ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Join professional dancer and filmmaker, Mia Tate, as she dives into the heart, humor, and why behind movement. Each episode of Why We Dance pulls you into the intimate world of a guest—dancers, artists, everyday inspirations—who’ve loved, healed, survived, reimagined, and thrived through dance and movement. From backstage confessions to living room breakthroughs, Mia blends soulful chats, wild stories, and unfiltered truth with people from every walk of life. Bold, tender, and pulsing with the primal heartbeat we all share, this podcast is an open invitation to feel the stories behind what moves us.
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Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
55 minutes
Guest interviews
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English
United States
10 episodes
since Nov. 25, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode of Why We Dance, host Mia Tate sits down with writer-director Josef Kubota Wladyka to celebrate the release of his Sundance award-winning film Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! — a love letter to his mother, a ballroom dancer who says dance saved her life. Josef reflects on his B-boy days,…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this intimate episode of Why We Dance, Mia Tate welcomes Mx. Antoine Hunter—an award‑winning Deaf dancer, choreographer, teacher, advocate, and the founder of the Urban Jazz Dance Company and the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival.
Antoine describes movement as breath, meditation, and s…
In this episode of Why We Dance, Montana Tucker joins host Mia Tate for a conversation that lives in the body: a conversation about lineage, loss, visibility, and the deep human need to move when standing still is too heavy.
Montana has been dancing since childhood — inspired by Britney Spears VH…
The body is not static. Neither is identity.
In this episode of Why We Dance, Mia Tate welcomes Viktoria Modesta for a bold and expansive conversation about movement as authorship, creativity as survival, and the freedom found in refusing fixed forms.
Viktoria shares her early life in Latvia and th…
Presence as Craft. Movement as Meaning.
In this episode of Why We Dance, Mia Tate welcomes Will Swenson for an intimate conversation that looks beyond the spotlight and inside the life of an actor shaped by movement, memory, and truth.
From their shared high school years in Salt Lake City to Will’s…
Freedom as Practice. Movement as Choice.
In this episode of Why We Dance, Mia Tate welcomes Aaron Walton for a reflective and wide-ranging conversation about freedom—not as a destination, but as something lived, practiced, and earned through motion.
Aaron shares how growing up in a musically rich h…
Movement as Meaning. Dance as Belonging.
In this episode of Why We Dance, Mia Tate welcomes Alice Sheppard for a powerful conversation about redefining dance through disability culture, collaboration, and lived experience.
Alice shares her unconventional path into dance, beginning in academia with …
Movement as Courage. Dance as Truth.
In this powerful episode of Why We Dance, Mia Tate welcomes Mallika Sarabhai—world-renowned Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer, actress, author, and fearless activist—for a conversation that stretches far beyond the stage.
Mallika reflects on growing up in an ex…
Lights, Camera, Dance!
In the premiere episode of Why We Dance, actress Musetta Vander interviews the show’s host, Mia Tate—not to talk about dance, but to uncover what dance has rescued, restored, and revealed in Mia’s life and why she created this show.
Mia opens up about the seasons that nearly…
I'm Mia Tate, a professional dancer and filmmaker, and on my podcast Why We Dance. We dive into the heart humor, and why behind movement. Each week I get to sit down with dancers. artists, and everyday Inspirations. These are soulful chats, wild stories and unfiltered truths. This is your open invi…
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