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Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast
The Moving Architects
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"Movers and Shapers" is a semimonthly podcast hosted by Erin Carlisle Norton, Artistic Director of the NJ/NYC-based contemporary dance company The Moving Architects. This dance podcast allows dance communities around the globe to unite in one conversation through personalized interviews with the many 'shapers' of the dance world.
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Aug 2, 2020
MSP 102: Preeti Vasudevan
Today's guest is Preeti Vasudevan. Preeti is an exponent of classical Indian dance (Bharatanatyam) creating new provocative contemporary works from the Indian tradition questioning the role of identity in contemporary lives. She is the first artist of Indian descent to receive recognitions from top institutions in the US for her outstanding contribution to dance. Some highlights include: 2019 Dance Lab New York / Joyce Theater Foundation Creation Grant; 2019 Virginia B. Toulmin Fellowship for Women Leaders in Dance; 2018 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists; 2018 Selected Artist, DanceMotion USA Follow-On Program with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM); and 2018 Jerome Robbins Dance Division's Dance Research Fellowship, NY. Preeti partners her educational and creative leadership with world-impacting organizations as Silkroad founded by legendary musician Yo-Yo Ma and the National Dance Institute. Her ground-breaking educational website, Dancing for the Gods (in collaboration with the Dept of Education, NYC) has been developed to build a cultural bridge through creative Indian dance and used in NYC Public Schools. For more info on this podcast: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
58 min
Jul 16, 2020
MSP 101: Alejandra Duque Cifuentes
Today's guest is Alejandra Duque Cifuentes. Alejandra is an immigrant activist, artist, producer, educator, and Executive Director of Dance/NYC. With more than 10 years of production and stage management experience in theatre and dance, she has toured nationally and internationally with Zaccho Dance Theatre, Bandaloop, Dancing in The Streets, and The Foundry Theatre, among others. As a teaching artist, she has taught children and adults in over 100 New York City public schools and through community theatre programs. In 2011 she founded Theatre That Transcends, which taught local, underserved communities how to express themselves and address community issues through the art of theatre. As an activist, she plays an integral part in advancing a more equitable arts and cultural ecology by working on measures to increase access, justice, equity, and inclusion within dance for disabled artists, immigrant artists, and artists of color in the five boroughs of New York City. For more info on this podcast and Movers & Shapers: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
1 hr 2 min
May 23, 2020
MSP 100: Jody Sperling
Today's guest (episode 100!) is Jody Sperling. Jody is a 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. Current projects focus on creating visual-kinetic narratives merging choreography and climate science. Time Lapse Dance is currently celebrating their 20th Anniversary Season. For more info on this podcast and Movers & Shapers: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
1 hr 14 min
Apr 30, 2020
MSP 99: From the Field no. 2
On this special episode of "Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast" we continue our "From the Field" series with an episode that features a wide array of artists in the dance field. Each are trying to navigate what the coronavirus crisis means to them and the work they do. Inspiring, honest, hopeful, hear from Jessica Chen, Zoee Marsh, Miles Norton, Aria Roach, Mark DeGarmo, and Isabel Bowser. For more on Movers & Shapers: www.themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
19 min
Apr 9, 2020
MSP 98: Alla Kovgan
Today's guest is award-winning filmmaker Alla Kovgan. Born in Moscow, Alla has divided her time between Europe and the U.S., bringing two decades of experience working with dance and film on screen, virtual reality, and in theatre, as well as a strong record as a documentary writer and editor. Her latest film Cunningham traces Merce Cunningham's artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery (1944–1972), from his early years as a struggling dancer in post-war New York to his emergence as one of the world's most visionary choreographers. The documentary weaves together Merce's philosophies and stories, creating a visceral journey into his innovative work. A breathtaking explosion of dance, music and never-before-seen archival material, Cunningham is a timely tribute to one of the world's greatest modern dance artists. For more info on this podcast: www.themovingarchitects.org/podcasts More info on Cunningham: www.cunninghammovie.com
1 hr 3 min
Mar 26, 2020
MSP 97: From the Field
On this special episode of "Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast" we have for you a wide array of artists working in the dance field who are each trying to navigate what the coronaviris crisis means to them and the work they do. Inspiring, honest, hopeful, hear from Megan Mizanty, Ariel Grossman, Eduardo Villaro, Anabella Lenzu, Stephanie Acosta, and Eva Yaa Asantewaa. For more on Movers & Shapers: www.themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
19 min
Mar 18, 2020
MSP: Call for Submissions
Let's Share. How are you responding to this time? Record it. Send it. Let's hear your voice. For more info and guidelines: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
2 min
Mar 5, 2020
MSP: Special March 2020 Announcement
We are taking a podcast pause....listen in to hear why. For more info Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast www.themovingarchitects.org/podcasts And catch the company behind the podcast in March! March 3-9: Spring/Break Art Fair (NYC) March 14: Second Saturdays at Central (family friendly event, NJ) March 26: An Evening with The Moving Architects (Montclair, NJ)
1 min
Feb 20, 2020
MSP 96: Pavel Zuštiak
Today's guest is Pavel Zuštiak. Pavel is a director, choreographer, performer, and founder/artistic director of the New York-based performance company Palissimo. Born in communist Czechoslovakia and trained at Amsterdam's School for New Dance Development, Pavel's staged performances tour nationally and internationally, merging dance with multidisciplinary and multi-sensory theatrical experiences. He was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the New York "Bessie" awards, among others. This podcast was produced in conjunction with the MFA in Dance at Rutgers University, a program that establishes students as creatively literate world citizens who can develop interdisciplinary solutions to address complex contemporary issues. Now accepting applications for the Summer 2020 cohort: masongross.rutgers.edu For more info on this podcast: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
50 min
Feb 7, 2020
MSP 95: Sondra Fraleigh
Today's guest is Sondra Fraleigh. Sondra is professor emeritus of the State University of New York at Brockport, a Fulbright Scholar, SUNY Faculty Exchange Scholar, and a significant writer in the field of dance philosophy. She is an award winning author of nine books including most recently: Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance (2018); Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch (2015); BUTOH: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy (2010); and Land to Water Yoga (2009). Fraleigh was chair of the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport for nine years and later head of graduate dance. Her innovative choreography has been seen in the USA, Germany, Japan, and India. Sondra is the founding director of Eastwest Somatics Institute. This podcast was produced in conjunction with the MFA in Dance at Rutgers University, a program that establishes students as creatively literate world citizens who can develop interdisciplinary solutions to address complex contemporary issues. Now accepting applications for the Summer 2020 cohort: masongross.rutgers.edu For more info on this podcast: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
1 hr
Jan 16, 2020
MSP 94: Christine Dakin
Today's guest is Christine Dakin. Christine has spent more than four decades in Martha Graham's deep tradition, exploring the physical and intellectual practice of dance as principal dancer, artistic director of the company, and teacher. She shares the language of dance collaborating with choreographers, musicians, and teachers, and continuing to perform from Russia to the US, maintaining a special connection to the Mexican dance community since 1981. She has been awarded a "Bessie", the Dance Magazine Award, and a fellowship from Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has brought her personal poetics of dance to film in her "La Voz del Cuerpo / The Body Speaks" and "Terpsikon". For more info on this podcast: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
1 hr 12 min
Dec 12, 2019
MSP 93: Jessica Chen
Today's guest is Jessica Chen. Jessica is a choreographer, teacher and Artistic Director of J CHEN PROJECT, a 501c3 non-profit modern dance company based in NYC. In 2013, Jessica made a miraculous journey back to the stage after suffering a horrific car accident, which rendered her in a coma for 13 days after 8 hours of brain surgery. She shares her story and fight to live through her work as a choreographer, speaker, and Artistic Director of J CHEN PROJECT. As a freelance choreographer, her work has been seen Off-Broadway, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and TEDx. For more info on this episode: www.themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
58 min
Nov 21, 2019
MSP 92: Vangeline
Today's guest is Vangeline. Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form Butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century, and the founder of the New York Butoh Institute. She is also the founder of the 12-year running, award-winning program "Dream a Dream Project", which brings butoh dance to incarcerated men and women at correctional facilities across New York State. For more info on this episode: www.themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
59 min
Nov 7, 2019
MSP 91: Michelle Manzanales
Today's guest is Michelle Manzanales. Michelle is a choreographer and dance educator originally from Houston, TX. She is the Director of the Ballet Hispánico School of Dance, but lends her artistic voice to all facets of the organization led by CEO and Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro (MSP podcast no. 77!). She began working with Eduardo in 2003 as a dancer for his company Luna Negra Dance Theater of Chicago where she also served as Rehearsal Director and as Interim Artistic Director. Michelle has created works for professional dance companies, universities, and schools across the nation. www.ballethispanico.org For more info on Movers & Shapers and this episode: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
48 min
Oct 24, 2019
MSP 90: Melissa Riker
Today's guest is Melissa Riker. Melissa is based in NYC and is the director and choreographer of Kinesis Project dance theatre. The company dances outside in sculpture gardens, universities, public parks, as well as hosting more than 30 surprise performances all over New York City and the tri-state area. Recently Ms. Riker is a 2016, 2017 and 2019 CUNY Dance Initiative Residency Fellow, 2015 LMCC Community Arts Fund grantee, and 2019 Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Grantee. For more info on Movers & Shapers and this episode: http://themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
48 min
Oct 10, 2019
MSP 89: Lucy Sexton
Today's guest is Lucy Sexton. Lucy is a Brooklyn born choreographer, producer, and administrator who works in the fields of dance, theater, film, and advocacy. She is currently Executive Director of the cultural advocacy organization New Yorkers for Culture and Arts, working for equity and support for culture for all New Yorkers. Beginning in 2009, she has served as Executive Director of the NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, building them for the first time into an independent organization. As a dance artist she works with Anne Iobst; together they create and perform the dance performance duo DANCENOISE which was founded in 1983. Come to The Bessies! Monday, October 14 at NYU Skirball: https://tickets.nyu.edu/10398 For more info on Movers & Shapers and this episode: http://themovingarchitects.org/podcasts/
49 min
Sep 19, 2019
MSP 88: Ivy Baldwin
Today's guest is Ivy Baldwin. Ivy is a New York-based choreographer, performer, teacher, and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance. Since 1999, she has created 17 works for her company, including, most recently, commissions from BAM (Next Wave Festival), Philip Johnson Glass House, the Joyce Theater, Abrons Arts Center, the Chocolate Factory, and the Wooden Floor. Baldwin has received many awards and fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts, and has been an Artist-in-Residence with BAM, Movement Research, ArtistNe(s)t (Romania), Manitoga and CPR (currently), and the 92nd Street Y (upcoming). For more info on this episode and Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
45 min
