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DOWNTIME features a series of interviews with dance artists and arts leaders about how they work, what it is that drives them, and whether their purpose has changed in response to the challenges of the past couple of years. It is hosted by internationally respected dramaturg Lou Cope, who spearheaded The Centre of Applied Dramaturgy (CoAD). CoAD seeks to make the value of dramaturgical practice clear, embed it into organisations – artistic and otherwise, and develop its reach – both in terms ...
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In this podcast, artists talk about how they got into music, their current songs and future projects. They introduce their favorite bands and present their musical equipment. You can find a video to this podcast on YouTube. Search for "Summer Dance Project". Summer Dance Project is a music project based in Hannover, Germany. Our Website: www.summerdanceproject.de All links: https://linktr.ee/summerdanceproject Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/summerdanceproject/s ...
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Lloyd Newson OBE is a director, dancer and choreographer. He formed DV8 Physical Theatre in 1986, and the company went on to tour across the world for decades, winning 55 national and international awards including the Prix Italia, Rose d'Or and an International Emmy Award. Shows include:, the hard hitting, physically combative, politically charged…
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Lou talked with Italian choreographer and performer Silvia Gibraudi, sometimes referred to as ‘the prophet of the free body’, in December 2022. Silvia talked about her journey of trying to find joy and grace, and bring them to people’s lives, to theatres and to people in the street. She explained how her show Graces explores questions like ‘what is…
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Lou talked with Movement Directors Ayse Tashkiran and Ingrid Mackinnon about how they approach the key relationships at the heart of their work - namely directors, individual and groups of actors and other collaborators; how they try to identify and develop the ‘feeling’ or ‘colour’ of a production and how they move between leading and observing. T…
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Lou spoke to Julia in November 2022. They talked about how her journey and values underpin everything she does; how important it is for her to be part of a movement that advocates for the representation of people like her; how House of Absolute work as a collective, and how she approached the role of choreographer of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. Ju…
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Hello and welcome to a rather unusual one-off episode of Downtime. Lou has absolutely loved talking to all her brilliant guests about how they approach their work. But a while ago it was suggested that maybe she make a mini- episode that focuses on her work, her personal approach to dramaturgy and also CoAD - The Centre of Applied Dramaturgy - and …
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Damien and Lou spoke in mid October 2022. They talked about the interest in ritual that has informed all of his work; his collaborations with visual artists to make the pieces Thr(o)ugh, Vessel and Skid; the impact that being caught in the centre of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris has had on the content of his work; and what it is he is enjoyin…
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Caroline spoke with Lou about the work she has done, as a ‘mosquito buzzing in the ears of the arts industry’, striving for cultural equity both in the UK and Australia, and how far there is yet to go on that journey. She described the work of Arts Access Victoria, including the brilliant new Alter State Festival, and all the work they have been do…
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Tarek Iskander is the Artistic Director of Battersea Arts Centre, in London. Born in Sunderland to parents born in Egypt, Tarek moved to the Middle East when he was five, and returned to the UK at 17, escaping from the Gulf War in Kuwait. He studied engineering before beginning a management career in the NHS that lasted more than a decade. In the f…
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Lou talked with Ned, Alan and Naomi about what motivates them, what models they use, their different approaches and what’s difficult about the work they do. They talked about how trust and time are key to letting co-created ideas emerge, and they shared top tips for anyone embarking on a participatory performance project.…
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Multi- award winning Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen Sandig and In 1996 together they opened the Sophiensæle, a theatre in Berlin. In the years since, alongside her work with Sasha Waltz and guests, she…
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In this episode of Downtime, Lou talks with Noel Jordan – Festival Director of Imaginate and Edinburgh International Children’s Festival. They talked about Noel’s approach to programming, Imaginate’s year round support for artists, the risks Noel can take in terms of programming difficult or sensitive material, and his observations about the qualit…
