Dance Bants

Today on the show I am excited to welcome a very inspiring woman to me, Meg Cooper, the founder and owner of Brisbane's Mad Dance House! We discuss her journey from teaching ballet in church halls to becoming an entrepreneur running a GINORMOUS studio. We talk about her inspirations, passions and values as well as her advice for dancers. You can watch us on Youtube having this conversation @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show I am excited to share with you a conversation with Max, also known as Thv Flood. This is in fact the first time Max has broken his silence since dropping his first Flood vid 2 years ago. If you don't already know this video caused waves and broke the internet and Max received daily slams and death threats. He didn't reply to one of them and now he is here to share his story. Link to Aaron Griffin's episode of Dance Bants: https://youtu.be/RHDV8M5dUik This is one of my proudest dance bants episodes and it's a mad yarn. If you want to watch it instead it is also on Youtube @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show I have the amazing Tiana Canterbury! Tiana has had an unbelievable career and is a respected and admired woman in our industry with experience working as Janet Jackson's body double, choreographing for many musicians and telly shows, and being Red Bull Dance Your Style's scene expert. It was an exciting pleasure to take in her energy. As you will discover I capitalised on this opportunity by asking many intrusive and niche questions such as what is the secret to anti aging because we all want to know how to look like Tiana after three children. We also discuss her advice for young cats coming up, and her recent interest and direction towards the ENERGY CENTRES! Please enjoy

Today on the show I have TALIA is who a huge inspiration to me. Talia has mad style and has recently endeavoured into the world of popping from choreography and commercial dance which is very DAUNTING if you ask me. We discuss that transition and our experiences freestyling and battling. Talia has performed alongside Tkay Mydza, Cosmos Midnight, Tones & I and The Deep Faith. She has also performed and worked creatively at a number of national and international events, for institutions such as VIVID, Canon, Westfield, the Voice, ABC and Australian Afterpay Fashion Week. You can watch our conversation on Youtube @thedancebantsshow.

Today on the show I have Vanessa Marian, founder of Groove Therapy and movement director for every brand under the sun. We have found ourselves serendipitously in the same town and thus it is my honour to have an onsite yarn with Vanessa. I felt very inspired and ready to do business after this conversation was over and I highly recommend it for anyone looking at movement direction or being casted in anything in general. We talk auditions, red flags for agents, how to work in professional environments, establishing a brand or identity and finances; all topics that give me the heeby jeebies but it was less heeby and more fun education. I hope you enjoy! You can also catch us visually having the same conversation on youtube where you can see me ducking on repeat to the ominous swarm of sparrows that kept flying in circles over my head during the episode @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show I am overjoyed to share a conversation with Luc Jacobs. Luc is well known for his work as a dancer and then Rehearsal Director of the Batsheva Dance Company aka my favourite dance company for 18 years. Needless to say I was busting with excitement to talk to him and he delivered very much the kind of funny wig out I expected regarding what is dance or movement really, how he likes to choreograph, how sensation doesn't have a weight and his epic career that only continues to expand since he is now doing Sleep No More with Punchdrunk!!!!! Please enjoy

Today on the show we have Kira Holland, legend of the community and wise cowboy from the inner west. We discuss Kira's full time Qld Ballet life and her journey to One Dance community. We talk about her cancer experience and the epic One dance/PB jam show that raised money for her during that time. I shed tears about dancing. it's been a really long time since I uploaded, wow but we keep on charging full steam towards 300 episodes love youz

My horse friend Mathilde and I cross the world to zoom

Today on the show we have Linda Gamblin, Head of training at Sydney Dance Company and the creator of pre professional year aka PPY aka the full time course I did! Linda had a huge career dancing with the Royal Ballet Company, Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company and the National Ballet of Portugal! Linda tells her story and we discuss the full-time course she developed that has now grown to have three coordinators and about 60 students! We also talk about Linda's breast cancer journey and the lessons she realised through this. It is an honour to have Linda on, she is one of the most inspiring people who has influenced me and so many people in my journey. Dance Bants is getting VERY pre professional. I also can't believe I could finally talk about full time with a real course director on my show. Catch us on Youtube if you prefer to watch the conversation @thedancebantsshow.

