“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey

“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey 

In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest: Alex Smith Jr.  Executive Chairman of Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center.  

Listen in as we sit down and talk about Alex's unexpected and fascinating journey that lead him to where he is today. A Visual Artist, Graphic Designer, Caretaker and Executive Chairman and a man with an open heart to where he is lead- we are celebrating this man and all he is doing in the community and for the performing arts!

THPAC's Black History Month FREE program Saturday, February 24, 4 p.m.  

Alex Smith Jr.  was born in Montgomery, AL. His parents, both veterans of the Montgomery bus boycott, migrated to Brooklyn, NY when he was 3 years old. He has resided in Brooklyn ever since that time. Smith is the Executive Chairman of Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (THPAC). This association began in 1988, when it’s then executive director, Melvin Davis hired Smith to assist in re-branding the image of THPAC. It turned into a long term business relationship with THPAC which continued until the untimely death of Melvin Davis in May of 1995. At this point Smith was asked by the THPAC board to consider becoming the executive director. He accepted the position along with choreographer Marshall Swiney, who became artistic director of THPAC. 

Under Smith’s continuing tenure at THPAC as Executive Chairman, over 300 artists have been presented in performance including: Ron Brown, Camille Brown, George Faison, Louis Johnson, Marlies  Yearby, Fred Benjamin, Urban Bush Women, Dance Theater of Harlem and Philadanco, among many others; seven new programming formats have been added; THPAC’s  Life Time Achievement Awards were established; new relationships with performance venues at Long Island University and the Actors Fund Arts Center were formed;  a development dept. for THPAC was established; new in-house works for THPAC entitled Audre Lorde In Motion, Ramp to Paradise and The Gospel According to THPAC were produced; the administrative staff and THPAC boards were restructured; the relocation of THPAC’s headquarters was accomplished.  Smith is spearheading the production of a documentary on THPAC’s 42 years on the dance scene as well as laying out a digital archival structure for THPAC in association with the NYPL at Lincoln Center. On October 18, 2016 Smith was the recipient of the Bessie Award for outstanding service to the field of dance. Smith is a Brooklyn College graduate with advance graphics design/photography studies from the School of  Visual Arts. He is a graphics designer and a visual fine artist.

Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center (THPAC), the oldest presenting organization in Brooklyn, and Central Baptist Church of NYC will present its FREE Black History Month program on Saturday, February 24, 4 p.m. for the community celebrating Black contributions through music, dance and spoken word in observance with Black History Month. The performance features three bible-themed works by choreographer Walter Rutledge, featuring dancers Amina Konate and Tevin Johnson and narration by James Earl Jones.

THPAC and Central Baptist Church of NYC are committed to the remembrance of Black history and to uplifting of African Americans. By reaching back through this program, we can envision and grasp a healing future for our community and all of humanity. Audiences, the church congregation and larger community will experience a performance about faith, perseverance and the collective strength communities have when joined together.

Find out more https://www.thelmahill.org/

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“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey and  Jamel Gaines of Creative Outlet.

In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest: Jamel Gaines, founder and Director of Creative Outlet. 

This year marks a special moment for JGCO's annual program as more than 3,000 New York City Public School students will experience the lessons of Remembering. The Company will travel to Cape Coast and Accra, Ghana giving performances and workshops in Africa.

Listen in as we talk about the impact Arts in Education had and continues to have in Jamel's life.

The February 15 performance of Remembering is in collaboration with Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, City Council Member Crystal Hudson, and NAACP Brooklyn Chapter, and pays tribute to New York City Board of Education principals and teachers. The February 16 performance is in collaboration with the Delta’s Chapter of Brooklyn. The

February 17 performance is in collaboration with the Brooklyn Brownstones Organization

https://youtu.be/x8JgSjd3S_M?si=HIB-br85c8s4xW0M

Tickets are available through the link belowhttps://www.bam.org/dance/2024/remembering

Brooklyn Academy of Music on February 15 and 16 at 7:30 PM and February 17th at 2 PM.

