A podcast led by Catie Leasca, Gabriella Sibeko + Mary Grace McNally, where we listen and chat with dance artists of all different backgrounds. Our mission is to share the infinite ways of being part of the dance community - spoiler: none of them look the same! Grab your coffee, get comfortable, and let’s talk DANCE!
danceCONNECT: a series of stages + stories
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A podcast led by Catie Leasca, Gabriella Sibeko + Mary Grace McNally, where we listen and chat with dance artists of all different backgrounds. Our mission is to share the infinite ways of being part of the dance community - spoiler: none of them look the same! Grab your coffee, get comfortable, and let’s talk DANCE!
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February 17, 2021
Ep 16: danceCONNECT with Gabriella Sibeko
<p>Check out www.DanceConnectSeries.com for more information on each guest!</p> <p>Instagram: @danceconnectseries</p> <p>--------</p> <p>Gabriella Sibeko (she/her) is a freelance dance and teaching artist raised in Montreal, Canada, having also resided in Durban + Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently based in New York City. In 2013 she was granted a Scholarship to The Ailey School where she trained for the next 3 years, graduating from the Certificate Program in 2016.</p> <p>Her artistry has been shaped profoundly by the choreographers she has worked with including Mike Esperanza, Jon Rua, Yoshito Sakaruba, Katherine Maxwell, Ellenore Scott, Mary Grace McNally, Lauren Cox, Mathew Rushing, Francesca Harper, Teddy Tedholm and Andrea Ward. to name a few. Gabriella co-choreographed the international video campaign entitled ‘Freedom: International Day of the Girl’ produced by The Global Goals Campaign and Beyoncé Knowles, receiving wide international recognition.</p> <p>She can be credited in music videos, Serenading in the Trenches by Sondre Lerche, The Runner by Alison Sudol, Mish Mish by Noah Souder-Russo, and Show-Off by Ana Kay. She has also performed in multiple NYC venues as a back-up dancer for singer/songwriter, ELENI and has worked and traveled as an assistant for Nathan Trice, Emily Greenwell and Erica Sobol. She performed as a featured dancer for the 2020 PHISH concert held at Madison Square Garden, choreographed by Jon Rua. She is currently a member of Hivewild, MG + Artists, Jon Rua’s TheGrit, Channel:Dig, ELSCO Dance and Cloude.NYC.</p> <p>Most recently, Gabriella began working in dance administration as Hivewild’s Dancer Liaison, and is pursuing a degree at The University of Massachusetts Amherst part-time.</p> <p>Gabriella is the featured dancer in an upcoming Netflix documentary, entitled Malinche, set in Ibiza, Spain.</p>
February 2, 2021
Ep 15: danceCONNECT with Mary Grace McNally
<p>Check out www.DanceConnectSeries.com for more information on each guest!</p> <p>Instagram: @danceconnectseries</p> <p>--------</p> <p>Mary Grace McNally (she/her) is a dance performer, choreographer and teacher, originally from Massachusetts. In June 2018, she self-produced, directed and choreographed her first evening-length work, Not For Picking, which premiered at Theaterlab NYC. Mary Grace is honored to be the winner of the 2018 Capezio A.C.E. Award. She was also announced as ADA's National Choreographer of the Year in 2016.</p> <p>Mary Grace’s work has been presented at The Joyce Theater, The Dance Gallery Festival, Dixon Place, Young Choreographer’s Festival, Centre National de la Danse in France, and deSingel in Belgium. She has studied with artists such as Medhi Walerski, Jesse Zaritt, Adi Salant, Jermaine Spivey, Spenser Theberge, Tilman O’Donnell, and has performed the works of Doug Varone, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Katie Swords-Thurman, Emma Portner, Erica Sobol and Ryan Spencer. Most recently, Mary Grace was a featured dancer at Madison Square Garden for Phish’s 2020 NYE concert, choreographed by Jon Rua. She also created new works for Divinity Dance Company (UT) and East Carolina University (NC).</p> <p>Mary Grace is the Artistic Director of MG + Artists, a project-based dance collective. In January 2020, she premiered her newest work, WHEN IT FALLS, at The Montalbán in Los Angeles, produced by Break The Floor. Mary Grace is a guest instructor and choreographer at competitive dance studios, workshops and universities across the country, as well as Guest Faculty at Peridance Capezio Center and Broadway Dance Center. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts in 2015.</p>
January 19, 2021
Ep 14: danceCONNECT with Catie Leasca
<p>Check out www.DanceConnectSeries.com for more information on each guest!</p> <p>Instagram: @danceconnectseries</p> <p>--------</p> <p><strong>Catie Leasca</strong> is a dance artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. With roots in Massachusetts, she has traveled and danced abroad in Israel, France, Belgium, and Germany. Catie has been a resident artist in NYC at Gibney Dance through Work Up 5.0, Brooklyn Arts Exchange as a 2019 Space Grant Recipient, New Dance Alliance as a LiftOff artist, CPR as part of UArts/Chez Bushwick Creative Exchange, and has shown her work at Movement Research through Judson Church, Dixon Place, createART, Dance in Bushwick, The Woods, and STUDIO4. She has danced professionally with Netta Yerushalmy, Helen Simoneau Danse, Jessie Young, Janessa Clark, Sophie Tibiletti, Bryn Cohn + Artists and is a founding company member of MG+Artists. Her film work has been presented at Screendance Miami through Miami Light Project and Philadelphia Screendance Festival. She has curated and produced her own publication ideasinisolation, in response to COVID-19 and gather / an evening of fall dances, a free community performance in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Most recently, she was awarded the Masterworks Foundation Choreographic Award. Catie has taught in NYC at Gibney Dance, FAILSPACE and Bridge For Dance. Her writing has been published in DanceGeist Magazine. Catie graduated with her B.F.A. in Dance from the University of the Arts, with the Dean’s Award for Excellence and the Sustainability award.</p>
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