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The dancer’s learning curve: Raymond Rodriguez on recognizing ageism in dance and educating next-gen dancers to be advocates for their own careers. May 27, 2019
BodyPolitic Episode 3, the muse: Ashley McQueen, “Cojones” May 20, 2019
The episode that named the puppy: BodyPolitic ep 2: Worth, pt 2. In which Christopher Roman mentions “body politics” April 23, 2019
BodyPolitic is LIVE April 15, 2019
Bias and queer phobia in Louisville may lead to something great March 30, 2019

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Criticism as Currency - Kara Tatelbaum and "Putting My Heels Down"
Welcome back to BodyPolitic! First Episode since the Before Times, Season 2, episode 1, brings you dancer, choreographer, author and delightful human Kara Tatelbaum. We discuss Kara's new book, Putting My Heels Down, criticism as currency in dance training and how it affects us throughout life, personally and professionally. We ponder the big questions like […]
On Reproductive Rights and Subverting the 1%, Pt. 1
Anonymous "Doc" from Denver, CO, is a Family Medicine practitioner who lists termination of pregnancy as one of the services he provides and has been providing for the past 25-plus years. In addition to earning his MD, he also has a degree in Public Health. He practices family medicine, teaches, and takes on interns who […]
No one puts Baby in the corner: Raymond Rodriguez
Raymond Rodriguez, former principal dancer with the Cleveland/San Jose Ballet (and also Assistant Artistic Director and Managing Director), current Head of Studio Company and Trainee Program at the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, describes what it's like to be "aged out" of a career before feeling ready. Do we ever feel ready to sit on the […]
Cojones - Ashley McQueen
Fear is a big topic to tackle, and one that comes up a LOT in discussions with performing artists and artmakers. Ashley McQueen is the poster child for Political Artivism - she creates tremendous, disruptive, socially conscious, subversive work that allows the performer to be powerful, vulnerable, beautiful, and grotesque within the same piece. How […]
Worth pt 2
The second half of a conversation with Christopher Roman. Is it OK to have fear, as a performer, when choosing to push back against the paradigm? Christopher discusses this, describes some politically-charged works by lesser-known choregraphers, and offers suggestions to mobilize as a community, to create work that challenges the "system" as well as the […]
Worth: Christopher Roman
Episode 1, a conversation with Christopher Roman, pt 1/2. Christopher Roman is an award-winning professional dancer and choreographer based in Frankfurt, Germany. He has served as Associate Artisitic Director of the Forsythe Company in Frankfurt, Artistic Director of Dance ON in Berlin, and is at the beginning stages of building a SALT Company, a "multi-faceted" resource […]

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