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"you have to know yourself really well (because everything else is changing faster than it ever has)"Jeff Hsieh (謝杰樺) Jeff Hsieh (謝杰樺) is the current artistic director of Anarchy Dance Theatre. His works feature a strong element of interactive dance performance and leverage technology to expand the field of choreography. We cover; how technology has changed our lives the bodymachine interventions new physical experiencethe eternal straight linesurgery at a distancedigital worldsAI in artnew media arts / old media artsskills used to have a long tail of valueknowing what you're doingmid-journey links: https://anarchydancetheatre.com/youtubefacebookinstagramderida dance

"No matter which mediums I use, if I can keep finding something I feel curious about then I will keep going for choreography."Lee Ming-Chieh Ming-chieh Lee is an independent choreographer born in 1989 in Taiwan often focusing on the dynamic of body, object and other things as the main mediums for her research related to memory and time, and further discussed the flowing performativity shaped between body and specific space. We cover; Dancing in public spacesInaccuracies becoming a new style for choreographyFruitful limitationsMaking experiments in many different fieldsThe specificity of environment Using choreography to explore your bodyStudy at TNUACollaborating with drama and musical directorsWorking across mediumsMixed reality choreographyHow to decide what is worth watchingChoreographing timeThe work referenced at 49:20 links: Taipei National University of the Artsartist website FacebookInstagramCLAB Physical Futures Digital ExchangeYouTube

M@ and Wu Dar-kuen in the sound recording studio at C-LAB 2022 "Artists are like magicians"Wu Dar-kuen Wu Dar-kuen is an artist and Independent curator, now the Director of Contemporary Art and Science Tech Platform of Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab（C-LAB）. He was the director of Taipei Artist Village and Treasure Hill Artist Village ,and the founding chairman of Taiwan Art Space Alliance,TASA, curator of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, and the director of VT Artsalon. He is also a creative artist in addition to being a curator. He has long been focusing on the generation and evolution of contemporary art and Asian cultures. He not only reflects on the social conditions of Asian countries with his unique artistic language, but also contemplates the ways to embody the philosophy of “art without borders” by treating art as a means under the impact of globalization and neoliberalism. In his long and prolific career as an artist, he served as an artist-in-residence at several institutions such as NIFCA (Finland) in 2002, Location One (New York) in 2005, ISCP (New York) in 2006, Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo) in 2008, and Open Space Bae (Busan, South Korea) in 2009. He was the winner of Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Grants and Yageo Tech-Art Award in 2004. His works are collected by many prestigious museums and foundations. He was also the curator of over one hundred exhibitions, among which the two Kuandu Biennials Artist in Wonderland (2012) and Recognition System (2014), Republic without People (2011) which was hosted by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the winner of the Jury's Special Award of the 10th Tai-Shin Arts Awards, as well as Asia Anarchy Alliance (2014) held at Tokyo Wonder Site and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts were his curatorial tours de force. Boundless Treasures: Inexhaustible and Limitless at Hong Kong Arts Centre (2015),and Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo),In the Name of Plants:The Past and Future of an Old Factory at OCT-LOFT Shenzhen（2017）,Imagining Memorial at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei (2017).Wu Dar-Kuen is an artist and Independent curator ,now is the Director of Contemporary Art and Science Tech Platform of Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab（C-LAB）. He was the director of Taipei Artist Village and Treasure Hill Artist Village ,and the founding chairman of Taiwan Art Space Alliance,TASA, curator of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, and the director of VT Artsalon. He is also a creative artist in addition to being a curator. He has long been focusing on the generation and evolution of contemporary art and Asian cultures. He not only reflects on the social conditions of Asian countries with his unique artistic language, but also contemplates the ways to embody the philosophy of “art without borders” by treating art as a means under the impact of globalization and neoliberalism. In his long and prolific career as an artist, he served as an artist-in-residence at several institutions such as NIFCA (Finland) in 2002, Location One (New York) in 2005, ISCP (New York) in 2006, Tokyo Wonder Site (Tokyo) in 2008, and Open Space Bae (Busan, South Korea) in 2009. He was the winner of Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Grants and Yageo Tech-Art Award in 2004. His works are collected by many prestigious museums and foundations. He was also the curator of over one hundred exhibitions, among which the two Kuandu Biennials Artist in Wonderland (2012) and Recognition System (2014), Republic without People (2011) which was hosted by Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the winner of the Jury's Special Award of the 10th Tai-Shin Arts Awards, as well as Asia Anarchy Alliance (2014) held at Tokyo Wonder Site and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts were his curatorial tours de force. Boundless Treasures: Inexhaustible and Limitless at Hong Kong Arts Centre (2015),and Roppongi Crossing 2016: My Body, Your Voice at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo),In the Name of Plants:The Past and Future of an Old Factory at OC...

