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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...

This workshop explores care, safety, and risk as choreographic conditions that shape how dance becomes possible. Rather than treating safety as a fixed set of rules, the episode considers care as an ongoing responsibility that is continuously negotiated within physical, emotional, and social contexts. The session begins by reflecting on how the word dance itself creates invitations and expectation...

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...

S1 Ep19 Dance Workshop (Consent, Invitation, and Participation) This workshop explores consent and invitation as ongoing choreographic processes rather than fixed permissions. The episode asks when participation begins, how it is negotiated, and how dancing emerges through subtle, often invisible invitations. The session begins by attending to unspoken invitations to dance. Listeners are invited t...

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...

Today we dance with Tim Spooner . To get in touch and follow Tim go to https://timspooner.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/tspooner0 . Tim will be performing:  Matter Era Battersea Arts Centre 7, 8, 9 May https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/ Norfolk and Norwich Festival 12,13,14 May https://nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/ Westflügel Leipzig 22 & 23 May https://www.westfluegel.de/ve...

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...

S1 Ep18 Dance Workshop (Copying, Interpretation, and Misunderstanding) This workshop explores copying as a choreographic practice, focusing on interpretation, accuracy, deviation, and misunderstanding. Rather than treating copying as uncreative or secondary, the episode examines how copying produces difference, imagination, and movement through what is lost, exaggerated, remembered, or transformed...

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...

S1 Ep17 Dance Workshop (Instruction, Authority, and Following) This workshop focuses on instruction and authority as core choreographic materials. Rather than treating authority as something held by a single person or role, the episode explores how authority emerges, shifts, leaks, and is negotiated through instruction, sensation, memory, time, and context. Through a performative score titled Stan...

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...

Today we danced with Katye Coe. To get in touch with Katye’s work visit https://www.katyecoe.org or https://www.seauk.org.uk/directories/katye-coe-somatic-experiencing-practitioner-and-ait/ References Support the show For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com . And contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com PETER would love to hear from you. Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter  

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...

S1 Ep16 Dance Workshop (Stages, Performance, and Audience) In this workshop, we use the idea of the stage as a way to think about how dance appears, how it becomes present, and how it is witnessed. Rather than treating the stage only as a traditional theatre space, the episode expands the notion of staging to include solo practice, social dance, public space, teaching situations, media, and everyd...

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...

S1 Ep15 Dance Workshop (Habits) In this episode, we turn our attention to habits and their complex role in dancing and choreography. Drawing on Jonathan Burrows’ questions “Are you doing what you want to do, or are you following your habits?” and “What if following your habits is the right thing to do?”, the session approaches habits not as something to simply overcome, but as embodied knowledge f...

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...

Today we danced with Lea Anderson . Stay in contact with Lea via http://www.leaanderson.com/ , @speakingshoes and @leaandersonscholmondeleys . References: The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs - http://www.leaanderson.com/works Laurel and Hardy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy Laurel and Hardy - Dance Routine - Way Out West (1937) - https://youtu.be/LXCwlO2jnYU?si=yra0RLSojs...

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...

S1 Ep14 Dance Workshop (Movement or experience as Material / Scores) In this session, the focus shifts from choreography as set steps toward movement and experience as material. Building on the previous episode’s exploration of set choreography, the workshop opens choreography back up again, asking what happens when movement is treated less as a fixed product and more as something that can be shap...