, performer and teacher living and working in NYC. He is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2012 New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for "Outstanding Emerging Choreographer.” His choreography has been presented by New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, Baryshnikov Arts Center, REDCAT, ICA Boston and Summer Stages Dance, La Mama Moves Festival, Mount Tremper Arts, Skirball Center at NYU, the Museum of Arts and Design, The Lab, ODC, and at numerous site-specific venues and universities. With his ongoing collaborator, Silas Riener, he received a 2014 City Center Choreographic Fellowship, was selected for LMCC"s inaugural Extended Life Development Program, and was a Wellesley College Artist in Residence. Their work together has been presented by BAM/ Next Wave, EMPAC, The Walker Art Center, MCA Chicago, On The Boards, SF MoMA, and MoMA PS1. Other awards include a 2007 Princess Grace Award: Dance Fellowship, a 2013 Foundation for Contemporary Art "Grant to Artist," and a 2011 New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Award for "Sustained achievement in the work of Merce Cunningham 2004-2012." He is a Cunningham Trustee and licensed stager of the repertory. Since graduating with a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, Mitchell has worked with artists Anne Carson, Stephin Merrit, Carla Fernandez, Chantal Yzermans, Donna Uchizono, Pam Tanowitz, Risa Jaroslow, Sara Rudner, Jonah Bokaer, Richard Colton, Deborah Hay, Rebecca Lazier, Jodi Melnick, Sara Mearns, Moriah Evans, The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, Charles Atlas, Xavier Cha, Davison Scandrett, Phillip Greenlief and Claudia LaRocco. Mitchell has taught master classes throughout the country and is currently the associate Chair of the Dance department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Episode: 159, 160
Isaac
Mizrahi
Isaac Mizrahi is an American writer, fashion and costume designer, TV presenter, performer... Based in New York City, he is best known for his eponymous fashion lines and the unforgettable documentary of his fall 1994 collection, Unzipped. Mizrahi currently serves as a judge on Project Runway: All Stars.
Mizrahi has worked as the costume designer for three Broadway revivals, including The Women, Barefoot in the Park , and Threepenny Opera. For his work on The Women, Mizrahi won the 2002 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design. Mizrahi has collaborated with the costume designer for the Metropolitan Opera production of Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Mark Morris. Mizrahi has been a longtime collaborator with Morris in a partnership dating from 1997, when Mizrahi created costumes for a Morris film project with Yo-Yo Ma, Falling Down Stairs, from Ma's Inspired By Bach series.
Mizrahi has two dogs: Kitty and Dean.
The Dance And Stuff Show (LIVE): May 19th, 2020
Linda
Murray
Linda Murray is the fifth curator in the history of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division and manages all aspects of its collections and public service. She has previously worked with the dance collections at the Library of Congress and ran a multi-disciplinary arts organization in Washington, DC for seven years. Areas of specific interest include 20th century ballet and gender in performance, but Linda is also available for general consultations at the Library for the Performing Arts. A native of Dublin, Ireland, she has an undergraduate degree in French and Russian from Trinity College Dublin and holds postgraduate degrees in performance and library science from University College Cork and Clarion University respectively.
Martha
Nichols
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Martha began dancing at the age of three, and studied there until she and her mother moved to Raleigh, NC in 1996. Under the direction of Christy Curtis, she began to train in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Hip-Hop, and Modern. At 18, she was Top Ten on So You Think You Can Dance (Season 2), and from there she hit the ground running. Since then Martha was a principal dancer with Unity LA, directed by Tessandra Chavez, and has performed on awards shows such as MTV'S Video Music Awards, The American Music Awards, The Academy Awards, and The Billboard Awards. Other credits include, GAP, Disney, NBA, Jo+Jax, Cirque Du Soleil, and Dancing With the Stars. Martha has performed with Jesse J, Christina Aguilera, Nicki Minaj, Neil Patrick Harris, Ne-Yo, and more. She has toured with Rihanna, Kylie Minogue and Madonna, and can be seen in movies La La Land, Ted 2, and ABC's 2016 remake of Dirty Dancing.
Choreographically, Martha has been making a name for herself as well. Martha won The 2016 Capezio A.C.E. Awards with her piece Tilted, and showcased her work in Destiny Rising at The Joyce. She has assisted Mandy Moore, Tony Testa, Tessandra Chavez, Tabitha and Napoleon, Mia Michaels, Wade Robson, Andy Blankenbuehler, and more. Martha was assistant Choreographer on Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour, Bitch, I'm Madonna Music Video, Demi Lovato's Unbroken Promo Tour, and a contributing choreographer on Mariah Carey's Elusive Chanteuse Tour. She also choreographed, and was featured in Moses Sumney's Worth It Music Video.
In addition to this, Martha is an educator and loves teaching. She is on faculty with New York City Dance Alliance, and During her time in LA she taught at The Edge Performing Arts Center and Millennium Dance Complex. She has taught in Italy, Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia, and South Africa, but is most excited to once again call NYC home, and to teach at Broadway Dance Center.
Tere
O’Connor
Tere O’Connor is Artistic Director of Tere O’Connor Dance. He has created over 40 works for his company and toured these throughout the US, Europe, South America and Canada. He has created numerous commissioned works for other dance companies, including the Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project and solo works for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jean Butler. O’Connor received a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, is a 2009 United States Artist Rockefeller Fellow, and a 1993 Guggenheim Fellow among numerous other grants and awards. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project, The MAP Fund, and many others. He has received three “BESSIES”, New York Dance and Performance Awards. In October 2014, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. An articulate and provocative educator, O’Connor has taught at festivals and universities around the globe for 25 years. He is a Center for Advanced Studies Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he lives for one semester each year. O’Connor is an active participant in the New York dance community mentoring young artists, teaching, writing, and volunteering in various capacities.
