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STUDIO STORIES: REMINISCING ON TWIN CITIES DANCE HISTORY
Studio Stories: NEW BREED series with Ruby Josephine Smith - Season 15, Episode 166
Ruby Josephine Smith is a contemporary dance artist, choreographer, and founder of new company Ruby Josephine Dance Theater (RJDT). She is passionate about movement as a form of emotional expression, story-telling, and language. This passion was molded from having two artist parents, getting involved in both theater and contemporary dance in her early years, and by her unconventional dance training, traveling around the world from the age of 20 to learn from a variety of artists at intensives and residencies. In 2014 she landed in Tangier, Morocco which became her home for the next 7 years, working with contemporary dance as an e...
2024-11-06
36 min
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Romance, LGBTQ+
[German] - Zusammen Unterwegs - Die Roadtrip-Vereinbarung (Ungekürzte Lesung) by Tiana Warner
Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818003to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zusammen Unterwegs - Die Roadtrip-Vereinbarung (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Tiana Warner Narrator: Josephine Hochbruck, Henriette Schreurs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: October 17, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Als digitale Nomadin träumt Carol Lavoie davon, ihr Leben ausschließlich durch Einnahmen aus ihren abenteuerlustigen, chaotischen Videos zu finanzieren, doch dafür muss sie dringend mehr Zuschauer auf ihren Kanal ziehen. In ihrer Verzweiflung wendet sie sich an die erfolgreiche Vloggerin Ruby Hayashi - und erhält wider Erwarten eine Zusage für einen gemeinsamen Roadtrip. Ruby...
2024-10-18
8h 15
Radio RFSL
25 jan 2023 - Teater: "Katakombe - jag vill ju bara leva"; Filmrecension: "Babylon"
I denna sändning hör vi Stefan Clarin, som spelar Walter Richter i föreställningen Katakombe - jag vill ju bara leva, som hade premiär på Bastionen 25/1. Claes har sett filmen Babylon och Ellen har börjat se serien "The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House". Vi berättar också lite om International Female Film Festival Malmö (IFEMA), som äger rum 1-4 februari i år. Musik i programmet: I'm Feelin’ Like a Million - Joséphine Baker Ocean - Kristina Issa Astir My girls pussy – Li Lun Li Minarai – Yoko Kanno A Thousand Cuts - Ruby Ibarra Gloria - Sam Smith ...
2023-01-26
47 min
Lionesse
Movement Pleasure with Ruby Josephine Smith
We’re back with another episode in our Summer of Pleasure series! This week I got to sit down with Ruby Josephine Smith, who is a contemporary dance artist, choreographer and the creator and host of the Process Piece Podcast.We had a great conversation all about - The pleasure of movement- How to more fully inhabit your body- Small rituals you can use to ground yourself and stay present- Creating a joyful relationship with food- Some simple ways you can re...
2021-07-30
35 min
Process Piece
Episode 36: Taylor Drury - Grounding, Wobbling, and Other Dance Practices
Taylor Drury is a Canadian born dancer, choreographer, and sometimes line-drawing artist with WobbleWorks. She is currently a full time company member with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. In this conversation we talk all about her path to becoming a dancer, which was full of the unexpected, as well as the period of doubting and questioning that often comes after graduation. We speak about conscious versus unconscious influences, the practice of improvisation and how it can be built into a full piece, and the life of being in a company as a dancer as opposed to working freelance. She...
2021-04-30
1h 01
Process Piece
Episode 35: Sakina Saïdi - Illustrating Identities and Growing into Your Own Voice
Sakina Saïdi is a French-Moroccan artist and illustrator based in London. Born and raised in France by Moroccan parents, Sakina grew up learning about different cultures and traditions. Her experiences nurtured her style and desire to represent this beautiful mix of cultures that now characterizes her personality and art. In this conversation, we talk about how she was raised to pursue “practical” careers, but how she eventually discovered her own purpose within the arts. We also talk about artistic validation, her thoughts on art and activism, as well as exploring identity as an artist, especially coming from a multi...
