"i'm kinda bam straight into dance" SS

"you have these feelings when you dance and you don't know what they look like" SS

"that same body that i have out there is the same one that i have in here" SS

Ep 50:

Stuart Shugg is an Australian dancer currently living in New York.

We talk about:

karaoke as a practise

just dancing

fried chicken

stuarts film work - Bogart St or Chez Bushwick Residency 2014

staying interested while being in a rep company

solo dance making

double plus season at gibney dance centre

"looking back i would change things but at the time it's what i did" SS

generation and ownership of choreography

"going to the studio and dancing was a way of trying to explore those other movement" SS

"a way of processing information to improvise on it and embody it more" SS

"then you have to bring yourself to recreate it and in recreating it maybe you'll learn something more about this way of moving" SS

dance as the most resilient medium

non dance trained people creating works and 40 years later that work is reperformed by dance trained people

editing dances together from footage of self-dancing

the choreography of self-dialogue

what weight is

spending time on worksites and farms as a child

applying understanding of mechanical structural integrity to dancing

everyday use of our bodies

fast pace

warm up vs training vs focus vs centering

"realising that you are so small" SS

no one in new york is from new york... because of that, building communities here seems to happen easily

leading the "just dance" revolution

places:

the hungry ghost in Fort Green

the east village

gibney dance centre

brooklyn studio for dance

movement research

VCA

new york

broome

darwin

port hedland

sydney

works:

astral convertible - trisha brown (video link)

people:

robert rauschenberg

hadar

TJ

movies:

Matilda

 

more info:

New York Times article