The Dance Lens Podcast

Dance exists at the intersection of fashion, history, art, politics, fashion, ritual and social evolutions. Through interviews, reviews, story times and behind the scenes we'll take a deeper look at the art form's history, industry and artists. thedancelens.substack.com

The Dance Lens Podcast is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 31 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  INTERVIEW: Renaissance x Punk—Sophie Laplane and James Bonas on creating Mary Queen of Scots

  May 27, 202648 minS0

  <p>Join us for a conversation with choreographer Sophie Laplane and director James Bonas, the collaborators behind Scottish Ballet’s Mary, Queen of Scots (Lincoln Center Koch Theater June 4-7 2026), which draws on the imagined relationship between Mary Stuart and Elizabeth I. The production blends classical ballet, theater, punk aesthetics, and contemporary visual language.</p><p>Sophie Laplane is the Resident Choreographer at Scottish Ballet, where she creates works that fuse classical ballet vocabulary with contemporary theatrical sensibility across stage, opera, and award-winning dance films. James Bonas is a theater and opera director known for multidisciplinary collaborations across ballet, opera, an...

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  INTERVIEW: Christine Cox—The BalletX Model

  May 20, 202630 minS0

  <p>INTERVIEW: Christine Cox, co-founder and Artistic and Executive Director of BalletX, Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company, which she founded alongside choreographer Matthew Neenan in 2005. In two decades of leadership, Cox has built BalletX into one of the most distinctive forces in contemporary ballet, producing over 150 world premiere works by more than 80 choreographers and performing at venues like Jacob’s Pillow, New York City Center and The Joyce Theater.</p><p>She’s here ahead of the Festival at Highmark Mann in Philadelphia, June 4th and 5th, featuring the world premiere of The Four Seasons Reimagined — an epic love letter t...

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  INTERVIEW: What It Really Takes to Become a Dance Maker

  May 14, 202636 minS0

  <p>INTERVIEW: Jessica Lang on career-making, creativity and the hidden realities of becoming a choreographer.</p><p>In anticipation of the All Lang program at Pacific Northwest Ballet. May 29-June 7 featuring ‘Her Door to the Sky’, ‘Ghost Variations’, and ‘Zigzag’ Lang discusses the creative life and what it really takes to become a choreographer.</p><p>Lang is one of the world’s most versatile and prolific choreographers. A graduate of the Juilliard School and former member of Twyla Tharp’s company, she has created over 100 works for some of the world’s most celebrated institutions — among them American Ballet Theatre, the Royal B...

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  REVIEW: Firebird at Dance Theatre of Harlem

  Apr 26, 202612 minS0

  <p>In this episode, we review the luminous interpretations of The Firebird at Dance Theatre of Harlem and its relationship to New York City Ballet’s. Both works are a deluge of beauty and an ocean of visual richness. Though distinct in style and staging, these productions are deeply connected through history, lineage, and artistic exchange.</p><p>At the center of that connection is Arthur Mitchell, founding force of Dance Theatre of Harlem and former principal dancer at NYCB under George Balanchine. Mitchell’s career bridges these two worlds in profound ways: shaped by Balanchine’s choreography, including works create...

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  REVIEW: Kyle Abraham's Cassette Vol. 1

  Apr 22, 20266 minS0

  <p>REVIEW: Kyle Abraham’s Cassette Vol. 1 at NYU Skirball transforms the 1980s into a neon-lit dreamscape of camp, nostalgia, and grief. Blending choreography, pop culture, and memory, the work moves through vignettes that blur the line between past and present, surface and undercurrent. In this episode, we explore how Abraham and his company A.I.M turn analog aesthetics into something more fragile and reflective—where memory is both a performance and a distortion, and the past is never fully retrievable, only reimagined.</p><p>Join us on Substack for more reviews, podcasts, interviews articles and subscriber only lives! http...

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