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We are a handful of fans of the Conversations on Dance Podcast. We're all also Vail Dance Festival Regulars.

Danceexplorer.org is not just a non-profit. We are completely non-revenue. We don't want any contributions and you won't see any ads. We just want you to enjoy more dance.

Webmaster — Bruce Wilson

Design committee — Jerry Nelson, Laurian Unnevehr, and Sara Fitzgerald.

We'd like to hear from you. Send comments, suggestions, corrections, questions, or anything that isn't working to:

danceexplorer.org@gmail.com

Things that are especially useful to report:

• A performance, company, or episode that's missing, or listed wrong.
• A link that goes to the wrong place or doesn't work.
• A name spelled wrong, or a dancer listed with the wrong company or rank.
• Anything confusing — if a button isn't clear, that's worth telling us about.
• A company or presenter you'd like to see added.

If you're reporting a problem, the page name and — where relevant — the guest, company, or program involved helps us find it quickly.

Dance Explorer has two main sections: Podcasts (the Conversations on Dance archive) and Performances (the current dance season). Every page carries the same small set of navigation controls.

Links that leave Dance Explorer — company websites, Instagram, YouTube, Patreon, episode pages — always open in a new tab, so you never lose your place.

These are the links and buttons on the podcast list pages — All Guests and the themed pages (Dancers, Choreographers, Artistic Directors, Companies, Works, By Year, Vail, Balanchine, Live Events, Best Of, Video Episodes).

Conversations on Dance is hosted by Rebecca King Ferraro and Michael Sean Breeden. Dance Explorer indexes the archive so you can find episodes by guest, company, choreographer, work, or theme — but the podcast itself, including new episodes, subscription links, and the hosts' own notes, lives at conversationsondancepod.com.

Every episode title on Dance Explorer links back to that site.

These are the links and buttons on the performance pages — By Month, By Company, By Choreographer, By Work, and the Grid. They all show the same 2026–27 season data, sorted differently.

The Grid is the season at a glance: one row per week, one colored bar per program, laid out on a calendar.

The season covers dozens of companies across the country, which is a lot if you only follow a few. You can narrow every performance page down to just the companies you care about.

1. Open Settings (the icon, top-right of any page).
2. Turn on Show only selected companies.
3. Click Choose the selected companies and tick the ones you want. Select all and Clear are there to start from either end.
4. Click Done, then Close.

If you mostly go to performances within reach of where you live, ticking companies one at a time is more work than it needs to be. The Add region… dropdown at the top of the company list does it in one step: choose a region and every company in it is ticked for you.

Regions are grouped the way a dance-goer would think about them — roughly by how far you'd travel — rather than by strict state lines, so a region can reach across a state border and a company near the edge of one metro area may appear in more than one region. The list runs east to west.

Not every company sits in a region — touring groups and a few one-off entries have no home city to file them under, so they have to be ticked individually.

Your choice applies to By Month, By Company, and the Grid together, and it's remembered the next time you visit. To see everything again, turn Show only selected companies back off — your list is kept, so you can switch back and forth without re-picking.

By Choreographer and By Work always show every company.

The selection is stored in your browser, so it's per device — choosing companies on your laptop won't carry over to your phone.

The icon in the top-right corner of every page opens Settings. It's kept off the main pages to leave them uncluttered, but it's meant to be used — come back and change what you're seeing as often as you like.

Settings are saved in your browser, on that device. Changes take effect the next time a performance page loads.

Every page works on a phone — same content, same buttons, laid out for a narrow screen. A few differences worth knowing:

• On program listings, the dates and the Show Dates button share the top line, with the title and details below.
• Blue curtain times inside a date calendar open the ticket page in a new tab, same as on a computer.
• There's no hover, so where a desktop shows a tooltip — the full company name behind a short tag in the company-selection list, for instance — a phone doesn't.
• The Grid keeps its full calendar width rather than reflowing; turn your phone sideways for a better view of it.
• Featured videos suggest rotating to landscape when you start them.

Settings and company selections are stored per browser, so your phone and your computer each keep their own.

Podcast episodes come from the Conversations on Dance feed and are added as new episodes are published. Guests, their roles, and their companies are identified for each episode so they can be browsed every which way.

Performances are gathered from the companies' and presenters' own season announcements, and refreshed as those pages change. The 2026–27 season is the season currently covered.

Dancer rosters come from each company's own roster page, including rank where the company publishes it.

Dance Explorer points at the source rather than replacing it: for tickets, casting, exact times, and changes, always follow the link to the company's own page. Companies announce and revise on their own schedule, so if you spot something out of date, tell us — that's often how we find out.