Posts Tagged "Dancers"
(189) Eduardo Vilaro on Ballet Hispánico’s ‘Noche Unidos’
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/EduardoVilaro2020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Today we check in with Eduardo Vilaro, Artistic Director and CEO of Ballet Hispánico. We last spoke with Eduardo in November 2019 in episode 160 about his career and his directorship at Ballet Hispánico. If you want to listen to that episode, you can find the link in the description of this episode. Today we chat with Eduardo about what it has been like for him leading his organization through the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ballet...
Read More(142) Tyler Angle, NYCB Principal & Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival Artistic Director
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Tyler-Angle.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS This week we are joined by Tyler Angle, Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet and Artistic Director of the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival. Tyler Angle was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and began his dance training at the age of nine at the Allegheny Ballet Company. He entered the School of American Ballet full-time in the fall of 2001. In the fall of 2003, Mr. Angle became an apprentice with New York City Ballet. Mr. Angle joined New York City Ballet as a member of...
Read More(117) Eric Trope of Miami City Ballet on a dancer’s mental health
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Eric-Trope.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS This week on Conversations On Dance, we are joined by Miami City Ballet dancer Eric Trope. While so much attention is understandably given to the physical health of dancers, Eric has been an outspoken advocate for supporting the mental health of dancers to the same extent. In this episode, we cover the difficulty of performing anxiety, dealing with body shaming and what can be done both individually and as a community to improve the mental health of our artists. Eric’s...
Read MoreBONUS: Choreographer Trey McIntyre from SFB’s Unbound Festival
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/TreyMcIntyre.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS This week on ‘Conversations On Dance’, we are joined by esteemed choreographer Trey McIntyre, whose second work for the San Francisco Ballet recently premiered in the company’s Unbound Festival. Trey’s rise to prominence as a choreographer began when Ben Stevenson, then director of the Houston Ballet, created the position of choreographic apprentice for him. He has gone on to choreograph works for the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre,...
Read More(86) Misty Copeland’s Clap Back & Ballet’s Chance for a Turning Point
https://media.blubrry.com/conversationsondancepod/tendusunderapalmtree.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/RMApril2-4218-9.49-AM.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS It’s just Rebecca and Michael this week as they sit down to discuss some of the stories that have been making news recently. We talk about Misty Copeland’s epic and graceful response to a Twitter troll last week (7:55) and discuss Avichai Scher’s article for the Huffington Post, “The Me Too Moment Is Ballet’s Chance for a Turning Point” (16:15). We will be going to San Francisco April 20-25th to partner with San Francisco...
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