Dance Futures

Dance Futures

By Ruth PethybridgeArtsPerforming Arts
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Dance Futures episodes

  • Falling in love and flying high with Grace Sellwood

    This episode is around a table with my guest Grace Sellwood and regulars on the pod Robyn Alvarez and Luca Vaccari, we discuss our love/hate relationship to dancing in a nod to Valentines day and the knife edge anxitement of performing as well as how grown ups need to play. There is a lot of local love in the room this month.

    49 min
  • Inspiring Movement with Kevin Turner
    In this episode Ruth talks to Kevin Turner, Artistic Director of Company Chameleon based in Manchester, UK. We discuss what inspiration really means and how Kevin uses dance to explore and share his own experiences, values and desires for social change. Kevin reveals his undercover identity (?!) and talks openly about his own mental health struggles. 
    Plus, abit of Whitney Houston anyone?! 
    Kevin is, quite simply, an inspiration... 
    Book References from this episode:
    Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal 
    Depression: A Public Feeling by Ann Cvetkovich 
    Dancing in the Streets, A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
    58 min
  • Christmas Special! Queering the Nutcracker

    In this episode Ruth, Robyn and Luca queer the iconic ballet that comes around every Christmas: The Nutcracker with music by Tchaikovsky.  We discuss heteronormativity in ballet, gender roles and their toys, etymology, how rats could be queer icons and the best drag act around - the sugar plum fairy. 

    We had such fun doing this episode and hope you enjoy it as much as we did, because, well, it's a cracker! (apart from a slightly rough around the edges edit, because you can't get everything right at this time of year)

    For your reference we watched the Russian Ballet full version available on You Tube for all to see, but of course there are numerous iterations and we also discuss Matthew Bourne's production. 

    Merry Queermas everyone! 

    1 hr 11 min
  • Dance Is Not a Luxury with Camille Barton
    In this episode I talk to Camille Barton, embodiment researcher, artist and activist about how from beginnings in ballet they have taken to seeking what feels good in thier body and learnt that this has more to do with spirals and circles than straight lines. We share our love of BASS music and Camille discusses the body as a channel for both joy and grief, while Robyn and Luca reflect on creating the spaces we want to see in the world. In this weeks geek out I check out ‘I love myself when I am dancing and carrying on: refiguring the agency of black women’s creative expression in Jamaican Dancehall culture' by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, how could I resist a title like that?!
    1 hr 1 min
  • Taking time to un-learn with Theo Clinkard

    In this episode I had the pleasure of taking time to talk with Theo Clinkard about unlearning the many rules and assumptions that being a dancer can leave us with, letting go of right/wrong binaries and 're-hobbying' dance.  We ask just what is the opposite of practice, if practice is all you have and Theo discusses about his brave and compelling new work 'The Century Project' a performance spanning 100 years which seeks to open up time rather than conume it.... and because its nearly Halloween there's even some talk of ghosts! 

     

    1 hr 11 min
  • Series 2 teaser

    A teaser to introduce you to the regular contributers on the Dance Futures podcast and a reminder from your favourite dance geek Dr Ruth Pethybridge that this is the podcast for you whether you are a trained professional or a regular on the kitchen disco circuit. We discuss what being a 'dancer' means in different ways to different people and why we'll never go on strictly...  

    See you on the dance floor!  


    10 min
  • Choreographing Care with Grace Nicol
    On this final episode of the current series Ruth talks to choreographer Grace Nicol about why the show mustn’t always go on, how we can create structures of support and care for ourselves and each other, and how there is a place for both slow art and the kind that let’s go of preciousness in order to just...begin.... 
    Grace reminds us to have patience as we negotiate our new relationships to dance and performance in the future. In the last dance geek out Ruth reflects on loss with Judith Butler.
    49 min
  • ‘Working it’ with Gillie Kleiman
    Treat yourself to some ‘new thoughts’ this lockdown! This week on Dance Futures Ruth chats to Gillie Kleiman about how the question ‘what do you do?’ always makes her uncomfortable and why taking pleasure in dancing is as important as how we define our professional role (lest we forget why we started doing it in the first place). Gillie also speaks up for the radical potential of friendship. Plus in an age of capitalism, if we live to work then what does that make life? 
    Also in this episode Robyn treats us to another string from her bow and Ruth geeks out about pole dancing.
    57 min
  • Shifting Sands with Emily Alden
    In this episode Ruth talks to Emily Alden about her different roles in the dance industry and why she will always first and foremost be a dancer. Emily discusses facing challenges head on and her new work 'In My Head' as well as how how hope sometimes comes in the form of anarchy. Moving through the shifting sands of time and circumstance, dance gives us an ever changing perspective, and Emily's is an inspiring one.
    51 min

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In this podcast, professional 'dance-geek' Dr Ruth Pethybridge speaks with independent dance artists about their artistic practice, the role of dance in thier lives and how to manifest a future in…