imodpod: exploring why we dance

Episode 2

No Choice but to Dance

Sasha De Sola

Ever wondered what life is really like for a professional ballet dancer? Get an inside look with San Francisco Ballet principal dancer, Sasha de Sola.

Episode 3

Everyone Can Dance

Consuelo Faust AND Dudley Flores

Everyone can dance! Skeptical? Learn more about Rhythm & Motion, a San Francisco community organization founded by acclaimed dancer, teacher, and choreographer, Consuelo Faust in 1979.

Episode 4

Limitless Capacity & Human Connection

Janice Garrett AND Charles Moulton

Ready to be moved? Listen in as we trace 60 years of professional dance through the incredible lives of award-winning choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton.

Episode 5

Coast to Coast: dance as activism, love, community

Rick Darnell

Dance artist, community activist, and eloquent storyteller Rick Darnell shares his 30-year professional journey from the rural Southern United States to the northern coast of California. Follow Rick as he illustrates his diverse experiences, including dancing at Bennington College in the '70s to bringing healing and awareness to the AIDS crisis in San Francisco through his professional company's performances. Enjoy his detailed accounts of dance's ability to transform, uplift, and heal.

Episode 6

How Rising Rhythm Is Lifting Up Community

Jessica Maria Recinos, Pedro Gomez, and Shireen Rahimi

Jessica Maria Recinos, Pedro Gomez, and Shireen Rahimi discuss the mission of Rising Rhythm - promoting body positivity, mental and physical health, inclusion, and self-empowerment. These three incredible artists and collaborators discuss their individual journeys in the performing arts world and how these paths combine to inform the Rising Rhythm mission and aesthetic.

Episode 7

a road to artistry

ROBERT MOSES

Robert Moses is one of today's most groundbreaking choreographers. Follow us as Robert guides us on the journey that has informed his life as a dancer and his current work as Artistic Director of Robert Moses Kin. Listen as he opens up about his work and life with uncharacteristic candor.

EPISODE 9

Reflection on a Life in Jazz Dance

Lynn Brilhante

Lynn Brilhante shares her perspective on the jazz dance art form, drawing on her many years of experience as a performer, choreographer, and educator. Follow her journey from her Oakland childhood, through her dance influences, and her sparkling career in dance. Also, glimpse her encyclopedic knowledge of the most celebrated prime movers and how she believes their legacy connects to the present.

Episode 2

From Foreigner to Founder

Clyde Evans, Jr.

Afro-Trinidadian immigrant and the International Museum of Dance Artist in Residence, Clyde Evans Jr, shares his challenges landing in the United States as a child, how Hip-Hop helped him weave into the fabric of American culture, and the doors dance opened for him.

Episode 3

The Holistic Side of Step Dancing and Body Percussion

Antwan Davis

The International Museum of Dance Artist in Residence, Antwan Davis, tells us about his path from playing the football gridiron, to performing as a dancer/stepper/body percussionist in Las Vegas, to acting as an ambassador for the art form of body percussion and Step Dance. He has taken these experiences to create a Step Dance crew that bridges the gaps between art forms and dance styles, and to imagining youth in education and community programs to enhance healing, personal expression, and universal human understanding.

Episode 2

Designing a life in dance

Kristin damrow

Kristin Damrow shares her evolution as a dance artist, beginning in rural Wisconsin, studying in Chicago, to her present career as a dance educator and choreographer in San Francisco, California. She discusses the challenges and triumphs of following her love for dance and movement, and the mentors that helped pave her path. Damrow muses on the different influences that drive her current process and aesthetic.

Episode 3

to never look away

eiko otake

For 50 years, Eiko and her husband and artistic collaborator, Koma, have been pushing the edges of how dance movement is defined. Join Eiko as she relays her entry into the world of dance, her process, and her philosophy for making dances. Eiko discusses the work she created with Koma, her emergence as a solo artist, and the challenges of making performance art in public or in site-specific environments- specifically sites that hold complicated and dark histories, like her most recent work with historian and photographer William Johnston- at the Fukushima site in Japan.

Episode 4

Creative Journey

Jodi Lomask

Jodi Lomask has spent a career finding new ways of expression, with the goal of inspiring others to chart their own way. Whether it is through her long-running dance company, Capacitor, mixing dance, science, and circus arts, or through her most recent endeavors, Sculptural Fitness, or Creative Journey (jodilomask.com), Jodi seeks to free everyone who comes into her life from the repression that denies their creative selves. Find out if Jodi Lomask’s journey is a reflection of your own.

Episode 5

Honest Journey as a True Dance Artist

Irene Hsiao

Listen in on the honest journey of Irene Hsiao, a remarkable dance artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Hsaio tells the honest story of her dance career and where it started in San Francisco. Her curiosity for dance and what it became for her out of a life with little exposure or support is moving and encouraging.

Episode 6

Lizz Roman Builds Her Own Road Less Traveled

For almost 40 years, Lizz Roman has been finding her own path through the dance world. First, by self-financing almost all her work, by choice, and with an improvisational and highly unstructured collaborative dance-making process that yields astonishing results. In this episode, Lizz Roman tells you the story of her journey and development of her art-making philosophy.

Episode 1

The Benefits of Giving Everything a Shot

Lara Jean Mummert

Lara Jean Mummert is a dancer who's path has taken many fortuitous turns. She has performed as a contemporary dancer, as a touring musical theater artist, and even as an award-winning actress in horror films with more than 40 credits (look her up on IMDB). How did a budding ballerina find so much varied work? She tells you how in this episode.

Episode 1

From Country Boy to B-Boy

B-Boy Bamm

At first glance, Lawrence, Kansas is an improbable place to birth an internationally acclaimed hip hop artist. But indigenous dancer, Brandon Roberts (aka B-Boy Bamm) found a community in the American heartland and grew his art to become a member of Jabbawokeez, one of the most celebrated hip hop dance crews in the world. B-Boy Bamm shares his journey and perspective in this episode.

Episode 1

Dancing from Northern India to the American Southwest

Sneha Chakradhar

Sneha Chakradhar, born of an artists' family, has embarked upon an inspiring journey performing one of the eight dance styles of classical Indian dance. From a childhood filled with dance and music is Delhi to sharing the roots of her personal artistry with the art-loving community of Santa Fe, New Mexico, hers has been a journey of self-discovery and cultural authenticity. Join us as Sneha discusses the roots of her art form.