Dancecast

In this episode I spoke with Kati Raatikainen, choreographer, performance artist, dance and yoga teacher, and a thinker that likes to write.

We spoke about Kati's interests and her latest work Kvartetto that will be performed at the X Dance Festival on the Wednesday the 9th and Thursday the 10th of June, Thursdays performance is also being live streamed. 

You can get your tickets to Kvartetto here: https://tinyurl.com/kvartettoXDF-2021tickets

Here are links to things that Kati was mentioning on the podcast:

https://www.erkkajooga.com
 

https://www.facebook.com/erkkajooganvertaiset
 

https://www.valokeilassakoillinen.fi/tapahtuma/koillisesta-koilliseen-osaprojektissa-syntyy-paikallisten-taidetekoja/
 

http://www.liikekieli.com/tanssitaide-ekososiaalisesti-kestavassa-yhteiskunnassa-1-2020/

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Kat Rampackova, a choreographer, performer, and dance activist based in Barcelona, Spain. Kat shares her journey finding herself as a freelance dance artist after studying theater, contemporary dance, and improvisation across Europe. She is the co-founder of Priestor Súčasného Tanca (PST), a place for developing contemporary dance in her native city Košice in Slovakia. Kat describes PST’s emphasis on access, not elitism, and how that led her into the world of inclusive dance. Her recent piece, Mirage, is a collaboration with Finnish dance company Kaaos and is inspired by the artistic work of Catalan visual artist Joan Miró. Another international project Kat is involved with, Sound in the Silence, takes young people to places of historical significance for educational and artistic workshops. She talks about how learning history and transforming a place through art and dance can be a cathartic experience.

Follow Kat on Instagram at @katrampackova.

Here are links to her work and to the art space that she co-founded PST.

PST - Priestor Sucasneho Tanca: https://www.facebook.com/pst.kosice 

Here are clips of her previous works, performative-choreographic exposition in collaboration with Sztuka Nowa -theater company based in Warsaw, Poland, dance performance for children Jumika  and inclusive dance performance Body Recognition.

This interview was originally part of X Dance Festival.

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Finnish artist/theater director Teemu Mäki and Finnish dance artist Maija Nurmio about their collaborative work Éliane, which is based on the French composer Éliane Radigue's composition L'Île Re-Sonante. Teemu describes why he was drawn to Radique’s experimental music and how a collaboration sprung up between himself and Maija. Maija shares how Radique’s music had a physical effect on her, how they negotiated creating a work that included choreography, film, visuals and Teemu's spoken-word poem that was influenced by the events of a mass murder that happened in Norway a decade ago. The work wrestles with mortality, the meaning of art, and the purpose of experimental music/art-making.

Text by Emmaly Wiederholt. 

You can find more information about each one of them, by clicking their name Éliane Radigue, Teemu Mäki and Maija Nurmio.

This episode was originally recorded to be part of X Dance Festival 2021. 

DanceCast partners with Stance on Dance .

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews her collaborators from the Discussing Disability in Dance Book Project: dancer/writer Emmaly Wiederholt, and visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado. The project has been a four-year process interviewing 25 professional dancers around the world who identify as having a disability. Together, Silva, Emmaly, and Liz discuss the impetus for the project, what themes they've seen emerge, how they've grown in their understanding of disability while working on it, and how they hope the book project serves as a jumping point for other perspectives and conversations regarding disability in dance.

To learn more about the Discussing Disability in Dance Book Project, visit http://stanceondance.com/discussing-disability-in-dance/.

Turning Setbacks into Comebacks

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Zazel-Chavah O’Garra, founder and artistic director of

Photo credit to Meri Greene.

Text by Emmaly Wiederholt.

Interview with Karen Daly; Being Seen as A Dancer

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Karen Daly, a dancer in Eugene, OR with DanceAbility

Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

http://stanceondance.com

Interview with Roman Baca; Dancing the Veteran Experience

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Roman Baca, who is an Iraq War veteran, the director of EXIT12 Dance Company, and an MFA candidate in Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London. He describes his upcoming MFA final performance, which seeks to choreographically share the experiences of five veterans on the lawn at Trinity Laban. He also shares his transition back to civilian life after serving in the Marine Corps, how finding dance again was necessary to overcome his internal anger and frustration after serving in Iraq.

http://exit12danceco.org

There’s No Such Thing As “We Can’t Do Something”

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Karenne Koo, a dance artist in Tucson, AZ, committed to developing and practicing multidisciplinary approaches to encourage and stimulate the art of inclusive dance as an instrument for building community. Here, she discusses her involvement with the Mettler-based dance community and the breadth of her outreach work – from working with survivors of trafficking and abuse, to children with severe medical issues, to low income families, to adults and children with diverse abilities, to horses. She reflects on how her own community makes all the facets of her work possible.

https://www.karennekoo.net

Interview with Michaela Knox: Expanding the Dance Community

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Michaela Knox, a DanceAbility instructor who recently initiated an inclusive dance program in Maine. Michaela looks back on her early desire to work with people who don’t identify as dancers. She discusses her time working with schoolchildren through the National Dance Institute of New Mexico, and how she eventually felt like she couldn’t effectively teach or integrate students who might be Deaf or non-verbal. Since training in DanceAbility, Michaela shares more about her budding inclusive dance program in Maine and her longer-term goals.

http://stanceondance.com

A Philosophy of Inclusion

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Olivia O’Hare and Veronica DeWitt, her colleagues at Body

https://www.bodyshift.org