2021-04-16
58 min
Process Piece
(BONUS) Episode 34: Samantha Hope Galler and John Harnage - On Creating ViVa, a Celebration of Dance & Creativity During a Pandemic
Created in response to the pandemic, ViVa marks the first collaboration between two giants in the dance world, the Miami City Ballet and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Choreographed by Amy Hall Garner, ViVa was choreographed remotely and filmed in two different cities, premiering and streaming on the companies’ social media channels. In this special, shorter-form conversation, Ruby speaks with the two dancers in ViVa, Samantha Hope Galler and John Harnage, all about the process of creating this unique duet and what it meant to them to be able to dance and make art again after 6 months in quarantine.
2021-03-31
40 min
Process Piece
Episode 33: Michael Novak - Curating Experience & Supporting Culture as Artistic Director of the Paul Taylor Dance Company
Michael Novak is a dancer born and raised in Illinois. In 2018, he became the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s second Artistic Director after having danced for the company for 9 years. Previously, he also danced with Gibney Dance and the Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, studied at Springboard Danse Montreal, and has performed works by Bill T. Jones, Vaslav Nijinski and Stephen Petronio. In this conversation, Michael talks about his creative background, how dance and drama became languages for him, and his path to where he is today as artistic director of a renowned company. He also speaks about his own cr...
2021-03-19
1h 00
Process Piece
Episode 32: Dylan Frederick - Fleeting, Glistening Moments of Theater
Dylan Frederick is an actor, writer and director who was born and raised in the Twin Cities. He has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA from The University of Evansville. Dylan recently made his Broadway debut in Matthew Lopez’s 7-hour play The Inheritance. He also makes music and summer camps. In this conversation between two old friends, we speak about how performance has always been parts of his life, despite being a shy kid, and the relentless process of auditions. We get into his Broadway debut in The Inheritance and being a part of...
2021-03-05
1h 05
Process Piece
Episode 31: Cozbi A. Cabrera - Living Enriches the Art, and the Entry Point is the Heart
Cozbi A. Cabrera is a multimedia artist who lives in Evanston, Illinois. She paints, writes and illustrates children’s books, makes handmade collectible dolls, quilts, and designs clothing. In this conversation that weaves through the threads of all of her mediums, Cozbi and I speak about the senses and details of memory, how she took a non-linear path to becoming the artist she is today, and the importance of representation in the art world, not just for the people being represented, but for the consumers of the art to have their perspectives broadened. We each share big questions that ar...
2021-02-19
1h 02
Process Piece
Episode 30: Tamisha Guy & Donovan Reed - Dancing with A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham and Advocacy in Art
Tamisha Guy and Donovan Reed are both dancers within the renowned company A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham. In this in-depth conversation on process, I ask them about their paths to becoming the dancers they are today and how they joined A.I.M., as well as what real collaboration looks like within the creation process of the company. Tamisha and Donovan also share their insights and thoughtful reflections on issues in the dance and art world, such as defining safety, being an advocate for yourself and others, and an artist’s role as a change-maker in the community....
2021-02-05
1h 02
Process Piece
Episode 29: Olaiya Land - Navigating Social Media (and Life) with Creativity and Conviction
Olaiya Land is based in Seattle and is the founder and editor of Lionesse, an online journal and community promoting connection, confidence, sisterhood & self-love. She also leads creative retreats and is a photographer. In this energizing conversation, we get deep into how to use social media as a creative person to create community. We also speak about about vulnerability, overcoming fears as a creative, and the relationship between food and art. Full Show Notes Lionesse Olaiya's instagram Process Piece instagram Support Process Piece
2021-01-22
1h 05
Process Piece
Episode 28: Ella Frances Sanders - Big Questions and a Few Birds
Ella Frances Sanders is based in Ireland and is an internationally-bestselling author and illustrator of three books: Lost in Translation, The Illustrated Book of Sayings, and Eating the Sun. In this conversation we speak about topics such as why and how she feels that asking questions is her love language, the constant connections she finds between words and images and how that relates to her book-making process, distilling down huge, universal ideas and scientific matter, perfectionism versus the inevitable chaos of the world, and quite simply, miracles. Full Show Notes Ella's website Ella's instagram ...