Jamel Gaines is the Founder and Artistic Director of Creative Outlet.Jamel has dedicated his life to delivering artistic excellence and stirring, soaring performance to audiences everywhere.  With more than 22 years of teaching and choreographing experience, Jamel seeks to inspire, motivate and nurture dancers and artists.  Under his leadership, Creative Outlet has set itself apart as a highly acclaimed performing arts organization with a proven record in training the next generation of professional dancers and artists.

Some of Jamel’s more recent choreography includes the crowd pleasing presentation live streamed across the internet during Spike Lee’s Annual Tribute Concert to Michael Jackson (August 2017) televised choreography and dramatic performance by contestants on So You Think You Can Dance. (2010).  In addition, Mr. Gaines has created and staged over 25 repertory and concert productions.  He has had the distinction of working with such distinguished artists as Jennifer Holiday, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Savion Glover, Malik Yoba, George Fasion, Ornette Coleman, Ossie Davis, Olatunje Babatunde, Max Roach, Cassandra Wilson and Rick James.

Founder and Artistic Director, Jamel Gaines has dedicated his life to delivering artistic excellence to artists and audiences.

Jamel has appeared on Public Television’s American Talent in which he was presented The Teacher Recognition Award, during the Presidential Scholars in the Arts Committee at The Kennedy Center, and has been featured in publications such as Essence Magazine, The New York Times, The Seattle Times and The Daily News.  His work has been staged by the Actors Theater Workshop, The NYC Department of Parks, Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the Paramount Theatre and The Martha Graham School.

  Mr. Gaines serves as the director of St. Paul’s Eldad Medad Danced Ministry. His work at St. Paul’s includes “He Got Up”, the commemoration of the African Holocaust and the acclaimed “Black Nativity” for which he won an Obie Award.

Gaines began his dance career in the mid-1990s under the direction of Diane and Adrian Brown, and James Grant and Received his BFA from SUNY Purchase.

He credits the development of his unique and nurturing approach to teaching and composing to Kevin Iega Jeff.

Follow on Instagram @jamelgainescreativeoutlet 

Find out more https://www.creativeoutlet.org/⁠

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“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey and  Karisma Jay.

In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest: Karisma Jay founder of the AbunDance Academy of the Arts, teaching and mentoring abundance in the lives of all her students . The AbunDance Academy is the first Black Owned Non-Profit Arts Organization to produce an original production written by Karisma herself.

With a healthy and robust curriculum, AbunDance Academy of the Arts offers specialized classes in Dance, Audition Prep, Adult Fitness and Aerial Yoga. Its diverse faculty roster includes highly skilled teaching artists who are passionate about their artistry and the budding artistry of every student. Located in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights / Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, AbunDance Academy gives students the opportunity to explore their passions without having to travel to another borough.

The organization will host the second annual Abundance Awards to be held at the Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn to Benefit The Abundance Academy of Arts on February 4th.

Tickets are available through the link below

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2nd-annual-abundance-awards-tickets-523131930687?aff=oddtdtcreator

The AbunDance Awards were created in 2023 and raise funds for the AbunDance Arts Academy, founded by award-winning artist and entrepreneur Karisma Jay to show youths what they can accomplish in the dance world and to honor people of color who have made significant contributions to the field. 2024 honorees include Reginald Van Lee, Assane Konte, Obediah Wright, Karen Thornton, Jamel Gaines, Chloe Arnold, Maud Arnold, Arcell Cabuag, and Nicole Deweever. 

Karisma Jay is a Brooklyn native , dancer, actress, singer, director, playwright, choreographer, coach, teacher, entrepreneur and host who has been performing, curating and creating for three decades. She is the recipient of a Dance Teacher Magazine 2021 Dance Teacher Award and a 2023 Women of Distinction Award Recipient. Her work has been featured on Netflix, Lifetime, BET, MTV, NBC, and VH1. In 2013, Karisma joined STOMP. In 2016, Family Circle magazine coined her a “Local Hero,” and Lifetime TV called her “a Female Entrepreneur to Watch.” In 2017, she won the “Power Women in Business” award for her work as Artistic Director/Founder of AbunDance Academy. A recent Summa Cum Laude Dance MFA graduate of Hunter College, she also Guest Teaches Dance/Culture at Hunter. A Guest Teaching Artist at The Juilliard School, LaGuardia High School, Hunter College, Ballet Tech, and Broadway Dance Center, she was also the choreographic apprentice of David Byrne’s American Utopia and choreographer for COMMON's Music Video, "When We Move." 

