Posts Tagged "college dance program"

(171) Jodie Gates, Director of USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance (part two)

Posted by on 02.03.2020

https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/JodieGates2020-1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Over the past few weeks we have been examining different college dance programs including Indiana University and St. Mary’s College’s LEAP Program. This week we are concluding our higher education series on Conversations on Dance, with an in depth look at the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. We are joined, for a second time, by the program’s vice dean and director, Jodie Gates. We first spoke with Jodie in...

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(75) Elizabeth Claire Walker, Los Angeles Ballet Soloist and Harvard Graduate

Posted by on 01.15.2018

http://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/LizWalker.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS This week on the podcast we are tackling a subject that we find of immense interest to students and parents in our travels to schools across the country: does having a career in ballet mean forgoing college?  Our guest this week is a Harvard Graduate and an Los Angeles Ballet Soloist who shows that it’s possible to do both.  This week we talk with Elizabeth Claire Walker, who always dreamed of a career in ballet, and had parents who strongly valued her education.  She...

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(31) Lauren Fadeley, Miami City Ballet Soloist

Posted by on 01.30.2017

http://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/LaurenFadeley.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS This week we welcome Miami City Ballet soloist, Lauren Fadeley.  After completing a year of training at SAB, Lauren was asked by Peter Martins to join New York City Ballet at the age of 16.  After two years with the company, Lauren decided to pursue a higher education at Indiana University.  She danced throughout college and graduated  with a Bachelor of Science in Ballet Performance with an outside field in Kinesiology.  In 2007, Lauren went on the join the...

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