Wombat Radio

Rhiannon Newton - Long Sentences "The negativity that comes from working with words, they miss a lot of the stuff, that is the stuff, that is why people like us like dancing."Rhiannon Newton Rhiannon is an Australian dancer and choreographer. Her creative work draws attention to the interconnection of the body and the more-than-human world. Rhiannon makes contributions to community and culture thr...

"publication as a form of performance and performance as a form of publication"Chloe Chignell Chloe Chignell (AU) is an artist working across text, choreography and publishing. Chloe takes the body as the central problem, question and location of her research. She invests in writing as a body building practice, examining the ways in which language makes us up. Since 2019 Chloe co-runs rile* a book...

"I love to use Excel to visualise choreography. (When you're talking to collaborators in words, there will always be misunderstandings.)"Ning WANG｜王甯 Ning WANG｜王甯 regards her body as a complex carrier with both material and emotional compatibility, and the individual is rich in unique historical traces. In recent years, she has actively participated in cross-domain cooperation, including cir...

"I use old technology because it's so fast to realise my idea, and realise the artwork." (New technology is also exciting and requires me to project manage multiple teams of people).Yen Tzu Chang 張晏慈 Yen Tzu Chang 張晏慈 is a new media artist/new media art director/sound artist based in Taiwan, she has delivered sound art performances/exhibitions and exhibited her works in many international co...

"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 interven...

"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 betwe...

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...

"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 fi...

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 Ja...

"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...

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 bookarchiveS...

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...

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...

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/Klapp...

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 pra...

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...

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 cu...

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 jo...

"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 peopleMaki...

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 Hypothetic...

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, hyp...

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...

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.