Season 2 Wraps Up
Sima responds to a listener email and bids farewell to season two.
Aug 23, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Dance Cast
Dance Cast is a podcast produced by ODC San Francisco, and is dedicated to critical conversations around all genres of dance. It's for dance insiders, dance lovers, and the dance curious. ODC Writer in Residence, Sima Belmar, talks with choreographers, dancers, educators, designers, presenters, bodyworkers, journalists and scholars about dance theories and practices of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Transcripts of Dance Cast are available at odc.dance/stories
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Episodes
West Side Story
Sima gets together with her college pal Vika Teicher to talk about both West Side Story films. Spoiler alert: it turns out Vika is the love child of Tony and Maria.
Aug 16, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Terrified Trans Beginner Scott Duane
Sima and Scott Duane share some real talk about gender, embodiment, and dance class.
Aug 02, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Contract Dancing with Emily Hansel, Alex Carrington, Mia J. Chong, Shareen DeRyan, and Chelsea Reichert
Emily Hansel just premiered her first evening-length work, Four by Four. She and her collaborators, Alex Carrington, Mia J. Chong, Shareen DeRyan, and Chelsea Reichert talk with Sima about their experiences designing an equitable contract.
Jul 19, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Teaching Dance with Randee Paufve
Award-winning dancer/choreographer and Artistic Director of Paufve Dance, Randee Paufve, talks about teaching dance and shares some pedagogical wisdom.
Jul 05, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Sima Muses (bonus)
Sima waxes poetic and cranky about dance’s visual/kinesthetic divide and speaks in defense of emotional manipulation in art.
Jun 28, 2022•18 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Antiracism and ballet with Maurya Kerr
In this episode, choreographer, poet, and former Alonzo King LINES Ballet dancer Maurya Kerr speaks antiracist truth to ballet power.
Jun 22, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 10
To Review or Not to Review? With Bhumi Patel
This special live podcast recording features Sima in conversation with writer/choreographer Bhumi Patel to talk about the state and fate of the dance review.
Jun 07, 2022•47 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Dropping the Curtain on Yellowface with Phil Chan
Phil Chan, author of Final Bow for Yellowface , talks about his mission to eradicate Orientalist caricatures from the ballet stage.
May 24, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Is there such a thing as a Jewish gesture?
Choreographer and Cal State East Bay Professor Nina Otis Haft joins Sima to discuss what “moving Jewish” means to them.
May 10, 2022•40 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Author Spotlight: Monique Jenkinson
In this bonus companion episode, Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, reads from her 2022 memoir, Faux Queen: My Life in Drag.
Apr 26, 2022•15 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Drag, Dance, Drag Dance
It’s not every day that the author of a book and a subject of that book, who also wrote a book, appear on a podcast together. Well, today is that day. Drag artist Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, author of Faux Queen: A Life in Drag, and Selby Wynn Schwartz, author of The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and their Afterlives, join Sima to deeply discuss drag dances in all their delightful daring.
Apr 12, 2022•41 min•Season 2Ep. 5
The Language of Movement, the Movement of Language
Paige Morgan Johnson, Assistant Professor of Performance & Race, talks with Sima about how contemporary Waria (an Indonesian term for transgender women) nuance the relationships between language, performance genres, and the legibility of gender.
Mar 29, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 4
How to Take a Moving Picture
Sima has a heady discussion about dance photography and philosophies of capture with photographer Stephen Texeira.
Mar 15, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Is The Big Leap the smartest dance show on television?
Margaret Rennerfeldt, Professor of Dance at Austin Peay State University, joins Sima to discuss the Fox show The Big Leap .
Mar 09, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
And just like that...We're back!
To launch season two of Dance Cast, Sima invites listeners to share their dance stories and tells one of her own. A transcript of this episode is available at odc.dance/stories.
Mar 01, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Dance Cast Wraps Season One & Looks Ahead to Season Two
Host Sima Belmar reflects on the future of Dance Cast, plans for 2022, and tells a story about her dance life.
Dec 21, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Let's Manifest Unicorns! A Conversation with ODC Creative Director Chloë Zimberg
Chloë L. Zimberg (she/her), is a dancer, producer, curator, and arts program specialist currently leading ODC Theater as Creative Director. Her work centralizes on the strategic development of equitable performing arts platforms and the live arts sector. Zimberg is the Co-Founder of Chlo & Co Dance, which curates and presents Drove, a twice-annual evening of dance performance by West Coast artists, as well as Tabled , an interdisciplinary discussion series highlighting universal issue areas ...
Nov 16, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Bonus Episode: Excerpts from This is Also the Art with Chitresh Das Institute
Charlotte Moraga, Artistic Director of Chitresh Das Institute (CDI), and composer Alam Khan discuss CDI's new work, Mantram, an artistic creation exploring resonance through movement, music (composed by Khan), percussion, and vedanta, the world's oldest, unbroken oral tradition. Their conversation took place as part of ODC's This Is Also The Art series on October 14, 2021. CDI brings to the stage ground breaking, traditional, and collaborative performances exploring the depth and versatility of ...
Oct 26, 2021•16 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Elephants Are Dancers Too: Ann Carlson with inkBoat's Shinichi Iova-Koga & Dana Iova-Koga
Sima talks with Ann Carlson, Shinichi Iova-Koga, and Dana Iova-Koga about These are the Ones We Fell Among, a work that takes inspiration from the movements, myths, and metaphors of our endangered animal cousins – persons called by other names, like “elephant.” Conceived, choreographed, written and directed by award-winning interdisciplinary artist Ann Carlson in collaboration with inkBoat, These Are the Ones We Fell Among grapples with elegance in the face of extinction, looking for humor and g...
