Posts Tagged "professional dancers"
(155) Rebecca & Michael Respond to COD Listener Survey
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RMSurvey.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSSThis week it’s just Rebecca and Michael. We sit down to go through the responses from our listener survey. We talk about some of the statistics that came to light from our questionnaire, go through some of the guest requests, talk about the ins and outs of creating the podcast, and go through your feed back. If you have not yet taken our survey, it’s not too late: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/9XVM5KJ. If you wish to request a guest or put us in touch with a p
Read More(153) Yumiko Takeshima, Founder of Yumiko
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/YumikoTakeshima.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSSThis week we are joined by Yumiko Takeshima, founder of dance wear company, Yumiko. Yumiko began dancing at the age of four in Sapporo Japan. At the age of 14, she moved to San Francisco to study at San Francisco Ballet School. Yumiko went on to dance with various companies, before ultimately ending up at Dutch National Ballet where she danced for over a decade. While at Dutch National, out of neccessity, she started to design her own leotards in 2002. Soon, word...
Read MoreBONUS: Herman Cornejo of ABT From Vail Dance Festival
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/BonusHerman.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSSAmerican Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer, Herman Cornejo, sits down with us from the Vail Dance Festival. We talk about his year of dance since we last saw him in Vail, his 20th anniversary with ABT, and about what he is dancing this year at the festival. You will want to listen to the end where he shares some BIG news with us! This episode is brought to you by Yumiko and the Town of Vail.
Read More(125) Glenn Allen Sims of Alvin Ailey LIVE from the Kennedy Center
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Glenn-Allen-Sims.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSSThis week on Conversations on Dance we are bringing you a live podcast we recorded yesterday, February 4th, 2019 at the Kennedy Center. The Kennedy Center has wonderful Ballet and Contemporary Dance Class Series that offer advanced high school students the unique opportunity to learn from dancers from the nationally and internationally recognized companies that tour to the Kennedy Center. Yesterday we watched a modern class with these students taught by Alvin Ailey...
Read More(118) Cameron Grant, New York City Ballet Pianist
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cameron-Grant.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSSThis week on Conversations On Dance we are joined by one of the ballet world’s most celebrated pianists, Cameron Grant. Cameron joined the New York City Ballet in 1984, where he was appointed pianist of the New York City Ballet orchestra four years later. He has played nearly every major piano ballet in the repertoire, including Balanchine masterworks like ‘Davidsbundlertanze’ and ‘Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2’, and Robbins ballets like...
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