Episode: 69
Breanna
O'Mara
Breanna O'Mara is an international performer, and member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. She graduated from The Juilliard School, where she was recipient of the Joseph W. Polisi Award in 2011. She has worked with artists Cecilia Bengolea & François Chaignaud, Chris Haring, Johannes Wieland, Stijn Celis, Alexander Ekman, Jack Ferver, Larry Keigwin, Colleen Thomas and Ryan McNamara as well as performed work by Pina Bausch, Ohad Naharin, Marie Chouinard, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor and more. She has created performance pieces which have been presented in The Wilson Theatre (NY), MoMA P.S. 1 (NY), Elizabeth Dee Gallery (NY), Theater im Fridericianum and Interim (Kassel, Germany). As a native of Detroit, Breanna founded the annual outreach program, Detroit Arts Immersion, sharing art with a community she loves.
Miki
Orihara
Miki Orihara is best known for her work as a principal dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, for which she earned a Bessie Award in 2010. She has performed on Broadway in “The King and I”, and with Elisa Monte, SITI Company, PierGroupDance, Lotuslotus and in productions by Twyla Tharp, and Robert Wilson. Orihara has presented her choreography in New York and Tokyo most recently in her solo concert, “Resonance” at La MaMa, NYC. She is a sought after teacher and coach working with the Kirov Ballet, Japan’s New National Theater Ballet School, the Ailey School, New York University, The Hartt School, L’ete de la Danse (Paris) and is Dance Director for Mishmash*Miki Orihara.
Episode: 99
Ryan
Walker
Page
Ryan Walker Page is a Los Angeles-based dancer and choreographer. Page has worked with Dua Lipa. Rufus Wainwright, Slipknot, One Republic, Vivienne Westwood, Mark Dendy, Rosie Herrera, Nina McNeely, Jasmine Albuquerque, Violet Chacki, Raja Gemini, Rosie Herrera, Daniel Clifton and more. Page's worked has been presented by Dance Magazine, Art Basel, and Denver Art Museum. Page is also very good at basketball.
Episode: 59
Georgina
Pazcoguin
Georgina Pazcoguin was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She began her dance training at the age of four at the Allegheny Ballet Academy where she studied with Deborah Anthony, Richard Cook, and Cherié Noble. Ms. Pazcoguin entered the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, in the fall of 2001. In addition, she trained at the summer programs of Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and SAB. In October 2002, Ms. Pazcoguin became an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and in October 2003 she joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. She was promoted to soloist in February 2013.
Episode: 77
Perfume
Genius
Perfume Genius is the stage name of Mike Hadreas. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Hadreas studied painting in school and took piano lessons as a child. Growing up, Hadreas was the only openly gay student at his school, and he received death threats which were not addressed by the administration. He dropped out of high school during his senior year. He moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and worked as a doorman for a club in the East Village. In 2005, Hadreas returned home to Seattle and began recording music. In 2008, Hadreas set up a MySpace page under the name Perfume Genius, and thus began his music career. Hadreas's music explores topics including sexuality, his personal struggle with Crohn's disease, domestic abuse, and the dangers faced by gay men in contemporary society.
Episode: 126
Ida
Praetorius
Ida Praetorius was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and received her training at the Royal Danish Ballet School. In 2010, she joined the Royal Danish Ballet as an apprentice and became a member of the corps de ballet in 2012. She was promoted to Soloist in 2014 and to Principal Dancer in 2016. Praetorius won the Erik Bruhn Prize for best female dancer in 2012. She received the Reumert Talent Prize 2012 and in 2013 she received The Queen Ingrid Honorary Grant. In 2014 she was nominated for Best Young Female Dancer at the TAGLIONI - European Ballet Award, and in 2019 Praetorius won the Reumertaward for "Dancer of the year".
Episode: 110
Lucas
Praetorius
Lucas Praetorius was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2000. He was trained at the Royal Danish Ballet School from 2007 until 2016. In 2016 he became an Apprentice. Praetorius joined the Theater Class of the Hamburg Ballet School in 2017 which he graduated from in 2019. As of September 2019 Praetorius is a dancer with the Bayerisches Junior Ballett München.
Episode: 110
Tobias
Praetorius
Tobias Praetorius was born in Copenhagen in 1996. At the age of 7 he started his studies at The Royal Danish Ballet School graduating in 2012 and joined The Royal Danish Ballet as an
apprentice that same year. In 2014 he got offered a Corps de Ballet contract with The Royal Danish Ballet. He danced in the full repertory of the company and took part in creations of world renowned choreographers. Praetorius had his choreographer debut in 2017 at The National Museum of Art with his piece Fratres with dancers from The Royal Danish Ballet and live music by Walentin & McKenzie. Later on he has choreographed for The Royal Danish Ballet, KammerBalletten and Verdensballetten.
Praetorius has received The Reumert Talent Price, Margot Lander’s Grant, Friends of the Ballet’s Talent Price, Albert Gaubiers & Waldorffs Grant, The Beckett Grant- Svend Åge Larsen, The Bille-Brahe-Selby’ske Grant and The National Bank Jubilee Grant.
