Movers & Shapers: Jody Sperling

By May 23, 2020Podcast

MOVERS & SHAPERS:

PODCAST No.100 – Jody Sperling

 

Release Date: 5.23.20

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ABOUT JODY

Jody Sperling is dancer-choreographer from NYC and the Founder/Artistic Director of Time Lapse Dance. She has created 45+ works including many furthering the legacy of modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller (1862-1928). Considered the preeminent Fuller stylist, Sperling has expanded the genre into the 21st century, deploying it in the context of contemporary and environmental performance forms. She was nominated for a 2017 World Choreography Award for her work on the French feature film “The Dancer” (premiere 2016 Cannes Film Festival) inspired by Fuller’s life and Sperling’s work is also prominently featured in a forthcoming Fuller documentary.

Years of working in Fuller’s idiom, which involves kinesphere-expanding costumes, has influenced Sperling’s awareness of the body’s relationship with the larger environment. In 2014, she participated in a polar science mission to the Arctic as the first, and to date only, choreographer-in-residence aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker. During the expedition, she danced on Arctic sea ice and made the short dance film Ice Floe, winner of a Creative Climate Award. Following that experience, Sperling has developed programs transporting the icescape to the stage and incorporating climate outreach. Current projects focus on creating visual-kinetic narratives merging choreography and climate science. She is developing a performance practice called eco-kinetics exploring the relationship of the moving body to the environment.

More info:

Time Lapse Dance’s 20th Anniversary Season Online

Time Lapse Dance on YouTube

Time Lapse Dance on Facebook

 

PODCAST INTERVIEW LINKS

Joffery Ballet School

Danspace Project

Wesleyan University – Dance

Janet O’Shea

Micky Davidson 

Susan Leigh Foster

Cynthia Novack

Richard Bull

“Points in Space”, Elliot Caplan Film (1986)

Movement Research

Marcia B. Siegel

Elizabeth Zimmer

Dance Critics Association

Susan Klein

Sarah Michelson

Emily Faulkner

Sara Coffey

Selma Jeanne Cohen

Loie Fuller

Society of Dance History Scholars

American Magic-Lantern Theater

Quentin Chiappetta 

Woods Hole Oceangraphic Institute

“Ice Floe” film

Matthew Burtner

Lauren Gaston 

 

Podcast produced by: The Moving Architects
Interviewer: Erin Carlisle Norton
Theme Music: Adam Crawley whose music can be found at djplie.com

This podcast episode is in partnership with JAM.  JAM is the home of dance entrepreneur Jessica Marino, providing artist management services and industry shopping. jamdancer.com, networking for dance and bringing ideas to the spotlight.