30 episodes

Dance Cast is a podcast produced by ODC San Francisco, and is dedicated to critical conversations around all genres of dance. It's for dance insiders, dance lovers, and the dance curious. ODC Writer in Residence, Sima Belmar, talks with choreographers, dancers, educators, designers, presenters, bodyworkers, journalists and scholars about dance theories and practices of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Transcripts of Dance Cast are available at odc.dance/stories

Dance Cast ODC San Francisco

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Dance Cast is a podcast produced by ODC San Francisco, and is dedicated to critical conversations around all genres of dance. It's for dance insiders, dance lovers, and the dance curious. ODC Writer in Residence, Sima Belmar, talks with choreographers, dancers, educators, designers, presenters, bodyworkers, journalists and scholars about dance theories and practices of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Transcripts of Dance Cast are available at odc.dance/stories

    Season 2 Wraps Up

    Season 2 Wraps Up

    Sima responds to a listener email and bids farewell to season two.

    • 11 min
    West Side Story

    West Side Story

    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.

    • 39 min
    Terrified Trans Beginner Scott Duane

    Terrified Trans Beginner Scott Duane

    Sima and Scott Duane share some real talk about gender, embodiment, and dance class.

    • 37 min
    Contract Dancing with Emily Hansel, Alex Carrington, Mia J. Chong, Shareen DeRyan, and Chelsea Reichert

    Contract Dancing with Emily Hansel, Alex Carrington, Mia J. Chong, Shareen DeRyan, and Chelsea Reichert

    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.

    • 42 min
    Teaching Dance with Randee Paufve

    Teaching Dance with Randee Paufve

    Award-winning dancer/choreographer and Artistic Director of Paufve Dance, Randee Paufve, talks about teaching dance and shares some  pedagogical wisdom.

    • 40 min
    Sima Muses (bonus)

    Sima Muses (bonus)

    Sima waxes poetic and cranky about dance’s visual/kinesthetic divide and speaks in defense of emotional manipulation in art.

    • 17 min

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