“we don’t realize how much choice we do have” KC

“the big vision frightens me so much that i become stuck” 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:

-inspiration

-compassion

-the importance of contemporary dance and performance

-live performance facilitating the practicing of empathy

-”a moment of being you”

-the future feeling daunting

-methods put in place so that we can continue

-wombat book I refer to - diary of a wombat - jackie french

-what’s cool now? i offer “being simultaneously compliant and at the same time skeptical of the system” MC

-acceptance by the system a sign of failing as an artist?

-an element of upheaval

-”what is giving up?”

-eating for the future

-making a masterpiece

“isn’t it impossible to attempt to create a masterpiece” KC

“you’re not in the work making the work, you’re outside of the work making the response that you want” KC

-Sylvie Guillem and her pay

More info:

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

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