Sep 5, 2019
MSP 87: Jennifer Muller
Today's guest is Jennifer Muller. Jennifer is the Artistic Director/Founder of Jennifer Muller/The Works, and has been an influence in the dance world for over 50 years. She is known for her visionary approach and innovations in dance/theater, multi-discipline productions, incorporating the spoken word, live and commissioned music, artist-inspired décor, media and unusual production elements. Muller has created over 125 pieces, including seven full evening productions, collaborating with such artists as Keith Haring, Keith Jarrett, Yoko Ono, David van Tieghem, Burt Alcantara, Marty Beller and Jeff Croiter. For more info on this episode: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
57 min
Jul 31, 2019
MSP 86: Jonathan Hollander
Today's guest is Jonathan Hollander. Jonathan is the founder, artistic director, and president of Battery Dance. He is creator of the Company's renowned Battery Dance Festival and Dancing to Connect arts education program. Widely recognized as one of the outstanding choreographers of his generation, his works have been presented in major theaters and festivals across five continents and 70 countries. In June, 2018, he was awarded the Federal Order of Merit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in honor of his "great commitment and leadership in bringing young people together across borders through cultural exchange". 38th Annual Battery Dance Festival 30 Companies, 10 Countries, August 11-17 more info: batterydance.org For more info on this episode: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
57 min
Jul 17, 2019
MSP 85: Stephanie Acosta
Today's guest is Stephanie Acosta. Stephanie is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who blends performance with practice-based research, making work in response to, while also creating, site and space. Engaging ensembles in facilitated processes, she creates fleeting performance works that challenge site, space, and perception to bring about shared experiences. A Cuban American born and raised in Miami, Stephanie works extensively with unseen histories, performance, experimental radio, and film. Acosta continues an ongoing collaborations with Intrinsic Grey Productions including on experimental feature film The Ladies Almanack, which recently had its world premiere at Outfest LA and is currently screening at national and international film festivals. Currently, Acosta heads up the monthly performance series Sunday Service with co-creator Alexis Wilkinson. She can also be found working on a new publication with longtime collaborator Rory Murphy under the name NO ONE IS ANYWHERE,…
55 min
Jul 3, 2019
MSP 84: Zvi Gotheiner
Today's guest is Zvi Gotheiner. Born and raised in kibbutz Mesilot in northern Israel, Zvi began his artistic career as a violinist and began dancing at age seventeen, joining the Bat-Sheva Dance Company after serving in the army. Zvi arrived in New York in 1978, and founded ZviDance in 1989, creating more than twenty-five works for his company. Zvi is a highly regarded ballet teacher, described by the New York Times as the "Zen Dance Master of New York." Most recently, Zvi received distinguished teaching awards from the American Dance Festival and the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center's Playing Field. For more info on this episode: themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
51 min
Jun 19, 2019
MSP 83: Francesca Harper
Today's guest is Francesca Harper. Francesca is an internationally acclaimed, multifaceted artist. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Francesca Harper Project and former principal dancer with Ballet Frankfurt under William Forsythe. Francesca has choreographed works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Tanz Graz, Hubbard Street II, and Dallas Black Dance Theater, and enjoys her appointment as an adjunct professor at New York University and the Juilliard School. Francesca was awarded a two-year choreographic fellowship with Urban Bush Women, providing support toward her latest dance-theater work An Unapologetic Body. She is committed to works rooted in artistic expression, empowerment, and social awareness. For more info on this episodes and other interviews on Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast: http://themovingarchitects.org/podcasts/
48 min
Jun 5, 2019
MSP 82: Jacqulyn Buglisi
Today's guest is Jacqulyn Buglisi. Choreographer, dancer, educator and advocate, Jacqulyn Buglisi co-founded Buglisi Dance Theatre in 1993 following an illustrious career as a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. She leads the annual Table of Silence Project 9/11, a site-specific performance ritual for peace performed at Lincoln Center by 180 dancers, six musicians and chorus of nine, and seen via live stream across the U.S. in all 50 states and worldwide in 129 countries. Buglisi Dance Theatre will be performing as part of the upcoming Women/Create! A Festival of Dance at NYLA in NYC. Women/Create! A Festival of Dance 2018 Season New York Live Arts Celebrating the Innovation of Women in Choreography June 11-16, 2019 More Info: womencreatedance.org During this 8th season, Armitage Gone! Dance, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Carolyn Dorfman Dance, The Francesca Harper Project, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Helen Simoneau Danse, and Katarzyna Skarpetowska (featuring The Ri…
1 hr 6 min
Apr 3, 2019
MSP: Special April 2019 Announcement
We are taking a break in April, with new interviews coming in May. In the meantime, you can catch the company behind the podcast performing in a series of performances this spring. NYC, Boston, Pittsburgh! We are coming your way! For tickets to Elevate: A Triple Bill of Female Choreographers with Bryce Dance, The Moving Architects, and Shana Simmons Dance, go to www.themovingarchitects.org/elevate April 17-18 / The Mark O'Donnell Theater at The Actors Fund Arts Center (Brooklyn) April 19-20 / The Dance Complex (Boston) May 4 / Point Park University, George Rowland White Performance Center (Pittsburgh)
1 min
Mar 20, 2019
MSP 81: Eva Dean
Today's guest is Eva Dean. Eva is the founder and Artistic Director of Eva Dean Dance, based in Brooklyn and established in 1985. Eva has a rich history as a Brooklyn-based choreographer of site-specific and theatrical contemporary dance, and is also a community leader mentoring other female choreographers and founding Union Street Dance studio. Known for rich visuals and genre-defying theatricality, the company has been featured on both the local and international stage. Notable NYC credits include The New Victory Theatre (Victory Dance 2018), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, The Brooklyn Museum and The Children's Museum of Manhattan among many others. Also known for site-specific immersive dance, the company has staged numerous public productions in Prospect Park (Brooklyn, NY).
1 hr 16 min
Mar 6, 2019
MSP 80: Oxana Chi
Today's guest is Oxana Chi. Oxana is a choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, curator, and author. She founded the company Oxana Chi & Ensemble Xinren in Berlin, Germany in 1991 and moved to New York City in 2015. In 2018, she was listed in the Dance Enthusiast's 2018 "A to Z" of People Who Power the Dance World. She is featured in several publications and films, and is the main protagonist of the movie Dancing Through Gardens. Chi is accompanied in this podcast by her main collaborator Dr. Layla Zami, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Performance + Performance Studies MFA Program at Pratt Institute and interdisciplinary artist (music, poetry, theater, film).
59 min
Feb 20, 2019
MSP 79: Michele Wiles
Today's guest is Michele Wiles. Michele danced with American Ballet Theater from 1997-2011, beginning in the studio company and promoted to soloist in 2000 and principal in 2005. Michele left the position in 2011 to start BalletNext with the vision to pair classically trained dancers and live musicians in a collaborative setting that encourages risk taking and a focus on process.
1 hr 2 min
Feb 6, 2019
MSP 78: Dunya Dianne McPherson
Today's guest is Dunya Dianne McPherson. Dunya is a dancer, NEA choreographer, Shattari Sufi Master Teacher, Founder of Dancemeditation™, and author of Skin of Glass: Finding Spirit in the Flesh, a memoir about dance as a spiritual path.
1 hr 20 min
Jan 23, 2019
MSP 77: Eduardo Vilaro
Today's guest is Eduardo Vilaro. Eduardo joined Ballet Hispánico as Artistic Director in August 2009, becoming only the second person to head the company since it was founded in 1970. He has been part of the Ballet Hispánico family since 1985 as a dancer and educator, after which he began a ten-year record of achievement as founder and Artistic Director of Luna Negra Dance Theater in Chicago. Born in Cuba and raised in New York from the age of six, he is a frequent speaker on the merits of cultural diversity and dance education.
50 min
Jan 9, 2019
MSP 76: Jody Oberfelder
Today's guest is Jody Oberfelder. Jody is a director, choreographer, and filmmaker, who creates visceral experiences for audiences, onstage and in alternative sites. Her work has been shown extensively internationally as well as at Jacob's Pillow, MASS MoCA, The Yard, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York Live Arts, and her immersive heart-themed work 4Chambers was performed 86 times: in an historic home on Governors Island and in a former hospital in Brooklyn.
1 hr
Dec 12, 2018
MSP: Special December 2018 Announcement
Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast celebrates 75 interviews! And a special announcement from podcast host Erin Carlisle Norton about upcoming interviews (hint: see you 2019!)
42 sec
Nov 28, 2018
MSP 75: Dr. Hannah Kosstrin
Today's guest is Dr. Hannah Kosstrin. Hannah is a dance historian whose work engages dance, Jewish, and gender studies, modes of movement analysis, and digital projects. She is on faculty at The Ohio State University Department of Dance, and is author of the book Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow.
1 hr 14 min
Nov 14, 2018
MSP 74: Young Soon Kim
Today's guest is Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company formed in 1988, and Producer of the annual DUMBO Dance Festival in NYC. Young Soon's company has criss-crossed the globe performing her repertory of 62 original works.
1 hr 6 min
Oct 31, 2018
MSP 73: Liz Gerring
Today's guest is Liz Gerring. Liz is head of Liz Gerring Dance Company, based in NYC and formed in 1998. As a choreographer she has been awarded the Jacob's Pillow Prize, a Joyce Theater Residency and Creation award, and a New York City Center Choreographic Fellowship. She recently completed a trilogy of large scale proscenium works commissioned by Montclair State University Peak Performances in Montclair, New Jersey.
47 min
Oct 16, 2018
MSP 72: Molissa Fenley
Today's guest is Molissa Fenley. Molissa has presented her choreography in NYC and throughout the world for the last 41 years, with recent performances at the 92nd Street Y (NYC), St. Mark's Church (NYC), and Mills College Art Museum (CA). A Guggenheim Fellow with two Bessies for Choreography among her many accolades in the field, Molissa is currently a Professor of Dance at Mills College and on the faculty of NYU's Experimental Theater Wing.
59 min
Sep 25, 2018
MSP 71: Naomi Goldberg Haas
Today's guest is Namoi Goldberg Haas. Naomi is the founding Artistic Director of Dances For A Variable Population, a multi-generational dance company and educational organization which promotes strong and creative movement for adults of all ages and abilities, with a focus on seniors.
44 min
Sep 11, 2018
MSP 70: Stephanie Nerbak
Today's guest is Stephanie Nerbak. With a career that has spanned the country, Stephanie is currently a New Jersey-based dance artist, arts administrator, and founder of N-root Danceart, a contemporary performance company that fosters holistic creativity and radical curiosity.
1 hr 11 min
Aug 28, 2018
MSP 69: Janet Eilber
Today's guest is Janet Eilber. Janet has been Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company since 2005. Her direction has focused on creating new forms of audience access to the Graham masterworks. Earlier in her career, as a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Janet worked closely with Martha Graham. She danced many of Graham's greatest roles, had roles created for her by Graham, and was directed by Graham in most of the major roles of the repertoire. Apart from her work with Graham, Eilber has performed in films, on television and on Broadway directed by such greats as Agnes deMille and Bob Fosse and has received four Lester Horton Awards for her reconstruction and performance of seminal American modern dance.
1 hr 4 min
Aug 14, 2018
MSP 68: Pat Catterson
Today's guest is Pat Catterson. Pat is a NYC-based choreographer, dancer, educator and writer, who has choreographed 111 dances but, although her biggest pleasure is still making her own dances, these days she is more known as a dancer and rehearsal assistant for Yvonne Rainer, as well as a custodian of Rainer's early works.
1 hr 33 min
Jul 31, 2018
MSP 67: Martha Eddy
