“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