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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...

S1 Ep13 Dance Workshop (Choreography as Set and Setting Steps) In this session, we focus on choreography in its most familiar sense: choreography as set material, as steps that can be repeated, remembered, ordered, and followed. Building on the previous episode’s exploration of what choreography is and where it comes from, this workshop turns toward how choreography is made concrete through steps,...

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 Sara Ruddock . Stay in contact with Sara at  https://sararuddock.com/ . References: Trinity Laban - https://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/ Roehampton University - https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/academic-areas/arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/dance/ Deborah Hay - https://dhdcblog.blogspot.com/ Market 2009, by Deborah Hay Pauline Oliveros - https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/deep...

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 Ep12 Dance Workshop (What is choreography?) In this session, we shift focus from how we dance to what is being danced . After exploring multiple approaches to improvisation and movement, the workshop turns toward choreography, not as fixed steps to be copied, but as the set of conditions, influences, and structures that inform movement. The episode begins by questioning a common understanding o...

S1 Ep11 Dance workshop (Coordination) In this session we investigate coordination as the practical work of organising different moving elements so they relate rather than collide. We begin simply: choose one or two parts of yourself and explore timing and sequencing — can you make a rhythm or pattern that feels connected rather than disjointed? From there we broaden into multiple-element awareness...

Today we danced with Jonathan Burrows . To follow Jonathan’s artistic work go to burrowsfargion.com and for his academic work go to pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/jonathan-burrows . To watch full length videos of Burrows and Fargion's work go to vimeo.com/burrowsfargion . Jonathan Burrows danced for 13 years with the Royal Ballet in London, during which time he also began performing reg...

S1 Ep10 Dance workshop (Breath) In this episode, we return to breath as the basis of movement. I speak about the role breath played in my performance O, and how the score I used there can function as a simple structure for dancing: grounding, breath, vocal resonance, expansion, and release. We begin with grounding and noticing the breath without changing anything. From there, we work through a ser...

S1 Ep9 Dance workshop (Effort and Ease) This episode focuses on the tone and energy of movement, exploring the dynamic spectrum between effort and ease. You’ll start by sensing where tension, holding, or gripping exists in your body, gradually exaggerating and then releasing it, noticing how attention itself carries effort. Through free movement, you’ll explore high-effort gestures—pushing, resist...

S3 Ep5  PETER, dance with Lorea Burge Today we dance with Lorea Burge. You can get in contact with Lorea Burge here https://www.loreaburge.com/ and follow Lorea on instagram @loreaburge . And at the Rose Choreographic School https://rosechoreographicschool.com/ . References: Choreographic Devices 4 https://www.ica.art/live/choreographic-devices-4 ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) https:...

S1 Ep8 Dance workshop (Size and Scale) In this session, we explore the scale of movement, from the tiniest gestures inside the body to the expansive reach of the whole universe. Starting with the human body as a reference point, you’ll notice the range and limits of your gestures, the arcs and sweeps you naturally make, and the spaces you inhabit as a mover. You’ll then be guided through exercises...

S1 Ep7 Dance workshop (Direction and Pathways) In this session, we turn our attention to where movement goes , to direction, pathway, and the lines our bodies trace through space. What determines where we move? Is it choice, curiosity, gravity, emotion, or something else entirely? We begin by drawing invisible lines through the air, straight, curved, spiralled, zigzagged, inspired by William Forsy...

Today we danced with Neil Paris . To contact Neil Paris email smith_paris@hotmail.com References: Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary dance Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre Micheal Kegan Dolan https://teacdamsa.com/about/ Rite of Spring Fabulous Beast - https://youtu.be/jsRKugYT03c?si=aI0dO4iS4AjEmNn3   Agnes and Walter: A Little Love Story Created and Directed by Neil Paris Laban https://en.wik...

S1 Ep6 Dance workshop (Tempo and Rhythm) In this session we turn to time: the internal clocks that live in your breath and pulse, and the external cues that shape how we move. You’ll be invited to listen first, to your heartbeat, your breathing, the quiet rhythms already present in your body, then to use that inner tempo as a guide for movement. We move through simple experiments: syncing movement...

S1 Ep5 Dance workshop (Balance & Imbalance) In this session we explore balance as both a physical and conceptual experience, how we find stability and how we lose it. Building from last week’s work on Weight & Gravity , this episode looks at balance as an ever-changing negotiation rather than a fixed position. You’ll be guided through a series of experiments: finding your own centre of bal...

S3 Ep3  PETER dance with Hanna Gillgren Today we dance with Hanna Gillgren. You can get in contact with Hanna Gillgren here https://h2dance.com/hanna-gillgren-biography-and-cv/ and follow Hanna on instagram @h2hanna . At the Rose Choreographic School https://rosechoreographicschool.com/ , Roehampton (University of Roehampton, London) https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/hanna-gillgren a...

In this session we explore one of the most fundamental forces in dance: gravity. Together we investigate how weight shapes every movement, from the subtle balancing of Steve Paxton’s Small Dances to the dynamic play of falling and catching yourself. You’ll be guided through exercises that invite you to feel your centre of gravity, to yield or resist weight, and to notice how balance is constantly...

S1 Ep3 Dance workshop (Stillness as Dance) In this episode, we explore the role of stillness in dance and how pauses, holds, and subtle micro-movements shape the way we perceive and create movement. Through guided exercises, you’ll develop a deeper awareness of your body’s natural stillness, experiment with accumulating stillness, and play with the contrast between motion and pause. You’ll also re...

S3 Ep2  PETER, dance with Dan Canham Today we danced with Dan Canham. Follow Dan Canham on instagram @dan_canham https://www.instagram.com/dan_canham/ or on Dan’s website https://www.dancanham.com/ And see Dan’s work at the closing event for Bradford City of Culture 2025, Winter Solstice 20th and 21st of December in Myrtle Park. Book here https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/brighter-still/     Refere...

S1 Ep2 Dance workshop (Space and Self) In this session, we turn our attention to space, the rooms we move in, the pathways we carve, and the invisible boundaries that shape how we dance. Through guided explorations, you’ll notice how your body relates to positive and negative space , how personal space expands and contracts, and how moving across a room creates paths that carry meaning. You’ll als...

S1 Ep1 Dance workshop, What is dance? In this first session, we begin with the deceptively simple but endlessly complex question: what is dance? Through a series of guided exercises, you’ll explore your own felt sense, the bodily awareness that tells you when something feels like dance and when it doesn’t. Starting with the practice of not dancing , you’ll learn to notice where dance emerges in yo...

S3 Ep1  PETER, dance with Matthias Sperling Today we danced with Matthias Sperling. To follow and get in touch with Matthias Sperling visit, http://matthias-sperling.com or on instagram @matthias_sperling . In Stockholm in early October 2025 Matthias will give a two-week series of workshops and performances https://www.fylkingen.se/en/events/no-how-generator-matthias-sperling-and-katye-coe#title o...

Season 3 of PETER dance with... Welcome back to PETER dance with . This season is recorded in the UK and features conversations with exciting guests including Matthias Sperling, Dan Canham, and Hanna Gillgren, with many more to come. Episodes will be released once every three weeks, giving each conversation time to breathe and unfold. The first episode of Season 3 arrives on Monday, September 22nd...

Today we dance with Martin Sonderkamp. Contact Martin at https://www.uniarts.se/english/people/co-workers/martin-sonderkamp/  This episode is based on a particular listening practice Martin shared with me.  The following 40 minutes is a listening piece written by composer Hara Alonso, sound artist Jenny Sunesson, and dancer and choreographer Martin Sonderkamp as part of their artistic research pro...