Today's guest is Martha Eddy. Martha is a Dance Artist-Scientist, expert in Social Somatics and author of Mindful Movement The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action. She is best known for her lectures on and research in overcoming the side-effects to cancer treatment through dance and exercise, perceptual-motor development, and embodied peace-making and for developing her own system of Somatic Education entitled Dynamic Embodiment. Martha currently offers her curricula in the low-residency (intensive format) Masters programs at Montclair State University (greater NYC), University of North Carolina- Greensboro, and St Mary's College (San Francisco Bay Area), as well as offering workshops in Europe and South America.
1 hr 30 min
Jul 3, 2018
MSP 66: Lauren Grant
Today's guest is Lauren Grant. Lauren has been a celebrated performer with the Mark Morris Dance Group for more than 20 years. She stages Morris' work and teaches ballet and modern technique at schools, universities, and for dance companies worldwide. She has received a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" award for her career with Morris, and her dance writing has been published in numerous dance publications.
1 hr 2 min
Jun 19, 2018
MSP 65: Douglas Dunn
Today's guest is Douglas Dunn. Douglas has been dancing and making dances for fifty years. His lineage includes five years as a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and work with Yvonne Rainer leading to the founding and six-year career of Grand Union. He formed Douglas Dunn + Dancers in 1978, and continues to work in collaboration with other artists to offer a multifaceted theatrical experience. Douglas has received countless awards and accolades for his work and teaching, and has a collection of published writings entitled "Dancer Out of Sight".
1 hr 36 min
Jun 5, 2018
MSP 64: Jennifer Stahl
Today's guest is Dance Magazine's editor in chief Jennifer Stahl. A former senior editor of Pointe, she has also written for The Atlantic, Runner's World and other publications. With a background as a dancer with degrees in dance and journalism, she has served as a judge for the Capezio A.C.E. Awards, on the panel of the New York City Dance Alliance Foundation, as an adjudicator for the American College Dance Association, and was recently an invited speaker at the Women in Dance Leadership Conference.
49 min
May 22, 2018
MSP 63: Lois Greenfield
Today's guest is Lois Greenfield. World-renowned photographer Lois Greenfield has been photographing dance for over 40 years. Starting her career as a photojournalist, Lois worked for the Village Voice capturing the experimental dance scene from 1973 to the mid 90's. She developed a unique photographic style not based in capturing choreographed movements. Instead, Lois inspired the dancers to improvise expressly for the camera. With her split second timing Lois revealed moments beneath the threshold of perception. Radically redefining the dance photography genre, Lois has influenced a generation of young photographers.
49 min
May 8, 2018
MSP 62: Sara Rudner
Today's guest is Sara Rudner. Sara is a movement addict eager to spread the experience. In her remarkable dance career, Sara has participated extensively in the development and performance of Twyla Tharp's modern dance repertory; was a founder and director of the Sara Rudner Performance Ensemble: has produced marathon dances as well as short forms; and is the former director of Dance at Sarah Lawrence College where she continues to teach.
1 hr 4 min
Apr 24, 2018
MSP 61: Inbal Oshman
Today's guest is Inbal Oshman. Inbal is an Israel-based choreographer and dancer who creates dance for stage, public spaces, and screen, and finds inspiration in diverse mythical, historical, and cultural sources. She has been a resident choreographer at Kyoto Art Center (Japan), Attakkalari Dance Company (India), and Fest'Factory (Israel), with recent performances as part of the Peak Performances program at Montclair State University (New Jersey). Special thanks to Peak Performances for arranging this podcast interview.
44 min
Apr 10, 2018
MSP 60: Valerie Green
Today's guest is Valerie Green. Valerie has been an active dancer, choreographer and teacher in the New York City dance community since 1995. She is the Artistic & Executive Director of Dance Entropy and Green Space Studio in Long Island City, Queens.
48 min
Mar 27, 2018
MSP 59: Heather Bryce
An interview with Heather Bryce. Heather is a Brooklyn, NY based contemporary choreographer, artistic director of Bryce Dance Company, and Teaching Artist with a focus on collaboration and creating work with and for every body. Starting her company in Boston in 2006, Heather's work has been supported and presented across New England, the tri-state area, and beyond.
43 min
Mar 13, 2018
MSP 58: Tom Pearson
Today's guest is Tom Pearson. Tom is the co-founder/co-artistic director of Third Rail Projects and the director of the Global Performance Studio, an international program for cultural listening and exchange. He has received two New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Awards, and is best known for his movement-based theater works, including the long-running Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise.
1 hr 2 min
Feb 27, 2018
MSP 57: Nai-Ni Chen
Today's guest is Nai-Ni Chen. A cross-cultural choreographer based in the NJ/NYC area, Nai-Ni brings the dynamic freedom of American modern dance together with the elegant splendor of Asian Art. Nai-Ni Chen Dance company is one of the most visible Asian American dance companies in America with an extensive season of touring and performing around the world for the past 30 years.
1 hr 3 min
Feb 13, 2018
MSP 56: Women in Dance Leadership Conference with Sandra Parks and Renee Chatelain
Today's podcast is in partnership with the Women in Dance Leadership Conference that took place in January 2018 in NYC. Our first guest in this episode is Sandra Parks, the founder/director of the Women in Dance Leadership Conference. Sandra is also a choreographer, dance educator, film producer and editor, and advocate for female leadership. Our second guest is Renee Chatelain, currently President/CEO of the Arts Council of Baton Rouge. She is also an attorney, former professional ballet dancer, teacher and speaker. Most recently, she was on faculty at the Ballet Festival of India in Mumbai and a speaker at the Women in Dance Leadership Conference at NYU.
52 min
Jan 30, 2018
MSP 55: Women in Dance Leadership Conference with Blakeley White-McGuire
Today's podcast is in partnership with the Women in Dance Leadership Conference that took place in January 2018 in NYC. The first guest in this series is Blakeley White-McGuire. Blakeley is a critically acclaimed award winning dance performer, maker, and teacher working at the intersection of movement and ecology. She was a Principal Dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company from 2002-2017.
30 min
Jan 2, 2018
MSP 54: Karen Eliot
An interview with Karen Eliot, a former dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and now Professor in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University. An expert in the areas of ballet, modern, and dance history, she has written two dance history books and co-edited a third with Melanie Bales, and is co-editor of Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.
1 hr 5 min
Dec 19, 2017
MSP 53: Wendy Perron
An interview with Wendy Perron, a former dancer/choreographer and former editor in chief of Dance Magazine, now a freelance writer who teaches a graduate seminar at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Wendy is author of "Through the Eyes of a Dancer" and during her 30-year career as a dance/choreographer danced with the Trisha Brown company in the 1970s and choreographed more than 40 works for her own group, alongside teaching at many colleges, universities, schools, and dance centers.
1 hr 24 min
Nov 14, 2017
MSP 52: Margie Gillis
An interview with Margie Gillis, Canada's modern dance legend. As an internationally acclaimed solo modern choreographer/dancer, Margie has been creating original works for over forty years.
49 min
Oct 31, 2017
MSP 51: gwen charles
An interview with New York area based multi-disciplinary artist gwen charles. gwen creates site-specific, collaborative live performances and choreographed actions for and with the camera using handcrafted wearable props & sculptures. Her works have been viewed in international venues and video festivals in New York, USA, Germany, Slovenia, and Croatia, with artist residencies throughout the USA, Mexico, India, and Slovenia.
49 min
Oct 17, 2017
MSP 50: Sarah Weber-Gallo
An interview with Sarah Weber-Gallo. Sarah is a senior member of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Dance Director for Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, NJ, and Choreographer and Director of SarahWeberGallo/dancetheatre.
43 min
Sep 26, 2017
MSP 49: Diane Jacobowitz
An interview with Diane Jacobowitz. Diane is a professional choreographer, arts administrator and the Artistic and Executive Director of Dancewave - a Brooklyn-based dance education organization championing accessibility to all.
46 min
Sep 12, 2017
MSP 48: Laurie Berg
An interview with Laurie Berg. Laurie works in a variety of forms including dance, performance, collage, and jewelry, and is co-organizer of the dance event platform AUNTS along with Liliana Dirks-Goodman. Look for AUNTS as it opens NYU's Skirball season on Friday, September 15 in an immersive dance party.
49 min
Aug 29, 2017
MSP 47: Ariel Grossman
An interview with Ariel Grossman. Named one of Jersey (New) Moves Emerging Choreographers, Ariel is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her all-female contemporary dance company, Ariel Rivka Dance. Look for Ariel Rivka Dance at NYLA in NYC from September 6-10, 2017.
48 min
Aug 15, 2017
MSP 46: The Moving Architects
A special interview with the members of the all-female dance company, The Moving Architects, which is led by Movers & Shapers podcast host/producer, Artistic Director Erin Carlisle Norton. Hear from Caitlin Bailey, Maggie Beutner, Rachel Gill, Jenny Gram, Léla Groom, and Ashley Peters about their lives as 20-something dancers living, dancing, and working in the New York City dance scene.
50 min
Jul 25, 2017
MSP 45: Adam Barruch
An interview with Adam Barruch, a choreographer and performer based in Brooklyn, New York. Adam currently sets new work on dance companies alongside creating work under his own company Anatomiae Occultii.
51 min
Jul 11, 2017
MSP 44: Donnell Oakley
An interview with Donnell Oakley. Donnell is an independent choreographer, performer, and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York since 2001. As a current dancer with Doug Elkins and member of the collaborative trio LMNO3, she is continually interested in the inherently collaborative nature of dance
44 min
Jun 20, 2017
MSP 43: Theresa Ruth Howard
An interview with Theresa Ruth Howard. Theresa is a writer, dance educator, and former dancer for companies including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Armitage Gone! Dance, and works by Donald Byrd. In 2015 she launched MoBBallet (Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet) that reinstates and preserves the contributions and stories of Black artists in the field of ballet through a digital platform.
1 hr 11 min
Jun 6, 2017
MSP 42: Xan Burley
An interview with Xan Burley. Xan works in New York City as a performer, teacher, arts administrator, and choreographer in collaboration with her partner Alex Springer and has been a member of Doug Varone and Dancers since 2012.
1 hr 4 min
May 23, 2017
MSP 41: Tami Stronach
An interview with Tami Stronach, a NYC-based choreographer, actor, teacher, and public speaker dedicated to unlocking the power of imagination. Tami formed her dance company Tami Stronach Dance in 2000 and recently co-founded Paper Canoe Company to create family programming that utilizes movement, theater, puppetry, and object manipulation.
58 min
May 9, 2017
MSP 40: Hilary Easton
An interview with Hilary Easton. Leader of her NYC-based dance company Hilary Easton + Company established in 1992, Hilary is also on the faculty at the Julliard School and director of their global K-12 dance programs for Julliard Global Ventures.
43 min
Mar 14, 2017
MSP: Spring Break Announcement
A special announcement from podcast host Erin Carlisle Norton about upcoming interviews (hint: we are on spring break to prepare for April performances celebrating The Moving Architects 10th Anniversary Season!).
1 min
Feb 28, 2017
MSP 39: Teresa Fellion
An interview with NYC-based Teresa Fellion, a choreographer, dancer, dance-educator, and Artistic Director of BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance.
54 min
Feb 14, 2017
MSP 38: Sara Wookey
An interview with Sara Wookey, a dancer, choreographer, and creative professional currently based in London a Tier 1 Visa endorsed by Arts Council England. With a career that has spanned from the USA, to Amsterdam, to Los Angeles, and now London, Sara is also a certified transmitter of Yvonne Rainer's iconic work "Trio A" and currently interested in the potential for dance in its return to museum spaces.
1 hr 3 min
Jan 31, 2017
MSP 37: Tomer Heymann
An interview with Tomer Heymann, an award-winning Israeli filmmaker whose new film, MR.GAGA, focuses on the life and art of the legendary choreographer Ohad Naharin. MR. GAGA opens Feb 1 in NYC, Feb 10 in LA, and from there expands nationwide.
59 min
Dec 6, 2016
MSP: Special December Announcement
A special announcement from podcast host Erin Carlisle Norton about upcoming interviews (hint: see you in January!).
45 sec
Nov 22, 2016
MSP 36: Diane Grumet
