The Art of Faux Pas

Today we're chatting with Johannes Weiland. I am extremely happy to share this conversation with you and it is complicated to present Johannes in a couple of lines, his experience is so varied and dense. He grew up in Berlin and worked as a dancer for Béjart, before deepening his approach to choreography in NY. He then became the in-house choreographer at the Staatstheater Kassel for 15 years...

Today we’re chatting with Joachim Maudet.  This chat was a delicious mix of sincerity, vulnerability, love and laughters. Joachim and I met about 12 years ago.. and I loved him straight from the beginning, he is a radiant, sunny, funny, deep and generous person and artist.  As a dancer he trained at the National Conservatoire in Paris. He made his way to that training with the best creativity inve...

Today we are chatting with Ramona Nagabczyńska.  Ramona is a Canadian and Polish dance artist from Toronto, based in Warsaw. She trained at the Warsaw State Ballet School, at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt and at The Place in London. She then performed with (only to name a few!)  Polish Dance Theatre, Saju Hari, Fleur Darkin, Tom Dale, Emma Martin, Junk Ensemble, Davi...

Today we are chatting with Jill Crovisier.  Jill is a Luxembourgish dancer, choreographer, videographer and sound creator.  She is very often on the road, travelling the world to perform with her own company, or/and to create for other existing companies.  She has participated in many European Choreographic competitions and amongst other commissions, has created the piece Tanzabend for the Folkwan...

Bernard Baumgarten is a Luxembourgish dance artist, choreographer, director, mentor (you name it!!) notoriously known for being the artistic director of the TROIS C-L Maison pour la Danse of Luxembourg since 2007. He is an ear and a support to many emerging and established artists, from Luxembourg and internationally. I have rarely met someone so patient and kind to the young generation of makers....

Today we are chatting with René Alejandro Huari Mateus.  René is a dance artist from Colombia, she studied chemistry before discovering dance and the power of movement rolling down her spine one day. Encounters brought her to Germany where she trained At the Folkwang School in Essen - before dancing as a guest dancer for Pina Bausch. She then worked as a full time dancer of the the Staatsatheater...

Seeta Patel is an award-winning choreographer and dancer based in London.  She began her training under the guidance of Kiran Ratna in 1990. She has since worked with a range of Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance professionals including (and to name a few) Mavin Khoo or Darshan Singh Bhuller. She has also performed and toured with a number of companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre and Shobana Je...

Breanna O’Mara is a Dance Artist from Detroit (US) and is now based in Vienna. She has worked with Liquid Loft, Staatstheater Kassel, Ballett Baselm, and has danced and toured the wolrd with Tanztheater Wuppertal and Dimitris Papaioannou. She is currently the Contemporary Dance Rehearsal Director at the Paris Opera.  Breanna shines bright with passion, enthusiasm, humility and empathy. Distance to...

Sarah Blanc is an Irish artist based in London. She is simply magnificent: she shines with positivity, passion and enthusiasm. She s also funny as hell. I love that she describes herself as a loud mouth choreographer, performer and host. Sarah is the Artistic Director of Moxie Brawl -  a spicy inclusive dance theatre company who makes work that your mum would love (isn’t that best line ever).  As...

Anne-Mareike Hess is a Luxembourgish dance artist and has been working in the field of contemporary dance for 17 years. Her work has toured extensively and counts amongst others, the piece Warrior which was part of Aerowaves 2020.  I personally love Anne-Mareike’s take on life, work and her exquisite sense of humour!  Together we talked about being tutu number 26, about the importance of being cre...

Seke Chimutengwende is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher based in London. As a performer, he’s worked with DV8, Lost Dog and Forced Entertainment amongst others. Improvisation is at the centre of Seke’s work. He has been practicing completely improvised performance, using movement and text, since 2006 and has performed over 70 solo improvisations internationally.  Together...

Laura Patay is a French dancer. She’s worked for several years with Candoco Dance Company where she performed works by Trisha Brown and Yasmeen Godder and amongst others.  Laura is phenomenal, fierce, fearless and quite frankly the incarnation of resilience. Together we talked about different bodies, pleasure, touring the world, accelerated solo, motherhood and postpartum bodies... … I hope you’ll...

Orrow Bell is a London based dance artist. They make, perform, work as dramaturg, facilitator, and curator. Orrow’s solo works have toured widely. As a performer, they worked with Tino Sehgal, Hussein Chayalan & Damien Jalet, Lea Anderson, Maresa von Stockert, Alessandro Sciarroni and Chiara Frigo amongts others.  To me, Orrow is a quiet strength. The kind of strength that radiates from people...

Samir is a french dancer based in Marseille, he worked with DV8, Les Ballets C de la B, Peeping Tom, Blanca Li, and Philippe Lafeuille amongst others.  Together we talked about training, fitting in, taking actions, self-sabotage, working hard, working with kids, and..dreams. He has such a powerful presence, he’s determined, hard-working and his journey is, I believe, one of the most inspiring ones...

SUNG-IM HER. Sung-im is a South-Korean dance artist based in London, she danced with Jan Fabre, Les Ballets C de la B and NeedCompany amongst others. Her work has been touring internationally and she was an Aerowaves artist in 2021.  She’s radiant, her energy is joyfully contagious… I hope you’ll enjoy the chat as much as I did!! 

A presentation of where this podcast comes from, and what I imagine it might become! Music: Martin Durov  (from the piece 'The Ephemeral life of an octopus')