Jay is dedicated to providing affordable classes and opportunities to perform for young aspiring dancers of color. She conceived, co-wrote, and co-directed the 2022 short film C.R.O.W.N., which tells the story of a young Brown ballerina who has to tame her hair into submission for the biggest audition of her life. The film was inspired by Jay’s own attempts to fit into a ballet world with her thick, curly hair and Afro-Latina curves. Crown sparked an important conversation around embracing one’s differences and loving one’s hair texture and skin tone in ballet. Jay also directed the 2021 short film Just Like YOU to inspire young people to love themselves regardless of their skin color, hair texture, body shape, or background.

Follow on Instagram @abundance_company @iamkarisamajayFind out more https://www.abundancearts.org/our-journey

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 "Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey

In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest: Gabriel Chajnik.

Joanne and Gabriel go way back as dancers, colleagues, friends. 

It's always a treat when Dance Talk welcomes an old friend to the platform!

sit back , listen in, laugh a little as they forget they are recording a podcast and chat about their time working together, their thoughts on the power of dance and Gabriels upcoming project "Jungle Book" in collaboration with classical Indian dance choreographer Sudha Shekhar Devulapalli. 

Gabriel Chajnik is the founding director of the new Axelrod Contemporary Ballet Theater, Gabriel Chajnik was trained under the tutelage of Maestro Hector Zaraspe and is an alumnus of the Juilliard School.

Gabriel is a former dancer with American Repertory Ballet. His teaching credits expand from Argentina to Europe and the United States at Brooklyn Music School, Princeton Ballet, the Academy of Dance Arts and Gotta Dance in New Jersey. Gabriel’s work has been featured at Juilliard, the Manhattan School of Music, the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C., Alice Tully Hall, the Clark Theater at Lincoln Center, MMAC, and the Lambs Theater.

Gabriel is also the Artistic Director for TranscenDanceGroup, whose TDG Holocaust Awareness performance has reached school students throughout the tri-state area. Gabriel has been honored by the Jewish Federation of Somerset, Hunterdon, & Warren Counties.

Find out more ⁠https://www.axcbt.org/about-axcbt⁠

Get tickets to Jungle Book February 2-11, 2024 

A new ballet based on Rudyard Kipling’s collection of stories about a boy adopted and raised by wolves fulfilling his quest for identity, love and belonging. Directed and choreographed by AXCBT Director Gabriel Chajnik, The Jungle Book is a groundbreaking collaboration with classical Indian dance teacher Sudha Shekhar Devulapalli. This AXCBT production features a fusion of Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance performed by a cast of professional dancers and talented young fellows and trainees, with elaborate costumes designed by José Solis and masks and headpieces designed by Tentacle Studios, whose clients include Lady Gaga, Kesha, and the Royal Ballet.

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In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest: Andrew N. Chiang, the executive director of Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. Listen in as Andy shares about his life and 'love at first sight' with his beloved late wife Nai-Ni Chen and the continued mission of the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company that is deeply rooted in the Chinese American immigrant experience and to advance the vision of its founder.

Happy Chinese New Year as you join us in celebrating the Year of the Green Wood Dragon!

Check out Na-Ni Chen Dance Company at NJPAC https://www.njpac.org/event/nai-ni-chen-dance-company-year-of-the-green-wood-dragon/

Tickets Available for Feb 10 & 11

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Andy Chiang emigrated to the Bronx, New York, from Taiwan when he was 14, with a single mom who worked as a nurse. A math whiz from a young age, Chiang caught the attention of a teacher who encouraged him to apply to prestigious undergrad programs. Computer science was just beginning to take off when Chiang began at MIT, and he eventually migrated from math into computing. He worked at IBM over several summers, researching automatic programming (or early AI), earning both money and MIT credits. Through his work at IBM, he received his master’s degree as part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science’s 6-A program.