An interview with Diane Grumet, the Co-Artistic/Managing Director of Steps on Broadway in NYC, the world-renowned dance studio that has been training and supporting the professional dance community for almost 40 years.
50 min
Nov 8, 2016
MSP 35: Eva Yaa Asantewaa
An interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa. Eva --who writes the InfiniteBody arts blog-- is a New York City-based critic, educator and curator specializing in dance and performance.
1 hr 8 min
Oct 25, 2016
MSP 34: Shannon Hummel
An interview with Shannon Hummel, Artistic Director of The Cora Studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which is home to her professional company Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance and its pay-what-you-can dance school, Cora School for Dance.
58 min
Oct 11, 2016
MSP 33: Your Move Dance Festival and Heather Warfel Sandler
Today is a special 2-part podcast episode which begins by featuring the founders and producers of the Your Move Modern Dance Festival in Jersey City, NJ: Morgan Hille Refakis and Meagan Woods. Your Move is presented by Art House Productions in partnership with DeBaun Performing Arts Center, and is the 2016 recipient of the Dance New Jersey Jete Award. Today's podcast guest is Heather Warfel Sandler. Heather is a dancer, performance artist, and visual artist who currently runs the award winning dance program at County Prep High School in Jersey City, NJ.
57 min
Sep 27, 2016
MSP 32: Christian von Howard
An interview with Christian von Howard, a New York City dance artist and the Artistic Director of the VON HOWARD PROJECT. Christian is a member of the teaching faculty at the Alvin Ailey School and is an Associate Professor of Performance and Choreography at Montclair State University.
57 min
Sep 13, 2016
MSP 31: Joanna Kotze
An interview with Joanna Kotz, a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher who is also recipient of the 2013 New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer. A former long-time dancer with Wally Cardona, her choreographic work has been shown in such NY theaters as Baryshnikov Arts Center and Danspace Project, with residencies around the globe including at The Bogliasco Foundation in Italy and The Carmargo Foundation in France.
49 min
Aug 30, 2016
MSP 30: Christine Jowers
An interview with Christine Jowers, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Dance Enthusiast, a vibrant, engaging digital news site, arts service organization, and extension of the non-profit company Moving Arts Projects based in NYC. Prior to this position Christine worked as a professional dancer, teacher, and producer, performing solo works and principal roles by the early masters of modern dance and in work created by contemporary choreographers and performance artists.
1 hr 4 min
Aug 2, 2016
MSP 29: Crystal Michelle Perkins
An interview with Crystal Michelle Perkins, a choreographer, dancer, and intermedia artist who currently serves as Associate Artistic Director of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) based in Dayton, Ohio.
1 hr
Jul 19, 2016
MSP 28: Mitchell Rose
An interview with Mitchell Rose, a professor of dance-filmmaking at The Ohio State University whose films have been viewed online over 5 million times. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Mitchell was a NYC-based choreographer who toured internationally for over 15 years. His most recent dance film "Exquisite Corps" features 42 American contemporary choreographers linked together through a chain love letter to dance.
1 hr 6 min
Jul 5, 2016
MSP 27: Amy Miller
An interview with Amy Miller, dancer, choreographer, educator, advocate, and Associate Artistic Director and Company Co-Director of Gibney Dance Company based in New York City. Prior to her positions at Gibney Dance, Amy spent a decade performing masterworks as a principal with Ohio Ballet and was a founding member and Associate Director of Cleveland's GroundWorks DanceTheater.
48 min
Jun 21, 2016
MSP 26: Tiffany Rea-Fisher
An interview with Tiffany Rea-Fisher, the newly appointed Artistic Director of the NYC-based dance company Elisa Monte Dance. Starting as a principal dancer with the company in 2004, Tiffany is also founder/director of Inception to Exhibition (ITE), which supports NYC-based artists in the fields of Dance, Theater, Music and Film.
1 hr 11 min
Jun 7, 2016
MSP 25: Dorian Wallace
An interview with Dorian Wallace, a composer, improviser and pianist of contemporary classical music, new music, radical avant-garde, spontaneous improvisation, and music for dance. He is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Tenth Intervention, a contemporary classical presenter in NYC. Dorian is staff musician and composer for dance at Barnard College of Columbia University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Martha Graham Dance Company, The Julliard School, Ballet Hispanico, Kat Wildish, and Doug Varone and Dancers. Dorian has received commissions and performed and recorded for such dance artists as RIOULT Dance NY, 10 Hairy Legs, and Alison Cook Beatty Dance.
1 hr 13 min
May 31, 2016
MSP: Special Announcement
A special announcement from podcast host Erin Carlisle Norton about upcoming interviews.
1 min
May 16, 2016
MSP 24: Kat Wildish
An interview with Kat Wildish, a multi-level ballet and pointe technique teacher of teachers, mentor, and coach for professionals and students of all ages and levels, based in NYC. Kat is one of those rare ballerinas who appeared with both New York City Ballet (under Balanchine) and American Ballet Theatre (under Baryshnikov), as well as with such companies as Zurich Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet and The Eglevsky Ballet (under Edward Villella).
1 hr 6 min
May 3, 2016
MSP 23: Tiffany Mills
Tiffany Mills is a choreographer and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn-based Tiffany Mills Company, a visceral and emotionally-charged dance company celebrating its 15th Anniversary Season at NYC's La MaMa, May 12-15, 2016.
56 min
Apr 19, 2016
MSP 22: Wendy Osserman
An interview with Wendy Osserman. Wendy is the Artistic Director of Wendy Osserman Dance Company which celebrates its 40th anniversary season this year. Before forming the company in 1976, Wendy performed with Kei Takei, Frances Alenikoff, and Valerie Bettis. For four decades the company has toured and performed in New York City and internationally, creating performances and workshops for all ages and collaborating with a wide range of artists and utilizing alternative spaces for performance. The company celebrates its 40th Anniversary season with performances at Theater for the New City April 20-23, 2016.
54 min
Apr 5, 2016
MSP 21: Samuel Pott
An interview with Samuel Pott. Samuel Founded Nimbus Dance Works and the School of Nimbus Dance Works based in Jersey City, outside of NYC. He has toured internationally as a soloist for the Martha Graham Dance Company and has performed as a lead dancer in many ballet and jazz dance companies. This interview is part of the special 5-part series "Starring New Jersey" that features interviews with prominent "shapers" in the dance field who call NJ home. The series is made possible by a grant from New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
56 min
Mar 22, 2016
MSP 20: Sharron Miller
An interview with Sharron Miller. Sharron is a former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater principal dancer and veteran of seven Broadway shows who is currently the Founder/Director of Sharron Miller's Academy of the Performing Arts (SMAPA) in Montclair, NJ located 15-miles outside of NYC. This interview is part of the special 5-part series "Starring New Jersey" that features interviews by prominent dance "shapers" in the dance field who call NJ home. The series is made possible by a grant from New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
1 hr 2 min
Mar 8, 2016
MSP 19: Maxine Lyle
An interview with Maxine Lyle, a choreographer, teaching artist, dancer, and producer, specializing in African-American step dance. Maxine founded the step company Soul Steps in 2005 in NJ/NY, with the mission to expand the presence of stepping throughout the world while creating avenues for cultural exchange and awareness among diverse communities. Soul Steps brings step everywhere - from school workshops in Brooklyn, to partnerships with U.S. Embassies throughout the world, to Paris Fashion Week, they embrace every opportunity to expose diverse communities to the magnetism and dynamic power of step.
52 min
Feb 23, 2016
MSP 18: Jeff Friedman
An interview with Jeff Friedman. Jeff is a dancer, choreographer, and scholar at the Dance Department at Rutgers University-New Brunswick as Associate Professor of Dance Studies, and as Graduate Director will launch the new MFA in Dance program this coming academic year. Jeff danced in NYC with Twyla Tharp, as well as for nearly a decade with Oberlin Dance Collective (ODC), touring nationally and internationally. Jeff created Legacy, an oral history project for the San Francisco Bay Area performing arts communities in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and launched his doctoral research into the theories, methods and practices of oral history interviews as they intersect with dance and other embodied practices. Jeff has a Ph.D in Dance History and Theater and publishes his works regularly.
1 hr 16 min
Feb 9, 2016
MSP 17: Doug Post
An interview with Doug Post, Gallery Artist Representative and Office Manager at Pentacle, an artist service organization based in New York. He has served as president of Beyondance Inc.'s Board of Directors, was founding member of Freespace Dance's Board, and is on the Advisory Board of ACF Dance, Reverb Dance, and the Brooklyn Dance Festival. Doug curates Dixon Places's (NYC) Under Exposed and Moving Men series. He publishes a weekly newsletter of performances, auditions, and other items of interest to the dance community. This interview is part of the special 5-part series "Starring New Jersey" that features interviews by prominent dance "shapers" in the dance field who call NJ home. The series is made possible from a grant from New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
42 min
Feb 2, 2016
MSP: Special Announcement
A special announcement from podcast host Erin Carlisle Norton about upcoming interviews.
1 min
Jan 18, 2016
MSP 16: Helen Simoneau
A native of Québec, Canada, today's guest Helen Simoneau is director of Helen Simoneau Danse, a North Carolina based dance company with strong New York City ties and acclaimed international presence. Her work has been presented at notable venues such as Dance Place (DC), New York Live Arts, Joyce Soho (NYC), Tangente (Montréal), The Aayama Round Theatre (Tokyo), Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Stage (MA), the L.I.G Art Hall Busan (South Korea), and Athens International Dance Festival (Greece).
50 min
Dec 15, 2015
MSP 15: Julie Mayo
An interview with Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer, and director Julie Mayo. Julie has had her work presented on both coasts and in the Midwest, and was a 2014-2015 New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks Artist in Residence. She has recently been commissioned by Gibney Dance in NYC to create an evening-length work for their Fall 2016 season. Originally from Richmond, VA, Julie has lived and been a part of the dance communities in Seattle, San Francisco, Richmond, Chicago, and NYC.
55 min
Dec 1, 2015
MSP 14: Nel Shelby
An interview with a woman who is all things dance video, Nel Shelby. Nel preserves and promotes dance by filming performances and creating marketing videos and original films. Her company Nel Shelby Productions, based in NYC, boasts a diverse list of dance clients in New York and beyond. Nel serves as Festival Videographer for Jacob's Pillow Dance and is Resident Videographer at the Vail International Dance Festival (VIDF). Her documentary about choreographer Nejla Y. Yatkin was screened at a PillowTalk at Jacob's Pillow's 2015 festival, and past films include The Altitude of Dance, a documentary on VIDF, which debuted on Rocky Mountain PBS; four short films for Wendy Whelan's Restless Creature; and a short created with Adam Barruch that screened at NYC's Dance on Camera Festival and San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
54 min
Nov 16, 2015
MSP 13: Pat Graney
An interview with Seattle-based choreographer Pat Graney. Pat has received numerous honors throughout her career as a choreographer including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for 11 consecutive years, the Alpert Award, US Artists Award in Dance, and was one of 20 Americans to receive a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in 2013. Pat also founded Keeping the Faith/The Prison Project, the longest running prison-arts program in the United States.
1 hr
Nov 3, 2015
MSP 12: Leslie Anderson-Braswell
An interview with Pittsburgh-based ballet instructor Leslie Anderson-Braswell, a former dancer with Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Stuttgart Ballet, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. Leslie has taught for over 35 years in the Pittsburgh area, and is currently on faculty at the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Leslie is the namesake of the "Brazzy Award", an honor awarded annually to promising young artists in the Pittsburgh area in honor of Leslie's lifetime spent in dance education and mentorship.
1 hr 10 min

