Inside the Dancer's Studio

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the studio with Tucson, Arizona-based Angelina Ramirez and Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Carlos Menchaca, two artists exploring and expanding the conventions of Flamenco dance. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floco Torres Cove...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the “studio” with Aparna, Ranee, and Ashwini Ramaswamy of Ragamala Dance Company. Together, they reflect on Bharatanatyam lineage, artistic rigor, and the layered practice of making work rooted in South Indian traditions and alive to contemporary life. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Futu...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the ‘studio’ with San Francisco California based dance artist Yayoi Kambara, director of KAMBARA+. KAMBARA+ cultivates belonging through multidisciplinary performances that honor the authentic voice of the body. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cr...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the ‘studio’ with New York City-based, Israeli-born dance artist Netta Yerushalmy. Her research-driven work spans genres and disciplines and aims to challenge how meaning is attributed and constructed. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme m...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the ‘studio’ with Boston Massachusetts-based Jean Appolon Founder of Jean Appolon Expressions. Appolon’s work blends Haitian folkloric and contemporary dance styles to educate audiences about Haitian culture, traditions, history, and current issues. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the ‘studio’ with Philadelphia Pennsylvania based interdisciplinary tap dance artist and scholar Michael J. Love. His embodied research intermixes Black, queer feminist theories and aesthetics with rigorous practice to critically engage Black cultural pasts and “rhythm dream” futurity. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the ‘studio’ with San Francisco California based choreographer and dancer Sean Dorsey. Dorsey creates powerful explorations of human experience through full-throttle dance, intimate storytelling, and trans-positive pedagogy. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the ‘studio’ with Columbus Ohio based Ryan K. Johnson an artist-scholar dedicated to African Diasporic Percussive Dance, Johnson employs immersive sound and media technologies to archive Black American histories through performance.   EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio en...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the ‘studio’ with Columbus, Ohio-based choreographer and founding artistic director of dance theatre X, Charles O. Anderson. Known for his rigorous kinetic storytelling and commitment to dance as a tool for social justice, his work explores Black identity, resistance, and radical imagination.   EPISODE CREDITS: Pr...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the ‘studio’ with ANANYA CHATTERJEA Artistic Director, Choreographer and Dancer with Ananya Dance Theatre. An ensemble of transnational feminist professional dance artists who create original contemporary dance theater inspired by the lives and dreams of BIPOC women and femmes around the globe.   EPISODE CREDITS:...

In this episode, NCCAkron’s Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the ‘studio’ with New York based Amanda Castro, Arielle Rosales, and Brinda Guha of Soles of Duende, a multicultural, all-female trio based in the rhythms of Tap, Flamenco & Kathak dance.   EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by Lisa Niedermeyer of Handmade Future Studio Audio engineering by Rahsaan Cruz Theme music by Floc...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with West Hollywood, California-based choreographer, writer, director, filmmaker, and performer David Roussève. A Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner, Roussève has toured extensively domestically and internationally with his dance/theater company REALITY. Roussève is a Distinguished Professor of...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with voices representing a span of 3 different generations. Dianne McIntyre, based in Cleveland, Ohio; Donald Byrd and Nia-Amina Minor, based in Seattle, Washington; and Donna Uchizono, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, and Kristel Baldoz, based in New York City. Merry Petroski, Project Manager of the Creative Agin...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with artists who integrate technology in their work and who participated as a Dancing Lab cohort researching immersive spaces for dance. Valley Cottage, New York-based Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Raphael Xavier, and Miami, Florida-based Hanna Ali all join the conver...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with Atlanta, Georgia-based George Staib, choreographer and artistic director of staibdance. Dance Teacher Magazine has recognized Staib as one of the “top five” dance educators in the US, and he has been commissioned as a teacher and choreographer for over 25 institutions. He is currently on the danc...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with Shaina and Bryan Baira of BAIRA MVMNT PHLOSPHY. Their New York City and Detroit, Michigan-based dance theatre company creates live performance, dance film, and immersive-virtual-reality experiences. Shaina and Bryan are recipients of the ‘Creators of Culture’ award through Culture Source Detroit...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with Brooklyn, New York-based Reggie Wilson, Executive/Artistic Director, Choreographer, and Performer with Fist and Heel Performance Group. Wilson's work draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and is combined with post-modern elements to create what he calls “post-African/Neo-HooDoo Mode...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with Evanston, Illinois-based interdisciplinary dance artist Joe Bowie. Bowie uses autoethnography to unlock narratives that layer the past, present, and future as archival choreographic methods. His creative and scholarly research convenes at the intersection of Blackness, queerness, and Black joy. B...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Los Angeles, California-based Kara Jenelle, aka KJ. A choreographer, spoken word artist, and international arts educator with a global reach of over 19 million views via her YouTube channel, KJ's repertoire highlights street dance, African diaspora dance and music, and Black culture.   EPISODE CRED...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke, enters the 'studio' with Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Leila and Noelle Awadallah of Body Watani. As daughters of Palestinian refugee lineage, Body Watani investigates dance rooted in Arab and SWANA movement languages. Their first evening-length work, TERRANEA, was performed at the Arab American National Museum, Hammana A...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with four artists brought together by the work of the Dancing Wheels Company. Mary Verdi-Fletcher who is based in Cleveland, OH and is the President and Founding Artistic Director of Dancing Wheels; New York City-based choreographer, Tiffany Mills, Los Angeles, CA-based choreographer Mark Tomasic, and...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Miami FL-based choreographer and dancer, Pioneer Winter. Recognized in Dance Magazine's 2019 “25 to Watch," he directs Pioneer Winter Collective, a contemporary dance and physical theater company of allied bodies, who democratize performance in public spaces, museums, stages, and films. He develop...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Portland, OR and Boston, MA- based multidisciplinary artist and choreographer, Takahiro Yamamoto. His current conceptual investigations revolve around the phenomenological effects of time, the embodied approach to the presence of nothingness, and the social/emotional implications of visibility. Hi...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with Chicago IL-based dancemaker J'Sun Howard. Howard received the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events’ Esteemed Artist Award and was recognized as an Asian Cultural Council Fellow. His works have been showcased nationally and internationally and he has received commission...

In this episode, NCCAkron's Executive/Artistic Director, Christy Bolingbroke enters the 'studio' with New York City-based choreographer John Heginbotham. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Heginbotham graduated from The Juilliard School, was a member of Mark Morris Dance Group. In 2011, he founded Dance Heginbotham and has received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Awa...