Dance Cast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Season 2 Wraps Up
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sima responds to a listener email and bids farewell to season two.
West Side Story
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 T...
Terrified Trans Beginner Scott Duane
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sima and Scott Duane share some real talk about gender, embodiment, and dance class.
Contract Dancing with Emily Hansel, Alex Carrington, Mia J. Chong, Shareen DeRyan, and Chelsea Reichert
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Hansel just premiered her first evening-length work, Four by Four. She and her collaborators, Alex Carrington, Mia J. Chong, Shareen DeRyan, and...
Teaching Dance with Randee Paufve
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning dancer/choreographer and Artistic Director of Paufve Dance, Randee Paufve, talks about teaching dance and shares some pedagog...
Sima Muses (bonus)
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sima waxes poetic and cranky about dance’s visual/kinesthetic divide and speaks in defense of emotional manipulation in art.
Antiracism and ballet with Maurya Kerr
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, choreographer, poet, and former Alonzo King LINES Ballet dancer Maurya Kerr speaks antiracist truth to ballet power.
To Review or Not to Review? With Bhumi Patel
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This special live podcast recording features Sima in conversation with writer/choreographer Bhumi Patel to talk about the state and fate of the dance ...
Dropping the Curtain on Yellowface with Phil Chan
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Chan, author of Final Bow for Yellowface, talks about his mission to eradicate Orientalist caricatures from the ballet stage.
Is there such a thing as a Jewish gesture?
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Choreographer and Cal State East Bay Professor Nina Otis Haft joins Sima to discuss what “moving Jewish” means to them.
Author Spotlight: Monique Jenkinson
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus companion episode, Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, reads from her 2022 memoir, Faux Queen: My Life in Drag.
Drag, Dance, Drag Dance
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 da...
The Language of Movement, the Movement of Language
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paige Morgan Johnson, Assistant Professor of Performance & Race, talks with Sima about how contemporary Waria (an Indonesian term for transgender ...
How to Take a Moving Picture
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sima has a heady discussion about dance photography and philosophies of capture with photographer Stephen Texeira.
Is The Big Leap the smartest dance show on television?
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Rennerfeldt, Professor of Dance at Austin Peay State University, joins Sima to discuss the Fox show The Big Leap.
And just like that...We're back!
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 avai...
Dance Cast Wraps Season One & Looks Ahead to Season Two
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Host Sima Belmar reflects on the future of Dance Cast, plans for 2022, and tells a story about her dance life.
Let's Manifest Unicorns! A Conversation with ODC Creative Director Chloë Zimberg
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chloë L. Zimberg (she/her), is a dancer, producer, curator, and arts program specialist currently leading ODC Theater as Creative Director. Her work ...
Bonus Episode: Excerpts from This is Also the Art with Chitresh Das Institute
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Moraga, Artistic Director of Chitresh Das Institute (CDI), and composer Alam Khan discuss CDI's new work, Mantram, an artistic creation expl...
Elephants Are Dancers Too: Ann Carlson with inkBoat's Shinichi Iova-Koga & Dana Iova-Koga
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 mov...
Is Endurance Political? Christy Funsch, Artistic Director of Funsch Dance
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sima talks with Christy Funsch, Artistic Director of Funsch Dance Experience, about her upcoming durational performance EPOCH, which takes place in-pe...
BIPOC Sanctuary with Raissa Simpson, Artistic Director of PUSH Dance Company
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Raissa Simpson is an African American/Pilipino choreographer and artistic director of the San Francisco-based PUSH Dance Company. Her multidisciplinar...
Dancing During the Plague: ODC's Up for Air/Decameron with Kimi Okada, Brenda Way, & Kate Weare
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
From Sunu to Smurf: Back to the Root with Latanya d. Tigner
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Latanya d. Tigner has performed professionally with Dimensions Dance Theater within multidisciplinary works rooted in African diasporic dance forms si...
Johnnie Cruise Mercer & Benedict Nguyen
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The 2021 ODC Opportunity Fund Artists: Jeremy Bannon-Neches, Nicole Maria Hoffschneider, & Noah Wang
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Antoine Hunter/Purple Fire Crow
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today Sima talks with Purple Fire Crow/Antoine Hunter, an award-winning African, Indigenous, Deaf, Disabled, Two Spirit producer, choreographer, film/...
The TikTok Episode!
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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-yea...
Robert Moses, Artistic Director of Robert Moses' Kin
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since founding Robert Moses' Kin in 1995 in San Francisco, choreographer Robert Moses has created numerous works of varying styles and genres for his ...
Brenda Way, Kimi Okada, and KT Nelson
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...