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post2912806420555908172..comments2020-08-04T05:53:33.775-05:00Comments on The Grumpy Economist: Optimal quantity of money, achieved? John H. Cochranehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-178785509567513332014-09-18T13:51:07.536-05:002014-09-18T13:51:07.536-05:00he is unable to suggest a plan to avoid the turmoi...he is unable to suggest a plan to avoid the turmoil in case of a secession

Maybe that is because there is no plan that would work in both the short and long term.

A Scottish vote for secession would be a kick in the teeth for the English with long term costs for the English. Why the Scots would think that the English would go out of their way to accommodate Scottish secession is a mystery. The only bargaining lever the Scots have is the express or implied threat to do even more damage to the Scottish and English economies if the English don't make concessions. I don't think that would work out for them. Absalonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-9077549601080293102014-09-17T21:23:01.718-05:002014-09-17T21:23:01.718-05:00Absalon, you say it is clear that I am redefining ...Absalon, you say it is clear that I am redefining inflation to suit my argument. Please show me how it is clear that I am doing this.

In actuality, I am redefining inflation because the definition I propose is a better definition, one that adheres to the appropriate method of defining concepts and therefore makes possible a better understanding of inflation and what is occurring in the economy. As an example of the poor understanding to which the bad definition of inflation leads, consider your claim that "deflation" (viz., falling prices) created a harsh economic climate during the late 19th century. This couldn't be farther from the truth. As I have stated, during this period economic progress and the rise in the standard of living occurred at some of the most rapid rates experienced in U.S. history.

