Conversations on Dance

Conversations on Dance We are pleased to welcome you to the Conversations on Dance podcast with Rebecca King Ferraro and Michael Sean Breeden.

With each episode, we bring our audience conversations with the dance world's best and brightest. Welcome to the "Conversations on Dance" podcast with Rebecca King Ferraro and Michael Sean Breeden. With each episode, we bring our audience an inside look into the world of professional dancers. We discuss ballet training, techniques, choreography, and conduct interviews with some of the ballet world’s best and brightest. We feel passionately that the future of ballet depends on our ability to educate audience members and to inspire young dancers, which is why we founded our podcast. Please join us on our adventure to delve deeper into the beautiful world of ballet. Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, iheartradio, or listen through your browser, at conversationsondancepod.com. We are also available for guest appearances, for more information, visit conversationsondancepod.com/guest-appearances

08/16/2026

Here’s what it’s like at the Vail Dance Festival 💥 Subscribe to the Conversations on Dance podcast through your favorite podcast app. 🎧

08/16/2026

Here’s what it’s like at Vail Dance Festival ✨ For the 10th year, Rebecca King Ferraro and Michael Sean Breeden hosted live events to bring you closer to the festival and the festival artists. Tune into Conversations on Dance through your favorite podcast app.

Plus, click the link in our bio to enjoy one FREE month of Patreon access where you can listen to the podcast ad-free.

Enjoy! 🎧 Thank you to Damian Woetzel and Heather Watts for having us be a part of this incredible event.

Video clips via VDF and the incredible Nel Shelby Productions 🩷

LISTEN 🎧 Hear from Vail Dance Festival Composer in Residence, caroline shaw. We discuss her start in music, if she’s goi...
08/11/2026

LISTEN 🎧 Hear from Vail Dance Festival Composer in Residence, caroline shaw. We discuss her start in music, if she’s going for an EGOT (we think so!), her history with the festival, and so much more.

Tune into the Conversations on Dance podcast through your favorite podcast app. Click the link in bio for more info.

📸: by Chris Kendig

LISTEN 🎧 Tune into the Conversations on Dance podcast from Vail Dance Festival with New York City Ballet principal dance...
08/08/2026

LISTEN 🎧 Tune into the Conversations on Dance podcast from Vail Dance Festival with New York City Ballet principal dancer, Ryan Tomash. Hear about his career, the coaches who have been a big part of his journey, his time at Royal Danish Ballet, and his first year at NYCB. Plus, his fantastic debut in “Afternoon of a Faun” with Mira Nadon.

Listen to Conversations on Dance wherever you get your podcasts.

📸: Ryan Tomash and Mira Nadon perform “Afternoon of a Faun” choreographed by Jerome Robbins at State of Grace at the 2026 Vail Dance Festival. Photo by Christopher Duggan. © The Robbins Rights Trust. Christopher Duggan

08/07/2026

LISTEN 🎧 Tune into the Conversations on Dance Podcast to hear from three Vail Dance Festival mainstays: Lauren Lovette, Robbie Fairchild, and Unity Phelan. This trio shares with us what they have been up to over the last year, how their journeys here in Vail have fueled their careers, and what comes next.

Tune into Conversations on Dance wherever you listen to podcasts to hear from these Vail Dance Festival artists and more!

🎥: Lauren and Robbie in Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Carousel’ pas de deux.

08/05/2026

Tune into The Conversations on Dance Podcast to hear from tap superstar Michelle Dorrance and Irish Dance superstars of Trinity Irish Dance Academy, Chelsea Hoy and sofi dorantes . You won’t want to miss this fascinating conversation surrounding their collaboration that will be coming to the Vail Dance Festival stage on Monday, August 10th for the NOW:Premieres program.

Tune into Conversations on Dance through your favorite podcast app.

Live from Vail Dance Festival with the incomparable, Herman Cornejo, Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre. 💥 Tu...
08/04/2026

Live from Vail Dance Festival with the incomparable, Herman Cornejo, Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre. 💥 Tune into The Conversations on Dance Podcast through your favorite podcast app to hear Herman talk about how ballet became an outlet for him as a shy child, some of his first big opportunities with ABT, his 16+ years here in Vail, and much more.

Tune in now 🎧

Photos: (1) Tiler Peck with Herman in George Balanchine’s Rubies in 2014. Choreography (c) The George Balanchine Trust. Photo by Erin Baiano (2) Herman with Misa Kuranaga 倉永美沙 in Swan Lake. 2014 Photo by Erin Baiano (3) Lauren Lovette with Herman in George Balanchine’s Rubies. Choreography (c) The George Balanchine Trust. (4) Herman and Isabella Boylston in Diana & Acteon in 2014. Photo by Erin Baiano

The 500th episode of Conversations on Dance is now live in the podcast feed! 🤩 AND it’s our first episode from our 10th ...
08/02/2026

The 500th episode of Conversations on Dance is now live in the podcast feed! 🤩 AND it’s our first episode from our 10th season at Vail Dance Festival. Plus, our guests couldn’t be any better 🥳 Listen to our episode with Lloyd Knight and Laurel Dalley Smith of Martha Graham Dance Company now!

Tune in now to The Conversations on Dance Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧

Special shout out to our amazing friends and listeners who surprised us with these 500 balloons! Such a special surprise to mark this occasion 💙💙 You know who you are!!!! Xoxo

So looking forward to returning to at next Sunday (4/19) to host ‘s evening featuring a look at the company’s reimagin...
04/12/2026

So looking forward to returning to at next Sunday (4/19) to host ‘s evening featuring a look at the company’s reimagined ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Juliano Nunes. Just a few tickets still available. Click the link in our bio to snag yours. 🎟️

📸: by Elyse Mertz from our event in February with panel with and .

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