"How can I do?"Hsiao Tzu Tien - 田孝慈 Hsiao Tzu Tien - 田孝慈 - is a choreographer, dancer and performer Born in 1984 in Tainan, Taiwan, focusing her choreography research on human emotions shaped by time, history, culture and environment. We discuss; Growing up in TainanHow to choreographCollaborating with technologyMaking the invisible, visibleDancing as a verb - something to do.What is the first dance step?Impulse/inspiration/intuition/desire“How do we tune the intuition?” And make it relevant?Pre-conditionsDancing for each other vs the audienceThinking and feelingMaking it safe to ask dancers to share themselves during collaborationBuilding a belief in the pieceDigital as choreographic contextCollaborating with virtual currency via kinetic light sculptureMisusing motion-captureFighting against the digital as a way to develop choreographyThe things that we know that we don't even know that we know. links: http://www.projectzerotw.com/田孝慈/instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hsiaotzu.tien/https://www.facebook.com/hsiaotzu.tien

https://www.instagram.com/p/CRpWENrgZFk/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link "I couldn't express myself in English (i'm actually a very funny person!)... so I used my dancing"Yuiko Masukawa Yuiko Masukawa is a Japanese choreographer and dancer based in Melbourne, Australia, working with the classical form in contemporary contexts, we cover; After Party - https://www.yuikomasukawa.me/after-partystudy in Japan and Canada and Australiaworking at Kinosaki International Arts Center Indian and Ballet similaritiesBallet as "French Classical" danceMinidiscsClassical ballet in Japan being another culture2nd century Indian classical dancehow to know between contemporary and classical choreographymaking workrunning a youth dance programcollaborating with technologies links: instagram - https://www.instagram.com/yuimasukawa/collaborations - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkfDpbUXK34&t=99sworking at national theatre - https://nationaltheatre.org.au/ballet/staff/invite arts - https://hi-in.facebook.com/insitearts/posts/6986803038027929

"I'd find myself unable to not respond"Alisdair Macindoe Alisdair Macindoe is an independent multidisciplinary choreographer living on Woi Wurrung country (Melbourne, Australia). With an interest in extending the boundaries of choreographic practice, Alisdair's work spans dance, sound, electronics, coding and text. Recent works have seen him explore automated dance and Artificial Intelligence; new technology for music expression; trans-humanism; waste and climate change and identity in the age of narcissism. We cover.. making choreography from wordsAI vs algorithmdata stackscollaborating with non-human entitiesdigitalmidi and music sound designwombat radio as ongoing effortsocial media as a faux internetcontext free grammardecision makingbody intelligencethe gift of working for othersfeeling like you're dancingthe payoff is in the doing links: http://alisdairmacindoe.comOpen AIhttps://alisdairmacindoe.com/redhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3https://home.unicode.orgASCIIhttps://www.wired.com/2008/04/mind-decision/https://www.thoughtco.com/malaphor-word-play-1691298

A discussion with Ira Ferris and Elia Bosshard about their project Space Body Habit. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXcUVUphlvS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link "I purge myself of them (thoughts) by giving them to you and now I'm free to think other things."Ira Ferris Space Body Habit bookpublic spacelineageworking at front yardmaking a record of discussions in the form of a book vs making a bookarchiveSpace Body Habit bookTikTok performanceskin as a boundary links: Artemis ProjectsSympoiesis Radio show - instagram Sympoiesis Radio show eastside radio 897fmhttps://www.eliabosshard.com/https://www.adsrzine.com/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBnE0VWAHWD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link "I have a problem with ...we need everything so instantly, that we're willing to compromise things that are so sacred."Emily Flannery Emily Flannery is a proud Wiradjuri woman from Forbes in the Central West of NSW. As an emerging Indigenous dancer and choreographer Emily hopes to share her culture and her spirit through movement. We also cover; her upcoming Sydney Opera House show - Bulnuruwanha which explores the Wiradjuri Dreaming stories of the Magpie, Willy-WagTail, Kookaburra, Cockatoo and Platypus through contemporary Indigenous dance.Lost All Sorts collectiveWorking with siblingsTokenismForbesExpectations of what indigenous should look likeEverything happening all at onceLucy Guerin Inc internshipTraining under the Craig Barytaking feedback from industry experts who are not cultural knowledge holderswanting to make ensemble workgood intentions without self-educationAboriginal culture is still alive"You can't support BLM and then blow up our sacred sites" - Emily Flannery links: march dance - https://www.marchdance.com/emily-flannerydirty feet - https://www.dirtyfeet.com.au/emily-flannerydance informer - https://dancemagazine.com.au/2021/05/bangarra-appoints-new-company-dancer-emily-flannery/Bangarra - NAISDA - https://naisda.com.au/2020/12/17/naisda-graduate-emily-flannery-selected-as-lgis-first-nations-intern-for-2021/PACT - http://www.pact.net.au/lost-all-sorts-collective#:~:text=Lost%20All%20Sorts%20is%20a,virtues%20as%20artists%20and%20friends.facebook - https://www.facebook.com/emily.flannery.54Forbes Advocate - https://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/story/7227346/years-of-work-pay-off-with-busy-year-of-dance-ahead-for-emily/Coast Community News - https://coastcommunitynews.com.au/central-coast/news/2021/01/internship-for-naisda-graduate/NORPA - https://norpa.org.au/indigenous-makers-studio/Daniel Riley as new Artistic Director of ADT - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-06/first-indigenous-artistic-director-appointed-to-dance-company/100194208

