Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts! This is a dance podcast, where we'll primarily be talking about dance and dance-related media: stories, advice, grievances, all the stuff from the perspective of a dedicated non-professional dancer!
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
Episode 19 - A lengthy conversation about returning to dance ft. Cindy Ye
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today I'm joined by a friend and fellow dancer, Cindy Ye. Cindy is a graduate student and extremely talented dancer. Our paths crossed when we were in …
Episode 18 - Bad dance teacher stories... (they're funny, promise!)
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! We've all had good and bad teachers/coaches--let that be in school or our chosen extra-curricular. Today I'm talking about two of the most memorable "b…
Episode 17 - BIG dance update from me
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance podcast! Today we change up the formula a little bit and we're talking specifically about the big new that has impacted my dance life in 2024. This episode had …
Episode 16 - Talking about our shared dance history ft. Angelina Tram
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today I'm joined by old friend and fellow dancer, Angelina Tram. Angelina is also a dancer who has their roots in Chinese dance, and she was able to fi…
Episode 15 - I made a Chinese Dance Club
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today, we're talking about Chinese dance again, specifically about my journey to bring Chinese dance (the art form) to my university campus, the ups an…
Episode 14 - Treasure (The CASHCASH Remix) & Directing ft. Justin Lee
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today, we continue our conversation with Justin from last week. Last week, we talked about various thoughts on dance ranging from the payoff of a perfo…
Episode 13 - Various Dance Thoughts ft. Justin Lee
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today, I'm joined by a good friend and fellow dancer, Justin Lee. Justin Lee is hard working, recreational dancer who graciously gave up some of his ti…
Episode 12 - Dance & Criticism
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Inspired by overhearing a conversation a while back, I wanted to take the time to talk about criticism in dance: what is and isn't good critical feedba…
Episode 11 - Trust Fund & Sorry Not Sorry
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today I'm recounting some of my memories from when I was directing dances in my final year of university and reflecting on how dance is truly a team ef…
Episode 10 - Ba Nu Tou Jian/"The War Dance"
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! I've done a lot of Chinese dances over the years, but the one that I'm proudest of having done is called 八女投江 (bānǔ tóujiāng), which depicts the story …
Episode 9 - Ego, Creativity, and Peer Teaching ft. Audrey Luu
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today I'm joined by a good friend and fellow dancer, Audrey Luu. Audrey Luu is a mostly self-taught dancer and was able to chat with me about self-lear…
Episode 8 - Adjustments & Ego
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! We start today's episode with some anecdotes from when I transitioned from Chinese Dance to a less technical style of dance and we end our episode with…
Episode 7 - Kathak ft. Serene Puri
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today I'm joined by an old friend and fellow dancer, Serene Puri. Serene has been a Kathak dancer since a young age, and we had a wonderful conversatio…
Episode 6 - Lunar New Year!
Happy Year of the Dragon and welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today we're discussing the lunar new year and some lunar new year memories that always make me laugh.
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Episode 5 - Chinese Dance Thoughts & Asides
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today, we're discussing some more specific dances we didn't have time for (or were forgotten) from the previous three Chinese Dance deep dive episodes.…
Episode 4 - Chinese Traditional Dances pt. 2
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance podcast! Today we're completing our deep dive into Chinese Dance and taxonomy. This is the final part of a three-part mini-series. This part completes our discu…
Episode 3 - Chinese Traditional Dances pt. 1
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance podcast! Today we're taking a deep dive into Chinese Dance and taxonomy into Chinese dances. This is the second part of a three-part mini-series. This part disc…
Episode 2 - Chinese Dance Deep Dive
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance podcast! Today we're taking a deep dive into Chinese Dance and taxonomy into Chinese dances. This is the first part of a three-part mini series. This part discu…
Episode 1 - The Origins
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, A Dance Podcast! Today we're talking about a special solo and the origin story of an aspect of this podcast.
Episode 0 - Welcome to the Show
Welcome to Freestyle Thoughts, a Dance Podcast! Today, I'm giving you an introduction to me, your host, as well as a taste of what's to come!