2021-01-08
1h 03
Process Piece
Episode 27: Farida Hughes - Blending Colors and Communities
Farida Hughes is an abstract artist working in mixed media, oil, and resin paint on panel. She developed her mixed media style after many years of painting with oil paint and experimenting with oil painting mediums. She maintains her studio in Baltimore, Maryland. In this conversation we get deep into her process- both technically and thematically. We discuss what drew her to abstract art and how she has developed her ever growing body of work, her multicultural background as a leading force in defining her artistic voice, and being comfortable with having a different perspective of the world.
2020-10-23
52 min
Process Piece
Episode 26: Antonia Dolhaine - Shadows, Breathwork, and the Art in Healing from Trauma
Graduate of the National Circus School in Montreal, Antonia Dolhaine spent the last 4 years touring the world teaching and performing with the likes of Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, and Celebrity Cruises among others. Recently she ran away from the circus to run back to herself. Now a trauma-informed Breathwork facilitator and somatic practitioner in-training, her purpose is to help others to reconnect with themselves through the creation process, embodiment practices, shadow-work, and rituals allowing them to reframe their relationship to life. In this conversation, we talk about her history working in the circus arts and finding her identity a...
2020-10-09
1h 08
TV Podcast Industries
Lovecraft Country Episode 7 Podcast "I Am."
It's a strange wonderful trip through time and space on Lovecraft Country Episode 7 "I Am." Hypolytta learns what kind of person she is. We chat all about this trippy episode on the Dreadful Podcast from TV Podcast Industries. Lovecraft Country Episode 7 "I Am." Summary After going to Ardham County, Hippolyta’s journey of discovery continues through time and space after unlocking the secrets of Hiram’s Orary. Elsewhere, Atticus and his father’s relationship hits a new low as he encounters Montrose and Sammy at his dad’s flat while looking for information about his mother’s side of the family. As...
2020-09-28
1h 16
Process Piece
Episode 25: Aida Azlin - On Finding Beauty in the Everyday and Creativity During Ramadan
Aida Azlin is a writer, creative, proud believer, and dear friend of mine from Singapore. In this conversation, we cover quite a lot of ground. We talk about how Aida started writing, how it has changed over time, and her very specific routine that kickstarts her writing mode. We discuss how human connection is the most important thing in art and in life, made especially clear during the pandemic we are in currently, the idea of “humanity before religiosity,” and how practicing Islam relates to practicing art. Because we held this conversation during Ramadan and it is coming out durin...
2020-05-22
56 min
Process Piece
Episode 24: Kennedy Muntanga - Dancing at the Intersection of Stories, Culture, Passion and Faith
Kennedy Muntanga is a movement artist born in Ndola, Zambia where he resided until he was 7. Moving to Leeds (UK), Kennedy’s passion for movement came from his wholesome relationship between dance and culture. We discuss the intersection between his cultural heritage and dance, how narratives bring empathy to art, why he feels like he is still at the very beginning of creating his voice in dance, what it means to be a dancer, especially during this time of global crisis when no one can perform or teach in person, and how his christian faith deeply influences and drives hi...
2020-05-08
58 min
Process Piece
Episode 23: Elin Kelsey - Why Hope Matters For the Environment, For Art, and During A Pandemic
Elin Kelsey, PhD is an award-winning author and internationally-recognized thought-leader for hope and environmental solutions. We talk about what led Elin to write and create children’s books specifically, as well as how to us books and art as vehicles for larger narratives and heavier conversations. We dig into her research process of writing a book and discuss the intersection between poetry and science. I love the way Elin speaks about reframing the pervasive “doom and gloom” narrative about the environment to one that is more hopeful. She elaborates on this concept and talks about how the same reframing can be...
