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(149) Damian Woetzel & Janet Eilber LIVE from Vail Dance Festival Aug 09, 2019

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Today we are bringing you a live podcast recording from the Vail Dance Festival with Festival Artistic Director Damian Woetzel and Janet Eilber, Martha Graham Dance Company Artistic Director. The pair talks with us about the Graham legacy, their roles as artistic directors of their respective organizations, and what audiences can expect to see from the Martha Graham Dance Company this year in Vail. This episode was recorded live on August 8th, 2019.

This episode is brought to you by Yumiko and the Town of Vail. This episode was recorded at Manor Vail Lodge.

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(148) Tiler Peck LIVE from Vail Dance Festival Aug 06, 2019

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Today we are bringing you a live podcast recording from the Vail Dance Festival with New York City Ballet Principal Tiler Peck. In her 11th year at the Vail Dance Festival, Tiler continues to explore her work as a choreographer with a revival of last year’s premiere ‘Lincoln Square’ and new premiere to Caroline Shaw’s ‘Thousandth Orange’. We talk to her about her choreographic inspirations, and the thought process behind her latest work. This episode was recorded on August 6, 2019.

This episode is brought to you by Yumiko and the Town of Vail. This episode was recorded at Manor Vail Lodge.

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BONUS: Choreographer Pam Tanowitz from Vail Dance Festival Aug 04, 2019

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Today we sit down with choreographer Pam Tanowitz from the Vail Dance Festival. We spoke with Pam from a Live event at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center in episode 140 and today we get to chat with her about her new creation for Vail. This is a small excerpt of a longer conversation on her work that we will be publishing in the coming weeks. In this bonus episode, Pam gives us some insight into her new piece she is creating here at Vail Dance Festival that will premiere on Monday August 5, 2019 for NOW Premieres.

This is book Pam references Pas de Deux: A Textbook on Partnering.

This episode is brought to you by Yumiko and the Town of Vail. This episode was recorded at Manor Vail Lodge.

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BONUS: Roman Mejia of NYCB from Vail Dance Festival Aug 01, 2019

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New York City Ballet up-and-coming corps member, Roman Mejia, sits down with us from the Vail Dance Festival. We talk about his year of dance since we last saw him in Vail, working with Edward Villella, and on performing Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Fandango’ here at Vail Dance Festival on August 2nd, 2019.

This episode is brought to you by Yumiko and the Town of Vail. This episode was recorded at Manor Vail Lodge.

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BONUS: Herman Cornejo of ABT From Vail Dance Festival Jul 31, 2019

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American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer, Herman Cornejo, sits down with us from the Vail Dance Festival. We talk about his year of dance since we last saw him in Vail, his 20th anniversary with ABT, and about what he is dancing this year at the festival. You will want to listen to the end where he shares some BIG news with us!

This episode is brought to you by Yumiko and the Town of Vail.

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(147) Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Roderick Phifer, on ‘The Little Prince’ Jul 30, 2019

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Today we are bringing you a live podcast recording from the Vail Dance Festival on the Vail premiere of “The Little Prince.” We are joined by choreographer, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and BalletX dancer who dances the title role in the peice, Roderick Phifer. This episode was recorded on July 29th, 2019, one day before the ballet will hit the stage here in Vail on the evening of July 30th.

Tune into our previous chat with Annabelle in episode 90.

This episode is brought to you by Yumiko, the Town of Vail, and was recorded at the Manor Vail Lodge.

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(146) James Whiteside LIVE From Vail Dance Festival Jul 27, 2019

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Today we are brining you a live podcast recording from the Vail Dance Festival with American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer, James Whiteside. This episode was recorded on July 27th, the morning before the premier of his newest work, “New American Dream.” Unfortunately, we did come up against some technical difficulties, so we are sharing this episode from a backup file, with a little lower quality than we are used to. We appologize for the inconvenience, but we felt that this conversation with James was too enjoyable for our audience to miss. Enjoy.

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(145) Agnes De Mille’s ‘The Other’ at Lake Tahoe Dance Festival Jul 08, 2019

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This week we have the pleasure of diving into one of the works that will be presented this year at the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival, Agnes De Mille’s ‘The Other.’ We speak with dancers Stephen Hanna (formerly of NYCB) and Abi Stafford (Principal at NYCB) who will be performing this work at the festival. We are also joined by Diana Gonzalez-Duclert, who is setting the ballet on Stephen and Abi. Diana assisted Ms. De Mille in setting the ballet on American Ballet Theatre in 1992. We caught up with this trio at the end of their week long rehearsal process to prepare the work for the festival. We talk about why this work is so significant, the challenges that come along with dancing De Mille ballets, and talk through the story line. Diana tells us why it is so important that companies like New York Theatre Ballet, Ballet Arkansas, and Alabama ballet continue to present De Mille works in their repertoire.

The Lake Tahoe Dance festival is July 24-26. Tickets are on sale at laketahoedancecollective.org.

We would like to mention that we were unfortunately unable to deliver our usual sound quality for this episode. Because we could not geographically be together for this interview, all 5 of us skyped in to discuss this work. We appreciate your understanding that sometimes these things are out of our control, but it was important for us to bring this episode to you, as we find what Diana, Abi, and Stephen had to say about this work fascinating, and important. Thank you.

This episode is sponsored by Yumiko (yumiko.com) and Lake Tahoe Dance Festival (laketahoedancecollective.org).

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(144) Rebecca and Michael: Catching Up & Vail Dance Festival Preview Jul 02, 2019

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It’s just Rebecca and Michael this week on the pod. We talk about looking forward to this year’s Vail Dance Festival, our 3 year anniversary, what Michael has been up to, and we answer your questions from social media.

This episode is brought to you by Yumiko (yumiko.com.)

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(143) Christin Hanna and Constantine Baecher of the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival Jun 24, 2019

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This week we are joined by Christin Hanna and Constantine Baecher of the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival. Christin and Constantine met twenty years ago as students at American Ballet Theater. Constantine’s career as both choreographer and dancer has led him to the Hamburg Ballet School, Royal Danish Ballet and Compagnie de Carolyn Carlson amongst others as well as co-founding his own company Cross Connection Ballet and the Copenhagen International Choreography Competition in 2007. Christin has danced with Oakland Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, participated in numerous independent projects and is a founding member of New Chamber Ballet NYC where she brought Constantine as guest choreographer in 2003. Six years ago they started the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival in Christin’s hometown of Tahoe City, CA. For more information on the Lake Tahoe Dance Festival which is being held July 24-26, visit laketahoedancecollective.org.

This episode is brought to you by Yumiko (yumiko.com) and Lake Tahoe Dance Festival (laketahoedancecollective.org.)

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