Tap dancer and podcaster Travis Knights takes you on a rich listening journey through the tradition of tap dancing, revealing an expansive world culture, music, and rhythm through many cities and ages. Travis gives gratitude to many ancestors and teachers that have guided his lifelong passion for the form, while giving voice to tension between aesthetic and cultural origins of tap dance. A beautiful conversation about reverence for dance, culture, and the necessity for community.
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In this episode, Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware asks, “how do we come together and learn how to be in community together, and support each other?” Syrus’ commitment to organizing with Black Lives Matter, abolition, trans justice, and disability justice, illuminates the challenges and beautiful opportunities offered by our differences, and by our scenes and movements. Syrus explores how arts and activism can learn from each other, and the importance to “trace our genealogies of resistance back to some of the origins” when creating movements today.
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Burlesque performer and academic, Força, shares how “[burlesque] in itself is a popular form, a low brow form, so it's really about, and has always been about citing culture in an accessible way.” Força reflects on the nuanced burlesque scenes in Toronto, and how diverse performers navigate from small, to corporate scenes, and in between. Força raises questions about how COVID has impacted burlesque performance, venues; how traditions are evolving; and how we can uplift communities.
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Welcome to episode zero of Only Here, an occasional podcast from Nakai Theatre in the Yukon.
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