Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: March 1, 2023 Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton Assistant Production Manager/ Editor: Amber Downie-Back Featured Guest(s): Sakina Ibrahim This week, with the Turn Out Radio Team working behind the scenes, we throwback to our October 27, 2021 interview. On this episode, host Nicole Inica Hamilton sits down with Sakina […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: February 22, 2023 Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton Assistant Production Manager/ Editor: Amber Downie-Back Featured Guest(s): Vivine Scarlett, Travis Knights, Zahra Harriet Badua and Thomas Talawa Prestø This week, with the Turn Out Radio Team working behind the scenes, we throwback to our November 16, 2022 interview. On this episode, Turn Out […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: February 1, 2023 Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton Assistant Production Manager/ Editor: Amber Downie-Back Featured Guest(s): Robert Battle On this episode, Robert Battle, Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater sits down with Turn Out Radio to discuss the legacy of the company, his historical journey, and the repertoire work […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: January 25, 2023 Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton Assistant Production Manager/ Editor: Amber Downie-Back Featured Guest(s): Vivine Scarlett and John Alleyne On this episode, Vivine Scarlett, founder of dance Immersion opens up about IABD’s 33rd annual International Conference and Festival of Blacks in Dance, it’s beginnings, and how it […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: January 18, 2023 Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton Assistant Production Manager/ Editor: Amber Downie-Back Featured Guest(s): Lauren Ritchie On this episode, guest Lauren Ritchie opens up about mental skills training, mental performance, and the intersection of well-being and mindfulness. About Lauren Ritchie: Lauren Ritchie (MEd, BA, ESFCC) is an […]
Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: December 28, 2022 Host/ Producer: Nicole Inica Hamilton Assistant Production Manager/ Editor: Amber Downie-Back Featured Guest(s): Chloe and Maud Arnold On this episode listen to the re-airing of our 2020 interview with Chloe and Maud Arnold of Syncopated Ladies, as they open up about purpose, legacy, elevating artists, […]
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 […]