Episode: 110
Jess
Pretty
As a black female dancing body I am constantly investigating different methods of world-building so as to have a self created limitless potential for possibility within a society where my body has been deemed one that is impossible. In navigating this possibility I am looking to re-claim the stakes attached to my dancing body which find their ways into my work by relentlessly going after feelings of the fantastic. Feelings of unbelievable swelling. Feelings of pleasure and multiple possibilities. I want many things therefore I feel my work is rooted in a constant friction; moving back and forth between variant ideas and placings of movement and knowing. Friction finds itself inside of rhythm and directionality - two foundational components to my making - because friction can lead to surprises. And I love surprises. A third foundational component is physicality which often finds itself serving as a reactionary tool to the rhythm and directionality. Physicality is valued in my work because of the ecstasy that it can build in the body. Ecstasy building is a deep part of my physical practice because of the myriad of states that can result from it. A swelling takes place in the body, in the mind, in the mood, in the meaning, in the relationships to other bodies and in the relationship to space. What is that feeling between moving bodies? That giving and taking of euphoria that is downright addictive to locate, tirelessly rubbing up against variant possibilities of the body as it folds into different times, spaces, and relationships to those around it. What I’m building for myself and others through my work is something of a survival strategy; something of a method to the madness.
Episode: 105
The Dance And Stuff Show (LIVE): June 3rd, 2020
Katy
Pyle
Katy Pyle is a genderqueer lesbian choreographer who created Ballez in 2011 to explore their complex relationship to the cis hetero patriarchal form of ballet, and to create possibilities of representation and inclusion for marginalized queer dancers within that form.
In 2011, Pyle founded the Ballez to insert the herstory and lineage of lesbian, queer and transgender people into the ballet canon, through the creation of large-scale story ballets, open classes, and public engagement. Major works include “The Firebird, a Ballez,” at Danspace Project in Spring (with a reprise that Fall) 2013, “Variations on Virtuosity, a Gala with the Stars of the Ballez” at American Realness at Abrons Arts Center in January 2015, and “Sleeping Beauty & the Beast,” at La Mama in Spring 2016. Pyle also choreographed “Slavic Goddesses,” at the Kitchen, January 26-28, 2017, which featured 6 solos for Ballez dancers, as a collaborative project with artist Paulina Olowska. Most recently, Pyle created a pas de deux for “PILLOWTALK” by Kyoung H Park, which premiered in January 2018 at The Tank, and will travel to Chicago in August 2018.
Episode: 104
Parker
Posey
Parker Posey is an American actress and musician. Following her role in Richard Linklater's 1993 cult hit Dazed and Confused, she became known during the 1990s after a series of roles in independent films such as Party Girl (1995) and The House of Yes (1997). She later played improvisational roles in Christopher Guest mockumentaries, including Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For YourConsideration (2006) and Mascots (2016). Her other notable film appearances include You've Got Mail (1998), Scream 3 (2000), Superman Returns (2006), and the Woody Allen-directed films Irrational Man (2015) and Café Society (2016). Posey is currently starring as Dr. Smith in the Netflix adaptation of Lost in Space. Her first book, You're On An Airplane: A Self Mythologizing Memoir, was published in 2018 by Blue Rider Press.
Episode: 55
Jean-Marc
Puissant
Jean-Marc Puissant is an award winning set and costume designer working internationally for theatre, musicals, opera, ballet and contemporary dance. Jean-Marc’s career began as a dancer, graduating the School of Paris Opera Ballet and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. A professional dancer with Birmingham Royal Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet, he danced and created roles in classical, neo-classical and contemporary repertoires. Designing productions of all scales, styles and genres, Jean-Marc’s design practice is rooted in the identity of unique creative collaborations, supporting the nature and craft required by each art form across the performing arts.
Episode: 62
Regina
Teresa
Reichlen
Teresa Reichlen was born in Clifton, Virginia. She began her dance training at the age of 10 at the Russell School of Ballet with Thomas and Illona Russell, Mary Rogers, and Margaret McGarry. In 1999, Ms. Reichlen studied at the summer program of the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet. She entered SAB full-time in the fall of the same year. In October 2000, Ms. Reichlen became an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and in October 2001 she joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. In January 2005, Ms. Reichlen was promoted to the rank of soloist and in October 2009 was promoted to principal dancer.
Episode: 26
Jamar
Roberts
Jamar Roberts was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Roberts graduated from the New World School of the Arts. He trained at the Dance Empire of Miami, where he continues to teach, and as a fellowship student at The Ailey School. He joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Company in 2002. Mr. Roberts was a member of Ailey II and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. Dance Magazine featured Jamar as one of “25 to Watch” in 2007and on the cover in 2013. He performed at The White House in 2010, and as a guest star on So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, and The Ellen Degeneres Show. In 2015 he made his Ailey II choreographic debut with his work Gemeos, set to the music of Afrobeat star Fela Kuti. His first work for the Company, Members Don’t Get Weary, premiered during the 2017 New York City Center season. Mr. Roberts won Outstanding Performer at the prestigious New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards and was a guest star with London’s Royal Ballet.
Episode: 85
Liz
Santoro
Liz Santoro is an American dancer and choreographer. She began her dance training at the the professional division of Boston Ballet School. She then studied neuroscience at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA where she received a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology in 2001. She has worked with a number of choreographers including Alexandra Bachzetsis, Philipp Gehmacher, Jack Ferver, Trajal Harrell, Sam Kim, Heather Kravas, Jillian Peña, Eszter Salamon & Christine de Smedt, David Wampach and Ann Liv Young. She has also performed in the theater work of John Jahnke/Hotel Savant, Charles Chemin, and Pierre Godard, and collaborated with visual artist Ryan McNamara. In 2009 she began creating her own choreography.
Episode: 63
Tina
Satter
is an American writer and director for theater and film, who was a recipient of a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, a 2014 Doris Duke Artist Impact Award, and was named an Off-Off Broadway Innovator to Watch by Time Out New York. With Half Straddle, she has written and directed ten original full-length plays, and re-imagined them for a range of spaces as they have toured to numerous theaters and festivals in the U.S. and internationally.