Finishing his studies at the dawn of the personal computer, Chiang resisted the call of Silicon Valley heeded by many of his peers. Instead, he stayed on the East Coast and joined a startup, founded by a fellow MIT alum, that focused on transactional computing in finance, designing systems to be crash resistant. He moved on to working on crash resistance at AT&T Bell Labs before starting a company called Intellimed, an early pioneer in electronic medical records. After selling the company, he worked as an independent consultant on projects in health care and finance. 

Chiang had already met his future wife at MIT when she performed for the Chinese Student Club in a dance troupe visiting from Taiwan. (Chen was the troupe’s lead dancer; Chiang was the club’s president.) The two stayed in touch, and Chen eventually emigrated to the US to attend New York University. They married in 1982, and Chen started her namesake company six years later. By the time Chiang decided to step away from consulting and dedicate himself full time to the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, he had also served on a panel evaluating grants for the NEA and on the board of the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. 

Find out more https://www.nainichen.org/company

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In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest: Legendary Ballet Master,  Finis Jhung. 

Listen in as he retraces his career that spans decades and continues to inspire generations. Meet the  master teacher as he reflects upon his life, career, and what brings him joy. He continues to inspire dancers of all all ages. And tells us to M-O-V-E our bodies!

Finis Jhung's career spans six decades and has left his mark on Broadway, in film, and on stages across the world. While still a dancer, he studied with the greats—Valentina Pereyaslavec, Vera Volkova, Stanley Williams, Erik Bruhn, Rosella Hightower, and David Howard—and danced in the San Francisco Ballet, The Joffrey Ballet, and the Harkness Ballet. He danced for presidents and dignitaries and eventually founded and choreographed for his own ballet company. Now in the second phase of his career as a renowned and beloved dance instructor, Finis has taught everyone from prima ballerinas and Broadway stars to adult beginners. His goal is to make ballet accessible to everyone, to create innovative ways of teaching, and to inspire present and future generations of dancers. Not content with life in the studio, he has created more than 50 instructional dance videos, produced 18 music CDs, and authored The Finis Jhung Ballet Technique: A Guide for Teachers & Students—all so that aspiring dancers of every level can learn his techniques, without ever leaving home. In Ballet for Life: A Pictorial Memoir, he shares his own story for the first time, starting from humble roots in World War II Hawaii.Still actively teaching at the age of 86, his greatest joy is helping students find their “inner dancer.”

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Find out more https://finisjhung.com/about-finis-jhung/

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“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey and  Gene Schiavone.

In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest: Dance Photographer Gene Schiavone  about his  career which grew out of a hobby.

You will meet this humble man behind the lens who captures moments in time thus memorializing history.

Gene shares how he savors the relationships he has made and the individuals he has met, summing up his career by his treasured box of thank you notes, saying in his own words, "You measure your life, in some way,  by how many thank you notes you got."  

Gene Schiavone became interested in photography as a child.  With no formal training, he went on to become a sought after Dance Photographer. What began as a childhood curiosity became a budding career,  photographing some of the worlds best ballet dancers. Gene attributes his introduction to the world of ballet to his wife through her involvement with ABT (American Ballet Theater). His informal conversation with renowned ballerina, Julie Kent, piqued his interest in the art form and then began to attend more ballet performances. Around that same time, Gene was given permission to photograph performances of ABT's studio company and after two years was invited to photograph the main company, which led to other requests for similar work.

Gene's work and images includes Boston Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, Washington Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Atlanta Ballet and The Radio City Rockettes among others. His images have appeared New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and all the major dance publications both here and abroad.

In March 2020, Gene retired from studio photography and is currently working on his first book in collaboration with retired ballerina and dance writer, Gavin Larsen.

Gene continues to acknowledge his gratitude for all the dancers he has worked with over the years and for the hundreds of pairs of signed shoes and photos he remembers them by. 

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“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey and special guest, Kara Tatelbaum, dancer, choreographer, teacher, coach, and author of her memoir,  'Putting My Heels Down: A Memoir of Having a Dream and a Day Job.'

