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Interviews with ImprovisersJoão FiadeiroJoão Fiadeiro (1965) is a Portuguese performer, choreographer, researcher, teacher and curator. He belongs to the generation of artists who emerged in the late eighties in Portugal and gave rise to the New Portuguese Dance movement. As an artist, his work is positioned at the intersection of performance, dance, visual arts and theatre. As a researcher, he navigates the intersections between practice and theory, art and science, and life and art. In the late 1990s, he began systematizing Real-Time Composition, a theoretical-practical tool supporting creation, decision-making, and collaboration, around which all his activities as an artist and resea...
2025-04-0856 minInterviews with ImprovisersJulyen HamiltonJulyen Hamilton is a dancer / choreographer / teacher / musician. He has been making and performing dances for 45 years throughout the world. He has made over 100 solos as well as 25 years of Company pieces and numerous collaborations with dancers and musicians and theatre performers.Born and brought up in England he trained in London in the 1970’s, a time of radical experimentation, he has been an exponent of innovative performance since that time.His work is mostly improvised : he composes dance works instantly as well as the texts which often accompany them.His work with text is un...
2025-04-0157 minInterviews with ImprovisersKatie DuckKatie Duck is a renowned multidisciplinary artist, performer, teacher and pioneer with a career spanning several decades. Originally from the United States, she has lived in Italy, England and is now based in the Netherlands. Duck is celebrated for her innovative multidisciplinary approach to performance art, blending dance, theater, music, and text in her work.Duck uses a microscopic view of improvisation as both a creative tool and a performance strategy. Her work often blurs the line between composition and spontaneity, challenging traditional notions of performance by incorporating elements of sound, voice, movement, and visual design into h...
2025-03-2558 minInterviews with ImprovisersPeter TrotmanPeter Trotman is a performer known for his unique physicality, heightened by graphic verbal abilities and a wry wit. Based inNaarm/Melbourne, Australia, he was a member of Al Wunder’s Theatre of the Ordinary from 1982 – 88. Following this emerged a fruitful and intensive 13-year period of research and collaboration with Andrew Morrish. Together, they performed in Australia and overseas to considerable acclaim. This periodforged many of Peter’s ideas about improvisation, dance, and language. Now predominantly a solo artist, with the occasional collaboration, he continues to explore his curiosity into the potential for both movement and text to emerge with ric...
2025-03-1842 minInterviews with ImprovisersAndrew MorrishThe audio cast series where Robert has conversations with improvisers working across performing and multidisciplinary arts. You’ll hear him talking to dance and theatre artists as well as those arts practitioners who are working with improvisation more broadly. Interviews with Improvisers stems from Robert's interest in the relationship between voicing and dancing.In this interview, the esteemed improviser and educator Andrew Morrish reflects on his extensive career spanning over four decades. From his humble beginnings in South Wales and moving to Australia at a young age, Morrish discusses his journey into the world of dance and im...
2025-03-1156 minInterviews with ImprovisersRuth ZaporahThe audio cast series where Robert has conversations with improvisers working across performing and multidisciplinary arts. You’ll hear him talking to dance and theatre artists as well as those arts practitioners who are working with improvisation more broadly. Interviews with Improvisers stems from Robert's interest in the relationship between voicing and dancing.Ruth Zaporah (she/her) is a US based performer and teacher. She has dedicated over five decades to creating, refining, and teaching the art of improvisation. She is the founder of a unique improvisational physical theatre method known as “Action Theater,” which is now practi...
2025-03-0433 minInterviews with ImprovisersSeries 2 TrailerIntroducing the second series of six Interview with Improvisers. This series' guests have been working in the realm of improvisation or instant composition for several decades. They each have long and well-established teaching as well as performance practices often rooted in dance or movement-based practice but each has variously carved out artistic terrain that expands from that and include voicing and the use of improvised text. Running order: Ruth Zaporah (US), Andrew Morrish (AU), Peter Trotman (AU), Katie Duck (US/NL), Julyen Hamilton (UK/ES/GR) and João Fiadeiro (PT).
2025-03-0101 min
Ráno Nahlas 🎙Zažil som rozdelenie, ktoré vyústilo až do masových hrobov, polarizácia nie je cesta, tvrdí analytik Hugo Gloss (podcast)„Premiérovi želám vnútornú silu, aby sa zotavil a vedel prinášať spoločnosti zmierenie. Má totiž moc a s ňou prichádza aj zodpovednosť“, tvrdí analytik Hugo Gloss. V Dekk inštitúte pripravili analytickú správu o polarizácii, spoločenských náladách a populárnych naratívoch po pokuse o atentát na slovenského premiéra.Keď nezdravá polarizácia vedie k tragédiám. Dokonaným a aj tým v zárodku. Slovensko je už dvadsaťjeden dní zranené. V našich končinách doteraz bezprecedentným pokusom o atentát na predsedu vlády. Útočník kr...
