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An interview with Céline Gittens | Why Dance Matters podcast

Céline Gittens first made her name as a teenager, winning both a gold medal and the Audience Choice Award at Sadler’s Wells in London, in the RAD’s Genée International Ballet Competition (now named The Fonteyn). Her serenity and clarity marked her out as something special. Born in Trinidad and later moving to Canada, she is […]

Royal Academy of Dance

26 juli 2021

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An interview with Charlotte Edmonds | Why Dance Matters podcast

For the latest episode of Why Dance Matters, we’re speaking with Charlotte Edmonds. source

Royal Academy of Dance

3 november 2022

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An interview with Crazy Smooth | Why Dance Matters

Our guest today is the Canadian hip hop dancer and choreographer professionally known as Crazy Smooth. We ask how Crazy Smooth came by his dance name? What makes Canadian street dance distinctive? In this Olympic year, where breaking makes its debut in the Paris games, should we really think of dance as a sport? And […]

Royal Academy of Dance

4 juli 2024

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An interview with Dame Arlene Phillips | Why Dance Matters

In an exciting bonus episode of Why Dance Matters, we meet the choreographer Dame Arlene Phillips as she receives a special honour at the Olivier Awards, marking a career packed with achievement. A dance legend, Arlene made her name with her racy dance troupe Hot Gossip in the 1970s, before becoming a major player in […]

Royal Academy of Dance

6 april 2023

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An interview with Dame Monica Mason | Why Dance Matters podcast

For the latest episode of Why Dance Matters, we’re speaking with the legendary Dame Monica Mason. May you live in interesting times may be an ancient curse, but Dame Monica Mason has voyaged through some very interesting times and places. She spent most of her career at The Royal Ballet, eventually as its artistic director […]

Royal Academy of Dance

20 oktober 2022

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An interview with David Hallberg | Why Dance Matters

The new season of Why Dance Matters opens with one of the great ballet princes – David Hallberg, star dancer and now artistic director of Australian Ballet. The epitome of classical elegance, in his memoir, A Body of Work, he writes feelingly about being a boy who dances, and a dancer who yearns for perfection, […]

Royal Academy of Dance

13 juli 2023

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