2020-04-24
1h 00
Process Piece
Episode 22: Vanessa Marian- On Groove Therapy and Cultivating a Strong Sense of Self
Training across New York, Paris, Berlin, London, Tokyo, Brazil, regional Australia, and her purple bedroom, Vanessa Marian Varghese is particularly fascinated with street dance and the way it is born outside of the dance studio context. In 2016 Vanessa founded Groove Therapy, aimed at making dance accessible to all walks of life. In this conversation we dig into Vanessa's background in dance and creativity, how her diverse past of studies and interests now inform the whole package of her present work, her relationship with failure, and how she built groove therapy into the expanding creative business it is today. She...
2020-04-10
56 min
Process Piece
Episode 21: Anna Brones - On Women’s Wisdom and Examining the Cultural Value of Work
Anna Brones is a writer, papercut artist, illustrator, and producer living in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. She is the author of several books including Fika: the Art of the Swedish Coffee Break and Live Lagom: Balanced Living the Swedish Way. We speak in detail about her recent Women’s Wisdom Project, the cultural and societal values of work and productivity, how a multifaceted creator like Anna decides what is work and what isn’t and when to say yes or no to a new opportunity, enjoying what she aptly calls the “marination phase” of the creative process, and, som...
2020-03-27
57 min
Process Piece
Episode 20: Natalia Fernandes - The Thinking Body & On Being Your Radical Self
Because this is my 20th official conversation on the podcast, it seems fitting that the artist I am speaking with is not only a dear friend and someone I have worked with in the past, but the woman who sparked the idea for this entire thing to begin with. Natalia Fernandes planted the seed of exploring deep process in my mind in 2015 when she directed a solo that I choreographed as a part of The Oldest Thing in the World. In this episode, we spoke openly and joyfully in Natalia’s cozy apartment in the center of Madrid. We ta...
2020-03-13
1h 03
Process Piece
Episode 19: Akeisha de Baat - What Resilience Means as a Dancer, Athlete and Artist
Akeisha de Baat is contemporary dance artist turned online fitness enthusiast for dancers, based in Vancouver, Canada. She loves to create new works, self produce shows, and encourage other artists to go after their dreams. We talk about Akeisha's unusual path through dance, starting with roots in traditional Polynesian dancing as a link to her family, carrying the history of different dance styles in her body, her love of countertechnique and what it is exactly, plus we talk a lot about being a dancer as an artist versus an athlete. For non-dancers, we also talk a lot about processes t...
2020-02-28
56 min
Process Piece
Episode 18: Marouan and Ruby - Marriage: A Creative Collaboration
This episode is a little bit different from others. I decided to sit down with the one and only Marouan Ben Larbi, who is not only my husband, but at certain points throughout our relationship, a co-creator and fellow performer. In this conversation in our living room, the two of us go back and forth about topics relating to art-making, relationships and where the two subjects intertwine. Most notably, how we worked together and what our collaboration process looked like for our full-length dance performance piece titled Marked Territory, plus what being an artist means to each of us...
2020-02-14
56 min
Process Piece
Episode 17: Sharon Picasso - Slow-Cooker Creativity & Building a Sustainable Dance Career
Sharon Picasso is a Minneapolis based movement and interdisciplinary artist. Her creative work incorporates her rich background in dance, theater, somatics, music and design. She invests in cultivating an inclusive and sustaining creative environment and above all, values the process. In this episode we discuss her beginnings in theater and psychology and why she took a break from dance for two years, how becoming a mother positively impacted her career as a choreographer and how she makes life and work sustainable, being a self-proclaimed “slow cooker” in terms of creative process, her thoughtful and special relationship with failure, plus she...
