{"id":11,"date":"2019-11-19T14:25:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/layers\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:32:19","slug":"look-listen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/dybasjames\/look-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Look\/Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 1165px; height: 655.312px;\" title=\"Chicago Dance History Project Video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kaBvZu05m1c?feature=oembed\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"1200\" data-origheight=\"675\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chicago Dance History Project director Jenai Cutcher West interviewed me in 2016 in \u00a0NYC. I\u2019m joined by choreographer Faye Driscoll whose mother, dancer\/actor Maureen Byrnes was a long time friend of mine.\u00a0I started my career as a dancer in Chicago nightclub revues and talk about my training with teacher Edna McRae and my first jobs outside of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"font-family: inherit; width: 1165px; height: 873.75px;\" title=\"LegacyAwards\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjfIyGUs6H0?feature=oembed\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"1200\" data-origheight=\"900\"><\/iframe><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The Dancers Over 40 Legacy Award is given annually to a select few dancers who have worked as dancers and made a living doing it all of their lives. After my friend Patti Mariano and DO40 president John Sefakis introduce me, I talk about my dance training and surprise everyone with a short dance number that my friend Ms. Teddy Kern secretly helped choreograph to Jose Feliciano\u2019s \u00a0\u201cT\u00fa Me Acostumbraste\u201d. \u00a0Dybasakis is another story\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 1165px; height: 655.312px;\" title=\"Charles Kirsch Interviews James Dybas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fr6R84hkEgQ?feature=oembed\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"1200\" data-origheight=\"675\"><\/iframe>Charles Kirsch is the host of \u201cBackstage Babble\u201d a podcast that interviews \u201cprofessionals in the theatre industry about themselves, their careers and the people that they\u2019ve worked with along the way\u201d. We did this interview on Zoom and so I was able to get this video as well, which Charles has given his OK to use on this Performing Arts Legacy \u201cLook\/Listen\u201d page. <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/backstage-babble\/id1526353692\">Check out his podcasts<\/a> to hear interviews with Joel Grey, Ed Asner, John Weidman, Susan L. Shulman, Steve Ross, Eileen Casey, Lee Roy Reams, Michael Lavine, Mary Jane Houdina and Carolyn Kirsch (no relation). I\u2019m grateful and flattered to have been invited to share my ups and downs in the Biz with Charles and his listeners.<\/p>\n<h4>James Dybas Sings \u201cHere\u2019s to Life\u201d<\/h4>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 1165px; height: 100%;\" title=\"Here\u2019s to Life - Feb. 2010\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/919365591?h=cd6e1be417&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" data-ready=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div  class=\"lgc-column lgc-grid-parent lgc-grid-50 lgc-tablet-grid-50 lgc-mobile-grid-100 lgc-equal-heights \"><div  class=\"inside-grid-column\">\n<p><strong>Chess<\/strong>\u00a0(1992)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V3f9O1klL0M?si=GZCYTgFstoMcXf_A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class=\"lgc-column lgc-grid-parent lgc-grid-50 lgc-tablet-grid-50 lgc-mobile-grid-100 lgc-equal-heights \"><div  class=\"inside-grid-column\">\n<strong>Ed Sullivan Show<\/strong> (1960)\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bkd_vH9o69g?si=N8frH1JZtI4nqcc0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"lgc-clear\"><\/div>\n<h4>80s\/90s Demo Reel<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Dybas - 1980\/90s Demo Reel\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jff4e9HkKl0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Dance History Project director Jenai Cutcher West interviewed me in 2016 in \u00a0NYC. 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