Tina has directed a number of shorter performance pieces, music videos, web series content, and has several film projects in the works.
She has taught and led workshops on writing, directing, and feminist approaches to art-making at schools that include Princeton University, New York University, Bowdoin College, Reed College, Sarah Lawrence College, Fordham University and more. In 2015, she was the visiting playwriting professor at University of Michigan. Tina has been in residence at Yaddo, Headlands Center for the Arts, LMCC, The Performing Garage, Kitchen L.A.B., MASS MoCA, and New Museum for Contemporary Art. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop. In 2017, she received a PANOS commission from Culturgest in Lisbon, Portugal to write a play for teenagers, and worked with the Portugese directors on the translation and dramaturgy of her play, Small Breath.
Tina attended Mac Wellman’s graduate playwriting program at Brooklyn College and received an M.A. from Reed College and a B.A. from Bowdoin College. Her first collection of plays, Seagull (Thinking of you), was published by 53rd State Press in 2014. The full text of Ghost Rings and a live vinyl recording were put out by 53rd State Press in 2016.
Episode: 124
Brian
Schaefer
Brian Schaefer is a New York-based journalist/writer covering a unique spectrum of topics from arts & culture to politics and social issues, weighing in on the world through everything from dance criticism to political OpEds. Brian's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Tablet Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Haaretz Newspaper, Bloomberg/Businessweek, Out Magazine, Dance Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, The Daily Beast, The Forward and Moment Magazine.
Episode: 117
Collier
Schorr
Collier Schorr is an American artist and fashion photographer best known for adolescent portraits that blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy. Her work explores a multitude of themes, including history, nationality, and war, with an emphasis on identity and gender. Her influences include Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie Simmons, along with German and Jewish social history, World War II, wrestling, painter Andrew Wyeth, and German photographer August Sander.
Schorr grew up in Queens, New York and studied journalism at the School of Visual Arts. In the 1980s and 1990s she also worked actively as an art critic. Her photography work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2003 International Center for Photography Triennial. In 2008 she received a Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin. She currently resides in Brooklyn and spends her summers with family in Schwäbisch Gmünd, in Southern Germany.
Schorr is currently represented by the 303 Gallery in New York, New York, Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London, England, and the Gallerie Barbara Weiss in Berlin, Germany.
Episode: 129
Garen
Scribner
Garen Scribner is an independent performing artist based in New York City. He starred as Jerry Mulligan in the Broadway and National Tour productions of An American in Paris. As a soloist with SF Ballet and later with Nederlands Dans Theater I, he created and performed leading roles in works by Jiri Kylian, Lightfoot/Leon, Alexander Ekman, Marco Goecke, Christopher Wheeldon, William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Jorma Elo, Mark Morris, John Neumeier, Hans Van Manen and George Balanchine. He has toured extensively and performed and taught at engagements throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa. Commercially, he has appeared with Deborah Cox, Les Twins, Santana, Michelle Branch, and Jennifer Lopez. Garen has received awards from the NFAA and the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. Mr. Scribner earned a high school diploma from the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts and graduated with honors in May 2011 from St. Mary's College, earning a B.A. in Liberal Arts while performing with San Francisco Ballet. He is a co-founder of Dance For a Reason (danceFAR.org), which has produced its 5 annual benefit performances in San Francisco for the Cancer Prevention Institute of CA, raising over $500,000 for the organization since 2012.
Garen will be featured in Jack's Everything Is Imaginable premiering at New York Live Arts in April 2018.
Justin
Scribner
Justin Scribner is a stage manager and headwrap enthusiast. On Broadway, Justin has stage managed The Crucible, Rock of Ages, God of Carnage, The American Plan, A Chorus Line, RENT, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Lennon, Pacific Overtures, Jumpers, Little Shop of Horrors, and Nine. He is currently the Production Stage Manager of Once On This Island.
Episode: 12
Gabe
Stone
Shayer
Gabe Stone Shayer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1993. He began his formal training at 11 with Alexei Boltov and Alexei and Natalia Cherov in Philadelphia. In the 2009 YAGP International Finals, Shayer, at 15, placed in the top twelve for his pas de deux in the Senior Category. The same year he attended the Bolshoi Ballet Academy Program in Moscow and won First Place for Best Male Dancer. He continued his studies at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow where he was asked to join the graduating class of eight boys under the tutelage of Ilya Kuznetsov. He joined ABT Studio Company in September 2011, the main Company as an apprentice in April 2012 and the corps de ballet in November 2012.
His repertoire with the Company includes the Bronze Idol and Head Fakir in La Bayadère, Napoleon in Cinderella, Lankendem and Birbanto in Le Corsaire, the Lead Gypsy in Don Quixote, the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Harlequin in Harlequinade, Harlequin, the Chinese Dance and the Russian Dance in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Bluebird, The Faun and a Satyr in The Seasons, Jester and Puss-in-Boots in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, Neapolitan Dance in Swan Lake, Eros and Pluto in Sylvia, Ariel in The Tempest, The Boy in Whipped Cream, leading roles in AFTERITE, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Her Notes, Piano Concerto #1 and Songs of Bukovina, and featured roles in After You, Bach Partita, , Company B, Raymonda Divertissements and Sinfonietta.
Episode: 122
Bobbi
Jene
Smith
Bobbi Jene Smith: Born in Centerville, Iowa. From 2005-2014 she was a member of the Batsheva Dance Company under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin. Since 2014, She has worked in Punchdrunk's production of Sleep No More as well as "Dido and Aeneas" and "Orphic Moment" choreographed by Zack Winokur. She is an alumnus of the Juilliard School, North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. Her choreography and solo work has been presented by The Batsheva Dance Company, PS122, The Israel Museum, Luminato Festival, The Wild Project, Machol Shalem, Sacramento Ballet, The CCA, The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, NYU, and The Juilliard School. Bobbi is the subject of the documentary directed by Elvira Lind which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017. Her film and video work include, “Annihilation” directed by Alex Garland, “MA” directed by Celia Rowlson-Hall, and “Yossi” directed by Eytan Fox. Bobbi is a certified GAGA teacher and has taught Ohad Naharin's repertory in schools and universities around the world. In 2015, Smith relocated to New York City, NY.
Episode: 14
Peter
Smith
Peter Smith is a leggy actor and performer from the American Plains. Comedy, as well as theatre, fashion and art, allowed for them to cope with (and celebrate!) being a gender nonconforming person in parts of the country where that was unheard of. At a young age, they trained at Second City in Chicago. A value for honest storytelling was fostered at the University of Missouri’s prestigious journalism school. Peter’s family is in Montana but New York is home
Episode: 57
Gus
Solomons,
Jr.
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Gus Solomons began serious dance study while an architecture student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Upon graduating in 1961, he moved to New York, where he performed with the companies of Donald McKayle, Pearl Lang, Joyce Trisler, and Paul Sanasardo. In 1965, Solomons joined the Martha Graham company for one season, though his most significant association during this period was with the Merce Cunningham company (1964-1968), for which he created roles in "Winterbranch" (1964) and "Rainforest" (1968).
Solomons formed the Solomons Company/Dance in 1971. Drawing on his experience at MIT, he conceived dance as "melted architecture" and undertook a clinical, postmodern approach to dance making that linked a fascination with puzzles and architectural design to the process of "kinetic autobiography." The resulting abstract, nonsequential choreography was marked by its lean incisiveness and effect of fragmentary collage. Choreography by Solomons has been performed by the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble and the Berkshire Ballet. About 1980, Solomons began to write exceptionally lucid dance criticism, which appeared in BALLET NEWS, DANCE MAGAZINE, and the VILLAGE VOICE.
(Bio by Thomas F. DeFrantz)
Episode: 159, 160
Peter
Sparling
Peter Sparling is a native of Detroit and graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and The Juilliard School, Sparling danced with the José Limón Dance Company from 1971-73. From 1973-87, he was a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Sparling also served as Martha Graham's choreographic assistant during his period with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Since then he has returned often to perform, coach and teach. As a regisseur of the Martha Graham Trust, he has staged Graham's works on his own company and on companies all over the world. Sparling presented Peter Sparling Dance Company and his solo performance, "Solo Flight", for five successive seasons at New York's Riverside Dance Festival from 1979-83. He has held residencies at the American Dance Festival, at numerous American universities and in London, Australia, Portugal and Taiwan.
He is Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan Department of Dance and has served as chair of that department. He is Artistic Director of his own Ann Arbor-based Peter Sparling Dance Company.
Episode: 18
Taylor
Stanley
Taylor Stanley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began his dance training at the age of three at The Rock School in Pennsylvania. He attended summer programs at Miami City Ballet in 2006 and 2007 and at the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, during the summer of 2008 before enrolling full-time at SAB in the fall of that same year. In September 2009, Mr. Stanley became an apprentice with NYCB, and joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet in September 2010. He was promoted to soloist in February 2013 and to principal dancer in May 2016.
Episode: 92
Lauren
Strongin
Lauren Strongin was born in Los Gatos, California and joined the San Francisco Ballet as a soloist in 2015.
Lauren Strongin has danced featured or principal roles in Tomasson’s Giselle (Peasant pas de cinq and Solo Wili), Nutcracker (Grand Pas de Deux Ballerina and Queen of the Snow), and Swan Lake (pas de trois and Russian); Balanchine’s Coppélia (Waltz of the Hours soloist and Spinner), Rubies (principal), and Theme and Variations (soloist); Cranko’s Onegin (Olga); Peck’s In the Countenance of Kings (Botanica); Possokhov’s Swimmer (Lolita); Scarlett’s Fearful Symmetries (principal); and Wheeldon’s Rush (principal and 1st movement soloists). Her repertory includes Tomasson’s 7 for Eight, Morris’ Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, and Wheeldon’s Continuum.
At other companies, Lauren danced principal or featured roles in Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée (principal),Balanchine’s Apollo (Terpsichore); Cranko’s The Taming of the Shrew (Bianca); Fokine’s Les Sylphides; MacMillan’s Manon (Manon); Petipa’s Le Corsaire, Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadère, Paquita, and Swan Lake; Prokovsky’s Anna Karenina (Anna); Stevenson’s The Nutcracker (Sugarplum Fairy, Snow Queen, and Lead Flower) and Twilight (pas de deux); and Welch’s Clear, Divergence, Falling, Madame Butterfly, Maninyas, Nosotros, and Tutu. She created roles in Barton’s Angular Momentum, Elo’s ONE/end/ONE,Fonte’s See(k), Kudelka’s Passion, Liang’s Murmuration, Morris’ The Letter V, Smith’s Vivacious Dispositions, and Welch’s Sons de l’âme.
As a guest artist, Lauren performed the Giselle Act 2 pas de deux with Joseph Walsh at Festival Napa Valley in 2015. She was a finalist at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2006, and at the Prix de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2001.
