“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