Oct 18, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Is Endurance Political? Christy Funsch, Artistic Director of Funsch Dance
Sima talks with Christy Funsch, Artistic Director of Funsch Dance Experience, about her upcoming durational performance EPOCH , which takes place in-person and online on Saturday, October 2, 2021 from 10am to 10pm. In cheeky defiance of Doris Humphrey’s warning “All dances are too long,” EPOCH unfolds over 12 hours, in a gratuitous surplus of movement, interrupted by moments of nothingness, to challenge the valuing of acquisition and excess. Is endurance political? What bonds does an unlikely sc...
Sep 21, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 10
BIPOC Sanctuary with Raissa Simpson, Artistic Director of PUSH Dance Company
Raissa Simpson is an African American/Pilipino choreographer and artistic director of the San Francisco-based PUSH Dance Company. Her multidisciplinary dances are at the intersection of complex racial and cultural identities and centers around discourse on the complex experiences of racialized bodies. A graduate of SUNY Purchase, Simpson had an extensive performance career with Robert Moses Kin and Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre. Her choreography honors include Magrit Mondavi Award, San F...
Aug 17, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Dancing During the Plague: ODC's Up for Air/Decameron with Kimi Okada, Brenda Way, & Kate Weare
ODC Writer in Residence Sima Belmar talks with the artists responsible for ODC's first full-length film, Up For Air/Decameron: Brenda Way, Kimi, Okada, and Kate Weare . (NB: The fourth choreographer, KT Nelson, could not join us for the conversation.) The film features members of ODC/Dance and Kate Weare Company, and is inspired by Bocaccio's 14th-century novel Decameron. (No need to have read it to enjoy the film!) The novel is about the retreat of ten young Florentines seeking to avoid the pla...
Aug 12, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 8
From Sunu to Smurf: Back to the Root with Latanya d. Tigner
Latanya d. Tigner has performed professionally with Dimensions Dance Theater within multidisciplinary works rooted in African diasporic dance forms since 1986. She holds a B.A. in Physical Education/Dance and a Master’s in Arts Administration. She directs Dimensions Dance Theater’s youth company and lectures at University of California, Berkeley and Mills College. In her 30-plus-year dance career, Latanya has created commissioned works for Dimensions Dance Theater, Black Choreographers Festival,...
Jul 21, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Johnnie Cruise Mercer & Benedict Nguyen
Benedict Nguyen is a writer, dancer, and curator based on occupied Lenape and Wappinger lands (South Bronx, NY). Benedict's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in AAWW’s the Margins, Flypaper, and PANK. Their fiction writing was supported by an AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship in 2017. They’re at work on a novel. Their criticism has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Shondaland, the Establishment, and Culturebot, among others, and in commissioned profiles for Danspace Project, Baryshnikov Arts Cent...
Jun 15, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 6
The 2021 ODC Opportunity Fund Artists: Jeremy Bannon-Neches, Nicole Maria Hoffschneider, & Noah Wang
In response to COVID-19 and the dance industry’s pivot to dance for camera, the 2021 Opportunity Fund at ODC Theater helped underwrite the costs of producing a five-minute dance film for three artists: Jeremy Bannon-Neches, Nicole Maria Hoffschneider, and Noah Wang. The Fund subsidizes roughly 65% of the activity costs, which include film production, a mentorship series, and individual consultation for these young artists who participate in dance for camera training and feedback sessions in a 15...
May 17, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Antoine Hunter/Purple Fire Crow
Today Sima talks with Purple Fire Crow/Antoine Hunter, an award-winning African, Indigenous, Deaf, Disabled, Two Spirit producer, choreographer, film/theater actor, dancer, dance instructor, model, poet, speaker, mentor, and Deaf advocate. He teaches dance and ASL in both Hearing and Deaf communities and is the founder and artistic director of Urban Jazz Dance Company. Hunter has performed with many Bay Area dance companies, including Savage Jazz Dance Company, Nuba Dance Theater, Alayo Dance Co...
Apr 19, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 4
The TikTok Episode!
Still unclear what TikTok is and how it functions? You're not alone (but you're probably not a teenager). Today we talk with host Sima Belmar's 14-year-old daughter, Lucia Capezzuto, and Edgar Mendez, ODC's Digital Marketing Manager, about the platform and its intimate relationship with dance. Transcripts of this episode are available at odc.dance/stories.
Mar 14, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Robert Moses, Artistic Director of Robert Moses' Kin
Since founding Robert Moses' Kin in 1995 in San Francisco, choreographer Robert Moses has created numerous works of varying styles and genres for his highly praised dance company. His work explores topics ranging from oral traditions in African American culture, the dark side of contemporary urban culture, the nuanced complexities of parentage and identity, to the simple joys of the expressive power of pure movement. In addition to his work with Robert Moses’ Kin, Moses has choreographed for Alv...
Feb 12, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Brenda Way, Kimi Okada, and KT Nelson
For the inaugural episode of Dance Cast, ODC Writer in Residence Sima Belmar is joined by ODC founders Brenda Way, Kimi Okada and KT Nelson. They talk about the institution’s early days in Oberlin, OH, and how the company theater and school are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Transcripts of this episode are available at odc.dance/stories.
Jan 14, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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