West Side Story

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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