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Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.

Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m

You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/

Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/

DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

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S1 Ep19 Dance Workshop (Consent, Invitation, and Participation)

This workshop explores consent and invitation as ongoing choreographic processes rather than fixed permissions. The episode asks when participation begins, how it is negotiated, and how dancing emerges through subtle, often invisible invitations.

The session begins by attending to unspoken invitations to dance. Listeners are invited to notice when alignment, attention, watching, or responding begins without explicit requests, and to observe where the lines of consent feel active or withdrawn. These explorations can be taken into different contexts, including spaces where dance is expected, unexpected, or usually discouraged, noticing how context shapes what kinds of movement feel possible.

The workshop then introduces conditional participation, using self-imposed rules such as moving only when someone else moves, stopping only when another stops, or responding to attention, absence, or perceived invitation. These conditions foreground consent as relational and contingent, shaped by others and by the environment.

From there, the session explores performativity by creating consent for dance to exist and then deliberately withdrawing it. This practice examines what remains active when permission is removed, how space is produced through restraint or silence, and how the edges of dance continue to operate even when movement pauses.

The episode closes by turning attention inward, inviting listeners to notice when they allow themselves to dance. Reflection focuses on moments of inclusion and exclusion, asking who decides when one is inside or outside the dance, how invitations are internalised, and how different choreographic situations might allow for multiple forms of participation, refusal, and care.

Dance workshop
Explore, imagine, move.

A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.

To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

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For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com.

And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.

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Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.

Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:
PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.

Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m

You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:
https://stillpeter.com/

Listen to the other podcast series here:
PETER, dance with…
https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/

DANCE WORKSHOP
https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

Music empty five by mobygratis

Support the show

For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com.

And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.

Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Tim Spooner. To get in touch and follow Tim go to https://timspooner.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/tspooner0.

Tim will be performing: 

• Matter Era
  • Battersea Arts Centre 7, 8, 9 May https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/
  • Norfolk and Norwich Festival 12,13,14 May https://nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/
  • Westflügel Leipzig 22 & 23 May https://www.westfluegel.de/veranstaltung/matter-era/
• The Microscope Sessions dates (after 30th March):
  • 6 April, 4 May, 1 June (1st Monday of each month, times TBC) https://themicroscopesessions.net/ 

References:

1. Simon Vincenzi - https://www.simonvincenzi.com/
2. Terrapin - https://terrapin.org.au/
3. Sam Routledge - https://www.instagram.com/sirwam/
4. THE GRID OF LIFE 2010 - https://www.timspooner.com/thegridoflife
5. 24 GROTESQUE MANIPULATIONS - https://www.timspooner.com/24grotesquemanipulations
6. Lea Anderson - http://www.leaanderson.com/
7. PETER, dance with Lea Anderson - https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/#LA
8. The Rest Is Science, Are Magnets The Most Familiar Mystery On Earth? - https://youtu.be/yXg_-2fpg-s?si=pUIv8VoPSzm0-RZ5
9. On the calculations of volume by Solvej Balle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Calculation_of_Volume
10. Panpsychism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
11. O by Peter Mills - https://stillpeter.com/o/
12. Matter Era by Tim Spooner and Terrapin
13. Battersea Arts Centre 7, 8, 9 May https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/
14. Norfolk and Norwich Festival 12,13,14 May https://nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/
15. Westflügel Leipzig 22 & 23 May https://www.westfluegel.de/veranstaltung/matter-era/
16. The Microscope Sessions - https://sites.google.com/view/themicroscopesessions/home
17. Rhiannon Armstrong - https://www.rhiannonarmstrong.net/
18. https://www.youtube.com/@TheMicroscopeSessions

Support the show

For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com.

And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.

Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.

Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:
PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.

Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m

You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:
https://stillpeter.com/

Listen to the other podcast series here:
PETER, dance with…
https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/

DANCE WORKSHOP
https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

Music empty five by mobygratis

Support the show

For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com.

And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.

Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep18 Dance Workshop (Copying, Interpretation, and Misunderstanding)

This workshop explores copying as a choreographic practice, focusing on interpretation, accuracy, deviation, and misunderstanding. Rather than treating copying as uncreative or secondary, the episode examines how copying produces difference, imagination, and movement through what is lost, exaggerated, remembered, or transformed.

The session begins by inviting listeners to copy something as accurately as possible, before shifting toward copying badly on purpose by prioritising a single aspect such as timing, effort, or direction. These contrasting approaches open questions around what is valued, ignored, or permitted when we copy movement.

From there, the workshop explores copying from memory, noticing what disappears, what becomes distorted, and what remains as residue. Attention is given to how memory shapes interpretation and how distance in time alters what is reproduced. The session then moves into copying across mediums, translating movement into words, drawing, sound, or other forms, and then back into movement, foregrounding translation as a choreographic tool.

The episode proposes copying as an ongoing chain of reformulations, a practice of moving movement through different bodies, mediums, and interpretations. Through this, the workshop asks where copying ends and interpretation begins, whether accuracy ever truly matters, and how misunderstanding might be a productive and creative force within dancing and choreography.

Dance workshop
Explore, imagine, move.

A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.

To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

Music leaning by mobygratis

Support the show

For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com.

And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.

Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.

Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:
PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.

Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m

You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:
https://stillpeter.com/

Listen to the other podcast series here:
PETER, dance with…
https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/

DANCE WORKSHOP
https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

Music empty five by mobygratis

Support the show

For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com.

And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.

Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep17 Dance Workshop (Instruction, Authority, and Following)

This workshop focuses on instruction and authority as core choreographic materials. Rather than treating authority as something held by a single person or role, the episode explores how authority emerges, shifts, leaks, and is negotiated through instruction, sensation, memory, time, and context.

Through a performative score titled Stand, listeners are invited to experience how even the simplest instruction is never neutral, how it organises bodies, perceptions, histories, and values. Standing becomes a site for questioning obedience, resistance, consent, politics, care, and inheritance, asking who taught us how to stand, for whom, and why.

The workshop then moves through a series of practices: following instructions while internally disagreeing, leading through vague or contradictory instructions, delaying obedience to observe how memory and desire reshape what is followed, and finally working with multiple authorities at once, instruction, sensation, and memory.

Throughout, the session asks what causes our dancing, how we negotiate internal and external authority, and what it might mean to choreograph with multiple authorities rather than choosing one. Instruction is approached not as control, but as a space of ambiguity, creativity, and care.

Dance workshop
Explore, imagine, move.

A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.

To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

Music leaning by mobygratis

Support the show

For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com.

And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.

Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.

Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:
PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.

Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m

You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:
https://stillpeter.com/

Listen to the other podcast series here:
PETER, dance with…
https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/

DANCE WORKSHOP
https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/

Music empty five by mobygratis

Support the show

For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com.

And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.

Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we danced with Katye Coe. To get in touch with Katye’s work visit https://www.katyecoe.org or https://www.seauk.org.uk/directories/katye-coe-somatic-experiencing-practitioner-and-ait/

References

Support the show

For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com.

And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.

Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter