“one facet of how i see the world is how i feel the world” KC

“we can’t do it on our own” KC

“it’s my life and i choose what to do with my life and it’s this” KC

Ep 43:

Kristina Chan is one of Australia’s most well known and celebrated dancers of the past decade. She is also making work which we discussed in this podcast including:

-choreographic research

-Atlanta Eke - previous guest

-norms and choreographic commissions

-how to handle projects bleeding into each other

-influencing your self/compartmentalizing

-it’s ok to be making the same show

-learning how to see the world at a very young age

-how do you see the world

-dance as motivated by a memory or feeling or imagined state

-feeling small in the world

-natural and imagined environments

-internal and external worlds

-motivation to dance

-King Kunta - a song that makes Kristina wanna dance

-built and non-built environment

-imagined environments as a dancing partner

-dance is one aspect of my life

-”I do it for myself, and i hope i can be true to that” - KC

-minds being completely different

-dancing at the club

-life experience being a point of difference during auditions

More info:

http://www.forcemajeure.com.au/our-work/in-development/a-faint-existence/

http://www.sydneydancecompany.com/people/collaborators/kristina-chan/