https://www.instagram.com/p/CP7gR8kDAGz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link "This is a massive interrogation of concept."Elle Evangelista Elle Evangelista loves dancing. She is Filipino & Burmese, was raised on Whadjuk/Perth and currently lives on Gadigal/Sydney. Elle has a Bachelor of Arts in English from UWA and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from WAAPA. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement she enrolled in a post graduate Law course to obtain a Juris Doctor. Thirty30 - https://elleevangelista.com/about30thirtyThirty31 - Set to premier in October 2021Come Knit The Sun Down - https://supercelldancefestival.com/elle-evangelistaThe GIF of Dance - http://choreography.mattcornell.com/projects/the-gif-of-dance/Covid#19 Lockdowns/show cancellationmaking attempts"Trying again isn't starting again" - Matt CornellBring brave enough to deeply invest in someone/somethingThings you want to learn aboutFailing as integralBringing snacks to share (to every rehearsal)Expectations"I always expect people are going to be as invested as I am" - Elle Evangelista links: March Dance - https://www.marchdance.com/elle-evangelistainsatiable - song matt mentions instagram - https://www.instagram.com/elleevangelistaBelvoir Street Theatre choreographic commission - https://belvoir.com.au/elle-evangelista/DirtyFeet - https://www.dirtyfeet.com.au/elle-evangelistaWriting for Dance Informer - https://dancemagazine.com.au/tag/elle-evangelista/DAIR residency - https://www.facebook.com/ausdancensw/photos/a.1593516414266451/2545730512378365/The King and I - the musical - https://aussietheatre.com.au/features/20-questions/getting-know-elle-evangalistaThirty30 - https://au.royalacademyofdance.org/independent-artist-elle-evangelista-takes-up-residence-in-our-darlinghurst-studio/Sydney Arts Guide - https://www.sydneyartsguide.com.au/tag/elle-evangelista/Dance Life - https://www.dancelife.com.au/tag/elle-evangelista/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CK432DFBZyV/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ-TpTlsm_M/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link "I don't know if I want a 'main' focus."Feras Shaheen Feras Shaheen is a Sydney based dancer/performer and choreographer. we discuss; making a show with your mum - https://ferasshaheen.com.au/19772986Dabkestreet dancingworking freelancetransparency when it comes to institutional agenda Klapping - https://ferasshaheen.com.au/Klappinghumourinitiationchurchgetting into installationfoundationsPalestinian heritageNick Powerhow to say yesgetting burnt outthe problem with expectations of being "professional"arabic poetry links: March Dance - https://www.marchdance.com/plastic-bagInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/fezshaheenLegs On The Wall - https://www.legsonthewall.com.au/news/2020/6/29/one-on-one-feras-shaheenDirtyfeet - https://www.dirtyfeet.com.au/feras-shaheenVimeo - https://vimeo.com/ferasshaheenDance Bants - https://anchor.fm/dancebantsCampbelltown Arts Centre - https://c-a-c.com.au/dance-workshops-with-feras-shaheen/Formidable episode 4 - https://www.form.org.au/formidables-episode-4/the flying nun - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=819443401880064Dance Bants interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGId8SAA93c&ab_channel=DanceBants1on1 interview with Legs On The Wall - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=271642193900031linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferasshaheen/?originalSubdomain=aufacebook - https://www.facebook.com/feras.shaheen.7

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHWFmkkAVqF/ "to find a shared language that doesn't rest on a shared technique or visual reference but is produced together with someone, with people, with yourself, and your environment."Alice Weber Alice Weber is a dance artist working with choreography, performance and discursive outputs. Using and misusing her various training backgrounds across ballet, somatic practice and critical dance studies, Alice's work considers contemporary embodiments and intimacies, through questions of agency and desire. We talk about: "problematize through exaggeration" - Alice Weberbeauty capitalhaving baggagework - dream cellscapes intimacy across distancedesireclarityentanglement of how things look and feelwork - solo for a bodyaesthetic and kinestheticsomatic vs touchinspirationmarxist critique of capitalismmoving slowly links: website - http://aliceweber.net/instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alicemaeweber/march dance - https://www.marchdance.com/alice-weberinner west - https://www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/live/living-arts/local-creatives/alice-weber

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEZP49eBEah/ "to reconcile the disjointedness we feel as people that are within asia but are not asian"Reina Takeuchi Reina Takeuchi is an Australian-Japanese artist-researcher interested in interdisciplinary collaboration and facilitating embodied experiences of contemporary art, we cover: legacyart in institutionsnot being a "curator" or "choreographer"embarking on a phDbeing in a triadpresenting at MCA - Holding Lightness - Music by: thomas.gray.and.liam.ebbsidentity in art makingwork - Between Oceans https://www.instagram.com/p/COrwfhqrOrC/ links: 4A Gallery - https://www.instagram.com/4a_aus/Website - https://www.reinatakeuchi.com/https://www.instagram.com/reina.brigette/on earth we're briefly gorgeous - bookhttps://www.instagram.com/leyla_stevens/https://www.the-national.com.au/artists/leyla-stevens/patiwangi-the-death-of-fragrance/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CLgPMwIBt08/

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHM8trvA7Jg/ "choosing what can help"Tra Mi Dinh Trà Mi is a Green Room Award nominated dance artist based between Melbourne and Sydney. In June 2019 Trà Mi began working on a solo project ‘Holding’, initially supported by Tasdance’s TRIP program, we cover: dancingimprovisationlegacy and cultural inheritancepointsbecoming 'a boss'incensebeing vietnameseconnection to cultureirish dancingupcoming development - Holdingthe aesthetics of overwhelmdecision making on stageseeking sense through sensationdancing is so human People mentioned: Zachery LopezVictoria ChiuMelanie LaneBranch Nebula - Lee WilsonFully Automated Human TouchPina BauschMiranda WheenJoshua Thomson - Blokes Project links: VimeoTasDance residencyInstagramSydney Fringe

https://www.instagram.com/p/CD-B2tDBj2i "it's hard to be a beginner when you already have skills in another dance style"Jess Goodfellow Jess Goodfellow started her training at Newtown High School of the Performing arts, she trained in RAD ballet and performed as a soloist in the 2014 NSW Schools Spectacular. In the same year she was awarded first in the state of NSW for HSC Dance. In 2015, Jess joined Sydney Dance Company’s Pre Professional year, in which she understudied for the company and trained under many local and international choreographers. In 2016, she joined the junior Contemporary dance company IT DANSA in Barcelona, where she performed for two years, with the repertory of Ohad Naharin, Alexander Ekman, Jyri Kylian, Nacho Duato, Akram Khan, and Sidi Larbi. She has since worked as a freelance artist in Sydney with Sydney Experimental Arts Ensemble, Omer Backley-Astrachan, and Callum Mooney in their own show, Jeppee Peppee at the Flying Nun by Brand X we cover: house dancingaesthetichaving no anchorauditioningbeing confronted by who you're becomingspainquittingtaking the pisshumour links: vimeo - https://vimeo.com/306670839dancing for other - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC39BpqxL3Einstagram - https://www.instagram.com/gotchakeith/?hl=en

"to ask those big questions... And to be a little bit more empathetic, forgiving and curious!"Jess Ong Jess Ong is a story producer at SPUN Stories, a local storytelling night in Darwin, and the host of their podcast. She also works as a Communications Manager in the private sector and moonlights in the world of freelance. We speak about: Not being an "artist"Living in DarwinStories and peopleMaking work The importance of contextSpun - https://www.spunstories.net/Imposter syndrome mentioned: meat - https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt8CCd2lNp-9C1vJ1Mu1u8tbyfpVHVy86enj700/?hl=enhttps://www.johannabell.com/projectshttps://www.facebook.com/listeningparties/Story Projects - https://www.storyprojects.com.au/ other links: https://www.facebook.com/omgjmcotwitter - https://twitter.com/jess__onginstagram - https://www.instagram.com/omgjonghttps://twitter.com/spunstorieshttps://www.spunstories.net/https://www.abc.net.au/radio/people/jess-ong/9328178https://www.ntwriters.com.au/https://www.offtheleash.net.au/features/around-town/2019/08/atmos

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Katy Moir (@_katymoir_) on Jun 23, 2020 at 12:48am PDT "I keep suggesting that we should stop building things"Katy Moir Katy Moir is a Darwin based Artitect (architecture + art). We discuss her upcoming exhibition "A Hypothetical Darwin" amongst other things. We spoke at Untitled Gallery where the exhibition will take place. upcoming show - A Hypothetical Darwin https://www.darwinfestival.org.au/events/a-hypothetical-darwin/Problems and solutionsbeing just 1 member of a timeline of people buildling a body of workarchivesresidenciescritsarchitecture and it's approachpluralism within mapsthe agender and lens of map makers books mentioned: Bunji - http://www.drbilldayanthropologist.com/resources/StewartHarrisForeword.pdf other links: https://www.spunstories.net/katy-moirarticles by katy - https://indaily.com.au/contributors/katy-moir/off the leash - https://www.offtheleash.net.au/features/around-town/2017/07/talking-through-wallstwitter - https://twitter.com/katymoir?lang=eninstagram - https://www.instagram.com/_katymoir_/facebook - https://www.facebook.com/katy.moir.14 people mentioned: Lisa Burnett - https://au.linkedin.com/in/lisa-burnett-195246133Amina McConvell - http://aminamcconvell.blogspot.com/Dr Bill Day http://www.drbilldayanthropologist.com/Kulaluk peoples http://www.drbilldayanthropologist.com/kulaluk-timeline.php

Charmene Yap is a multi-award winning dancer, rehearsal director and choreographer. Cass Mortimer Eipper is an award winning director/choreographer/dancer. Together they are creating a work called "Grey Rhino". Grey Rhino is an obvious danger that are often ignored anyway. we also cover: process self funding seed developments instinct collaboration intuition and critique abstraction, metaphor, hyper-objects

Nithya Nagarajan is an interdisciplinary performance maker, creative producer and cultural researcher. Having a background in Indian neo-classical dance and allied movement traditions, her live art works embody a decolonised feminism and are characterised by a strong physical vocabulary.

"the physical, the somatic, the perceptual practise of moving switches something else on in the imagination."Nikki Heywood Nikki Heywood is a Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist working across dance, performance, writing and live art.  Nikki’s practice includes devising, direction and choreography as a solo performer, in collective creation and collaboratively generated projects, running skills based workshops for students and emerging practitioners, assisting the creative process of others as a mentor and dramaturg. Co-curator of regular platforms for improvised performance Rushing for the Sloth and Whip It in Sydney for over a decade. As 2005 Recipient of Rex Cramphorn Scholarship (NSW Ministry of the Arts) Nikki undertook research of collaborative performance practice in Europe and Australia and intensive workshop with Goat Island Company of Chicago in Cork, Ireland. Broadcasting into the oblivionextended choreographytranslating a score onto papervoicewritingphotographycreating the big bangintimate performed experience links: critical path - https://criticalpath.org.au/program/responsive-research-residency/bundanon - https://www.bundanon.com.au/artworks-2017/f-fflying-_-low-w-nikki-heywood-and-mark-cauvin/readymade - https://www.readymadeworks.com.au/writing-nikki

female body global mass culture sound drawing dancing working hope and more. Mercedes Dassy is a dancer and choreographer, active in the fields of dance, theater, performance and video.

