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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

Podcast episodes

Check latest episodes from Dance Cast podcast

Sima Muses (bonus)

2022/06/28

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

Antiracism and ballet with Maurya Kerr

2022/06/22

In this episode, choreographer, poet, and former Alonzo King LINES Ballet dancer Maurya Kerr speaks antiracist truth to ballet power.

To Review or Not to Review? With Bhumi Patel

2022/06/07

This special live podcast recording features Sima in conversation with writer/choreographer Bhumi Patel to talk about the state and fate of the dance review.

Dropping the Curtain on Yellowface with Phil Chan

2022/05/24

Phil Chan, author of Final Bow for Yellowface, talks about his mission to eradicate Orientalist caricatures from the ballet stage.

Is there such a thing as a Jewish gesture?

2022/05/10

Choreographer and Cal State East Bay Professor Nina Otis Haft joins Sima to discuss what “moving Jewish” means to them.

Author Spotlight: Monique Jenkinson

2022/04/26

In this bonus companion episode, Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, reads from her 2022 memoir, Faux Queen: My Life in Drag.

Drag, Dance, Drag Dance

2022/04/12

It’s not every day that the author of a book and a subject of that book, who also wrote a book, appear on a podcast together. Well, today is that day. Drag artist Monique Jenkinson, aka Fauxnique, author of Faux Queen: A Life in Drag, and Selby Wynn Schwartz, author of The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and their Afterlives, join Sima to deeply discuss drag dances in all their delightful daring.

The Language of Movement, the Movement of Language

2022/03/29

Paige Morgan Johnson, Assistant Professor of Performance & Race, talks with Sima about how contemporary Waria (an Indonesian term for transgender women) nuance the relationships between language, performance genres, and the legibility of gender.

How to Take a Moving Picture

2022/03/15

Sima has a heady discussion about dance photography and philosophies of capture with photographer Stephen Texeira.

Is The Big Leap the smartest dance show on television?

2022/03/09

Margaret Rennerfeldt, Professor of Dance at Austin Peay State University, joins Sima to discuss the Fox show The Big Leap.

And just like that...We're back!

2022/03/01

To launch season two of Dance Cast, Sima invites listeners to share their dance stories and tells one of her own. A transcript of this episode is available at odc.dance/stories.

Dance Cast Wraps Season One & Looks Ahead to Season Two

2021/12/21

Host Sima Belmar reflects on the future of Dance Cast, plans for 2022, and tells a story about her dance life.