Shows
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERSThe Next Step - Dirty Dancing (1987)Up next in our new mini-series, The Next Step, is DIRTY DANCING (1987)! With bonus film--FLASHDANCE (1983).Long a stalwart of slumber parties, Dirty Dancing can actually be a tougher watch than you remember, with a plot that revolves around an illegal abortion. We all know the famous line at the end of the film, but do you know who Baby's father was in real life? Or how to do that lift properly? And why Patrick Swayze isn't even the best dancer in this movie? Perhaps the ultimate 80s film about a female sexual awakening, a rewatch r...
2025-05-1959 min
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERSBallet Macabre - The Chosen OneWe start our mini series with THE RED SHOES (1948) and SUSPIRIA (2018) as Emma Lister, long time film lover, podcast host and ballet dancer guides us down the dark hallway that is the use of ballet in horror movies.Guests Zoe Ashe-Browne and Diarmaid O'Meara join to give their insights as professional dancers and amateur cineasts on perhaps the foundational ballet horror film: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes. They marvel at Moira Shearer's technique, discuss the feasibility of the film's stage calls and ponder the selective marathon that is the path to a professional dance...
2023-10-101h 27
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERSIrish Women Making Dance - The Roundtable Pt 2Last week’s episode circled around the taboo of motherhood in the dance world, the lack of a full time company in Ireland and the question of why there is comparatively so many women making dance work in Ireland. We’ll be following up and expanding on all these topics in this week’s episode. In this series we’ll be interviewing Irish women making dance in a virtual roundtable with MOSHMA host Emma Lister and her regular cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne, winner of the Constance Markievicz Award, 2021.Ep 3 - Roundtable part 2, Liz Roche, Liv O'Donoghue, Sibéal Dav...
2022-03-041h 05
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERSIrish Women Making Dance - The Roundtable Pt 1What do you think of when you think of Ireland? The Emerald Isle, Guinness, Oscar Wilde and Riverdance? What about women making dance? Because this tiny island turns out loads of them--just over 80% of recent dance bursary awardees were for women making work. In a time when the dance world is confronting the predominance of men in roles of leadership, what is Ireland getting right? Is it ahead of the curve?But where are these makers to go? Ireland does not have one permanent dance company...lots to discuss here!Over three episodes we’ll be...
2022-02-221h 09
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERSIrish Women Making Dance - The IntroductionAhead of our first roundtable discussion with six women making dance in Ireland, Emma Lister and cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne give a (tiny) bit of Irish history and pose the driving question of this new mini series: In a time when the conversation in dance often turns to the predominance of men in roles of leadership, why are there so many women choreographing in Ireland?Zoë Ashe-Browne is the winner of the Markievicz Award 2021.This mini series has been made possible by support from the Arts Council Ireland on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts...
2022-02-1825 min
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERSDance in the Time of Corona - Pay Your DancersIn this, the first episode of our mini-series Dance in the Time of Corona, Emma Lister is joined by cohosts Zoë Ashe-Browne and Shelby Williams. They reveal the results of a survey they conducted after the controversial Venice Biennale College Danza audition call and the ensuing movement: #payyourdancers. The survey was open to ALL professional dancers, past and present. Respondents represented every corner of the dance world: Jazz dancers, tap dancers, commercial, Irish, Hip Hop, classical Indian, classical ballet, contemporary, musical theatre and ballroom. What do they all have in common? Well, 92% had seen something advertised or wer...
2021-08-101h 03
Talking about DanceTalking About Dance: Zoë Ashe-BrowneZoë Ashe Browne is a dance artist and choreographer from Dublin. Since completing her professional training with the English National Ballet School in London she has danced for companies and choreographers all over Europe. Her first professional engagement was with Ballet Ireland in 2009.
Zoë subsequently went on to be professionally engaged with English National Ballet Company, Peter Schaufuss Ballett (Denmark) and Ballett Vorpommern (Germany). In August 2018 Zoë joined The Royal Ballet of Flanders.
Zoë’s choreographic practice has been supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Ballet Ireland and Dance Ireland.
Zoe’s recent choreogr...
2021-07-2905 min
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERSBallet for the 21st Century - Ballet and Mental Health - The Survey Pt IIIn part II of our episode on mental health and the classically trained ballet dancer, Emma Lister talks to counsellor (and ex-dancer) Terry Hyde. They discuss the symptoms and triggers of panic attacks and depression, the loss of identity that plagues dancers when they leave the profession and the danger of pushing your feelings away. Terry also speak frankly about how the dance world needs to ‘call out the bullies’.If you missed part I of this episode, go back and listen to it now! In it, Emma is joined by cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne, they discuss a 30 quest...
2020-12-2942 min
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERSBallet for the 21st Century - Ballet and Mental Health - The Survey Pt IEmma Lister and cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne released a 30 question survey about ballet dancers' mental health. They never expected the response it got--hundreds of classically trained dancers filled it out. This is obviously a topic we need to talk about!In this, the first episode of MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS ballet mini-series, they reveal some of the statistics collected, the stories shared and speak candidly about what it all means. Special guests: Barry Drummond, Alex Newton, Shelby Williams—THE SURVEY—30 questions. Completed by over 400 trained ballet dancers. Graduated 2010-2020: 45% and pre1990-2010...
2020-12-221h 00
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERSZoë Ashe-Browne ⎢ ChoreographerIn the first episode of series one host Emma Lister talks to classically trained dancer Zoë Ashe-Browne, currently an artist at the Royal Ballet of Flanders. They discuss her choreography for that company and The National Ballet of Ireland, the possible limitations of classical companies for the creative individual and the flaws of hiring ballet stars as artistic directors.We discussed Zoë’s pieces Us and Flux, full films of which are on her website.Zoë’s Instagram: @zoeashebrowne_choreographerThe last three questions...What’s the piece of art that...
2020-07-2029 min