Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast

About Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast

Movers and Shapers: A Dance Podcast brings to you stories of life in dance to guide and inspire yours. Tune in to hear candid conversations with dancers, choreographers, educators, company leaders, collaborators, and more, as they share personal journeys, creative insights, and ideas shaping the dance field today. Launched in 2015, the podcast is also a living archive of the field's evolving voices and stories. Hosted by Erin Carlisle Norton - dance artist, choreographer, movement educator, and company director of NJ/NYC-based The Moving Architects.

Publisher

Erin Carlisle Norton of The Moving Architects - Dance & Choreography

Category

arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 May 2015

Latest episode

26 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 215 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   26 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   MSP 203: Among Company - Becoming a Dancer with Wendy Rogers

   Dancer, choreographer, and teacher Wendy Rogers shares her career journey and the profound impact of collaboration on her creative voice in this interview.

2. 

   11 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   MSP 202: Authenticity in Motion - Jill Sifah Sigman on Dance, Props, and Purpose

   Host [Host Name] interviews choreographer Jill Sifah Sigman about her artistic journey, her use of repurposed materials, and the balance between authenticity and artifice in dance.

3. 

   28 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   MSP 201: From the Stage to the Page with Rym Kechacha

   Host Anya Sharma interviews author and former dancer Rym Kechacha about her journey from professional ballet to publishing fiction, offering insights on reinvention and creative freedom.

Inside a recent episode

MSP 203: Among Company - Becoming a Dancer with Wendy Rogers

Published 26 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We didn't go, some people went to Europe or all these different places. We went camping. But we enjoyed to the hilt, California, the Sierras, the beaches. I consider myself a California choreographer. I feel like I was really... formed in this place and in the Bay Area where there was a culture, particularly in the East Bay Area, which is significantly different from San Francisco. We certainly, San Francisco was a hub of all manner of things, but the East Bay has some lesser known powerful culture and influence both in the field of dance and in general. And so I feel like that environment and that spirit of my parents really helped shape me. […]

Who has been a guest on Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Wendy Rogers
• Jill Sifah Sigman
• Rym Kechacha

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

47,760

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

37 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

74

Social presence

91

YouTube

76

Engagement

85

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