The Dance Centre Podcast

Welcome back to The Dance Centre Podcast. Today Claire talks to interdisciplinary artist Nellie Gossen about Nellie's work with fashion, including the previous iterations of their piece Returns, as well as their experience with dance both in Vancouver and Germany.

See Returns from January 7 - February 3 at Scotiabank Dance Centre, details and full viewing scheduled here: https://thedancecentre.ca/event/nellie-gossen/

Returns is presented in partnerships with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.

Welcome back to The Dance Centre Podcast. Today Claire talks to dance artist, choreographer, and founder of Co.ERASGA, Alvin Tolentino.

Join them as they discuss Alvin's beginnings as an independent dance artist, the creation process and how that has changed over his long career, his collaboration with dance and interdisciplinary artists and the cultural shift happening in the dance world today.

Learn more about Co.ERASGA's and their new show Accumulation here: https://www.companyerasgadance.ca/

Welcome back to The Dance Centre Podcast. In today's episode Claire talks to dance artist, choreographer and founder of Stand Up Dance, Meagan O'Shea, about why and how she does a "slow tour" model, the importance of community and creative engagement, the improvisation and ensemble work that led to their show Anatomalia and the generosity of saying no. 

See Anatomalia from Stand Up Dance November 16-18 at Scotiabank Dance Centre: https://thedancecentre.ca/event/stand-up-dance/

https://www.standupdance.com/

Welcome back to The Dance Centre Podcast. This month Claire talks to Kathak artist Fiana Kawane and Bharata Natyam dancer Shilpa Shankar about their histories and careers with their dance genres, how they came to Canada and found The Dance Centre, and how they view their dance forms in a contemporary time. 

More about Discover Dance! Classical Indian Dances in Focus: https://thedancecentre.ca/event/classical-indian-dances-in-focus/

Welcome back to The Dance Centre Podcast. In the first episode of the 2023-2024 season, Claire talks to Isaac Gasangwa, founder and director of Afrobeats Van, about his relationship with dance, the differences between African and Western dance, and the inspiration behind his upcoming show, The African Dream. 

See the African Dream September 16 at Scotiabank Dance Centre: https://thedancecentre.ca/event/izo-dreamchaser/

More about Afrobeats Van: https://sites.google.com/view/afrobeatsdancevan/home

Welcome back to another episode of The Dance Centre Podcast. This month Claire talks to Sammy Chien and Caroline MacCaull, Co-Artistic Directors of Chimerik, an award-winning interdisciplinary collective, about finding a happy balance with technology in their work, mentorship, mediumship and creating a healthy community within their collective.

You can see a studio showing of their piece We Were One on July 31 at Scotiabank Dance Centre: https://thedancecentre.ca/event/chimerik-2023/

Chimerik's Website

This month on the Dance Centre Podcast Claire talks to dance artist and choreographer Lee Su-Feh about her long career in dance, her work in voicework and her "long, slow dance" Touch Me, Hold Me, Let Me Go.

https://www.leesufeh.space/

This month on The Dance Centre Podcast Claire talks to Julia Taffe, Artistic Director of Aeriosa Dance Society about how she came to vertical dance, the challenges and differences in choreographing and performing vertical dance and Aeriosa's collaborations with Butterflies in Spirit and Croatian choreographer Marija Šćekić.

https://aeriosa.com/

This month on The Dance Centre Podcast Claire talks to dance artist, teacher and choreographer Ralph Escamillan about his life in dance, how he balances all his various career paths and the inspiration behind his new work, PIÑA which premieres May 4-6 at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.

More about PIÑA: https://thedancecentre.ca/event/fakeknot-2023/

More about Ralph: https://www.ralphescamillan.com/

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This month on The Dance Centre Podcast Claire talks to Davi Rodrigues, Artistic Director of Lamondance, about his life as a dance artist and choreographer, how he came to Vancouver, Lamondance’s role in the community and his relationship with students as a teacher and a mentor.

https://www.lamondance.com/