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This episode is a conversation between jee chan, Jelena Golubović and Bilawa Ade Respati.  This episode is a conversation between jee chan, jelena golubovic, and Bilawa Ade Respati. jee is an artist in the first cohort of the Rose Choreographic School, whose practice often examines the potential of the displaced body, driven by their research concerning ancestral epistemologies and oral histo...

This episode is a conversation between Naz Cuguoğlu and Steve Dickison. Steve directed The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University from 1999 to 2024, and is a writer whose work engages deeply with poetry, criticism, and conversation. Naz is a curator of contemporary art, currently working at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, whose practice unfolds across...

This episode is a conversation with Black Quantum Futurism, an interdisciplinary practice founded by Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother). Their work brings together quantum physics with Afrodiasporic understandings of time, space, ritual, text, and sound, creating frameworks for counter-histories and alternative futures. Rasheedah is a writer, artist, and housing advocate whose work e...

This forms part of a mini-series, Dreaming Communities , curated by performing arts researcher, Victoria Pérez Royo. She defines the series as "a group of people having conversations around what we call the dreaming substance, meaning all the work developed around images that do not appear on a material surface outside of the body". This episode is a conversation between artists Erika Sprey and Ma...

This forms part of a mini-series, Dreaming Communities , curated by performing arts researcher, Victoria Pérez Royo. She defines the series as "a group of people having conversations around what we call the dreaming substance, meaning all the work developed around images that do not appear on a material surface outside of the body". This episode is a conversation between artist María Jerez and cho...

This forms part of a mini-series, Dreaming Communities , curated by performing arts researcher, Victoria Pérez Royo. She defines the series as "a group of people having conversations around what we call the dreaming substance, meaning all the work developed around images that do not appear on a material surface outside of the body". This episode is a response to Victoria's invitation from artist a...

This episode is a conversation between performing arts researcher, Victoria Pérez Royo, choreographer and artist Andrea Božić, and visual artist Julia Willms. Andrea and Julia have collaborated since 2003 making in-disciplinary works that re-organise space, attention and perception; exploring how spectatorship, imagination and spectacle are intertwined and embodied. The conversation was recor...

This episode is a conversation between artists Wu Tsang and Tosh Basco. Wu is an award ­winning filmmaker and performance artist, whose works explore hidden histories, marginalised narratives, and the act of performing itself. Tosh is a multidisciplinary performance artist and photographer, whose work enfolds language, becoming, and representation together; within spaces where these are typically...

This episode is a conversation between Rohan Ayinde and Suley, both based in London. Rohan is part of the first cohort of the Rose Choreographic School, and he is an anadisciplinary artist and poet. Suley is a playwright, painter, lawyer and lecturer who uses world building as a radical tool of investigation.  This conversation was recorded in a studio in London and it was the first meeting b...

This episode is a conversation between artists about their piece Hagay Dreaming, which was performed at Tate Modern in early March 2025. We hear from Director, Shu Lea Cheang, artistic director and performer Dondon Hounwn, and choreographer Dahu. All the artists originate from Taiwan. They discuss the words they would like to submit to the glossary, which , in turn, form a discussion int...

This episode is a conversation between dancers Kerem Gelebek and Soa Ratsifandrihana. Soa is a Franco-Malagasy dancer and choreographer based in Brussels. And Kerem is from Turkey and based in Paris, France. We’ll hear them discuss how they use the term interpreter in place of that of choreographer or dancer, and how their work integrates personal and cultural archives. They also speak about the c...

This is a conversation between Carolyn Lucas and Noé Soulier, Carolyn is the associate artistic director of the Trisha Brown Dance Company based in New York, and Noé is a choreographer and the director of the national Center for Contemporary Dance in Angers, France. We will hear them discuss the intricate relationship between structure and spontaneity in performance. They reflect on the use of ext...

This episode is a conversation between Helle Siljeholm and Simone Kenyon. Helle is a choreographer and visual artist based in Oslo, and Simone is a UK based artist, dancer and producer.  This was a first meeting between the two artists, and they excitedly shared their practices with each other, finding a joint interest in making work in relation to mountains.  Visit Rose Choreograph...

This episode is a conversation between Mine Kaplangı and Eda Sancakdar. Mine is an independent curator and art mediator, and Eda is a researcher and artist. They are both from Turkey, are based in London and share a house together. In this conversation, Eda and Mine were in a studio in central London. They have known each other for many years, and decided to use this podcast conversation...

This series is produced and edited by Hester Cant. The series is co-curated by Emma McCormick-Goodhart and Martin Hargreaves, with concept and direction by Martin Hargreaves and Izzy Galbraith. Rose Choreographic School Website   Rose Choreographic School Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is a conversation between Ayesha Hameed and Sara Garzón. Ayesha is an artist whose work explores contemporary borders and migration, critical race theory, Walter Benjamin, and visual cultures of the Black Atlantic. Sara is a Colombian curator and art historian. She specialises in contemporary Latin American art and focuses on issues relating to decoloniality, temporality, and Ind...

This episode is a conversation between Edgar Schmitz and Behzad Khosravi Noori. Edgar works on and through dispersed materialities of the choreographic, and distributed forms of (in-)animacy. He is the founder of the CHOREOGRAPHIC and ANIMATE ASSEMBLY research clusters and, director of the Art Research Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. Behzad is an artist, writer, educator, playg...

This episode is a conversation between the three members of the curatorial and research initiative Counter Encounters; Laura Huertas Millán, Onyeka Igwe & Rachael Rakes. Together they engage forms of anti and alter ethnographies in cinema and contemporary art. Laura is a Colombian artist and filmmaker based in Brussels, Onyeka is a London born and based moving image artist and researcher, and...

This episode is a conversation between Leo Boix and Pablo Bronstein, recorded in their home in East London. Leo is a poet, translator and teacher, writing from multiple identities on the complexities of creative and cultural translations. Pablo is an artist whose work spans prints and drawings to choreography and performance. His focus is on style, spatial politics and queerness. In this episode,...

Arjuna Neuman   is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who works with the essay form in a multi-perspectival and mobile approach where the ‘essay’ is inherently future-oriented and experimental. Denise Ferreira da Silva is a philosopher, writer and filmmaker, whose practices reflect and speculate on questions crucial to contemporary philosophy, political theory, black thought, feminist thought,...

In this episode, Mette and Chrysa talk about their identities as performers and choreographers. They also talk about translation in their practices, and the politics of authorship in choreography and dance.  Mette is a choreographer and performer, and she co-founded the publishing house  Varamo Press . Much of Mette's work focuses on choreography as writing. Chrysa Parkinson is a dancer...

This episode is a conversation between Andros Zins-Browne and Prem Krishnamurthy in a studio in New York City. Andros’s work consists of live and hybrid environments at the intersection between installation, performance and conceptual dance and Prem runs an artist-organised group called the Department of Transformation, which looks at art as an agent of transformation. The conversation explores im...