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Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

This episode focuses on interruption as an improvisational practice, using disturbance as a way to reveal how patterns form, persist, and resist change. The main improvisation begins with free dancing. As soon as a recognisable pattern appears, it is interrupted immediately. When something becomes familiar, named, or recognisable, the task is to do something else. The aim is not to avoid movement,...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

This episode continues the exploration of improvisation by shifting attention to sensory hierarchy. Rather than adding more material, the practice works by removing or limiting one sense in order to notice how movement reorganises itself. The primary invitation is to reduce or remove vision. This can be done by closing the eyes, dimming the room, using a blindfold, or practising a “reverse blink”,...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

Dance Reflection is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. This guest series extends that reflection by inviting dance artists and practitioners to recount their yesterday, a day in their lives, tracing what they did from beginning to end. Through this simple structure, each episode...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

This episode focuses on time as one of the largest compositional structures in improvisation. Until now, much of the responsibility for timing has been left open, but here timing becomes the frame itself. The session asks a simple but demanding question: when does an improvisation begin, and when does it end? The core task is to create a dance that lasts exactly one minute. You are invited to begi...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

This is a special dance workshop episode with guest Benjamin Pohlig . After many years researching together dance and politics, Peter and Benni give this workshop after a focused research on “how anarchists dance” with the support of MARC (Milvus Artistic Research Center) and DansiT Koreografisk senter / Choreographic Center. In the workshop they stay with the main question: how do anarchists danc...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

To we dance with Seke Chimutengwende. To get in touch with Seke go to or follow on and watch Seke perform see Seke’s up coming performances here: https://www.sekechimutengwende.com/performances Last Quartet is on at The Place and Lancaster Arts + preview at Wainsgate Dances References Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre  Forced Entertainment - https://www.forcedentertainment.com/ DV8 - https://en.wikiped...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

This episode stays with improvisation and turns attention toward call and response, answering movement with movement. Rather than imagining improvisation as something that happens in isolation, the session proposes that dancing is always in relationship: to gravity, to the floor, to sound, to space, and to the presence or potential presence of others. The episode explores different ways of respond...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

In this episode, we move from broad acceptance into something more specific: limits. While improvisation is often framed as total freedom, this session explores how clear, strict rules can actually make dancing feel more possible, playful, and rich. The episode introduces three simple but demanding improvisation prompts. First, dance while only turning left, noticing how a seemingly obvious rule q...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

Dance Reflection is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. This guest series extends that reflection by inviting dance artists and practitioners to recount their yesterday, a day in their lives, tracing what they did from beginning to end. Through this simple structure, each episode...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

This episode continues the exploration of improvisation by focusing on acceptance, momentum, and the compositional power of saying yes . Drawing inspiration from theatre improvisation and the principle of “yes, and” , the workshop treats improvisation as an ongoing practice of agreement, where impulses are not rejected but allowed to enter the dance. Listeners are invited to work with continuous a...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

In this episode, the workshop turns directly toward the question what is improvisation? building on earlier explorations of movement research, consent, authority, and care. Improvisation is approached not as a stylistic outcome or a demand to be spontaneous, but as a method , a way of working, thinking, and deciding through movement in real time. The episode frames improvisation as a practice of a...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...

In this episode, we turn explicitly to research and recognise that we have, in fact, been researching all along. The workshop explores multiple ways research operates within dance practice: researching by watching dance in performances, studios, streets, screens, and archives; researching through taking classes and experiencing different aesthetics, techniques, and pedagogical approaches; research...

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular sp...