https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DutchNationalBallet.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On today’s episode of ‘Conversations On Dance’, we are joined by Ted Brandsen and Rachel Beaujean, Director and Associate Artistic Director of Dutch National Ballet. We are speaking to them in advance of the company’s first tour to the United States in 40 years, which is to take place at the Ballet Sun Valley festival in Sun Valley, Idaho. First, we talk with Ted briefly about his career and his directorship. Then Rachel joins the...
Read Morehttps://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MikkoNissinenBalletSunValley.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS This week, we are joined by Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director of Boston Ballet. We first spoke with Mikko about his career and his 20 plus years at the helm of Boston Ballet in episode 183 from May 2020. Today we catch up with Mikko to hear about how Boston Ballet weathered the pandemic, how the company reacted to COVID and the Black Lives Matter movement, and their recent ChoreograpHER program. Boston Ballet will be on tour for the first time since the...
Read Morehttps://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Peter-Boal-Ballet-Sun-Valley.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS This week we welcome Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director, Peter Boal, back to the podcast. We first spoke with Peter in March of 2017, for a fantastic conversation surrounding his career and directorship. (Tune into episode 36 with Peter). Today, we catch up with Peter to hear about his experience leading PNB through the COVID-19 pandemic, how the dancers are safely and creatively returning to the studios to work, and about the incredible virtual...
Read Morehttps://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/IsabellaBoylstonVail.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS On this week’s episode of Conversations On Dance, we are thrilled to be joined once again by American Ballet Theatre principal Isabella Boylston. We caught up with her at the Vail Dance Festival, where we talked about her most recent season at the Met with ABT, how her second year running the Ballet Sun Valley Festival differed from the first, and her preparations for her first performances dancing Justin Peck’s ‘In Creases’. This episo
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