Carling
Talcott-Steenstra
Carling Talcott-Steenstra was born in Glen Cove, New York. She trained at Ballet Academy East, the School of American Ballet, and Miami City Ballet School, where she was an apprentice from 2008-2009. She joined the Royal Danish Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2009, and is still dancing there. In 2017, she performed with Jack Ferver, Reid Bartelme, and Barton Cowperthwaite in Ferver's I Want You To Want Me. She lives in Copenhagen with her husband and almost-2-year-old son, as well as their dog and cat.
Episode: 144
Pam
Tanowitz
Pam Tanowitz has been making dances since 1992. In 2009 she received a Bessie Award for her dance, Be in the Gray With Me, at Dance Theater Workshop. Tanowitz was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 and the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in 2013-14. Tanowitz has been invited to create new work for the Vail International Dance Festival and New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival. She has set work on The Juilliard School, Ballet Austin, New York Theater Ballet and Saint Louis Ballet, and has been a guest choreographer in the dance departments at Barnard College, Princeton University, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Marymount Manhattan College and Purchase College. In 2016, Pam Tanowitz was the winner of the Juried Bessie Award for her work, "the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces". Additional awards include three Joyce Theater Residency Grants, Jerome Robbins Foundation, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Tanowitz was selected as a Resident Fellow at New York University's Center for Ballet and the Arts, and currently teaches at Rutgers University. She holds dance degrees from The Ohio State University and Sarah Lawrence College.
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David
Thomson
David Thomson is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary collaborative and performing artist who has worked in the fields of music, dance, theater and performance with such artists as Remy Charlip, Bebe Miller, Trisha Brown, Susan Rethorst, Marta Renzi, Grisha Coleman|Hot Mouth, Ralph Lemon, Sekou Sundiata, Meg Stuart, Dean Moss/Layla Ali, Alain Buffard, Marina Abramović, Yvonne Rainer, Deborah Hay, Kaneza Schaal and Maria Hassabi among many others.
His own work has been presented by The Kitchen, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church, Dance Theater Workshop, Roulette, Movement Research at Judson Church and PSNY. Thomson has been recognized as a USArtist Ford Fellow, as well as receiving fellowships from NYFA, Yaddo, MacDowell and the Rauschenberg Foundation. He has received Bessies for Sustained Achievement (2001) and for his work, “he his own mythical beast” (2018).
Thomson has worked as an Arts Administrator and/or Database Consultant for several organizations including NYFA, Merce Cunningham Foundation, Dieu Donné Papermill, NPN, Movement Research and he developed the Archive database for the Trisha Brown Company. An ongoing advocate for dance and the empowerment of artists, he was one of the founding members of Dancer’s Forum and has served on the boards of Bebe Miller/Gotham Dance, Dance Theater Workshop and New York Live Arts. He is currently working with Kate Watson-Wallace on The Sustainability Project, a platform for research and arts activism that seeks to create and expand the discourse surrounding ideas of financial, artistic, and personal empowerment in the performing arts community. Thomson began dancing at Haverford/Bryn Mawr Colleges and later received his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from SUNY Purchase.
Episode: 111
Melissa
Toogood
Melissa Toogood is a Bessie Award winning performer. She is both Dancer and Rehearsal Director for Pam Tanowitz Dance, and has assisted Tanowitz on numerous creations including works for Ballet Austin, The Juilliard School, Rutgers University, the Fall for Dance Festival, Vail International Dance Festival and others. Melissa was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, has taught Cunningham Technique internationally since 2007, is a 2013 & 2015 Merce Cunningham Fellow and is an official Stager for the Merce Cunningham Trust. She has performed with Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, Kimberly Bartosik, Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey, Rosie Herrera Dance Theater, Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, Miro Dance Theater, Stephen Petronio Company, Sally Silvers, Christopher Williams, The Bang Group:Tap Lab, and many others. Melissa is a native of Sydney, Australia and holds a BFA in Dance Performance from New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL.
Episode: 56
Cassandra
Trenary
Cassandra Trenary, a native of Georgia, began her dance training at Lawrenceville School of Ballet. She joined the school’s company, Southern Ballet Theatre, in 2006 under the direction of Phyllis Allen and went on to receive additional training at Southeast Regional Ballet Association conventions and Brookwood High School’s Dance department.
Trenary trained at American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive programs as a National Training Scholar and went on to join the ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in 2009. In 2011, she was invited to join ABT II (now ABT Studio Company) on their European tour as an apprentice. In April 2011, Trenary was offered an apprenticeship with ABT and, in November of that year, a corps de ballet contract. She was promoted to Soloist in August 2015.
Trenary was named a 2011 National YoungArts Foundation Winner and became a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts nominee. She is also the recipient of a 2015 Princess Grace Dance Honorarium. In 2017, Trenary received the Annenberg Fellowship for Dance.
Episode: 73
Adrienne
Truscott
Adrienne Truscott is a choreographer, circus acrobat, dancer, writer, storyteller and comedian. She has been making genre-straddling performances in New York City and abroad for over 20 years. She was one of 20 artists selected nationally for the inaugural 2014 Doris Duke Impact Artist Award and is a 2017 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grantee for Theater/Performance Art. Her evening-length solo comedic work and group choreographic works have been presented variously at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Just For Laughs, Darwin Festival, PS122, Joe’s Pub, The Kitchen, Dublin Fringe, Danspace, Boom Arts, New York Live Arts, The Malthouse Theater (Melbourne), and Dance Theater Workshop, among others.
