Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast

Anna Langford
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Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts! This is a dance podcast, where we'll primarily be talking about dance and dance-related media: stories, advice, grievances, all the stuff from the perspective of a dedicated non-professional dancer! Follow on Instagram! @freestylethoughts_podofficial

  1. 05/11/2024

    Episode 19 - A lengthy conversation about returning to dance ft. Cindy Ye

    Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today I'm joined by a friend and fellow dancer, Cindy Ye. Cindy is a graduate student and extremely talented dancer. Our paths crossed when we were in the same university club, and we had a very fun conversation about our experiences returning to a dance studio/club as well as our thoughts on covers vs. reinterpretations of dances. Please mind my use of the non-word "reinterpretated", clearly I just wasn't really thinking before I spoke, haha!

    1h 21m

  2. 05/04/2024

    Episode 18 - Bad dance teacher stories... (they're funny, promise!)

    Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! We've all had good and bad teachers/coaches--let that be in school or our chosen extra-curricular. Today I'm talking about two of the most memorable "bad" dance teachers (one technically wasn't bad, she was just a little quirky) and some of the memories I have of them.

    1h 3m

  3. 04/27/2024

    Episode 17 - BIG dance update from me

    Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance podcast! Today we change up the formula a little bit and we're talking specifically about the big new that has impacted my dance life in 2024. This episode had been in the works since January and the real life events that inspired these episodes kept on getting "sequel" moments until the episode evolved into what it became.

    38 min

  4. 04/20/2024

    Episode 16 - Talking about our shared dance history ft. Angelina Tram

    Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today I'm joined by old friend and fellow dancer, Angelina Tram. Angelina is also a dancer who has their roots in Chinese dance, and she was able to find time to sit down and chat with me about our mutual love for Chinese dance, some of our moments together doing martial arts, as well as our proposed business plan for 2035.

    1h 15m

  5. 04/13/2024

    Episode 15 - I made a Chinese Dance Club

    Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today, we're talking about Chinese dance again, specifically about my journey to bring Chinese dance (the art form) to my university campus, the ups and the downs. I'm trying something new by incorporating some of the dance music as segue music but also as a more quantifiable way to talk about dance, a visual medium, using an auditory medium. Message our Instagram (@freestylethoughts_podofficial) if you hate it, love it. The dances references are all here: Zui Chun Feng (audio mishap, awkward speech excluded), Zui Chun Feng (campus LNY event, awkward speech INCLUDED), Tian Yu (Cypher, good speech)

    1h 19m

  6. 04/06/2024

    Episode 14 - Treasure (The CASHCASH Remix) & Directing ft. Justin Lee

    Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today, we continue our conversation with Justin from last week. Last week, we talked about various thoughts on dance ranging from the payoff of a performance versus the hard work of practice to our shared experience through our university dance club. This week we conclude our conversation by talking more about directing, and specifically a dance that Justin directed a couple of years ago.

    59 min

  7. 04/03/2024

    Episode 13 - Various Dance Thoughts ft. Justin Lee

    Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today, I'm joined by a good friend and fellow dancer, Justin Lee. Justin Lee is hard working, recreational dancer who graciously gave up some of his time to have a discussion with me. We chatted about our various thoughts on the payoff of performance versus their practices, on auditions, and more.

    49 min

  8. 03/23/2024

    Episode 12 - Dance & Criticism

    Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Inspired by overhearing a conversation a while back, I wanted to take the time to talk about criticism in dance: what is and isn't good critical feedback, when it is productive to critique, and how we should approach it. It can be a difficult conversation and meta-conversation to have so I thought that it would be good to share my opinions on criticism in the dance space and some of my experience with it, the good and the bad.

    1h 12m
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Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts! This is a dance podcast, where we'll primarily be talking about dance and dance-related media: stories, advice, grievances, all the stuff from the perspective of a dedicated non-professional dancer! Follow on Instagram! @freestylethoughts_podofficial

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