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Lou spoke to Annabelle while she was at Jacob’s Pillow, in June 2022. They spoke about where Annabelle’s passion for working across genres comes from, the detail of how she prepares and what she asks of her dancers in the studio, and how she and her dramaturg and long time collaborator Nancy Meckler work together. Annabelle also talked about what s…
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Jonzi D is the founder and Artistic Director of Jonzi D Projects and Breakin’ Convention the international Hip Hop festival he founded in 2004 with Sadlers Wells. A dancer, spoken word artist and director, he is the foremost advocate for hiphop theatre who has changed the profile and influenced the development of the UK British hip-hop dance and th…
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New York based Katy Pyle is a genderqueer lesbian dancer and choreographer who founded their dance company Ballez in 2011 to explore their complicated relationship to the cis-hetero patriarchal form of ballet, and to make space for their own, and their communities’, presence within it. The mission is to reimagine ballet through collaborative, commu…
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Joseph Toonga is from East London. He makes and performs dance productions that tell stories of the under-represented, relevant to the here and now which are embedded in the languages of contemporary dance and Hip Hop. Joseph is Artistic Director of Just Us Dance Theatre, has created work for Edge; National Youth Ballet of Germany; Richard Alston D…
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Season 1 / Episode 7: Belgian singer and songwriter HUNTER FALLS talks about how he recorded his song AIN'T NO LOVE. He and his producer invited more than 40 people of a choir to the studio for the recordings. HUNTER FALLS also speaks about his participation in The Voice Belgique, his latest single FAME and his future projects and plans for live sh…
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Season 1 / Episode 6: Jens (sonic minds) speaks about how he started with music. As a child he had piano lessons. In the 80s he started to create music on an Atari ST Computer which had the novel MIDI Port and Steinberg Cubase music production software. In the 90s Jens produced first songs on a Windows-PC. A friend of him took over the singing. Als…
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Season 1 / Episode 5: Alex Smith speaks about the situation for musicians after lockdown in australia. Clubs are open again and live music and concerts are possible again. Alex is in the band "Your Man Alex Smith" and also is doning live gigs again. He speaks about what is the difference to the time before corona and about the safety measures for g…
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Born in Havana in 1973, Carlos Acosta trained at the National Ballet School of Havana in Cuba. After winning a succession of awards, including the Prix de Lausanne in 1990, he went on to dance professionally with the world’s most prestigious ballet companies, including The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Houston Ballet and Cuban National Bal…
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The Music Talk (Artists, Singers and Bands interviewed by Summer Dance Project) / Today: Nara Arnaux (Brasilia, Brazil) speaks about how she started with music. She is a singer. She speaks about working with her producers. She is making music for five years and released four singles. Nara often has got song ideas in her dreams during sleeping and w…
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The Music Talk (Artists, Singers and Bands interviewed by Summer Dance Project) / Today: Pistacho Beats (Monterrey, Mexico) speaks about how he started with music. He is a guitar player. He speaks about his live gig on a festival in italy he was invited to. He explained also how he prepared for the concert. Pistacho presents his acoustic guitar whi…
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The Music Talk / Today: STEEVM (Vienna, Austria) speaks about how he programmed first music on an Amstrad/Schneider CPC 464 PC as a child, how he started a band as a teenager, how he began with creating his own music. STEEVM presents his home studio and his guitar collection. He speaks about his musical background. Also available as PODCAST: https:…
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The Music Talk / Today: Kayla NORTH (Seattle) speaks about her experiences with music collaborations, how she started with creating her own music. Kayla presents her home studio and her cats. She speaks about her musical background and her instruments. She is a drummer. Also available as PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/summerdanceproject​ Guest Today: N…
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Michael Keegan-Dolan founded Teaċ Daṁsa in 2016 as a means to forge stronger connections with the native traditions, language and music of Ireland, as exemplified by the company’s first two productions, Swan Lake / Loch na hEala (2016) and MÁM (2019). Previously Michael was AD of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre creating three Olivier Award-nominated p…
