Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: December 21, 2022 Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton Assistant Production Manager/ Editor: Amber Downie-Back Featured Guest(s): With Nabachwa Ssensalo and Jamal Story On this episode, International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) Audition Artistic Leads Nabachwa Ssensalo and Jamal Story discuss the audition space, measures of self-care prep for […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: December 7, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Anisa Tejpar On this episode, Anisa Tejpar shares how her work as an Intimacy Coordinator and Director, focuses on creating brave spaces, defining consent, and filtering care for those onstage, the bystanders in the studio, and the audiences who watch, […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: December 1, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Alexandra ‘Spicey’ Landé On this episode, Alexandra ‘Spicey’ Landé opens up about “IN-WARD” which plunges audiences into the deep waters of the human psyche, portraying the overlapping of feelings and the subtle contradictions of the unconscious mind. DanceWorks presents IN-WARD on […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: November 30, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Ali Phillips On this episode, Ali Phillips opens up about the practice of conscious leadership and its potential to be paramount in innovation, creativity, motivation and service. About Ali Phillips: Ali Phillips is a passionate Dancer, Teacher and Leader […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: November 16, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Vivine Scarlett, Travis Knights, Zahra Harriet Badua and Thomas Talawa Prestø On this episode, Turn Out Radio and dance Immersion have partnered to explore critical considerations when codifying dances of the African Diaspora. About Vivine Scarlett: Vivine is an administrator […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: November 9, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Allen and Karen Kaeja On this episode, co-artistic Directors of Kaeja d’Dance Allen and Karen Kaeja sit down on the show to open up about their creative and personal paths both on and beyond the stage. About Allen Kaeja: […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: September 28, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Rhodnie Désir and Alejandro Ronceria On this episode, DCD Hall of Fame Inductees Rhodnie Désir and Alejandro Ronceria share thoughts on their induction, and the creative practices that inform, and serve their work and community. About Rhodnie Désir: Choreographer-documentalist and […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: September 21, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Victoria Mata On this episode, Victoria Mata shares thoughts about Cacao | A Venezuelan Lament, the new live performance work about belonging, land and the preservation of traditions. This discussion opens up insight into the lived realities of Venezuela’s cacao farmers, and the […]
September 20, 2022 The 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards occurred on September 19, 2022 before a live audience in Toronto, Ontario at the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre, in the Elgin Theatre. The highly anticipated event hosted this year by award-winning actor and director Sabryn Rock, celebrated excellence in Toronto theatre, dance and opera. A […]
September 19, 2022 This year marks the 17th edition of the CaribbeanTales Film Festival (CTFF). The festival which runs from September 7-23, 2022 at the Carlton Cinema, located at 20 Carlton Street in Toronto, celebrates the talents of established and emerging filmmakers of Caribbean and African heritage who practice their art across the Caribbean Diaspora worldwide. The festival media launch occurred […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: September 14, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Nova Bhattacharya On this episode, Nova Bhattacharya opens up about how Svāhā! the epic pageant of dance, chant, and ritual, brings differences together. The discussion explores Bhattacharya’s thoughts on how dance, recitation, pulsating rhythms, and intense emotions are performed in the […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: August 31, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Timea Wharton-Suri, Travis Knights, Lisa La Touche, and Donny Milwalkee On this episode, our guests open up about the Legacy Tap Dance Concert which celebrates Black culture born from the Harlem Renaissance, with a genre-bending intergenerational cast led by Travis […]
August 29, 2022 At a press conference held today, The Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced the nominations for the 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards. The conference which was held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre (Toronto, Canada) recognized, and celebrated excellence in professional theatre, dance and […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: August 24, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Dr. Funmi Adewole Elliott On this episode, our guest Dr. Funmi Adewole Elliott shares on the practice of dance requiring it’s own philosophical discourse, theorizing dances of the African diaspora in the professional context, and Africanic esthetics in choreographic […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: August 17, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Lua Shayenne and Aïka Mathelier On this episode, guests Lua Shayenne and Aïka Mathelier open up about the YENSA Festival which has a mission to highlight choreographic work by black women choreographers around the globe and the accompanying research/process which led […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: July 27, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Ronald A. Taylor & Collette ‘Coco’ Murray On this episode, guests Ronald A. Taylor and Collette ‘Coco’ Murray continue the conversation on the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, and the intersection of emancipation, history and dance. Listen to part one of […]
July 15, 2022 On site at the 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival, Turn Out Radio Correspondent Ellie Govinden spent time post performance with Lilly Giroux, Emily Rapley, and Paige Sayles of Rapley Dance Projects to explore the concept behind “Confronting Space.” The performance evaluates the concept of confinement. Both mentally and physically, while the dancers examine restrictions, […]
July 14, 2022 Live on the ground at the Toronto Fringe Festival, Turn Out Radio Correspondent Ellie Govinden sat down with Kylie Thompson to discuss the current run of “Femmillennial” running at the Festival from July 6-17, 2022. A choreographic pastiche developed over the past three years – one of visceral intimacy, absurdity, virtuosity. Femmillennial […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: July 13, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Peggy Baker On this episode, Peggy Baker (Artistic Director of Peggy Baker Dance Projects) reflects upon her career, relationships, and where her journey has led her to in this season. About Peggy Baker: Peggy Baker has been a vivid presence […]
July 6, 2022 The 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival is on now, bringing to the stage 100 shows at 11 venues. Running July 6-17, over 1,200 Artists will present performances in dance, comedy, drama, musicals, improvisation, storytelling, children’s theatre and more. After being presented for 2 years online, the 34th annual Festival brings community together to access, discover, […]