Artist Stories: Recent Episodes
Artist Stories
Hear how dance professionals built their careers, what helped sparked their passion for dance, and how their lives and careers have been shaped by their chosen art forms.
Emily Running interviews Eric Nordstrom, dance educator and Dance Wire Ambassador. They talk about:
✨Dance as a way to understand and process experiences and emotions, to be a little bit more human
✨ Throughout history, masculinity shifts and morphs to support the patriarchy - Louis XIV dancing
✨ Contact improvisation being a practice in presence and being present, reception and receiving information
✨ Stages of identity - transitions throughout a dance career, student, to performer, to teacher
✨ Funding and space are a yes, and. Dance needs both to thrive, Eric believes they would thrive exponentially with greater governmental support
Jessie Nowak interviews Imani Underwood, artist, performer and Dance Wire Ambassador. They talk about:
✨ How being able to identify as an artist - beyond the individual titles of dancer, actor, or model - helped her move forward
✨ Owning one's own journey as unique is one of the most powerful things we can do
✨ The mountains and valleys of an artist's journey
✨ Focus on creating genuine connections within the community
✨ The Portland dance scene being very welcoming, integrated, and nurturing
A conversation between Sarita Persaud and Thorey Mountain about her life and career as a dance artist.
Emily Running interviewing Rebekah Wolfson-Kilayko about her life and career (so far, she's only 14!) in dance.