Stance delves into the spiritual realm and how it manifests through the visual arts, dance, music and poetry. An ever-evolving topic, we cover the power of spirituality through ancestral connections, imagination, movement, humor and joy.
To start, we speak with surrealist blues poet, aja monet on the artistic movements shaping her writing and community organizing. We discuss her upcoming poetry collection Florida Water, and album When The Poems Do What They Do.
We cover writer and journalist Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dance Floor, an intimate look at movement through the personal, social and cultural history of dance.
We speak in conversation with visual artists Senga Nengudi Fittz and Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees who were both members of the Just Above Midtown (JAM) creative space which centered African American creatives in the 1970s and 80s in NYC. We explore the spiritual links between art, history and tradition, and their collaborative performance piece Tying & Un-tying at the MoMA in New York.
This episode is guest-edited by Tamika Abaka-Wood, a cultural anthropologist, creative strategist, and founder of Dial An Ancestor.
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Episode 30: Brazilian Dance with Deborah Colker; Low Born by Kerry Hudson; Wasfi Kani on Porgy and Bess.
Ep. 29: Manchester’s LGBTQ+ Story; Singer and Poet Jamila Woods; Smack That.
Episode 28: Valeria Luiselli; Creative Growth Arts; KOKOKO!
Episode 27: Actor & Director Adjoa Andoh; Norway’s Borealis Festival feat Juliana Huxtable; Colin Self; Last Yearz Interesting Negro + more
Episode 26: NAO + Demystifying Yoga
Episode 25: Her Islam; Actor and MC Paigey Cakey; Kader Attia’s La Colonie in Paris
Episode 24: Way With Words; Armina Mussa, Artist & Creative Director of Saint Heron; Mind: Creativity in the City
Episode 23: On Beauty; Turner Prize Nominee Naeem Mohaiemen; Mind: Design in the City
Stance Takes: The Power of Culture with Tarana Burke, Janet Mock, Rafael Casal, Nnedi Okorafor & Marc Bamuthi-Joseph
Episode 22: Voting… Power to the People?; Sayaka Murata; Fatimah Asghar & John Cooper Clarke
Stance Takes: Black History Month - The Debate
Episode 21: Magnifying Masculinity, Kate Tempest, Desiree Akhavan
Stance Takes: Donald Glover's Atlanta
Episode 20: Coming of Age, Playwright & Poet Inua Ellams, Ibibio Sound Machine
Episode 19: Class Ceiling in the Arts, Jessie Ware, Hofesh Shechter
Episode 18: The PTSD We Are Not Talking About, Filmmaker Khalik Allah, Feminist Five Activist Li Maizi
Episode 17: Modern Mumbai; A Ballet Collaboration with Grammy-Winning Musician Zakir Hussain; Playwright Natasha Gordon
Episode 16: The Future of Drugs; Choreographer Holly Blakey; Writer Nikesh Shukla
Episode 15: Alternative Realities - Witches?, Kamila Shamsie, Kaytranada
Episode 14: French Artist JR, Palestinian Filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud, Future of Centrism
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