In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest, Kara Tatelbaum  author of 'Putting My Heels Down: A Memoir of Having a Dream and a Day Job.'  As you tune in, you'll see Kara's honest, genuine and humorous style of writing was present in all she does.  Kara brings us inside her journey through the dance world and what it was like to carve out a thriving career in NYC when everything was pointing to 'no.'  This is a delightful conversation with a fun, warm and delightful human being who in her own words is 'caregiver to all of her endeavors. '

Kara Tatelbaum Described by the New Yorker as “having brown curls, bright eyes, kiddish exuberance and looking like the heroine of a children’s book, Really Rosie meets Olivia the Pig,” Kara Tatelbaum brings full-out dancer energy to all of her endeavors, striving for a life of authenticity, grace, and humor. As a sought-after teacher and coach, Kara empowers others to hold on, let go, realize, and expand their own dreams. You can find her spotlight center-stage or cheering from the audience. Turns out she’s comfortable both places. Kara Tatelbaum brings her whole self as dancer, choreographer, teacher, coach, writer, and caregiver to all of her endeavors.

Kara lives in NYC with her husband and two children. 

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To learn more about Kara and to found out where to purchase her book

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“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey and special guest, Marina Harss, dance writer and author of 'The Boy from Kyiv, Alexei Ratmansky's  Life in Ballet.' 

In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest, Marina Harss who recently published her first biography 'The Boy from Kyiv, Alexei Ratmansky's  Life in Ballet.' Join us as we talk not only about this beautiful book that explores the life and career of choreographer , Alexei Ratmansky, but the in depth process and care that Marina took to learn and connect us to this 'boy from kyiv'.  Marina's writing brings the reader inside the heart of this extroidinary talent of Alexei Ratmansky in a way that leaves the reader wanting to know more.

Marina Harss is a dance writer, journalist, and critic based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, The Threepenny Review, Dance Magazine, and Fjord Review.

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To purchase the book

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“Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey and special guest, Seth Orza, founder and CEO of Orza Brand. 

In this episode of  “Dance Talk” ® with Joanne Carey,  join host Joanne Carey as she chats with Special Guest, Seth Orza, former principal dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Founder and CEO of Orza Brand.  Listen in as they talk about his amazing career and the injury that led to his developing this innovative ballet shoe, Orza Pro One. Orza set out to create new technology that would focus on injury prevention and dancers’ well-being. Working and developing the shoe with specialists and design engineers worldwide, they built the ORZA Pro One from the ground up. What started as an idea is now a new necessity for the international dance community. 

Seth Orza  Founder and CEO of ORZA, a new shoe company committed to the mission of prolonging dancers’ careers by helping to make their feet and bodies feel better. Seth is from San Francisco, where he grew up in a dance family. All five of his siblings danced, as did his father and mother. He trained at San Francisco Ballet School and on full scholarship at the School of American Ballet. In 1999, he joined New York City Ballet as an apprentice: He was awarded the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise that same year. He became a corps de ballet member in 2000, and in 2007 he was promoted to soloist. Mr. Orza joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2007, was promoted to soloist in 2008 and to principal in 2010.“Seth Orza has had a distinguished career as one of America’s leading male dancers,” said Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, PNB’s Founding Artistic Directors, in a statement. “Greatly admired by colleagues, choreographers, directors, and audiences, he is ideally positioned to use his experience to benefit dancers. ORZA PRO-ONE shows unique promise to enhance dancers’ careers and lessen the pain and injuries they have always had to cope with.As Founder and CEO, Mr. Orza manages all aspects of the company, including managing the overall operations and resources of the company and acting as the main point of communication between investors and corporate operations.Orza is backed by an all-star team of medical professionals who are leaders in their respective fields. Our Medical Advisory Team includes Marika Molnar, Physical Therapist NYCB; Dr. Phillip Bauman, MD, FAAOS; Selina Shah, MD, FACP, FAMSSM, Dance & Sports Medicine and Karin Steere, DPT, MTC, CSCS University of Puget Sound.

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Find out more about Orza Brand Ballet Shoes

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