Sima responds to a listener email and bids farewell to season two.
Aug 23, 2022
11 min
Sima gets together with her college pal Vika Teicher to talk about both West Side Story films. Spoiler alert: it turns out Vika is the love child of Tony and Maria.
Aug 16, 2022
39 min
Sima and Scott Duane share some real talk about gender, embodiment, and dance class.
Aug 2, 2022
37 min
Emily Hansel just premiered her first evening-length work, Four by Four. She and her collaborators, Alex Carrington, Mia J. Chong, Shareen DeRyan, and Chelsea Reichert talk with Sima about their experiences designing an equitable contract.
Jul 19, 2022
42 min
Award-winning dancer/choreographer and Artistic Director of Paufve Dance, Randee Paufve, talks about teaching dance and shares some pedagogical wisdom.
Jul 5, 2022
40 min
Sima waxes poetic and cranky about dance’s visual/kinesthetic divide and speaks in defense of emotional manipulation in art.
Jun 28, 2022
17 min
In this episode, choreographer, poet, and former Alonzo King LINES Ballet dancer Maurya Kerr speaks antiracist truth to ballet power.
Jun 22, 2022
28 min
This special live podcast recording features Sima in conversation with writer/choreographer Bhumi Patel to talk about the state and fate of the dance review.
Jun 7, 2022
46 min
Phil Chan, author of Final Bow for Yellowface, talks about his mission to eradicate Orientalist caricatures from the ballet stage.
May 24, 2022
35 min
Choreographer and Cal State East Bay Professor Nina Otis Haft joins Sima to discuss what “moving Jewish” means to them.
May 10, 2022
40 min
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