Today's episode is kinda the part 2 to Matt Gray's. It was recorded later that day up on the Goldy and continues the ideas of his episode. It is also one of my favourite dance bants of all time. Corey is Matt Gray's best mate and it's crazy because Corey and I met as couch surfers in Barcelona 5 years ago, and only this year we realised we have heaps of mutual friends and met again. Life is magic like that. Corey has knowledge from about 5000 different lives and he makes me laugh VERY hard also. We discuss dance identity crisis and getting out of depression, wheat diet, near death experiences, a rare perspective on the doofer life, why manifestation isn't that effective, ADHD, why Canberra is weird, and how you can be the heart throb of the party, and why you should encourage people. Thanks for listening! As always, you can catch us on Youtube having the real life conversation if you wanna. @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show I have Matt Gray, and I reckon this might be my favourite conversation on dance bants so far. We discuss big ideas about 'tHe aRtS', what the public wants vs you want, why you shouldn't quit your job then launch a gofundme, diversifying your art, creativity, finances, jamming, and his favourite art. You can catch this episode on Youtube @thedancebantsshow

Today it's my pleasure to share a conversation with Lydia Kivela who has been an infinitely requested guest. This convo blew my mind a milly times while I was editing it Lydz drops bombs about self expression and acceptance, freestyling, being a girl in an all boys crew and her experience doing suit work at christmas time. This was the longest dance bants conversation in history it was originally 3.5 hours but here is the very best 1 hour 27. Enjoy! ALSO catch the bOrble pic and our conversation as it gets dark on Youtube and follow on insta @thedancebantsshow PS sorry for the three month break I'm an EmErGiNg choreographer and I'm a massive deal in freefall and I have spooky nightmares every night. Back to regular broadcasting, I swear. Love youz thanks for listening :)

On today's episode of Dance Bants we have the one and only Anton. We discuss his new show Narcifixion, his teaching methods and philosophy, coming back from a break, his life story, how dancing until 60 is not unreasonable, and his advice for the NEW GEN. Yaa hooo. Catch the visual episode on youtube or insta @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show Kieran brings a special poem he prepared earlier and we address its contents. We talk about how teaching is SO important and some potential avenues for fulltimers. I propose a theory about how maybe fear permeates many of our environments in dance and we also discuss the pursuit of individuality and how it can help us find purpose, freedom and opportunity in our dance.

Today on the show we have an ear dancer who makes ASMR and is a professional in his league. Jonah's most popular ASMR video has had over 7 million views and his youtube channel is on and poppin with like 90 million new subs every day. We talk about his life and he SPILLS the beans, talks to his sister, and tells us about the secret life he lives as a famous celebrity in the dungeon of objects. Don't forget, you can also see this episode on Youtube. Yee HAW

Today on the show we have none other than Jackie Lasooooooo. It was an honour to chat with her cos if you know you know Jackie is absolutely EVERYWHERE in class at battles judging and dancing in so many styles. We discuss the path of life and its pressures when combined with a dance lifestyle, her time in New York, I ask about her experiences of Vogue and House in New York. Follow @thedancebantsshow on insta and Youtube you can catch us having this conversation!

Today it's my honour to interview mister GRIFF from his garden. We discuss why dance is the final frontier, femininity is a pigeon toed squat, why the aussie scene is dope, BARS and how to get closer to your soul. a big ripper quote from the eppy. "The Australian dance scene could reach as far as they wanted if they moved in unison. it'd be so easy" KEEP THAT LOVE ON EM!!!! thanks so much for listening to dance bants. You can see us in the garden having this convo on youtube as well if you like.

