Dance Magazine Podcast

Broadway Heartbreak, Sizeism in Ballet, and Dormeshia Oct 15, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:

-Brian Spitulnik's essay on the potential end of his Broadway career: https://www.dancemagazine.com/broadway-reopening-2648141693.html
-New York Times story on larger performance venues hoping to reopen: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/theater/theater-reopenings-new-york.html
-Sydnie L. Mosley's conversation with Dr. Erlanger A. Turner about how Black dancers can protect their mental health: https://www.dancemagazine.com/racism-and-mental-health-2648108358.html
-Melanin & Mental Health site: https://www.melaninandmentalhealth.com/
-Therapy for Black Girls site: https://therapyforblackgirls.com/
-Kathryn Morgan's video on why she left Miami City Ballet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjdYTvsPpG4
-Garnet Henderson's piece about ballet's obsession with thinness: https://www.dancemagazine.com/ballet-body-2646451850.html
-New York City Center's Fall For Dance page: https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/FallforDance/
-Dormeshia's Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/dormeshia/

Progress at the Ballet, Savage X Fenty, and Ingrid Silva Oct 08, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:

-Dance/USA's #Dance2Vote toolkit: https://www.danceusa.org/election-2020-toolkit-dance2vote
-The basics of the Paris Opéra investigation (the most comprehensive story in English, but note that its language is problematically euphemistic): https://www.france24.com/en/20201005-paris-opera-ponders-blackface-as-it-tackles-ballet-s-race-problem
-Ballet West's inclusive policy changes: https://balletwest.org/news/ballet-west-announces-substantive-policy-changes-to-allow-for-greater-equity-for-dancers-of-color
-Abi Stafford's Dance Magazine essay about mental health: https://www.dancemagazine.com/abi-stafford-anxiety-2647826840.html
-Some good context on the Savage X Fenty hadith controversy: https://time.com/5896500/rihanna-islamic-hadith-fenty-show/
-EmpowHer New York website: https://www.empowherny.org/
-Petition for mandatory unconscious bias training in hospitals: https://www.change.org/p/united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services-mandatory-unconscious-bias-trainings-for-hospitals
-Ingrid Silva's Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/ingridsilva/

America’s Cultural Treasures, Return of Reviews, and Heidi Duckler Oct 01, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:

-New York Times story on the Alexandra Waterbury case: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/arts/dance/new-york-city-ballet-lawsuit.html
-BTS' performance of "IDOL" on "The Tonight Show": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXFkjMNXfpY
-Dance Data Project's index of ballet programming: https://www.dancedataproject.com/resources/2020-2021-season-updates
-The Washington Post article that broke the America's Cultural Treasures story: http://bway.ly/q331fg#https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/ford-foundation-160-million-grant-to-minority-arts-groups/2020/09/23/68093dfe-fd9f-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html
-New York Times' comprehensive summary of ACT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/arts/ford-foundation-grants-people-of-color.html
-Siobhan Burke's review of Eiko Otake's "A Body in a Cemetery": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/arts/dance/review-eiko-otake-a-body-in-a-cemetery.html
-Humans of New York Instagram page, with Tanqueray's series: https://www.instagram.com/humansofny/
-The "Tanqueray Trust" GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-tanqueray-trust
-More about Black burlesque from historian and performer Bebe Bardot: https://bebeblogger.tumblr.com/
-Heidi Duckler Dance website: https://heididuckler.org/
-Information about HDD's "The Quest": https://heididuckler.org/event/35th-anniversary-celebration-the-quest/

RBG at the Theater, Save Our Stages, and Melissa Blanco Borelli Sep 24, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:

-Courtney Escoyne's Eddie Award-winning essay: https://www.dancemagazine.com/lara-spencer-ballet-2639983423.html
-The Washington Post's tribute to RBG's love of the performing arts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/ruth-bader-ginsburg-love-of-washington-thyeater/2020/09/19/161cf53e-fa85-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html
-TRG Arts' live-performance comeback study: https://trgarts.com/blog/arts-culture-planning-2020-comeback-sep.html
-Save Our Stages Act information and template letter: https://www.saveourstages.com/
-Dance Magazine's story on mixed-repertory groups relying on ballet for company class: https://www.dancemagazine.com/dance-company-class-2647571920.html
-Dance Studies Association website: https://dancestudiesassociation.org
-DSA's call-to-anti-racist-action template letter: https://dancestudiesassociation.org/news/2020/departmental-call-to-anti-racist-action
-DSA's anti-racist dance pedagogy resource: https://dancestudiesassociation.org/news/2020/anti-racist-dance-pedagogy-a-growing-resource
-DSA's compilation of Black dance scholarship by Black dance scholars: https://dancestudiesassociation.org/news/2020/black-dance-scholarship-by-black-dance-scholars-list-of-citations
-Digital DSA conference information: https://dancestudiesassociation.org/conferences/digital-dsa

“Cuties” Controversy, Ballet's Queer Women, and Aesha Ash Sep 17, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:

-The New York Times' "How to Birth a New American Theater": https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/theater/how-to-change-theater.html
-Pointe's article on queer women in ballet: https://www.pointemagazine.com/queer-women-in-ballet-2647537873.html
-"Cuties" director Maïmouna Doucouré's op-ed for The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/cuties-director-maimouna-doucoure-why-i-made-the-film/2020/09/15/7e0ee406-f78b-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html
-"Cuties" on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81111198
-Aesha Ash's Swan Dreams Project website: https://www.theswandreamsproject.org/
-Swan Dreams Project on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theswandreamsproject/
-The School of American Ballet website: https://sab.org/

Camille A. Brown’s School, the “Bayadère” Debate, and Nel Shelby Sep 10, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:

-Dancers of New York City Ballet relief fund: https://www.dancersofnycb.com/
-Houston Ballet's Breaking Boundaries series: https://www.houstonballet.org/explore/breaking-boundaries/
-New York Times profile of Camille A. Brown's virtual school: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/arts/dance/camille-a-brown-pandemic-every-body-move.html
-Camille A. Brown's Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/camilleabrown/
-Los Angeles Times story on the city's dance studio crisis: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-09-02/la-dance-studio-classes-covid-closures
-Pointe's piece on "La Bayadère" stereotypes: https://www.pointemagazine.com/la-bayadere-orientalist-stereotypes-2646384245.html
-Nel Shelby's website: https://www.nelshelby.com/
-Table of Silence Project 9/11 information: https://www.tableofsilence.org/

Evolving Audiences, VMAs Choreography, and Amanda Morgan Sep 03, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:

-SDC/AGMA playbook for the return to stage and performing arts work: https://sdcweb.org/return-to-stage-and-performing-arts-playbook/
-Kyle Abraham's essay on the importance of representation in the arts: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/policing/2020/08/30/kyle-abraham-produces-works-give-voice-underserved-communities/3334880001/
-TRG Arts report on COVID arts audiences: https://trgartsresiliency.com/blog/insights-report-aug-2020.html
-Every 2020 MTV VMAs performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZPhBKIKHY&t=527s
-Dance Magazine profile of Hayden Moon: https://www.dancemagazine.com/trans-irish-dancer-2647075972.html
-Intersectional Irish Dancers Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/intersectionalirishdancers/
-Amanda Morgan's Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/baila_rina/
-Pacific Northwest Ballet's site: https://www.pnb.org/

Tony Eligibility, Mariinsky Outbreak, and Kahina Haynes Aug 27, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:
-Dance Studies Association's call-to-anti-racist-action: https://dancestudiesassociation.org/news/2020/departmental-call-to-anti-racist-action
-Jennifer Garner's duet with Tiler Peck: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEKTlfNDiF_/
-A look at the uncertainties around this year's Tony Awards: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/nine-burning-questions-about-the-2020-tony-awards-082520
-Inside the Mariinsky Ballet's COVID muddle: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/arts/dance/mariinsky-ballet-coronavirus-outbreak.html
-High Country News' interview with Dancing Earth founder Rulan Tangen: https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-interview-finding-indigenous-futurism-through-dance
-Dancing Earth's events and online offerings: https://dancingearth.org/events?view=calendar&month=09-2020
-The Dance Institute of Washington's site: https://www.danceinstituteofwashington.org/
-Op-ed by DIW's William Keiser, "Widening the Frame": https://www.danceinstituteofwashington.org/op-ed-widening-the-frame
-DIW's short film, "Feeling Good": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPD9CAJ-Zs&t=9s

Pandemic "DWTS," All-Digital Ballet Seasons, and Silas Farley Aug 20, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:
-Miami City Ballet's alternative-season plans: https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/entertainment/20200818/miami-city-ballet-revamps-season-as-pandemic-persists
-How Pacific Northwest Ballet is pulling off an all-digital season: https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/dance/how-pacific-northwest-ballet-plans-to-pull-off-an-all-digital-season/
-Pointe's article on how ballet can survive COVID: https://www.pointemagazine.com/ballet-companies-covid-19-2646951540.html
-The New York Times' profile of Aesha Ash: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/arts/dance/aesha-ash-american-ballet-faculty.html
-Karyn Collins' "Does Classicism Have a Color?" from 2007: https://www.dancemagazine.com/does-classicism-have-a-color-2306861395.html
-Gia Kourlas' "Where Are All the Black Swans?" from 2007: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/arts/dance/06kour.html
-Silas Farley's "Songs from the Spirit": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wCrixxEEyQ
-Information about Silas' Works & Process virtual commission: https://www.guggenheim.org/event/works-process-silas-farley

"WAP" Choreography, Pointe Shoe History, and Theresa Ruth Howard Aug 13, 2020

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Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:
-"WAP" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc5IbN4xw70
-Cardi B's behind-the-scenes clip of Normani: https://twitter.com/iamcardib/status/1292193933976432640
-Teen Vogue piece on the double standards inherent in the reaction to "WAP": https://www.teenvogue.com/story/wap-outrage-female-sexuality
-WIRED's "TikTok and the Evolution of Digital Blackface": https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-evolution-digital-blackface/
-Pointe magazine's pointe shoe history: https://www.pointemagazine.com/history-of-pointe-shoes-2646384074.html
-Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet website: https://mobballet.org/
-MoBBallet Digital Symposium info: https://mobballet.org/index.php/mobballet-digital-symposium/
-New York Times profile of Theresa Ruth Howard: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/arts/dance/theresa-ruth-howard.html

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