Romain Hassanin talks about his latest show Flea Brain, covering topics such as; clowning performing ones shadow self nihilism and the solace it offers being self obsessed decision making during improvisation training instinct and more.

https://vimeo.com/373845963 "the amount of time it (the work) sits in activated states in front of other humans"Holly Durant Holly Durant is an artist who crafts sites for performance with choreography to evoke senses of pleasure and empowerment. Her works consistently gather communities and provide platforms for interrogating how bodies occupy and negotiate space.  By exploring ideas of embodiment, co-presence and ‘worlding,’ her inhabited installations blur the boundaries between subject and environment, between private and public experience. Layered sensorial environments and disobedient gestures transform the body, questioning the concept of the ‘blank’ body onto which narratives and meaning are projected. These constructed worlds centre fluid arrangements and encounters, rather than self-contained or fixed symbols and scenarios, Durant confronts and negotiates structural obstacles with the power of the body. showssharing spacewhere one's body might "fit"experimental queer venues and eventstalking and thinking and process and academiathe job of the artistfem construct links: https://vimeo.com/hollyduranthttps://rmitart.com/projects/holly-duranthttps://new-adventures.net/profile/holly-durant#overviewhttps://www.instagram.com/hollyduranthttp://tanzabend.com.auhttps://www.beat.com.au/holly-durant-announces-dance-death-at-grant-street/https://www.facebook.com/hollyteganduranthttps://vimeo.com/374034693

Natasha Sturgis creates feminist work that examines the ways in which patriarchal structures contribute to how girls and women define themselves. Themes explored in her work include taking up space, the researching terms feminine vs unfeminine as polar opposites and redefining strength in women and reclaiming our narrative. Natasha is interested in interdisciplinary work, collaborating with animation artists, sound artists and physical theatre makers to create her work. In this conversation we cover: residencies across different western femininity writing and dancing process sci-fi embodiment a physical state choreography cultural differences

https://vimeo.com/61072731#t=133s "The performers are so occupied by their task that they're not worried about the audience. But they know the audience is watching and invested in what they're doing."Matt Prest Matthew Prest makes performance and installation that exists in the space between theatre and performance art. His practice includes some solo work, but mostly involves collaborations with other artists working across disciplines in devised processes to create original works in which intimacy, danger, laughter, anarchy, endurance, dancing, music and space are all key elements in shaping a visceral experience for the audience. We cover: how to behaving wind in the sailsbeing process focusedthe enigma of which work/show gets picked up and notWhelping Box - showThe TentThe Ken Burns effectSliding Rooms5 rules to manhoodPaul KeatingEleanor RooseveltThe Blockcryingsurvivingambitionsport and backstory and theatredistractionOK Radio"for want of a nail" proverbfatherhood links: https://www.matthewprest.com/review of Whelping BoxPaul KeatingEleanore RooseveltOK RadiofacebooktwitterSituate profileBranch Nebularvimeo

"The boundaries and where they are, are just dependant on what point in history the history books were written." Dean Cross Dean Cross was born and raised on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country and is of Worimi descent. He is a trans-disciplinary artist primarily working across installation, sculpture and photography. We cover. Indigenous heritage and familial background Disconnections with familial lineage Belonging to and feeling a disconnection to an environment Being returned to and welcomed by a landscapeDissolving the body in art practises Performance and consuming a category of artCreating cultural boundaries and building valueMoving away from danceDance illiterate audienceChurning cheap tricks to impressive people by putting dance in a gallery space Feeling reduced as a dancer Feeling a responsibility to have a career in Australia Avoiding being put in the category of themesUsing formal tactics to overt politicalness links: https://www.deancross.com/https://www.instagram.com/deean.cross/http://ql2.org.au/category/people/deancross/https://carriageworks.com.au/events/dean-cross-body-as-place/

"Look back and see the gallery that the body is"Wendy Yu Wendy Yu is a dance or movement artist based in Sydney. Her work has generally been centred around exploring dance outside of it’s theatrical context and placing it on a medium in which viewers may witness the intricacies of movement that bodies, in the space, may achieve. We cover. Matt's lineage and backgroundDesigning interactive Jitter matrix patchworksApathetic movement Binocular vision: sensing the phenomena and seeing the semiotics Choreographing coding / Aleatoric choreography Phenomenology of seeing dance Charlie, CharlieHaving a sense of what could be Working with choreographers that have an extra senseEmbodiment 'Independencies', as an artistMissing dancing Gallery dance Minisculisation of danceThe act of creating a pre-exisiting entity Look back and see the gallery that the body isPreferred methods of choreography: MattHow can we systematise that magic that comes from movementBeing a magician or a wizard in choreography The power of dance being in empathy and the notion of apathetic choreography Choreographing for parents, colonial movementsMaking cheap artMaking until you realise what you're making Valuing extraction to become an object outside of the self, to be viewed, restructuring it rather than restructuring youFrontality Hating Formula 1 into loving Generating movement from data Handling impulse and handling data https://vimeo.com/356897873 links: https://www.facebook.com/TheMattmospherehttp://mattcornell.com/?fbclid=IwAR2px2v9HDaNYX1j-mLlwwTFrMunr4QDpRQ7CQp64_7SXZaT0VBG-rGYmY8https://www.instagram.com/themattmosphere/https://www.facebook.com/wendy.yu.12https://www.wendyyu.org/https://www.instagram.com/wendellsmindblowers/https://performing.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/performing-arts/lynne-lancaster/one-state-reverie-sydney-fringe-nsw-258867?fbclid=IwAR0gVTmBzTtfTMYytKUYYfA4PZTStZWi-18IeiMlAL8juKwzNSUPFoAxFmMhttps://contactsheet.com.au/blogs/news/things-i-wanted-to-say-but-never-did-wendy-yu?fbclid=IwAR1mV08zzF-qYDBdimZIkjgxFewTivakx4a_Cl6fcSNn2NUr1Zxd6FQOWLk

