DanceOutsideDance

Part of the special curated series enDurANCE, curated and guest hosted by Daniela Perazzo, and supported by the Ivor Guest Research Grant and the Race and Gender Matters Research Group at Kingston University, we discuss notions of endurance, perseverance, repetition and what they really require in art and life. Discussing their new work KARRASEKARE (the Sardinian word for Carnival) the conversatio...

Introduced by Michaela Gerussi, this episode follows a conversation between Daniela Perazzo and invited guest Lenio Kaklea. It is one episode in a three-part series, enDurANCE, co-curated with Daniela. The series has been produced with the support of an Ivor Guest Research Grant awarded by the Society of Dance Research and the Race/Gender Matter research group of Kingston School of Art. works by L...

Anne Bourne With experience in international intermedia performance and recording, composer/artist Anne Bourne (based in Tkaronto) creates emergent streams of cello, piano and field recordings. Anne facilitates environmental listening through the text scores and listening practice of Pauline Oliveros and walking. A Chalmers Fellow, Anne explores equanimity, microtonal sound, listening and the wave...

Today, Laura Colomban from the DanceOutsideDance team has the pleasure to introduce Daniela Perazzo, Senior Lecturer in Dance at Kingston University, who will lead the conversation with Alessandro Sciarroni. This episode is part of a three-part series, enDurANCE, co-curated with Daniela, kindly supported by an Ivor Guest Research Grant awarded by the Society of Dance Research and also by the Race/...

This is the second episode in a two episode mini-series on the theme of Re-enchanting British dance, guest-curated by Daniela Perazzo and supported by Kingston University. These two episodes are three-way conversations between an invited artist, a member of the podcast team, and Daniela Perazzo. This joint conversation between Michaela Gerussi, Daniela Perazzo and invited guest J Neve (Neve) Harri...

The three-way conversation begins with introductions from guest curator Daniela Perazzo, then delves into the notion of intimacy and touch in life and in performance, discussing Charlotte’s new work Written in the Body, and moving into how practices of wellness and support can exist within artistic work. Finally, we discuss the role of language in Charlotte’s work. This is the first episode in a t...

Robert Kocik's new course called “Prosody and the preciousness of life” holds the intention to call everyone together - a problematic endeavour that he argues involves spiritual practice. Robert talked about the power of intonation and the medicine inside of it, the use of rhythm and tone, and the composition of poetry, pitch, intensity, "strofas", stanza, and junctions, which make the dynamic art...


Laura Colomban speaks with the disruptive technologist John Collins, founder of Innovation Foundry, a company which support business and individuals to identify new technology trends and create opportunities for collaborative innovation. John has a fast and exceptional intelligence, he is PhD in Nuclear Physics and microelectronics besides having a passion for dance performances, theatre and cult...

In this conversation recorded in May 2020, Laura Colomban and Florence Peake talk about assumptions in a white-based somatic world, and through the topic of vibrating materials, move on to talk about the idea of penetration and infection of bodies as a place of desire. We continued exploring assumptions around audience participation, intentions as felt vibratory matter in the room, telepathy as te...

Erik Davis and Julia Pond talk about psychedelic dance and the way altered states of mind and movement interact. Topics range from bone-dancing at Grateful Dead shows ("The bands were incidental to the dance"), the way movement resonates through time and generations, and the salvage rhythms of late capitalism (with thanks to Anna Tsing for the phrase). Bios: Erik Davis, PhD, is an author, award-wi...

The conversation happened in June 2021. Exploring themes of vocality and embodiment, through cells and ancient tacit knowledges residing in each body. We started with his journey from Jamaica to UK, carrying with him the prehistoric and healing power of voice to reveal stories, places of displacement, loss of connections, political and social implications arose from a critical mind embedding a hig...

In this 'double interview' Michaela Gerussi and Alice Gale-Feeny (both initiators of the podcast) ask questions about each others' artistic practices, trace some of the ideas which inform them, and unpack different perspectives between their (respective) backgrounds in fine art and contemporary dance. The conversation departs from a place of friendship and familiarity, whereas Alice and Michaela h...

Is suspending our participation in a broken system still a way to resist when our suspension from society became involuntary in COVID? Can the voice be a way to connect us corporeally across distance and could we ever find ways of meeting digitally that rival meeting in person? Julia, Agata and Ania also talk about their ‘Hanging Out and Hanging In’ event, part of the 3 Ecologies institute’s Minor...

Recorded in July 2020, in the midst of the first wave of pandemic lockdown, between Italy and California, Laura and Dohee talk about the power of intention and vibrating materials in relationship with community work, equality and immigration. They talk about the capitalistic sense of time and matriarchal rhythm, and voice as a medium and doorway to purge, land, call and response to past and presen...

How might attention be considered as a connecting point between contemporary dance practice and Craniosacral Biodynamics? With this question in mind, Michaela invites guest Laressa Dickey to speak about the points of overlap she has found between working with language, movement and in therapeutic settings. Together they discuss some of the basic and more complex principles fundamental to Craniosac...

Around the beginning of the first Lockdown, Alice and Natasha began exchanging emails about their respective artistic and curatorial practices. This interview continues conversations already started, where they find commonalities in their research and making practices; connecting anatomy to sculpture; domestic settings to processes of making and showing. The conversation over time became a methodo...

Laura Colomban invites Samita Sinha to talk about voice and vibrating materials. Their conversation travels through movement and vocal practice, creative practice, community work, the feminine lineage and resonances, she explain her relationship with the Indian tradition, with the act of tearing apart, and how to stand in the break. The talk brings to a journey through colonialism, relationship wi...

How do silence, repetition and the invisible impact artistic practice? Julia asks Suiko about her experiences with non-productivity and nothingness as a basis for creative practice, the value and pitfalls of repetition, and they speak about the power of the invisible (with a nod to the anemone). Bios: Suiko McCall is a painter and social sculpture artist, co-founder and Abbess of the Art Monastery...