2024-06-0539 minInterviews with ImprovisersAmaara RaheemAmaara’s (she/her) practice of choreography and performance is deeply shaped by her history of migration and multiple belongings to place. Her work also crosses disciplinary borders and occurs in multiple modes: choreography, performance, improvisation, text, video, sound, documentation and collaboration. In 2022 Amaara was selected for ABC Top 5 - a media residency with Radio National - to voice her ongoing research on artists in-residence, to wider audiences. In 2023 Amaara was awarded the Frank Van Straten Fellowship to work with the performing arts archives held at the Arts Centre Melbourne. Website: www.amaararaheem.net
2024-01-1141 minInterviews with ImprovisersBethany EdwardsBethany (she/her) is a dance artist whose work spans performance, devising, improvisation and creative facilitation. She is a founding member of The Band That Dances (fka The Yonis), a non-hierarchical pop-punk band working as a collective. Their debut album 'Headliner', a comedic riot grrrl witchy extravaganza, toured the UK and Europe in 2022. Bethany has worked with choreographers including Becky Namgauds, Tim Casson, Tess Letham and Hannes Langolf. She regularly performs improvisation both solo and ensemble with groups Collective Endeavours and Something Smashing. She has performed across the UK and Europe in contexts such as night clubs, galleries, stately ho...
2024-01-0447 minInterviews with ImprovisersLewys HoltLewys Holt (they/them) is an interdisciplinary dance artist based in Leeds. They work as a dancer, choreographer and curates Roadhouse with Eleanor Sikorski. Born in Mold in North Wales and raised in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Lewys studied dance at De Montfort University (2010-14). Their practice, while focusing on dance, spans comedy and devised theatre. They make work that centres the performer as an empowered individual, showcasing their personality and vulnerabilities. They make score based choreographies, which combine improvisation with subtle wit and formal experimentation that push the boundaries of disciplines to make innovative performances. They have worked as...
2023-12-2149 minInterviews with ImprovisersThéïa MaldoomThéïa (she/her) is a dance artist and improviser. Currently, she is interested in asking; What does it mean to be a dancer? What is improvisation? Gravitating towards multidisciplinary practices that center the body with a sensitivity to the senses, imagination, memory and desire. Important threads in Théïa's thinking are; care, collectivity and expansive understanding of who we are and can be. Théïa is British Armenian and lives in London. She started dancing young and then studied at The BRIT School and graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2020. Website: www.theiamaldoom.co.uk
2023-12-1439 minInterviews with ImprovisersEleanor SikorskiEleanor (she/her) (b. London 1988) is a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker based in Leeds, UK. Her choreographic work explores
moving bodies in relation to objects, language and sound. With her
partner, dancer Lewys Holt, she co-hosts Roadhouse, a bi-monthly evening of improvised dance in Leeds, cultivating the local improvisation scene with regular performances and open practice sessions. They also tour nationwide, combining dance and voice in unique, improvised performances. Eleanor has worked as a dancer for artists including Eva Recacha, Seke Chimutengwende and Igor & Moreno, and since 2015 she has been part of the dancer-led project Nora, inviting choreographers to...
2023-12-0750 minInterviews with ImprovisersSeke ChimutengwendeSeke (he/him) is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher. He is currently working as a performer with Forced Entertainment and teaching improvisation and choreography at London Contemporary Dance School. His recent group choreography It begins in darkness exploring haunting
and colonial legacies premiered in 2022 and will be touring again in 2023/24. Seke has been practicing completely improvised performance, using movement and text, since 2006. He has performed over 70 solo improvisations internationally and has performed ensemble improvisation with numerous dancers, actors and musicians. He is currently exploring long solo improvisation performances of 50 to 60 minutes. Website: www.sekechimutengwende.com
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2023-12-0352 minInterviews with ImprovisersSeries 1 TrailerThe Interviews with Improvisers audio cast series is where I have conversations with improvisers working across performing and interdisciplinary arts. You’ll hear me talking to dance and theatre artists as well as those arts practitioners who are working with improvisation more broadly.The first series stems from my interest in the relationship between voicing and dancing. My research to date has explored that dynamic in the context of dance or movement-based improvisation. Rather than refusing the voice in dance, I like to think of ‘re-fusing’ voicing and dancing so that they mesh together as part of a tigh...
2023-11-2702 min
Proud To Be QueerDr Robert Vesty (he/they), Senior Lecturer in Theatre at Middlesex UniversityDr Robert Vesty (he/they) is co-chair of the LGBT+ staff and student network at Middlesex University where they work as a Senior Lecturer in Theatre. A white cis male, they were born in Luton in 1973 but quickly moved to Lancashire before moving again to Essex when he was ten. He grew up in a working-class household with two younger straight brothers and found himself hiding his queerness from those around him, including himself. In some ways, he found space and a potential outlet through theatre, which he studied at GCSE, A-level and then at the University of Birmingham whe...
2023-06-0143 min
Movement is Life with the Feldenkrais Method®Flexible WristsA sitting lesson by Robert Vesty.
From the 2016 series prepared for International Feldenkrais Week.
Lesson courtesy of www.feldenkrais.co.uk
2021-09-2316 min