Clarence Kent is a huge deal and today I am excited to welcome him onto the show to talk absolute relentless trash on Sydney. We discuss this status he made, the difference between technique and style, being a jabbawockee working at the empire of pie and being Matt Corby's body double. We touch on being a girl in the battle scene and we talk about originality. Catch the visual version of this episode where Clarence falls out of his left kick on Youtube @thedancebantsshow

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Today is a Christmas gift, that’s right it’s Caetlyn Watson! KEEN as. We discuss her timeline, working with Janet Jackson, creating Goddess, how her body feels, individuality and people tryna be her and what she labels her style. MONTES win the biscuit battle. Catch the visual version of this episode on Youtube @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show it's an honour to share a conversation with the man himself, RICHARD CILLI! This really is very exciting because Richard is 1. the most loveable man on earth and 2. one of Australia's most experienced and wonderful contemporary dancers with a !H!E!L!P!M!A!N!N!!! Award!!!! We discuss languages, the VaGaL nerve, Wim Hof, fantasy, countertechnique and vipassana and Richard sets off the male white dancer alarm. Catch us on Youtube @thedancebantsshow to see the visual eppi. We've made it a quarter of a century! Thanks everyone for listening

WE'Re BacK buddies, Dance Bants is ON and today Tee is in to bant dance, why does everyone talk about commercial dancers the way they do, living with babies, dance hall, living in Bali, mad leg accident and yoga. Your host also forces a brief discussion on two AUSTRALIAN DANCE DRAMAS. Boom. Thanks for listening chimpies. It's about to get wild this christmas @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show Strickland lets lahOOOse and we discuss real things like biting in contemporary dance, proving masculinity and the 1997 ROCK EISTEDDFOD shoutouts to harristown state high school. If you want to watch that video along with us go to the Dance Bants Show on Youtube and you can find all the links but also under here. SeE Ya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3tZ60Fn8U

Today on the show I meet my first stranger guest. We rank small words in smallness like what is smaller, tiniest or smallest and when is a room not a room any more? talk about young dancers, BATTLES and battle etiquette - what body part am I allowed and not allowed to touch in a battle? Hadley answers some guest questions as well. Watch us on Youtube and follow on insta @thedancebantsshow

WOW today on the show Eliza talks about maybe everything that exists. Topics include how we should be eaten by predators, spooky dance, loving ballet, dancers being smart, why she would work for free, and Tourettes. The visual version of this episode is on Youtube @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show I have the man himself mister James Barry. He tells his story and it gets pretty REAL. We also land on a couple of SPOOKY topics such as teaching foundations and the dream dance company. I hope you enjoy the 20th episode. thanks for listening all nine of you.

Today my friend Alex tells his story of growing up in a competitive dance school. It's a really real and really important story to me. We discuss how YOU NEVER QUIT dance!!!! and how the seed of fear from dance studio life followed us throughout our professional careers and PERHAPS was the reason we 'quit'. We also discuss how the eisteddfod scene is shifting and how we can transfer this shift into the pro classical scene where dancers are often manipulated with this FEAR SEED. You can see the visual eppy on Youtube @thedancebantsshow.

Please meet my friend Toby! Today's show is jam packed. Toby shares his acting range for potential employers such as 4 year old girl lost her mum and we discuss a time where I made him dance a bit. He talks about acting in a big movie. We tell a story about how we gave a horrendously inappropriate Christmas card to our school principal and compare our arts. Stay tuned for our visual eppy and catch toby having a dance on Youtube @thedancebantsshow. yew

Today on the show we have Alice on the show and we talk about contemporary dance a lot and woo woo stuff. Teaching, why contemp is a good skill to have, the misconnection between commercial and classical contemporary scenes and also when a guy used a good pick up line on her in Vienna are some themes. Watch us chat on Youtube @thedancebants show. Bye

Today on the show Mitchell talks eurobouncing and doing an audition tour, cheap and expensive countries to backpack, Cunningham technique, HSC dance memories and

Today we have on the show the hypest dancer in the world Rachell Dade. We talk about dancing for the feeling of it, what we would do with a bigger platform or voice, the importance of studying history in street styles, getting a free cat, the one sleeve look, Erica Sobol's Gypsy Project, and SELF LOVE. You can watch the rest of the episode including the new game Capezi yes or Capezi no on Youtube @thedancebantsshow.

