Inside the Creative Process; Conversations with Artists, Writers, Performers, & Creatives

In this solo episode, Alicia Peterson Baskel recalls a performance that nourished her during a time when she felt depleted artistically. The William Forsythe piece HUMAN WRITES which he made in collaboration with Professor Kendall Thomas, was presented at the Berlin dance festival: Tanz Im August in 2010. This installation performance blew Alicia's mind and still lingers in her heart. For more inf...

Playwright Jennifer Barclay shares her story about shifting from an actor with laser focus on her craft to becoming a playwright who creates stereotype-busting roles for women. Jennifer talks about how she paved her own way throughout her artistic career by earnestly creating a community of artists/collaborators who trust and support her work. “I believe that a play or a film at its best should be...

Dance artist Eric Geiger shares his incredible journey from studying on scholarship at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center to working with Bill T. Jones, Nancy McCaleb, Deborah Hay, and many, many others. Eric’s reverence for those who paved the way before him adds depth to his work and his teaching. His processes demand responsible citizenship by making a space for Otherness. “I imagine dance a...

Host Alicia Peterson Baskel honors the memory of her late father, Garvin Peterson, as she tells the story of how an engineer resonates deeply with his daughter's improvised dance performance. This episode is dedicated in loving memory to Garvin W. Peterson (February 7, 1942 - January 31, 2022) Please visit me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/aliciapetersonbaskel/

Visual and performance artist Carolyn Mara is an unapologetic award-winning multimedia artist whose creative methodology uses videographical performance art, conceptual photography, and large-scale fine arts painting to explore ideas of personal struggle and collective pain. Carolyn repeatedly puts her work and her process out into the world and is no stranger to criticism. In this episode, Caroly...

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