"A really hard (glass) ceiling gives you cuts and bruises" (breaking through it leaves scars)Candy Bowers Candy Bowers is an award-winning writer, actor, director, theatre maker, social-activist, comedian and producer. The artistic director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of lyrical theatre that delves into the heart of radical feminist dreaming. We cover. Background: South African | AustralianMaking people feel tension in performance Explaining the Apartheid Not just whats going on outside of us but also intra-community conversations Using the term Colonial Supremacy instead of white supremacy challenging the conservatism Female roles in theatre performance Perpetuating gender roles in theatrepreventing diabetes being the ultimate decolonisation: One the BearChanging relationship with food, challenging relationship with sex and women South Africans and diabetes and introduction of sugar "Spiritual underpinning of diabetes, is unrequited love" - Candy BowersEmpowering yourself, on others terms"The process of decolonisation is so much about self care and self loving...Pure nurture" - Candy Bowers , an opposition of the structure and binaries of colonials"You don't fight possession with possession" - Candy BowersGrowing self worth Legacies and monogamy Period blood and spinster-ism "Decolonisation isn't colonisation" (by a different group)Candy Bowers links: https://thecandybowers.blog/https://www.linkedin.com/in/candy-bowers-82876338/?originalSubdomain=auhttps://www.facebook.com/candy.bowershttps://twitter.com/TheCandyBowershttps://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/theatre/a-hip-hop-fairytale-worth-hearing-20190701-p522xq.html

Curator: Anna Kirk "Do less. Do it better."Anna May Kirk Anna May Kirk is an emerging curator, artist and project maker based in Sydney, Australia. She currently holds positions as the Executive Producer of Arts and Culture at FBi Radio and the Coordinator of AD Space.  Casula Powerhouse installation workFinding the creative process Running dancing workshopsBeing the performer and conducting the performanceQueer Nu werks performance work Imagining the future as an inquisitor and artist Making scentThe body as a home for manyMaking social comments in curating and presenting artworks "Art making is kinda impulsive... An itch to be scratched" Anna May Kirk links: http://annamaykirk.com/https://www.facebook.com/anna.kirk.31https://www.instagram.com/anna_may_kirk/https://fbiradio.com/author/anna-kirk/

"We can easily fool ourselves to thinking we've created something new"Sophia Ndaba Sophia Ndaba is a dance theatre, site specific, community outreach, object and installation and collaborator with live musicians and other multidisciplinary artists. Sophia is a founding member of the Dance Makers Collective, a group of independent dance artists in Sydney who collaboratively choreograph and produce contemporary dance work. We cover. Searching through how we really feel, and how it manifests physically Acknowledging and communicating authentic emotion and frustration Being frustrated with Matt! Movement being a processing tool Keeping our ego in a safe place of questioning How do you know what has value Allow for people's dances Projection and perspective Having fixed mindsets and growth mindsets subscribing to magic and mystery "Allow for people's dances and how they came about" "Keeping our ego in a safe place of questioning" Sophia Ndaba links: https://www.dancemakerscollective.com.au/members/sophia-ndabahttps://www.facebook.com/sophia.ndabahttps://www.instagram.com/sophiandaba/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RkapKx4OSw&feature=youtu.be

"Art is that space for difficult conversations"Andrew Westle Andrew Westle is passionate about gender equality, social justice and making art accessible to everyone. His work defies boundaries and includes research, performance, evaluation, writing, theatre making, public health and stage management. We cover. Providing art that is not socially engagingHow do we get rich people to come to artthe capacity for dance to agitate Circumnavigating the city Permission and getting it wrongHow to leave enough space for the dance Dance as a self referencing cannon Dance as reprieval to the literal and narrative Sharing similar politics Proving merit Madonna fansDavid Mcallister interview and character Who is speaking on behalf of the embodied? Finding interest in people Dance funding in Australiatime capsule interviews as archive for practise links: https://www.andrewwestle.com/https://theconversation.com/australias-major-dance-companies-need-to-step-up-on-gender-equality-97464https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/delving-into-dance/id1149339111https://twitter.com/AndrewWestlehttps://www.facebook.com/andrew.westle