People think the late 19th century was a period of stagnation because they believe deflation means falling prices and since this was a period of falling prices, it must have been a period of deflation and depression. Falling prices do occur during deflation but it's the falling spending during a deflation that causes the problems, not the falling prices. Falling prices are merely a symptom of deflation. Deflation also leads to falling revenues and incomes and makes it harder for debtors to pay off debts. Falling prices due to increased production, which is what generally occurred during the late 19th century, do not lead to these problems because revenues and incomes do not decline and it is not harder for debtors to pay off debt. This is true, for example, because even though prices fall, the goods that businesses have available to sell increase (due to the greater ability to produce) and therefore businesses can generate the same revenue. In fact, under a gold standard, as prices fall, revenues and incomes increase due to the greater ability to produce gold. This is what generally occurred during the late 19th century. I discuss this in my book Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle.

Note also that your desire for faster progress will not solve the problem according to your standards. You say that "the deflation of 1880 was the result of progress." This means that if you have more progress you will have more "deflation" (viz., falling prices). According to your standards, this will only add to the problem.

To begin to solve the problem of misinterpreting the economic conditions in the late 19th century (and in other periods), people need to abandon their invalid definitions of inflation/deflation. Note also that the definitions of inflation/deflation did not always focus on prices. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries they focused on money and spending. So the definitions I propose would merely take us back to the valid definitions of inflation/deflation.Brian firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-21233199491171203172014-09-17T21:13:44.375-05:002014-09-17T21:13:44.375-05:00Ralph I thought you were willing to accept Anat Ad...Ralph I thought you were willing to accept Anat Admati's 20-30% capital requirement for banks. The full-reserve system only works in complete fiscal and monetary unions like Prof. Cochrane's United States, or the one here in Canada, or your own United Kingdom. Other places need a model that works without fiscal integration. They also need better hedging instruments to avoid the balance sheet problems that we all have had lately.Anwerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-9270494501590382492014-09-17T19:38:12.698-05:002014-09-17T19:38:12.698-05:00have you read latest article by Paul Krugman on sc...have you read latest article by Paul Krugman on scotland's independence??

laughable!! he bashes scots in any possible manner, but he is unable to elaborate on a plan to achieve a successful secession ....

http://www.sunherald.com/2014/09/16/5803335/paul-krugman-the-scots-should.html email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-64800088837132983652014-09-17T19:33:24.683-05:002014-09-17T19:33:24.683-05:00did you read latest article by Paul Krugman on Sco...did you read latest article by Paul Krugman on Scotland independence from the UK??

laughable.....He bashes the scots but he is unable to suggest a plan to avoid the turmoil in case of a secession...email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-87611487845417204522014-09-17T16:38:02.110-05:002014-09-17T16:38:02.110-05:00My understanding of Krugman's deflation spira...My understanding of Krugman's  deflation spiral is that output and unemployment spiral out of control - prices not so much. The basic argument is that the equilibrium interest rate is negative, so the zero lower bound is binding. Planned investment drops and savings are forced to match planned investment through reduced output. Wages are highly sticky and unemployment rather than diminished wages result. Deflation isn't even necessary for the spiral to get out of hand. As long as expected inflation plus the equilibrium interest rate is still negative the spiral of decreasing output and employment will continue. Ibnyaminhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-73180767391055405372014-09-17T15:55:09.177-05:002014-09-17T15:55:09.177-05:00If you look at the front of every U. S. Federal Re...If you look at the front of every U. S. Federal Reserve Note you will see the following inscription:

"This Note Is Legal Tender for All Debts, Public and Private"

Notice that that this does not say:

"This Note is Legal Tender for The Purchase of All Goods and Services"FRestlyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-37957543296417379102014-09-17T15:33:25.286-05:002014-09-17T15:33:25.286-05:00Ralph, Nick missed a step here. 1. If the centr...Ralph,

Nick missed a step here.

1. If the central bank liabilities are more liquid than other assets and
2. If people are never satiated with liquidity and
3. The only way for the amount of liquidity to increase is for the central bank to buy assets (no helicopter drops)

Then Nick maintains that the government owned central bank would own all assets (aka communism).

The problem that I see is that Nick set's an absolute preference of liquidity overall all other goods, but does not allow for a relative preference between other goods. I may not sell my apples for either an apple orchard or liquidity because I want to eat today. I may not sell my apples for liquidity because I found someone to barter with (my apples for his apple orchard). I can skip the middle man (central bank / government).

A liquid asset (like money) makes trade easier. That doesn't mean that trade is impossible without money. To get to communism, a central bank / government would have to outlaw barter.FRestlyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-47842510263946994952014-09-17T11:12:21.866-05:002014-09-17T11:12:21.866-05:00Plus a modest amount of inflation is a good tax on...Plus a modest amount of inflation is a good tax on wealth: it's a tax on people who have large piles of cash and can't think of anything to do with it.Ralph Musgravehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-4043532339592259772014-09-17T11:09:33.451-05:002014-09-17T11:09:33.451-05:00People "always prefer a more liquid asset to a les...People "always prefer a more liquid asset to a less liquid asset, other things equal.." What, so the entire population is likely to sell their houses to the central bank and live in caves surrounded by piles of $100 bills? Or would they prefer living in a house owned by the CB and rented from the CB? This is totally unrealistic.