2020-01-31
50 min
Process Piece
Episode 16: Hicham Gardaf - A Backwards Creative Process & Documenting Spatial Transformation
Hicham Gardaf is a photographer who was born in Tangier, Morocco, and is currently based in London. Gardaf’s work at its centre poses questions that investigate transformations of contemporary landscape, spatiality and politics of space. While he was back in Tangier for a brief trip home, I invited Hicham over for coffee and this conversation, in which we dove into how his lifelong love of looking at pictures and images transformed into taking and curating them into his own art. In his soft-spoken and uniquely humble way, Hicham shared how he got to where he is as an arti...
2020-01-17
56 min
Process Piece
Solo Mini-Sode: Reflecting on the First Year of a Podcast in Process
A solo episode for the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, looking back on how I got started with this podcast, sharing how I prep for interviews, 3 major lessons I’ve learned in the first 9 months of podcasting, and gazing forward to the future. Full Show Notes Process Piece instagram Support Process Piece
2020-01-03
16 min
Process Piece
Episode 15: Abigail Hing Wen - Dancing Through Writing Her Debut Novel, "Loveboat, Taipei"
Abigail Hing Wen was born in West Virginia and raised in Ohio as a child of immigrant parents, both of Chinese descent. She is the author of the bestselling YA novel Loveboat, Taipei. In this conversation, Abigail and I not only got into to process of how she wrote her wonderful book, but we connected on so many levels- as dancers, creative & intuitive thinkers, and musical lovers. We explored how she has felt the calling to write her whole life, the on-going balancing act of juggling her intensive jobs, writing career & family life, why she had to write her...
2019-12-13
51 min
Passports & Pizza
S2E6: From Minneapolis to Morocco with Ruby Josephine Smith
This episode features our first international guest: Ruby Josephine Smith from Tangier, Morocco! A dancer, blogger and podcaster, Ruby is a longtime “internet friend” of Sara’s and Laura’s, and they obviously chat about all things food and travel, plus blogging and podcasting. In other news, Laura is contemplating a haircut (maybe bangs?!) and getting better at “putting her phone to bed,” while Sara goes on a healthcare rant and begs everyone to vote, plus she’s logging some overtime hours at work. They answer a listener question about books (which leads to a Harry Potter discussion), and we’ve got reco...
2019-11-13
1h 18
Process Piece
Episode 14: Ellen Humphreys - Crafting Characters & Questioning the Art in Acting
Ellen Humphreys is a New Mexico-based actress, originally born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Some of her past productions include In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl, Home with a View of the Monster, and the films Outlaws Don’t Get Funerals, and Running with The Devil. In this conversation, we talk about her path to becoming the actor she is today, language and a fascination with people being her starting point of her career, the importance of community and her personal process of preparing for a role, the conversational nature of acting, and we ha...
2019-10-18
53 min
Process Piece
Solo Mini-Sode: Intuition - A Common Thread in Creative Conversation
In this solo episode I’ve decided to begin to reflect on some of the common themes that keep coming up over and over again in my conversations with diverse artists. Namely, the power of intuition in the creative process. I cite past episodes where it has been discussed, try to define what intuition means, and tell my own story of listening to my inner intuitive voice in order to make a huge, life-changing decision. I also include a little Q&A with listener questions about what inspires me and life as a woman in Morocco. Full Sh...
2019-10-11
22 min
Process Piece
Episode 13: Vie Boheme - "Your Life is Asking You to Stand Up"
Vie Boheme is a Motown native, blossomed in Pittsburgh and refined in Minneapolis. She is a multimodal artist; a dancer, singer and choreographer. Vie was singing in Casablanca in 2019 and I invited her to come hang out with me in Tangier for a weekend. We talked about everything from how she has explored heritage and history in her music and performance art and the general evolution of her career, to some of the issues with the dance world and why she has struck out on her own in order to connect on a deeper level with the energy of...
