TUЯИOUT Radio

Today on TUЯИOUT Radio, we’re live at the 46th Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards presented by the Romano D’Andrea Foundation. The highly anticipated ceremony will be hosted by five-time Dora Award-winning actor, Amaka Umeh at Meridian Hall, in Toronto. Tune in for our onsite interview as host Nicole Inica Hamilton talks with Dora Award-winning producer Victor Pokinko, and Dora Award-winning choreogra...

This week on TUЯИOUT Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with featured guest Natasha Powell (Artistic Director of Holla Jazz). Tune in for the episode as Powell reflects upon The Room Upstairs .  The 2026 Dora Mavor Moore award nominated work is inspired by, and set to the music of John Coltrane.  ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week for...

On today's episode of TUЯИOUT Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with featured guest Emily Cheung (Artistic Director of Little Pear Garden Dance Company). Tune in for a discussion that explores Echoes of the Underworld. An immersive dance theatre experience inspired by Chinese folklore and spiritual legends.  ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join...

This week on TUЯИOUT Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton steps behind the mic with featured guest P. Megan Andrews (multi-focused dance artist, scholar, writer and movement educator). Tune in as they explore a deepened conversation that flows through movement, deep breath, leading with empathy, and the work of the Dancer Transition Resource Centre. ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radi...

Our latest episode features TUЯИOUT Radio host Nicole Inica Hamilton, in conversation with guest BaKari IfaSegun Lindsay (Costume designer, dancer, choreographer, and co-founder of COBA - Collective of Black Artists). Tune in for a conversation exploring the physical language A-Feeree, ancestral legacy, and the release of Lindsay’s book, In Healing Steps. ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯ...

This week on TUЯИOUT Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton welcomes featured guest Kara Mack (Choreographer, creative director, performer, and founder of Africa in America®) for a conversation about the spirit, the power of stillness, joy, and the celebration of the Black History Month Music & Dance Bootcamp. ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week...

This week on TUЯИOUT Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton steps behind the mic with featured guests Jamie Hodgins (ICDR Executive Director, Event Producer & Teacher), Jerome Bobb (Dance Championships & CDX Director, ICDR Competition Advisor), and Nathaniel Chua (Dance Awards title winner & Pace University student).  Tune in as they share experiences from within the competitive dance indus...

This week on TUЯИOUT Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down in conversation with Santee Smith (Artistic Director of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre) who shares thoughts about embodied communication, storytelling, and the premiere of Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s SKéN:NEN, an immersive dance performance with a powerful narrative that is rooted in cultural knowledge that transcends time and place.  Presenting...

On this episode of TUЯИOUT Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with Nena Gilreath (Co-founding Director of Ballethnic Dance Company Inc.) who returns for part 2 of their discussion which shares thoughts about stewarding our care, compassionate work, and the likeness of time, life and water.  ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week for the pr...

On this episode of TUЯИOUT Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with Nena Gilreath (Co-founding Director of Ballethnic Dance Company Inc.) who joins the show to share thoughts about the company, teaching practices, legacy, meditations for the new year, and more. ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week for the program as we cover dance news, a...

On this episode of Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with Clyde Wagner (President and CEO of TO Live) who shares thoughts about the purpose driven work of the organization, initiatives which support the work and dreams of artists, and what's coming up at TO Live.   ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week for the program as we...

On this episode of Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with  Brooke and Tiffany Engen (Choreographers, directors, performers) to discuss creating in collaboration, comedic play, and choreographing the unauthorized Hallmark(ish) parody musical. ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week for the program as we cover dance news, and the in...

On this episode of Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with featured guest Sean McLeod (President & CEO of the New York Institute of Dance & Education Inc.) who joins the show for a conversation that explores faith, dance, music, and the principles that inform his path forward.  ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week for th...

On this episode of Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with featured guest and multi-hyphenate artist Tavia Christina who opens up about spiritual endurance, and the driving force in their artistic expression and research. ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week for the program as we cover dance news, and the introspective stories o...

On this episode of Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with featured guests Collette ‘Coco’ Murray, Ronald A. Taylor, and Derek Souvannavong to discuss the premiere of MASS (A Spiritual Journey to the Creator Within), an evocative new full-length dance work by Ronald A. Taylor.  Tune in as the panel open up about ritual, healing and collective awakening. ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for...

This week on Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with featured guest Kate Hilliard (Artistic Director of Arts Orillia) who opens up about creating through movement, digital media, writing, and conversation.  Tune in as Hilliard shares thoughts about the Toronto premiere Story Creatures at the AGO. A work which considers the anthropological consequences of a great melt, which also...

Today on Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton welcomes featured guest Vickie Fagan (Director of Development for Dance Collection Danse & Development Manager for the Toronto Dance Theatre). Tune in as Fagan reflects on filmmaking, the upliftment of dance history in Canada, and the upcoming celebration of the Dance Collection Danse Hall of Fame ceremony. ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in...

This week on Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with Tanveer Alam (Kathak dancer, choreographer and teacher) who joins the program to share thoughts about the world premiere of Shanaasai • شناسائی, and his co-curation of KATHAK & BALLET: Signature Programme 3, at the 11th annual Fall for Dance North Festival.    ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite...

This week on Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with featured guests Devon Healey (FFDN Scholar-in-Residence) and Esie Mensah (FFDN Artist-in-Residence). Tune in as they discuss how Blindness elevates our experience of dance, and the real-time generation of movement and Immersive Descriptive Audio.  Originated by Healey, IDA is an artistic technique that verbalizes the sensations...

This week on Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with award winning choreographers, performers in stage and film, and co-artistic directors of Kaeja d’Dance, Allen and Karen Kaeja. Both join the show to share thoughts about life, dance, family, and celebrating 36 years of marriage.  Our thanks to Dance Collection Danse for supporting with the organizing of this broadcast. ● ● ● ●...

This week on Turn Out Radio, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with Alyssa Martin (Founder and Artistic Director of Rock Bottom Movement). Tune in as they discuss Martin's thoughts on creating from a process which explores surrealism, humour, and absurd perspectives. Thank you to Citadel et Compagnie for today's episode. Visit the organization to learn about their 2025/26 season.   ●...

In his recent visit to Turn Out Radio, Allen Kaeja (Co-artistic director of Kaeja d'Dance) reflected upon the making of the memoir "I Found My Dance In a Bomb Shelter – Anecdotes of Gratitude from A Life in Dance." Co-published by Canadian dance publisher Dance Collection Danse Press / Presse and Toronto-based contemporary dance company Kaeja d’Dance, the memoir is filled with stori...

On this episode, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with interdisciplinary artist Brinae Ali who opens up about using the power of the arts to transform the conditions of the human spirit. Tune in to the episode, as Ali also shares about presenting in the 2025 dance Immersion Legacy Summit.   ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week for the program...

On this episode, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with multi-award-winning artist-scholar, dance educator, and cultural arts programmer Collette ‘Coco’ Murray.  Tune in as Murray shares critical thoughts about liberation, emancipation, and what it means to dance in a procession experience, rooted in oppression. ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each...

On this episode, host Nicole Inica Hamilton steps behind the mic with Newton Moraes (Artistic Director of Newton Moraes Dance Theatre). Tune in for the episode as Moraes reflects upon love, loss, inspiration, and the pathways of his journey in dance.  ● ● ● ● ● ● Thank you for tuning in to TUЯИOUT Radio. We invite you to join us each week for the program as we cover dance news, and the introspecti...