Entries by Turn Out Radio

Exploring “IN-WARD”: With Alexandra ‘Spicey’ Landé

  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 […]

The practice of conscious leadership: With Ali Phillips

  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 […]

Codifying our dances: With Vivine Scarlett, Travis Knights, Zahra Harriet Badua and Thomas Talawa Prestø

  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 […]

Creating on and beyond the stage: With Allen and Karen Kaeja

  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: […]

Dance as a discipline that channels spiritual information: With Peter Chin (RECAP)

  Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: November 2, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Peter Chin This week, as the Turn Out Radio Team works behind the scenes, we throwback to our June 22, 2022 broadcast with Peter Chin. On this episode, the award-winning multidisciplinary artist shares about his work as the founder and artistic director […]

Education, advocacy, and the mission of NEAMA : With Keanu Uchida and Leslie Scott Zanovitch

  Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: October 26, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton ****This broadcast contains sensitive information and discussion regarding abuse. Listener discretion is advised. For questions related to this episode, please contact Turn Out Radio at turnoutradio@ciut.fm. For support and more information regarding the shares in this broadcast from the featured […]

Initiating arts from a place of service: With Colleen Snell

  Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: October 19, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Colleen Snell On this episode, Colleen Snell (Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Frog in Hand) opens up about initiating art from a place of service, the power of site specific work, and the incubation of a new arts […]

Intentionality and purpose: With Amanda May (RECAP)

Live on CIUT 89.5 FM   Airing Date: October 12, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton This week, with the Turn Out Radio Team working behind the scenes, we throwback to our July 6, 2022 interview. Our featured guest – dance artist, choreographer, educator and creative consultant – Amanda May, opened up about intentionality, her career journey, and more. Listen […]

Fall For Dance North Festival: With Kenneth Shirley, Kimberley Cooper & Vicki Adams Willis

  Live on CIUT 89.5 FM Airing Date: October 5, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Kenneth Shirley, Kimberley Cooper & Vicki Adams Willis. On this episode, Kenneth Shirley shares about his work, and the upcoming presentation of ‘Indigenous Liberation’ at Fall For Dance North (FFDN).  Also featured on this episode, is a clip […]

DCD Hall of Fame celebration: With Rhodnie Désir and Alejandro Ronceria

  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 […]

Belonging, land and the preservation of traditions: With Victoria Mata

  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 […]

Celebrating the 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards

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 […]

CaribbeanTales International Film Festival celebrates 17 years with an ‘Ah-wakening’ reveal.

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 […]

Svāhā! A love letter to dance and dancers: With Nova Bhattacharya

  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 […]

In reflection: With Peggy Baker (RECAP)

Live on CIUT 89.5 FM   Airing Date: September 7, 2022 Hosted By: Nicole Inica Hamilton Featured Guest(s): Peggy Baker This week, as the Turn Out Radio Team works behind the scenes, we throwback to our July 13, 2022 broadcast with Peggy Baker, Founder of Peggy Baker Dance Projects. Listen to the original interview HERE. About Peggy Baker: […]

Discussing the Legacy Tap Dance Concert: With Timea Wharton-Suri, Travis Knights, Lisa La Touche, and Donny Milwalkee

  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 […]

42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards announces nominees

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 […]

Theorizing dances of the African diaspora: With Dr. Funmi Adewole Elliott

  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 […]

Celebrating the YENSA Festival & Black women in dance: With Lua Shayenne and Aïka Mathelier

  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 […]