As to shares, under the Friedman "zero interest on base money and government debt rule" people would still hold shares because the latter produce an above zero return. Indeed, we've had near zero interest rates for the last three years or so, and there hasn't been a stampede to sell shares. Quite the reverse.

Thus I'm baffled by the claim that under the Friedman rule the CB ends up owning all assets.
Ralph Musgravehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-8227649526873937192014-09-17T10:55:46.433-05:002014-09-17T10:55:46.433-05:00"How much more liquidity would there be" has nothi..."How much more liquidity would there be" has nothing to do with whether banks are nationalised or not. Government and central bank can create and spend ANY AMOUNT of "liquidity" (i.e. base money) into the economy whenever they want. In fact they've just done that big time over the last three years in the guise of fiscal stimulus followed by quantitative easing.

Re your claim that "…private production of liquidity is very effective, better for price stability.." are you being serious? We just been through the worst recession since the 1929 crash all caused by irresponsible bank lending or "liquidity production".

Commercial bank produced money is a liability of such banks, and it is "runnable" as John Cochrane puts it. I back his proposal to ban runnable liabilities from the liability side of banks' balance sheets. That means commercial banks no longer create liquidity / money. Only the central bank does.

Ralph Musgravehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-82613614221512622592014-09-17T10:29:15.525-05:002014-09-17T10:29:15.525-05:00Brian, when you say "The focus must be on mo...Brian, when you say "The focus must be on money and spending, not prices." I think it is pretty clear that you are trying to redefine "inflation" to suit your argument.

The last part of the nineteenth century did not see "temporary losses for a very few" but rather wide spread and long term hardship among, for example, small farmers. The numbers were large enough and the hardship severe enough to give rise to political movements in the United States. The "Cross of gold" speech still reverberates in American politics.

I am not advocating stagnation. I want faster progress. In 1880 my ancestors were mostly mostly poor farmers. I'm a self employed millionaire with a couple of university degrees. I am grateful for the progress. My points are that the deflation of 1880 was the result of progress - not the other way around; and that while our grandchildren will probably benefit from current progress we should not turn a blind eye to how harsh and painful the adjustment process can be in the here and now.

Absalonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-51806464021804561712014-09-16T18:07:22.004-05:002014-09-16T18:07:22.004-05:00No cop out here, Absalon. It's based on a proper m...No cop out here, Absalon. It's based on a proper method of defining a concept, which involves identifying the essential characteristic(s) of the concept. The definition of inflation based on rising prices doesn't focus on the essential characteristic and, as a result, has led to confusion and false conclusions regarding what causes inflation (demand pull, cost push, wage-price spiral, etc.), a lack of understanding of the effects of inflation (mal-investment, overconsumption, the withdrawal-of-wealth effect), and a poor understanding of the causes and cures of recessions and depressions. Note also that those who have a proper understanding of inflation aren't predicting inflation because it's already here. I discuss all of these in great detail in my recently published book Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle.

Regarding economic progress in the late 19th century, you are right that the progress was due to productivity gains and new technology. The freedom and competition that made these possible can lead to temporary losses for a very few but lead to gains for all in the long run. In fact, very quickly do those who might experience a loss due to a specific instance of competition start to gain from the general improvement of economic conditions. In addition, all workers and farmers today have benefitted tremendously from the freedom in the late 19th century and the remnants of freedom that still exists today.

What you are implicitly advocating for is stagnation. You are advocating for a standard of living that existed prior to the late 19th century (or worse). You are also implicitly advocating for the government to initiate physical force and violate individual rights to prevent the economic progress. This, of course, violates freedom and restricts competition, which is what leads to the stagnation. I discuss these topics in detail in a book I wrote in 2005 titled Markets Don't Fail!Brian firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-70820674530048230712014-09-16T13:32:55.059-05:002014-09-16T13:32:55.059-05:00Nick I think you raise an important issue: how muc...Nick I think you raise an important issue: how much more liquidity would there be if the government nationalized the banks, including shadow banks? I think that there would be a small increase in money, as public holdings of bank stock are replaced with liabilities of the central bank. This is a small change in money holdings because bank capital is a small fraction of bank funding. Yet there would be a significant decrease in price stability, according to the fiscal theory of the price level.

The point I'm making is that private production of liquidity is very effective, better for price stability, and obviously more efficient than having the government own the economy. We should look for a way to extend this function of banks to a wider class of assets, by developing a suitable form of indexed debt to fund the intermediation of equity investments. Instead of people buying index funds, they should buy the index, from intermediaries.Anwerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-33394428613544085262014-09-16T11:29:09.175-05:002014-09-16T11:29:09.175-05:00If a central bank implemented the Friedman rule, h...If a central bank implemented the Friedman rule, how big would the central bank's balance sheet need to be, in equilibrium?

If central bank liabilities are more liquid than other assets, and if people are never satiated in liquidity (they always prefer a more liquid asset to a less liquid asset, other things equal), then the central bank would need to own all the assets to achieve monetary equilibrium plus the Friedman rule.

If the government owns the central bank, that means the government owns all the assets.Nick Rowehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-67077088274856063702014-09-16T10:57:45.002-05:002014-09-16T10:57:45.002-05:00To properly understand inflation, one must underst...To properly understand inflation, one must understand it as an undue increase in the money supply.

That is a cop out embraced by people who have been predicting "inflation" and now that it has failed to appear, they are trying to change the definition. "Inflation" is a general rise in prices, the precise definition and calculation of which is open to debate.

Prices fell in the late 19th century because of rapidly rising productivity. The productivity gains were driven by new technology. The resulting reallocation of resources involved a lot of pain at the level of individual workers and farmers. Absalonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-48986614924033463272014-09-16T10:44:41.481-05:002014-09-16T10:44:41.481-05:00I can't tell if you are being ironic...Did you...I can't tell if you are being ironic...Did you finish reading Frankenstein? LALhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-3907186799764117292014-09-15T18:43:08.283-05:002014-09-15T18:43:08.283-05:00My personal opinion is that discussions of moralit...My personal opinion is that discussions of morality ruin almost everything worth doing. Dr. Frankenstein would have never flipped the switch if he'd been listening to a bunch of finger-wagging incurious kill-joy Luddite moralists. In the spirit of the late Christopher Hitchens (but admittedly carrying it to extremes), Morality poisons everything! :DTom Brownhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-57952666334521893892014-09-15T18:42:17.164-05:002014-09-15T18:42:17.164-05:00I agree that a morass of inconsistent stories is a...I agree that a morass of inconsistent stories is a bad thing (so why not escape that dead end by going off in a human-free orthogonal dimension?). I don't agree with the rest however. Take my simplified version of Jason's story to explain what John is asking for (Jason, if you're reading this, I apologize in advance... this will probably be at least 50% outright wrong, and 25% mischaracterization). Call it "Tom's hypotheses" to let Jason off the hook. He's... er,... I'm saying an economy gets into a state where it's information transfer index (kappa) is somewhere along the QTM to non-QTM spectrum of possibilities, provided the CB is reacting to market forces (i.e. it's part of a feedback loop). He has another solution to his fundamental equations for cases where the CB is truly exongenous and is ignoring the market, but I'll ignore that now. If this hypothesis is true, this is huge! Since kappa goes as log M / log NGDP, it's slowly varying, and not easy for policy to change it in short order. It means all the human-centric storytelling about why NGDP futures markets are better than NGDPLT which in turn is better than IT which is better than price level targeting, etc. and vice versa amounts to a lot yammering about very little! Perhaps just a few scraps after Tom's model explains 90% of what's going on. And it's a morality-free explanation. Does it mean we're stuck here (if we don't like it?). No: recall there are other solutions to the underlying equations, and they suggest policies which *might* extract us from this state -- for a price. Let the moralists squabble over the boring part, but lets have a firm foundation in explaining realty first. "Is the hypothesis true?" at this stage is a far more interesting (and sensical) question than "Is the hypothesis morally correct?" I claim the latter question is meaningless at this point.Tom Brownhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-35550972792672651422014-09-15T18:41:35.757-05:002014-09-15T18:41:35.757-05:00"But economics is fundamentally different fro..."But economics is fundamentally different from the physical sciences."

Jason might agree with you there, I'm not sure, and his opinion is more valuable than mine. However, I will only concede to it being "very different." And that difference is in every respect strictly a matter of degrees: relative abundance of useful data, repeatability of "experiments," numbers of available "laboratories" or test subjects, legal and financial constraints, and of course, degrees of complexity. (And one other factor: us being, in some sense "too close to the problem" and thus too easily beguiled by our own self-deceiving sense of "we're human, so we should know implicitly how humans in aggregate behave.")

Every experience in my life points to one overriding conclusion: this is a mechanical universe. I don't believe any kind of spooky magic happens regarding "human consciousness" or "free will" which would cause economics to fundamentally be different than physical sciences (though practically this may be the result, because of various (current) limitations). At the same time, I agree with Jason that we need to be very cautious about drawing analogies with other physical systems: there are many differences. Conservations laws being (and the lack of them -- in economics) being amongst the biggies.

