Interviews with Improvisers

João 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 pract...

Julyen 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...

Katie 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 im...

Peter 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 consider...

The 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...

The 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...

Introducing 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 v...

Amaara’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...

Bethany (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 inclu...

Lewys Hol t (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 perfo...

Théïa (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...

Eleanor (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 a...

Seke (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 co...

The 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...