Episode: 119
Larissa
Velez-Jackson
Larissa Velez-Jackson (LVJ) is a NYC-based choreographer and multi-platform artist. She uses improvisation as a main tool for research and creation, yielding dance, sound, speech and deep humor. She presented work at numerous NYC venues such as: Danspace Project ’10, American Realness Festival ’11, ’15 at Abrons Arts Center, Chocolate Factory Theater ’14, Bushwick Starr ’17, and in 2017 at New York Live Arts with Yackez, a collaboration with her husband, Jon Velez-Jackson. Described in NY Magazine’s blog, Bedford and Bowery, “Whether it’s rapping, dancing, or throwing down in the (wrestling) ring, their work is high-energy, silly, odd, and even chaotic at times, going from spectacle to cartoon to pop culture critique and back again.”
2016, LVJ’s tenth year of making dance, fulfilled the famous Martha Graham adage “it takes ten years to make a dancer,” or in this case a choreographer. LVJ was nominated for a 2016 “Bessie” award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer, was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Grant to Artists award, as well as multiple comprehensive residencies. Her next venture is a choreographic residency at Harkness Dance Center at 92Y, 2017-18, where she will further the research of her performance practice, the Star Crap Method.
Episode: 25
Kate
Wallich
Kate Wallich is a Seattle based choreographer, director and educator.Her work has been commissioned and presented by On the Boards, Seattle Theatre Group, The Joyce Theater, Mass Moca, Seattle Art Museum/Pacific Northwest Ballet, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out, Springboard Danse Montreal, and others.
Episode: 126
Joseph
Walsh
Joseph Walsh was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and joined the San Francisco Ballet as a soloist in 2014. He was promoted to principal dancer within his first season. Joseph Walsh created roles in Bubeníček’s Fragile Vessels (2nd movement principal), Forsythe’s Pas/Parts 2016, Peck’s In the Countenance of Kings (The Protagonist), and Wheeldon’s Borealis. He has performed principal roles in Tomasson’s Nutcracker (King of the Snow and Grand Pas de Deux Prince), Romeo & Juliet(Benvolio), and Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried); Tomasson/Possokhov’s Don Quixote (Gypsy King); Balanchine’s Coppélia (Franz), Allegro Brillante, Diamonds, The Four Temperaments (Sanguinic), Prodigal Son (Son), Rubies, Serenade, and Symphony in C; Caniparoli’s Lambarena; Cranko’s Onegin (Lensky); Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude; Makarova’s (after Petipa) “The Kingdom of the Shades” from La Bayadère, Act II (Solor); van Manen’s Solo and Variations for Two Couples; Morris’ Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes; Possokhov’s Magrittomania and Swimmer (The Swimmer); Ratmansky’s Seven Sonatas and Shostakovich Trilogy; Robbins’ Dances at a Gathering (Brown) and In the Night; Scarlett’s Fearful Symmetries, Frankenstein (Victor Frankenstein), and Hummingbird; Taylor’s “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B)” from Company B; Thatcher’s Ghost in the Machine; and Wheeldon’s Cinderella (Prince Guillaume), Continuum, Rush, and Within the Golden Hour.
Joseph danced Benvolio in the 2015 film of Tomasson’s Romeo & Juliet (Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance). His guestings include the International Rudolf Nureyev Ballet Art Festival Gala in Ufa, Russia, and the world premiere of Possokhov’s Toi Moi, plus other ballets, at the Benois de la Danse Awards Gala in Moscow, Russia, in 2017; Festival del Sole in Napa County, California; and the International Ballet Gala: World Ballet Superstars in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Harper
Watters
Harper Watters has a passion for being bold and unapologetically himself, as evidenced not only in his onstage dancing as a Soloist for the Houston Ballet but in is viral heel treadmill videos. He’s accumulated over 138 thousand followers with his Instagram and created the YouTube web series The Pre Show, which documents the behind-the-scenes stage life of professional dancers.
Harper's videos have been featured on Elle Magazine, Marie Clare, and Urban Outfitters. His social media presence has allowed him to work with photographers Mike Ruiz, Gerardo Vizmanos, and Ryan Pfluger for The New Yorker. He’s been featured in the pages of Risk, Dance Magazine, and on the cover of Dance Spirit. He’s worked with leading choreographers including Tony Award winner Christopher Wheeldon and has performed on international stages in Guatemala, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, and in numerous US cities.
He’s proud to standout and collaborates with people, brands, and artists who aren’t afraid to either.
Episode: 68
Wendy
Whelan
Wendy Whelan is the Associate Artistic Director of New York City Ballet. One of the most acclaimed dancers of her generation, she followed a storied 30-year career at NYCB with a variety of multi-disciplinary projects with cultural organizations around the world. She was named NYCB Associate Artistic Director in February 2019.
Whelan has performed all over the U.S., South America, Europe, and Asia and has been an influential guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Whelan joined the NYCB in 1984 as an apprentice, entered the company's corps de ballet in 1986, was promoted to soloist in 1989 and to principal dancer in 1991. She is the subject of a 2016 documentary by Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger entitled Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan.
Episode: 71
James
Whiteside
Born in Fairfield, Connecticut, James Whiteside joined the corps de ballet of Boston Ballet in 2003 and became a second soloist in 2006. He was promoted to principal dancer with Boston Ballet in 2009. Whiteside joined American Ballet Theatre as a Soloist in 2012 and was named a Principal Dancer in 2013.
Pushing boundaries is something of a habit for Mr. Whiteside, who joined American Ballet as a soloist in 2012 and became a principal a year later. Yes, he professionally plays Prince Charmings, but he also leads alternative artistic lives: as a pop singer, JbDubs, and drag queen, Uhu Betch.
James will be featured in Jack's Everything Is Imaginable returning to New York Live Arts in January 2019.
