STUDIO STORIES: REMINISCING ON TWIN CITIES DANCE HISTORY
Episodes
206 episodes
Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with Marciano Silva dos Santos of Contempo Physical Dance- Season 21, Episode 206
Marciano Silva dos Santos is a Brazilian native recognized by the American Folkloric Society as a folk artist of unique and exceptional ability. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Contempo Physical Dance, where his extensive research ha...
Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with Rachel Lieberman - Season 21, Episode 205
Growing up, Rachel trained, performed, and taught primarily with Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago. She moved to the Twin Cities to attend Macalester College, graduating in 2018 with a BA in Geography, and has since performed in works by Contempo Phy...
Studio Stories: CANDY BOX Dance Festival special with Dance Rec Pick Up League - Season 21, Episode 204
Dance Rec Pickup League is a group of friends who recreate together. Leslie O’Neill, Sarah Baumert, Erika Hansen, Gabriel Anderson, Jamie Ryan-Karels and Eva Mohn design proposals, scores, games and questions as a way to make dances.
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Ronna Rochell - Season 21, Episode 203
A native of the North Chicago suburbs, Ronna Rochell started dancing at age 5. At that young age, she started with creative movement classes, and by the time she was in junior high, she had evolved into a serious modern dance student. She was f...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing Twin Cities Dance History with Kaitlyn Gilliland- Season 21, Episode 202
Kaitlyn trained with Loyce and Lise Houlton at Minnesota Dance Theatre and at the School of American Ballet (SAB) in New York City, where she earned the Mae L. Wien Award for Outstanding Promise in 2004. She danced with the New York City Ballet...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Joey Weaver, aka Joe Tennis - Season 21, Episode 201
A multifaceted dance artist and a practitioner of experiential mechanics, Joe Tennis is an improviser and moment maker based in New York City. Engined by discovery and play, he is viscerally drawn to movement through experiencing it. He is in p...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Betsy Schaefer Roob - Season 21, Episode 200
Betsy Schaefer Roob was born and raised in Elm Grove, WI. Now based in Minneapolis for over fifteen years, she has worked with Rhythmically Speaking, ARENA DANCES, Threads Dance Project, 43X94 Movement Research, Dance & Other Behaviors, fau...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Susan Chilcote-Wade - Season 20, Episode 199
Susan Chilcote-Wade Originally from Michigan, I received a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of Michigan, School of Music, Theater and Dance. In 1982 fresh from college, I was one of 7 original members of the New Dance En...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Madeline (Dean) Black - Season 20, Episode 198
Madeline’s life pursuit is the discovery of how the human body moves. Over 30 years in the field of movement, her curiosity explored all aspects of movement in dance, Pilates, yoga, Gyrotonic®, fitness training and from studies of human biomech...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Catherine Jhung- Season 20, Episode 197
Catherine Jhung is a dancer, actor, teacher and school administrator. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and Denver, CO., she graduated with a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and holds a Master’s degree in early childhood education fr...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Olalade Gbadamosi - Season 20, Episode 196
Ololade Gbadamosi, also known as O, is a Twin Cities native who is a dancing artist, an educator and administrator. Ololade specializes in the dance styles Krump, Hip Hop and Afro Social dances.Krump is a street dance that stands for Kin...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Vanessa Voskuil - Season 20, Episode 195
Vanessa Voskuil is a choreographer, director, performer, writer, designer, and teaching artist. Ranging from large community-inclusive performance works to ensemble and solo works for site-specific locations and theater settings, her work has b...
Studio Stories: NEW BREED series with Cecil Neal - Season 19, Episode 194
Cecil Neal, also known as Virgo and The Final Warning, is an artist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and based in Minneapolis. His training began in his high school dance program and at SPCPA (St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists), and was re...
Studio Stories: NEW BREED series with Kayla Schiltgen - Season 19, Episode 193
Kayla Schiltgen is an interdisciplinary artist based in rural Two Harbors, Minnesota, blending dance and film to cope with and communicate her existence. Guided by her belief that subjectivity and vulnerability serve as an echo palette for othe...
Studio Stories: NEW BREED series with Emily Michaels King - Season 19, Episode 192
Emily Michaels King is a performing artist based in St. Paul, Minnesota exploring authentic expression and human depth through movement, multimedia, and visual compositions for the stage. Emily is known for her fearless personal wor...
Studio Stories: NEW BREED series with Malia Craft - Season 19, Episode 191
Malia Craft is from Hartwell, Georgia and began her training at Hot Shots Dance Company, where she trained in ballet, modern, contemporary, hip hop, and jazz and found her love for performing, as well as teaching. Malia attended the Univ...
Studio Stories: NEW BREED series with Dominick Burkhardt - Season 19, Episode 190
Twin Cities–based dancer and choreographer Dominick Burkhardt discovered his passion for the arts early in life, growing up in his mother’s dance studio. Immersed in a creative environment from a young age, he trained extensively in all styles ...
Studio Stories: NEW BREED series with Rachel Lieberman - Season 19, Episode 189
Growing up, Rachel trained, performed, and taught primarily with Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago. She moved to the Twin Cities to attend Macalester College, graduating in 2018 with a BA in Geography. She has since performed in works by Contempo Phy...
Studio Stories: NEW BREED series with Alex Arce - Season 19, Episode 188
Alex Arce is an Ecuadorian American artist born and raised in Minnesota has been dancing since the age of 5 culturally and socially as well as technically. He focuses his practice within hip hop and Latin diasporic dance forms as w...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Doug Hooker - Season 18, Episode 187
Doug Hooker graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Dance. He has had a variety of professional performing opportunities, including with the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps, the Broadway show Blast! and the...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Frances Machala Cerro - Season 18, Episode 186
Frances Machala Cerro Grew up in Cumberland, Wisconsin, graduated from St. Catherine’s College in 1965. She met Loyce Houlton there in 1963 when Mrs.Houlton began teaching at St. Catherine’s.Loyce Houton had started the Co...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Kaleena Miller - Season 18, Episode 185
Kaleena Miller makes sound-focused dance and installation work, rooted in tap dance technique and deep listening modalities. Named one of DANCE Magazine’s 25 to Watch, she has received a McKnight Fellowship for Dance and a Sage People’s ...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Aneka McMullen - Season 18, Episode 184
Dancer and Choreographer Aneka McMullen is an independent performing and teaching artist who lives to dance through life, inspire & connect with all people through her passion for movement of all types. She hails from Minneapol...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Jennifer Hart - Season 18, Episode 183
Jennifer Hart - Hailed as a choreographer “with an imagination so exuberant that one could not be sure how one movement led to the next” and “not only inventive but heart-rending,” Jennifer Hart has been commissioned by Ballet Austin, Ba...
Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Sam Aros-Mitchell- Season 18, Episode 182
Sam Aros-Mitchell (he/him) is an enrolled member of the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians and an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator. His work spans performance, sound, light and scenic design, choreography, and embodied writing. Rooted i...