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Lou's guest on Downtime today is Shobana Jeyasingh, an internationally recognised choreographer who founded Shobana Jeyasingh Dance 30 years ago. She has created over 60 critically acclaimed works for stage, screen, and public spaces such as Palladian monasteries, fountain courtyards and city offices. In addition to her work with SJD she has also b…
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Lou's guest on Downtime today is Swedish choreographer, film maker and dancer Pontus Lidberg. Pontus became Artistic Director of Danish Dance Theatre in 2018 . He has also been commissioned by Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Acosta Danza, Balletboyz and Beijing Dance Theatre. Lou jo…
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My guest on Downtime today is Kate Prince - the AD of Zoonation – and the choreographer behind the massive hits Some Like it Hip Hop, Into The Hoods and most recently Message in a Bottle – a show set to the music of Sting which premiered at Sadlers Wells in Feb 2020. She was also, as we’ll hear, choreographer on the west end hit Everybody’s Talking…
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The extraordinary Jo Verrent is my guest on downtime today. Jo is the senior producer for Unlimited - the world’s largest commissions programme for disabled artists, ensuring that work gets seen, discussed and embedded within the cultural fabric of the UK, and further afield, with partners such as ACE, Creative Scotland, Southbank Centre, and the B…
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In this episode Lou spent some Downtime with Aditi Mangaldas, a leading dancer and choreographer in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak, based in Delhi, India. Aditi runs her own rep company - Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company – The Drishtikon Dance Foundation. It is here that she experiments with what she calls ‘contemporary danced based on Kath…
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Today’s Downtime chat is with UK-based choreographer Gary Clarke. Gary is known for creating a place to tell socio-political stories and histories of the British working class, in a contemporary dance setting, which is no mean feat! He is loved and respected by audience and dance professionals alike. Lou and Gary have worked together for over 12 ye…
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For the past 11 years Sharon Watson has been AD of Phoenix Dance Theatre. She is now CEO & Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance. This exciting and inspiring conversation took place as Lou joined Sharon in a personal moment that merged quiet reflection with exhilarating potential, as Sharon spoke of her journey as a black, female leade…
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One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance based in Glasgow, Scotland. Claire and Lou talked about two key themes of Claire’s thinking and work – our relationship with time, (and the concept of ‘crip time’); and the ‘choreography of car…
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Cathy Marston is an award-winning choreographer, based in both Switzerland and the UK. Recent shows in the UK include The Cellist for The Royal Ballet, The Suit – initially created for Ballet Black, and Jane Eyre and Victoria for Northern Ballet. As we’ll hear she recently made Mrs Robinson for San Francisco Ballet and should now be working on Of M…
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I had a great chat with choreographer, dancer and designer Theo Clinkard, in early June 2020. In addition to making pieces for his own company, pieces like Ordinary Courage (2012) Chalk (2014), Of Land & Tongue (2014), This Bright Field (2017), he has also made work for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, and Candoco Dan…
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Melbourne-based choreographer Lucy Guerin presents her work regularly across Australia and Europe. In addition to touring such shows as Split, Attractor and Untrained with her own company Lucy Guerin Inc, she’s also made shows for Lyon Opera Ballet, Chunky Move, Dance Works Rotterdam and Ballet Rambert. We talked in early June 2020 about how the en…
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Belgian/Moroccan Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is one of the world’s most sought after choreographers. He’s made over 50 shows, works in contemporary dance, ballet, film and theatre and has picked up a frankly embarrassing haul of awards. Collaborators include Antony Gormley, Damien Jalet, Marina Abramovic and Beyonce – to name but a few. I worked with Larb…
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For this episode of DownTime I was so pleased to be able to talk with Botis Seva and Lee Griffiths. Botis is a dance artist, choreographer and director working in contemporary dance, physical theatre and hip-hop – he is the AD of HipHop Dance Theatre company – Far From the Norm. Lee Griffiths is the Creative Producer of Far From The Norm, and also,…
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