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OhioDance Podcast “A State Of Dance”
Welcome to Season Four
Season Four, Episode One:
Season 4 Eposode 1 · A State of Dance
Episode 1 – Dancing Diasporas: Tracing Migration Through Movement with Dr. Hannah Kosstrin
This month’s guest is Dr. Hannah Kosstrin. Dr. Kosstrin is a dance historian and movement analyst. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish dance in global contexts including dance histories of the United States, Israel and the Jewish diaspora, Latin America, Europe, South Asia, and the African diaspora; gender and queer theory; nationalism, migration, and diaspora studies; Laban movement notation and analysis; and digital humanities. She is Director of Ohio State’s Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Associate Professor in the Department of Dance, and has appointments in the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, and is affiliate faculty with the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
Her new book Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations (Oxford University Press) examines Jewish diasporic dance practices of choreographers who migrated between Israel and the United States between the Cold War and Covid. Her article “Whose Jewishness? Inbal Dance Theater and Cold War American Spectatorship” (American Jewish History, 2020) was awarded a Gertrude Lippincott Award Honorable Mention from the Dance Studies Association. Dr. Kosstrin’s work also appears in Dance Research Journal, Dance Chronicle, The International Journal of Screendance, Journal of Jewish Identities, Dance on Its Own Terms: Histories and Methodologies, Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings The Futures of Dance Studies and the Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance She is project director for KineScribe, a Labanotation app supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Reed College, and Ohio State, and Faculty Lead for LabanLens, a Laban-based HoloLens application supported by Ohio State.experiences.
Host: Rodney Veal
Executive Producer: Jane D’Angelo
Editor and Audio Technician: Jessica Cavender
Music Composition: Matthew Peyton Dixon
“A State of Dance” is a six-part series coming out the fourth Friday of each month from June 2025 through November 2026. This podcast is driven by the OhioDance mission to secure the foothold of dance in Ohio through increasing visibility, firming viability, and elevating the position of dance in Ohio.
In 2016, a five-person team set out on a mission to capture the achievements of persons and institutions who have shaped the intricate diversity of dance history and practice within the state of Ohio and weave them together in an easily accessible digital format. This we call the OhioDance Virtual Dance Collection. As of 2025 we have highlighted 44 individuals and institutions. The team has traveled over 5000 miles and interviewed over 100 individuals in all five regions of Ohio.
If you like what you are listening to and are not a member of OhioDance, you can go to https://ohiodance.org/ and click the membership button to join and receive the many benefits that come with your membership. You can also donate through our purple donate button.
OhioDance would like to thank our funders: Ohio Arts Council, Kettering Family Philanthropies, America 250 Ohio, The Greater Columbus Arts Council, Ohio State University Department of Dance Preservation Fund, Columbus Foundation and Akron Community Fund.
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If you missed it: Watch Season One
Season 1, Episode 1
“A Moving History with Dr. Candace Feck”
Season 1 Episode 2
“Leveling Up with Gregory Robinson”
Season 1, Episode 3
Taking Note with Dr. Valarie Williams
Season 1, Episode 4
Arts Infrastructure, Ira Weiss
Season 1, Episode 5
The Awe-Inspiring Journeys of Zelma Badu-Younge Photo Zelma Badu-Younge by Nii-Tete Yartey Studios – Ghana
Season 1 Episode 6
The Unstoppable Force that is Damien Highfield
Watch Season Two
Season 2 Episode 1 · A State of Dance
Padma Chebrolu: The Wisdom of Indian Dance and Living a Life Fueled by Joy
Season Two, Episode Two:
S2 E2 · A State of Dance
Lighting Dance with Dennis Dugan
Season 2 Episode 3
Dancing Solidarity with Al Evangelista: Filipino/a/x American diaspora, queer identities and bringing history into the room with technology
Season 2 Episode 4
Empire State to Glass City: Eric Otto brings a slice of the Big Apple to Toledo
Season 2 Episode 5
Samuel A. McIntosh on street dance: roots and future
Season 2 Episode 6
Flamenco’s Past, Present, and Future through a Latinx Lens with
Griset Damas-Roche and Amy Schofield
Watch Season Three
Season 3 Episode 1 · A State of Dance
“Writing and Dancing with Ann Cooper Albright”
Season 3 Episode 2 · A State of Dance
Dance Revolutionary Mary Verdi Fletcher – Boss Lady of CLE
Season 3 Episode 3 · A State of Dance
From Havana to the Heights: Dancing in Community with Cervilio Miguel Amador
Season 3 Episode 4 · A State of Dance
Episode 4 – Deep Roots, Strong Branches: Raising Community with Suzan Bradford Kounta
Season Three, Episode Five:
S3 E5 · A State of Dance
Episode 5 – “Rhythm Revival: Lynn Dally‘s Journey to the Global Stage”
Season 3 Eposode 6 · A State of Dance
Episode 6 – David Choate: A Revolution Comes Full Circle