Matthew
Wilkas
Matthew Wilkas is an American New York based theatre and film actor, playwright and reality television personality. He is best known for his lead role as Matt in the 2012 feature film Gayby. In 2017, he had a lead role in New York Is Dead, a series that he co-wrote and produced. Wilkas co-wrote with American actor and playwright Mark Setlock titled Pageant Play, a satire about the world of child beauty pageants. Wilkas has appeared on stage in a number of acts including Silence! (The Musical), The Last Sunday in June, Far and Wide, The Pride etc. He has appeared in The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Huntington Theatre Company, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Sundance Theatre Institute, under the direction of Michael Greif, Anna D. Shapiro, Will Frears, Carolyn Cantor, Mark Brokaw, Nicholas Martin, and Trip Cullman.
Episode: 66
Shelby
Williams
(aka
Biscuit
Ballerina)
Shelby Williams is a soloist with the Royal Ballet of Flanders and is the creator of the viral ballet comedy character Biscuit Ballerina.
Shelby received her professional training on scholarship at the Washington School of Ballet and the Houston Ballet Academy. Shelby previously danced with Houston Ballet 2, Dresden Semperoper Ballett (Germany), Ballet d’Europe (France), and Barcelona Ballet (Spain), and as a soloist with BallettMainz and the Hessisches Staatsballett in Germany. There she performed leading roles in works by Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Johan Inger, Douglas Lee, Alexander Ekman, Pascal Touzeau, Georg Reichel, Richard Siegel, Marco Goecke and Cayetano Soto.
In 2016, she joined the Royal Ballet of Flanders where she has danced featured roles in works by director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as well as in works by William Forsythe, Pina Bausch, Hofesh Schechter, Akram Khan, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Benjamin Millepied, Andonis Foniadakis, Jeroen Verbruggen, and Edouard Lock amongst others.
In Dance Europe Magazine(October 2017), she was nominated in the category "Outstanding Perfomance of a Female Dancer" for her performances in "Approximate Sonata 2016" by William Forsythe and "Café Müller"by Pina Bausch, portraying "Steely strength in the Forsythe, and all vulnerability in the Bausch".
In 2017 she created Biscuit Ballerina as a way to bring humor to the seriousness of ballet and address mental health in the dance world. Biscuit Ballerina was nominated in the category "Best News" in Dance Europe Magazine (October 2018) for "offering amusing and inspiring perspective for dancers on the pursuit for perfection."
Episode: 114
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Honey
Wolters
Honey Wolters is a co owner of Ruby Beets home furnishings in Sag Harbor, NY. Her work has been featured in Elle Decor, Martha Stewart Living, and the New York Times amongst other style publications that prop up the ceiling of her living room. She invented the sleeping bag coat and also happens to be Reid's mom.
Episode: 4
Matt
Wolf
Matt Wolf is a filmmaker in New York. His critically acclaimed and award-winning films have played widely in festivals and have been distributed internationally in theaters and on television. Matt’s feature documentaries include Wild Combination about the cult cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell, and Teenage about early youth culture and the birth of teenagers. His recent film Recorder is about the activist Marion Stokes, who secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years. Matt’s newest film Spaceship Earth is about Biosphere 2, a controversial experiment where 8 people lived quarantined inside a replica of the planet. The film premiered at Sundance, followed by an innovative virtual cinema release with Neon, and is streaming on Hulu.
Episode: 163
Ashley
R.T.
Yergens
Ashley R.T. Yergens is a byproduct of growing up on tater tots and WWE SmackDown. He's a 2016 boo-koo artist-in-residence at Gibney Dance, and a 2016-17 Fresh Tracks Artist at New York Live Arts. Please text your favorite emoji combination to him at (507)412-1381.
Episode: 70
Netta
Yerushalmy
Netta Yerushalmy is a dance artist based in New York City. Her work aims to engage with audiences by imparting the sensation of things as they are perceived, not as they are known, and to challenge how meaning is attributed and constructed.
For her choreographic work Netta has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, National Dance Project Grant, commission from LMCC’s Extended Life program, Six Points Fellowship, and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She was recently a Research Fellow at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and is currently a Toulmin Fellow for Women Leaders in Dance at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, as well as a New York City Center Choreography Fellow. Netta will be an Arts Fellow at Princeton University in 2019-2021.
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Ofir
Yudilevitch
Ofir Yudilevitch was born in Haifa, Israel in 1983. After ten years of training and teaching capoeira and acrobatics, Ofir began studying contemporary dance in the two year program at The School for Dance and Choreography in Haifa.
Since then, Ofir has worked with leading Israeli choreographers such as: Arkadi Zaides, Iris Erez, Yossi Berg and Oded Graf and Dana Ruttenberg, performing in Israel and in dance platforms around the world. Ofir has also worked in international dance projects with Netta Yerushalmey in New York, USA and with Anna Rothlesberger in Basel, Switzerland.
Episode: 144
Abby
Zbikowski
Abby Zbikowski is a choreographer interrogating the functionality of aesthetics and cultural value systems through the creation of highly physical and relentlessly explosive dances. Abby's work with her company, Abby Z and the New Utility, has been presented by the Bates Dance Festival, Dance New Amsterdam, the Gibney Dance Center, and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, among other venues. Her most recent work, Destabilizer, was called an "explosive, deliriously creative tour de force" by InfiniteBody dance writer Eva Yaa Asantewaa. She has studied intensively at Germaine Acogny's L'École de Sables in Senegal and holds a BFA in dance from Temple University and an MFA in dance from Ohio State University. As a performer, Abby has had the opportunity to work with choreographers Charles O. Anderson/dance theater X, Vincent Mantsoe, Megan Mazarick, Nora Gibson, Paige Phillips, and Maree ReMalia. She taught technique and repertory at the American Dance Festival in the summer of 2015.
Episode: 142