"Whether or not it works is completely undefined without the stories, this is not quantum mechanics this is morally right from wrong. Works means nothing without knowing what is morally good."

You and I have very different outlooks on this. Take what John is asking for in this post: an explanation for what is happening and what has happened. This is the same explanation that Nick Rowe admits he doesn't have (but would like to have). What does a true explanation have to do with morality (other than it being true: honesty is a key (only?) part of the scientific "ethic"). Perhaps the answer is we're in our current state because there's not enough wrongful homicide. If that's truly the answer, then lets hear it: morality has nothing to do with it. It doesn't mean we *act on* this information by making a policy of murdering more (or less) people. To bring up the morality now before we even have a good sense of the mechanics is putting the card before the horse, IMO.

"Who cares about predicting money, as long as there are inconsistent stories underneath the predictions, we are just as ignorant as before."Tom Brownhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-61542569564388455882014-09-15T16:49:55.457-05:002014-09-15T16:49:55.457-05:00Wages can fall rapidly if they need to as long as ...Wages can fall rapidly if they need to as long as regulations don't prevent them from doing so. During the depression of the early 1920s in the U.S., wages fell 19 percent in one year. Today it would be more difficult for them to change this rapidly because of minimum wage laws, pro-labor union legislation, and welfare for the unemployed.

Japan's problems in recent decades haven't been because of its slowly changing prices, but because of its failure to quickly adjudicate bankruptcies and its massive "stimulus packages" that undermine saving and capital accumulation.

Rapid rates of economic progress can occur even when prices are constant or falling. We saw this in the late 19th century in the U.S. Prices fell during roughly the last quarter of the 19th century and the rate of economic progress was one of the highest experienced in the U.S. (if not the highest) during any period of the same length.

To properly understand inflation, one must understand it as an undue increase in the money supply. For deflation, one must understand it as a decrease in the money supply or spending. The focus must be on money and spending, not prices. If one has this understanding, one would see that inflation is high today, and given the propensity to spend by the U.S. government has the potential to be much higher.

I discuss all this in great detail in my recently published book Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle.Brian firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-56058027834862073562014-09-15T11:16:44.977-05:002014-09-15T11:16:44.977-05:00Anwer, "My rudimentary understanding of lend...Anwer,

"My rudimentary understanding of lending tells me that it is done against future income, which imposes a limit on how much can be borrowed."

An individual person has a limit on how much he / she can borrow (his / her lifetime income is finite). Infinite life agents (governments, too big to fail financial institutions, monopoly corporations, etc.) are not limited.

Also, loans can be classified into two categories - collateralized and non-collateralized. Mortgages, car loans, home equity loans on the consumer side and capital improvement loans and business mortgages on the production side constitute collateralized loans. If the borrower defaults, the lender has a legal claim on the good(s) that were purchased with the borrowed funds. Non-collateralized loans (credit cards, interbank funding, commercial paper) are claims on income only.

Finally, there are different categories (tranches) of debt on the corporate level. The highest level of corporate debt often has legal claim on trademark / patent rights and other intellectual property of a company should the company go bankrupt. This is a type of collateralized debt where the property used as collateral does not have an observable market price.

With all of that going on, trying to index all private debt becomes problematic. Money is often borrowed against goods that already exist (homes, used cars, etc.) and goods that don't have an observable market price (trademarks, patents, intellectual property, etc.).

There is a solution. Prior to the evolution of marketable debt (banks retain all loans), the solution was for the central bank to set a reserve requirement. That reserve requirement put a hard limit on how many loans could be made by the banking system. That solution is not viable anymore because banks are permitted to sell their loans to make more loans.

A solution that could work today would be for the federal government to require all loans to be collateralized (no more credit cards, unsecured debt) while also stipulating the amount / type of collateral that could be borrowed against. A bank could still sell off its loans but it could only re-lend those funds against collateral approved by the federal government.

FRestlyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-58331526580771651442014-09-15T10:00:42.086-05:002014-09-15T10:00:42.086-05:00But Steve Williamson makes a good argument why the...But Steve Williamson makes a good argument why the Friedman rule may not be optimal. Maintaining a currency system is costly (replacing old currency with new, preventing counterfeiting, etc.) and currency transactions are the preferred mode of operation of criminal enterprises. Because of these costs it may be optimal to tax those who hold currency, by maintaining a small but positive rate of inflation.Constantine Alexandrakishttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-34584551921236404412014-09-15T09:24:23.022-05:002014-09-15T09:24:23.022-05:00But economics is fundamentally different from the ...But economics is fundamentally different from the physical sciences. Whether or not it works is completely undefined without the stories, this is not quantum mechanics this is morally right from wrong. Works means nothing without knowing what is morally good.

Who cares about predicting money, as long as there are inconsistent stories underneath the predictions, we are just as ignorant as before. We only care whether the inflation rate is optimal to the underlying agents, we do not care about predicting inflation unless we have a coherent theory as to who it helps and doesn't. Otherwise there is no need for economics.

The parameter hit concept just shows that as the economy evolves parameters will be refit, and the parameters will mean nothing to anyone in the economy, bc we refuse to give them a moral meaning in the first place.LALhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-582368152716771238.post-19764498652156518632014-09-15T00:27:42.009-05:002014-09-15T00:27:42.009-05:00LAL, it sounds like you are familiar with Jason...LAL, it sounds like you are familiar with Jason's blog. I'm not sure I fully understand your comment: what's the "hit to one parameter" you write about?

In terms of "why" I think that's one of the attractive things about Jason's approach: you can answer why without understanding actors. That's kind of his point! The usual approach of looking for answers in human-scale motivations seems to lead to endless stories by different schools of thought: all of which sound great, but which are incompatible: it's hard to sort out the "just-so" type stories from the legitimate explanations.

As an analogy, in a recent post Jason wondered if the famous physicist Richard Feynman got it wrong when he said:

"Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings!" - R. Feynman

Perhaps it wouldn't make a whit of difference if electrons had feelings or "free will," or had the ability and motivation to "maximize their personal utility functions." ... maybe none or very very little of that would survive at the macro scale.

So I don't see Jason as abandoning the principle of telling stories to explain why, but he's trying an approach in which certain kinds of stories that are traditionally told are skipped or deemphasized. However, he does try to find as many correspondences in his results as he can with traditional macro.

So what do we have instead? How about a nice story drawing an analogy with a pile of sand (for example)?. :D I just happen to have read that one tonight (one of his posts I'd missed).

I don't see what's wrong with developing a new kind of intuition for this stuff which largely skips the human part. We've had to do it in other fields to make advances: for example quantum mechanics and relativity: very very counter-intuitive... but who cares? You build a new intuition based on what actually works, rather than stick with something that's intuitive but wrong.Tom Brownhttp://email@example.com


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re: Interview Qs Decoded - # 2 VIEW POST
It's an interesting problem because it drives for a more optimal solution rather than desiring some super terse response I think. Though clearly .reverse() is highly optimised and terse! On DEV we often see solutions to problems written deliberately functionally (I do this a lot). Asking for no .reduce() definitely pushes us to realise we are being asked for an actual function not some kind of super expression and we should therefore be able to strive for optimal performance and memory use.
I run a lot of interviews, in this question I'd be looking for the following in the answer:
- Don't use string appending - if the string was long this is a very slow solution - the result should concatenate an output array using .join()
- Don't build an array using the spread operator at each step, it's even worse than string appending for performance and memory usage/garbage collection.
- An optimal solution will cache commonly dereferenced properties to improve performance
Along with another commenter I also like your use of pop() very smart that. I think there's a slight error in it though - surely your function adds one too many characters?
<=str.length - overall your solution is great.
Minimised space usage would have me making this hybrid of solutions mentioned:
function reverseString(str) {
const source = str.split('')
const swap = source.length >> 1
for(let i = 0, j = source.length-1; i < swap;i++,j--) {
let a = source[i]
source[i] = source[j]
source[j] = a
return source.join('')
- Writing out that variable swap rather than using
[source[i], source[j]] = [source[j], source[i]]avoids creating 2 arrays on every loop. These would be quickly garbage collected but it depends on the browser as to just how much memory/time that uses.
- This has only one array being used and so reduces allocations
Performance is one way to look at it, another is readability and ease of use. If you assume only reasonably short strings and a reasonable amount of iterations then I would argue that the easier readable solution is the better one, as it is inviting less misunderstandings and saves time every time a developer reads your code. Just mentioning that so you don't judge your interviewees prematurely only on performance ;)
I actually used
splitString.length at first during the interview, but I wasn't getting the right result-- I came up short. Then I realized I needed to use
str.length instead to get the desired result, and it was what the interviewer was looking for.
Thank you for your well-thought-out, detailed comment! I will keep those pointers in mind during the next technical interview.