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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 3/17/25 |  Sue Mayes, Healing Hands | Today I have the immense privilege of speaking with Dr. Sue Mayes. She's the current director of the Australian Ballet's globally-recognized artistic health team. | — | ||||||
| 3/11/25 | James Boyd, the Light Inside | Today I have the immense privilege of speaking with Bangarra Dance Theatre’s James Boyd. James is a proud Aboriginal man with connections to the Kunja and Muruwari people of southwest Queensland. | — | ||||||
| 2/19/25 | Lucia Field, Family Ties | Today I have the immense privilege of speaking with Lucia Field. Lucia grew up with her family in Sydney, but with her dad, Anthony, as the original Blue Wiggle. It's not the childhood you might imagine. | — | ||||||
| 2/11/25 | Riley Lapham, the Come Back | Today I have the immense privilege of speaking with Riley Lapham. Riley grew up in Wollongong, and she was a star on the rise from an early age and joined the Australian Ballet School by the age of 14. But from here, Riley's journey takes twists and turns. | — | ||||||
| 1/27/25 | Brooke Cassen, Back in the Studio | Today we have the pleasure of speaking with former Australian Ballet dancer Brooke Cassen. On Season Three of Talking Pointes, I spoke with Brooke on what became one of our most listened-to episodes of all time. | — | ||||||
| 1/20/25 | Juliet Doherty, Following the Light | Today I have the privilege of speaking with the divine Juliet Doherty. Juliet was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is slightly more Breaking Bad than “Swan Lake,” but Juliet's grandparents owned a ballet studio which passed to Juliet's mother, and so the artistic genes ran deep. | — | ||||||
| 1/13/25 |  Get Well with Dr Brandi Cole | In today's episode we speak with superstar Dr. Brandi Cole. You may have seen Dr. Brandi on your screens as she worked to keep the Matilda's on the field during the Women's World Cup in 2023, and then at the Paris Olympics. | — | ||||||
| 1/13/25 |  Talking Pointes Season Four | Listen up! Talking Pointes, the podcast that shines a light on life in dance and the performing arts, is back for a fourth season. This season we focus on health— we'll be talking about injury recovery, the psychology of returning to the stage, about body image, disordered eating, and mental health. Our guests include doctors, dancers, physiotherapists, and more. We are so excited for you to join us for this incredible season! Launches on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. Talking Pointes is produced on the lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, to whom we pay our greatest respects. Production dream team ✨ Hosted by @byclaudialawson Produced by @fjordreview Additional Production @clinttopic Sound & Editing @outputmedia Studios @brightsidesydney @sawtoothstudios | — | ||||||
| 1/6/25 | Dana Stephensen, Bonus Chapter | For our Season Three bonus episode, we speak again with the divine Dana Stephensen, who recently retired after two decades with the Australian Ballet and is ready for her bonus chapter. | — | ||||||
| 12/30/24 | John Lam in Motion | For this summer series, we revisit our conversation with John Lam on the eve of his retirement from Boston Ballet, where he talks about the joys of dance, about finding his sexuality and the moment he came out to his parents. | — | ||||||
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| 12/16/24 | Evie Ferris, Finding her Voice | We speak with Evie Ferris, the second Indigenous Australian to dance with the Australian Ballet, and the first Indigenous Australian to be a member of The Wiggles. | — | ||||||
| 11/18/24 | Adam Blanch, the Real Billy Elliot | For this summer series bonus episode, we revisit Adam Blanch's “Billy Elliot” story. Adam opens up about his childhood, the bullying he suffered, his sexuality, but also the joys and the adventures he's had along the way to ultimately create the career and the life of his dreams. | — | ||||||
| 11/11/24 | Brooke Cassen: Different Dreams | In this summer series episode, we revisit speaking with Brooke Lockett, former Australian Ballet dancer who had a dream run to the stage. | — | ||||||
| 11/4/24 | Shaun Parker King Maker | For this summer series, we revisit Shaun Parker's unexpected path from country kid to artistic director and choreographer of an internationally renowned contemporary dance company. | — | ||||||
| 10/28/24 | Danielle Rowe, New Frontiers | For this summer season edition, we revisit Danielle Rowe on her international career, choreography, family life, and ultimately how she became the first female artistic director of Oregon Ballet Theater. | — | ||||||
| 10/21/24 | Adam Bull, Man in the Mirror | We revisit Season Three's interview with Adam Bull, talking about his 22 years with the Australian Ballet, making principal, his onstage partnership with Amber Scott, and finding himself post-retirement. | — | ||||||
| 3/11/24 | David Hallberg, One Year On | For our bonus episode this season, we’re catching up with the Australian Ballet’s Artistic Director David Hallberg. | — | ||||||
| 3/4/24 | Paul Mercurio, A life lived in fear is a life half lived | For our final episode of the summer series recap of Talking Pointes, we revisit our conversation with the legendary Paul Mercurio. | — | ||||||
| 2/27/24 | Jenna Caley, Born to Dance | For any outsider, it was clear the Roberts sisters were born to dance—with high arches and long, lean legs, genetics almost pre-determined their careers. By the time Jenna was a teen, she was winning scholarships and accolades before, at 16, she was accepted into the Royal Ballet School in London. | — | ||||||
| 2/12/24 | Beau Dean Riley Smith, Stories to Tell | Beau Dean Riley Smith on falling in love with dance, his career with Bangarra, and what's next for the award-winning performer. | — | ||||||
| 2/5/24 | Mary Li's Last Dance | We revisit our conversation with Mary Li, wife of Li Cunxin, former dancer and ballet mistress at Queensland Ballet. Her story to the stage is an unlikely one; one of eight children, Mary grew up in a small town in Central Queensland called Rockhampton. | — | ||||||
| 1/29/24 | Summer Series: Steven McRae, Full Throttle | For episode five of our summer series, we revisit Steven McRae's wild ride to become principal dancer at the Royal Ballet. | — | ||||||
| 1/22/24 | Summer Series: Lucinda Dunn's Key to Success | From London's West End to becoming a star with the Australian Ballet, Lucinda Dunn's pathway to success. | — | ||||||
| 1/15/24 | Summer Series: Dancing with Dana Stephensen | A rejection letter from the Australian Ballet School changed the trajectory of Dana Stephensen's life. | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.