2019-10-05
55 min
Process Piece
Episode 12: Caleb Hinz - Distortion, Project-Juggling, and Why “Art Changes Nothing”
Caleb Hinz is a musician, producer, t-shirt maker and artist from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Some of the highlights of what we covered in this conversation are chatting about how his artistic upbringing impacted his current work, the benefits of surrounding yourself with creative people in your life, how he juggles what seems like a million projects at once, Caleb’s song-writing process, and defining success. We also get into how his t-shirt brand Normal Parents began, and the story behind the head-scratching slogan on one of his tees, which is “art changes nothing.” Full Show Notes Caleb...
2019-09-20
54 min
Process Piece
Episode 11: Sanne Clifford - A Maker of Movement Stories
As a self-proclaimed maker, Sanne Clifford uses the languages of dance, movement, words and film, choreographing them into moving stories and conversations. She is a Dutch artist and choreographer, living and working in Amsterdam and touring her work abroad. In this conversation between two choreographers in Sanne’s lovely Amsterdam apartment, we dig into the details of how Sanne got to where she is in her career today- how she chose what to study, the steps she took to form her own company, and the research that she puts into each and every project. Because we met through Choreolab Eu...
2019-09-13
57 min
Process Piece
Episode 10: Shana Kaplow - Embracing Paradoxes in Painting and in Life
Shana Kaplow is a visual artist working with large-scale, ink-on-paper installation, sculpture, and video. Her images of mass-produced household objects peruse the familiar and the enigmatic confronting a society organized around ever-expanding consumption and exploitation. In this face-to-face conversation in Shana Kaplow's beautiful St. Paul studio, we cover a huge range of topics including experiencing and making a painting as an embodied experience, the energetic quality of subject matter, ephemeral experiences of everyday objects, and the complexity of paradoxes in art and life. We talk about Shana’s relationship to art and at the same time, how art is a...
2019-09-06
57 min
Process Piece
Episode 9: Yahia Lababidi - Practicing Faith in Art, Practicing Art in Faith
Yahia Lababidi is an Egyptian-Lebanese poet, writer, and aphorist. He grew up in Egypt, attended university in the states and eventually moved there later in life and is still based in Florida to this day. He has written several critically acclaimed books including his first book of aphorisms, Signposts to Elsewhere, a collection of poetry, Balancing Acts, and his newest compilation of aphorisms, Where Epics fail: Meditations to Live By. We discuss Yahia’s literary background, displacement and the concept of formulating your own creative home, the difference between writing prose, poetry and aphorisms, and the beauty and terror of...
2019-07-05
1h 17
Process Piece
Episode 8: Radia Bakkali - Living and Breathing the Drama of Music
Radia Bakkali is a musical artist, pianist, composer, and teacher from Tangier, Morocco. In this conversation we talk about how she fell in love with the piano, composition as a way of expressing deep emotion, taking time and paying attention to details in your personal work, how artistic projects can connect you to your community and also how to ask for help from supportive people in your life, and music as a universal language. Full Show Notes Radia's youtube & instagram Process Piece instagram Support Process Piece
2019-06-28
49 min
Process Piece
Episode 7: Vinny Balbo - Freestyling + The Beautiful By-products
Vinny Balbo is an actor, dancer, and director living and making work in Los Angeles. We talk about what it is like to grow up in a big artistic family, the path to becoming a largely self-taught dancer and how to discover and craft your own style. We discuss the art of collaborations, his new project of short films and what that experience is teaching him currently, and how to live and make work more fully in the present moment. Full Show Notes Vinny's instagram Process Piece instagram Support Process Piece
2019-06-21
55 min
Process Piece
Episode 6: Houda Rahmani - The Necessity of Art + On Inspiration by the Sea
Houda Rahmani is a Moroccan artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and photographer living in Tetouan. In this face to face conversation in Tangier, we discuss the academic side of art and her experience of studying fine arts in Morocco, watercolors and visual arts as poetry, we talk about the paradox of instagram- how it can make us more self-conscious about our work, but also more connected and equal in terms of artistic opportunity around the world. We discuss the difference between art vs. craft, moroccan traditional arts, whether art is a basic necessity of life, and our mutual love of...
