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.