Today we BANTs about the death of the Sydney club scene, clubs elsewhere, lady powers, the diff in non dancer v trained mindset, vipassana meditation, and the potential of the Sydney dance scene. It's a big one. Catch the rest of the eppy on Youtube @thedancebantsshow.

Today on the show we have a GUITARIST none other than mister Josh Meader. He twiddles out on my fender squire and I interrogate him about his fingers. We discuss school spec, play guess the mayer lick, and create the battle of the bikkies soundtrack. Catch the rest of the convo on Youtube @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show we have Cass Connolly and Neven Merwood just kidding. We discuss HOMEFEED, getting paid, our scene being young, content for the extra young and being skinny and dancing like a pen. Watch the rest on Youtube @thedancebantsshow! bye

Hello dear listener! Today it's episode ten and that means it's a celebration we have made it so far look at us go! And so I have a very special guest none other than Mister Stephen Tannos. We talk about sleep anxieties, being called "weird", indulgent milk art, Australian dance telly shows that shat the bed and the never ending identity crisis we live with. Catch the visual episode on Youtube where you can see us in the jungle having the same conversation but shorter. @thedancebantsshow

Today on Dance Bants Harri Wade invites me to his farm and we talk about sharing the light of your candle and our favourite hi 5 members and Harri addresses comments that he is a hater. He says biting is the cancer of Australian dance aka stealing moves, full time teachers saying "youse are never gonna work" and the goodness of dancing in public. Catch the rest on Youtube @thedancebantsshow

Today on Dance Bants Emily shares her dance history and talks about how she put her balls on the table. We talk about YAGP and Prix de Lausanne, The ITP and young ballet life, and being told your "body isn't good enough". Catch Emily's Youtube Episode where we watch her PHYSIE vid and dancer of the year barre breaking moment. @thedancebantsshow

Today on the show Jackson does words or other words, making your own formula and doing art, going deeper, having fun with substance and how taking the piss is a skill. Catch the rest of his episode on Youtube @thedancebantsshow

Today on Dance Bants Amy Zhang plays words or other words, we talk about full time dance student life, LA chorey class and tall poppy syndrome. Catch the visual eppy on Youtube or follow on insta @thedancebantsshow.

Today on Dance Bants Ruby tells us about her golden fang experience, quitting after two years of fulltime, teaching under 6's every day, throwing keys, and life at a full time dance high school. Catch the rest on Youtube @thedancebantsshow!

Today on Dance Bants we have a CURRENT EPISODE! From the 17th of May and we talk kinda about RONA. We laugh til we cry and we actually cry for real and talk about doom and home and how dance turns you into the embodiment of your inadequacy. You can catch the visual version on Youtube. As Crystal Pite said so wonderfully, "Dance disappears almost at the moment of its manifestation. It is an extreme expression of the present, a perfect metaphor for life. Dancers sculpt space in real time, working inside a form that is constantly in a state of vanishing. We have no artifacts. I find it strangely beautiful to be creating something that is made of us – made of our breath and blood and bones and minds. Something that is made of the space we occupy and made of the space between us. We embody both the dance and its disappearance."

Welcome to episode 3 of Dance Bants! Today Feras talks fear of god, generations, creativity running thru our blood, full time dance and worries about upsetting people. Catch the rest of the podcast including Wow pow or ow on Youtube! @thedancebants show

Today on Dance Bants Callum struggles with his microphone, tells a brief story about his day at Dogma, The Superbowl Halftime performance, we love Emma Portner, and how the general public likes tennis but not dance. Catch the visual version of this episode including Wow, pow or ow on Youtube!

Welcome to the first episode of Dance Bants! In this episode Koh Yamada talks about how everyone's a dancer, science hasn't caught up to spirituality, contemporary dance is like a dot on a piece of paper, biting, past lives, we are in a simulation, imagine if speaking was dancing, why dancers quit, what is girls style, and why are there no dance celebrities, Your host also says 'apprehentious' and that's not a word. You can see his visual episode on Youtube and check out @thedancebantsshow on Instagram dear listener.