2019-06-14
53 min
Process Piece
Episode 5: Jumana Al Refai - The World Through the Eyes of a Dancer
Jumana Al Refai is a professionally trained dancer and choreographer in ballet and modern dance based in Kuwait. She has over 20 years of experience and has trained, performed, and worked with internationally recognized dancers and choreographers. In this conversation, Jumana and I talk as two dancers living in countries where it is not traditional to study dance. We talk about how she’s gotten to where she is in her professional career, where she hopes to go as a dancer working mainly in the Middle East, musicality and the different ways her multi-cultural background play a role in her wo...
2019-06-07
51 min
Process Piece
Solo Mini-Sode: On Doubt as a Necessary Part of the Process
In this mini-sode, I discuss a topic that has been on my mind and present in my working life lately- doubt in the creative process. I explore how I believe it to be a necessary road block for us to learn to overcome, how I am personally dealing with it in terms of this very podcast, and I lay out some tangible ways that others can deal with their own self-doubt within the artistic process. Full Show Notes Process Piece instagram Support Process Piece
2019-05-10
17 min
Process Piece
Episode 4: Renee Byrd - Soul of a Self-Aware + Sensitive Artist
Renee Byrd is based in a small town in Virginia and on her blog, Will Frolic for Food, she shares vegetarian recipes along with conversations about holistic wellness. She views self-care and personal healing as a vital part of living a full, creative life as an artist of any medium. As a musician, she is a part of the musical trio Larkspur and is starting a new project with her husband titled Blondechalant We dig deep into her performing arts background, what it means to be a multipotentialite, being a “highly sensitive person” and how that effects her creative proc...
2019-05-04
55 min
Process Piece
Episode 3: Laura Jean - The Art + Heart of Travel
Laura Jean is a traveling artist living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is writer, poet, photographer, podcaster and editor of Dame Traveler. Her blog, Roam + Go Lightly, was born in 2014 out of a simple travel diary to keep in touch with her family while she explored the greater half of EuropeWe dig into the original source of her wanderlust as well as how to define and practice mindful, meaningful travel, how art making and exploring the world are similar in that they push you outside of your comfort zone, and her process as a writer on the road. F...
2019-04-26
51 min
Process Piece
Episode 2: Anne Butera - Seasons + Cycles of Creative Joy
Anne Butera is a self-taught artist living in Wisconsin who finds inspiration in the beauty of her garden and the magic of nature. In this episode, we discuss what it is to be self-taught and the pressure of calling yourself an artist in general, how these days we often feel like we have to share everything, the natural seasons and cycles of creative work, and, of course, always finding joy in the details. Full Show Notes Anne's website Anne's instagram Process Piece instagram Support Process Piece
2019-04-18
44 min
Process Piece
Episode 1: Pau Aran Gimeno - Dancing with Fierce Love
Pau Aran Gimeno is a choreographer, dance teacher, and performer from Barcelona who is known primarily for being a longtime company member of Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal. He is now pursuing his own solo career as a creator and choreographer. In this conversation we go deep into his childhood influences and how they are present in his work today, how he is working on developing his own movement language after having worked with many different masters over the years, being a warrior for your art, and, of course, his ongoing love affair with dance itself. Full Show...
2019-04-12
41 min
Process Piece
Introducing The Process Piece Podcast
In this episode you will learn more about the host of this podcast, choreographer & contemporary dancer Ruby Josephine Smith, plus what inspired her to start this project. Connect with Ruby through instagram.Follow Process Piece on instagram.
2019-04-08
00 min