Postcard Dances: Recent Episodes
Barbie Diewald
In response to our university moving to online learning, we have created a podcast about critical dance practice and staying connected. This is a forum for us to continue conversations about choreography, movement, and making.
Tamar Cohen holds a conversation with sister Talia Cohen and Izzy Kalodner about tradition and newness through their shared parallel foundations in ballet and Judaism.
Indigo Umi brings together Lucia Rose Morey and Maya Nightsky for a conversation about healing, origins, emotional stability, and bliss as a baseline.
Choreographer Hannah Berry talks with collaborators Evelyn Kirby and Rin Elwell about adjusting to new spaces, collisions between dance and the everyday, and generative unfinishing.
Choreographer Sophie Clingan is joined by guests Casey Roepke and Jac Essing for a conversation about gentle accountability, expanding presence, and the practices that ground them.
Choreographer Morgan Lemos talks with their cast (Kylie Levy and Sam Murray) about continuity, rupture, and being alone together.
Choreographer Miranda Lawson is joined by her sister, Krista, and Mount Holyoke senior Soukeyna Abbott for a conversation about style, context, and the moments when formal boundaries soften.
Nell Mancini hosts a conversation with fellow UMass Dance Majors Victoria Winter and Kiersten Yusi about losing time, finding connection, and teachers who made an impact on their early training.
Choreographer Hannah Lieberman is joined by "smart and interesting humans" Sarah Zanger and Maia Williamson for a conversation about how ballet training, and the relationships it engendered, shaped their thinking about the broader world.
Barbie Diewald is joined by Five College Dance colleagues Dr. Alex Ripp and Jenna Riegel for a conversation about making space, leaving room, and unexpected silver linings.
Barbie Diewald is joined by western MA dancemakers Meredith Bove and Lailye Weidman for a conversation about curiosity, love, and the current moment.