"I make dance pieces because I can think through everything that interests me" Kareth Schaffer and Cathy Walsh are performers and makers living in Berlin. We met just after their season of Merkel, a dual performance of Angela Merkel and life sized cutouts of other world leaders to talk about the show, their process, the power of coming together and the skill of thinking together. Dance in theatre art as operational or instrumental Music and dance as dangers to leftist discourse How is dance contributing to revolutionary change Practicalities of Theresa May's posture Merkel dancesUnderpromising and overdelivering as dancersDisagreements and choosing battles Movement practises that lead to epiphanies How to circumnavigate the work process links: https://karethschaffer.com/https://about.me/cathywalshhttps://timetomeettanzfabrik.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/kareth-schaffer-unheard-of/https://www.ballhausost.de/produktionen/merkel-dances-en/http://faberresidency.com/project/cathy-walsh/https://www.instagram.com/cathysqwalsh/https://www.facebook.com/cathysqwalshhttps://www.facebook.com/kareth.madeline

"Seeing what can happen when we observe very basic things"Alice Gale-Feeny Alice Gale-Feeny is an artist working with performance, video, writing and facilitation. Interested in dialogical ways of working, non-theatrical techniques, processes of improvisation and the voice, her work examines the relations between individual subjective experience and shared space. We cover. Commonalities between teaching and performing How to Arrange Ourselves A consideration of space Two Speakers, One Speaker (A Hall, A Room) Dialogue and discussion, David Bohm, On DialogueThe suspension of disbeliefFeeling illiterate Crafting performance and responsibility Want to value self subjectivity by valuing others Searching for conditions of connection Putting faith in the situationStarting a Masters in movement weaving out embodied practise from bullshitQuestioning intention, discipline and ethics links: https://alicegale-feeny.com/https://www.facebook.com/alice.feenyhttps://www.instagram.com/alicegalefeeny/https://alicegale-feeny.com/howtoarrangeourselveshttps://alicegale-feeny.com/twospeakersonespeakerhttps://vimeo.com/user11394926

Photo by Jai Rafferty "Making art happen better"Cui Yin Cui, pronounced as tsuèi is an independent producer and arts / project manager based in Singapore. Exploring the intersection(s) between anthropology, art, and social action. We cover. The business of making art and making art happen What do you do when you artistically and creatively disagree? Wombat toysPushing back arts as an industry Dance as a circular economy Questioning instincts and impulsesSuper-powers, the power of conviction! Being responsive and to considerately seeBeing meaningful for the people involved links: https://tsuei.co/https://www.facebook.com/cuiyin.mhttps://www.instagram.com/tsuei/https://artsequator.com/smu-series-arts-managers/https://www.b-side.city/post/sathecollective

Venuri Perera is a Colombo-based performer, performance artist and movement facilitator and is interested in the body as a "political provocateur".

View this post on Instagram I felt pretty darn fierce moulding the light.

Nasim Patel is an artist working with dance as well as many and varied millennial mediums. We catch up about: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrkrH6plzRo/ - his video choreographytime in swedenKrangspace since graduating dance collegebeing ethnically ambiguousbecoming "the kid"trendingcollaborations with Rachael Wisbyselfishness and not wanting to be watchedrunning around video game worldsartificiality across timeauthenticity "There's always something to be gained from an experience if you're willing to gain"Nasim Patel mentioned: Alice HeywardBoJack HorsemanVCAluke georgeabbotsford convent links: facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nasim.patel.invisibleArt, Not Apart: https://artnotapart.com/artist/2018/the-kids/youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgjozGTWjWBvFaQtGSZBoaQthe right brothers: https://artnotapart.com/artist/2017/the-right-brothers/previous podcast

“Embodiment is a tool (a really important one) but it isn’t the same as political agency and political action” - Sam Hertz Sam Hertz is a Berlin-based sound artist and researcher working at intersections of Earth-based sound, sonic sensualities, and climate change. http://wombatradio.com.au/sam-hertz/

"If the (rice) grain is endangered then the knowledge around it is endangered."Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar https://www.instagram.com/p/BvlfP3zn_ye/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=17a923e0naf1v Edible Archives is a project at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018-19 headed by Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar. The project is focused on engaging people with indigenous varieties of rice that are not commercially available. The rest of the team include: Prima KurienKiranmayi (Kiran) BhushiPriya BalaShalini KrishanManoj Parameswaran https://www.instagram.com/p/BvoTR_tHDMU/ Details below: The Edible Archives Project aims to highlight the diversity of heirloom varieties of rice by bringing them to a wider audience through a conceptual space, where chefs from across India are encouraged to experiment with indigenous rice varieties using their personal repertoire of skills rooted in their own journeys and culinary traditions. The Edible Archives stall at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018-19 is curated by Prima Kurien and Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar. Kiran Bhushi and Priya Bala will be participating as guest chefs. All four share a similar sensibility as fellow women chefs, focusing on clean flavours and fresh ingredients, combined with rigorous culinary techniques. Prima and Anumitra bring these aspects together to offer a unique curatorial take on food culture and its possibilities for artistic and ecological harmony. Shalini Krishan and Manoj Parameswaran will be documenting the food culture and knowledge collected and produced by this project. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuyCKwHHEba/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1xakiwtwia39e https://www.facebook.com/theediblearchives/ from the website: "All of us retain the experiences of the foods we have eaten, and they become a part of our being — an edible archive we carry around in our bodies, memories and minds. One of the most integral elements of traditional Indian food culture has been vanishing rapidly since the 1960s, as the thousands of varieties of indigenous rice are inexorably being replaced by new hybrid varieties. The Edible Archives team has been travelling to source indigenous varieties in all their diversity: of taste, texture and colour; of starchiness and nutritive value; of traditional knowledge and techniques; of cultural and religious importance; a diversity, in short, of possible ways of life. By documenting these, and creating a space to work with them, we hope to capture in some ways that what is fleeting, so all is not lost. The project is anchored by four women chefs who bring reflection, politics and pleasure back into food. To refigure rice from accompaniment to dish, from object to subject, we mine our own edible archives as chefs, combining our cultural and culinary traditions that revolve around rice. Thus, the focal point of this project will be the rice bowl. Each meal that we cook becomes an entry into the individual edible archives of the people eating it, as they experience the journey of the rice and it’s accompanying ingredients. Thus we transfer/transform our edible archives into a collective sensory catalogue that belongs to all the people involved in growing, sourcing, cooking and eating the meal. The Edible Archives stall will be at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018-19. Join us to taste India’s indigenous rice varieties at Cabral Yard from 12 December to 29 March. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for updates."

ArtsEquator held a live recording of its year-end dance podcast at Dance Nucleus SCOPE #4 on Sunday 2 December 2018, 7pm. Listen in as Chan Sze-Wei, Soultari Amin Farid and Bernice Lee share about the works they have seen this year in Singapore and Southeast Asia, and further questions and responses from the live audience at Dance Nucleus.

"Come here and touch this!"Bonnie Cowan Bonnie Cowan and Alex Stevenson debriefs about their recent co-curated event - Artifice and Interface - http://www.pact.net.au/whats-on/2018/10/13/pact-salon "to bring artists together and expose them to each other as well"Alex Stevenson we also talk about: ping pong ballsartificeinterfacerobotsVRTwisted Elements Dance group https://www.twisted-element.com/interactivityHamlet and funeral planshaving a crying corner at a partythe artifice of performanceart process and internal revelationseedless grapes as the height of artificialitythe flow of an event Artists from the evening: Flowerboy, Twisted Element, DarkCinema, Carla Zimbler, David Finnigan, Mikaela Atallah, Sam Marques, Maddie Chippendale, Camilla Turnbull, Emily Crocker, Henry Holder, Ella Byrne, Eloise McCrea-Steele and Kristone Capistrano links to the curators: http://www.pact.net.au/alex-stevenson https://bonniecowan.wixsite.com/performancemaker

Alice Heyward is an Australian dancer based in Berlin. We cover: making objects through composition the 'tingle' experiential mediums magic relationships capital assets building and undoing https://aliceheyward.com/

Kevin Chin is an Australian painter amongst other things. We speak about his upcoming show Structural Equality as well as minority representation, immigrant realities, demand and supply in high art markets, writing a thesis on gay marriage, the personal being political and so much more. links: http://kevinchin.com.au https://www.instagram.com/kevin_chin_art/ http://thisisnofantasy.com http://martinbrownecontemporary.com

Clarissa Ai Ling Lee is not doing science or art and in this discussion we work at trying to talk about, and how to work in, that third space between and around both. "In the belly of the monster is where so called new knowledge is supposed to be happening"Clarissa Lee http://wombatradio.com.au/clarissa-lee/

Rhiannon Newton and Maria Nurmela met at the beach and got deep dredging through: embodiment studying music encouraging the audience to trust what they feel when watching dance scale of dancing age and being female ruthlessness of the matriarchy being empowered in your body dancing as sharing vs supernatural ability using the audience to make your work. http://wombatradio.com.au/rhiannon-newton-and-maria-nurmela---march-dance/

Why dance? We say, hell why not? Before we could speak, dance was a common ground where we communicated and shared our experiences. As hosts of this year’s Participate Program with Supercell, The Farm invite you to join us in establishing a Common Ground for all of us, a place where dance aficionados and novices alike can take to the dance floor. - The Farm at SuperCell Festival http://wombatradio.com.au/kate-harman-and-gavin-webber-from-thefarm-company/

Daniele Constance speaks about her work and process and upcoming showing of #explainnormal as part of #INDEX at Supercell: Festival of Contemporary Dance Brisbane ahead of the premiere at Metro Arts later in 2019. http://wombatradio.com.au/daniele-constance-2019/

"not as a white, going to film ceremony, but try to speak with the people, respect them and involve damien into the ceremony with the master which is more an exchange of ideas." - Gilles Delmas http://wombatradio.com.au/gilles-delmas/ Gilles Delmas is an artist, photographer, director of experimental films and documentaries. We met to chat about his film The Ferryman made in collaboration with Damien Jalet (and voiced by Marina Abramovic) We also cover embodied ways to relate with the world and time, animism and the borders of worlds.

Patricia Wood, Pepa Ubera, Carla Zimbler meet to speak about their respective projects as part of March Dance Festival 2019.

"stars and planets dripping from our fingers" - Eliza Cooper "I wanna get it out in solo work so then I can put it on other people/performers" - Emma Harrison

"whether you be in a third world country or a first world country the struggles are real man, our convictions towards the struggle are real and relatable and somewhere there we connect in the language of empathy and the language of detesting apathy" - JK Anicoche

"you can't glorify it too much or else then you're exoticising it" - Vicki van Hout