"A really hard (glass) ceiling gives you cuts and bruises" (breaking through it leaves scars)Candy Bowers

Candy Bowers is an award-winning writer, actor, director, theatre maker, social-activist, comedian and producer. The artistic director of Black Honey Company, Candy has pioneered a fierce sub-genre of lyrical theatre that delves into the heart of radical feminist dreaming. We cover.

Background: South African | AustralianMaking people feel tension in performance Explaining the Apartheid Not just whats going on outside of us but also intra-community conversations Using the term Colonial Supremacy instead of white supremacy challenging the conservatism Female roles in theatre performance Perpetuating gender roles in theatrepreventing diabetes being the ultimate decolonisation: One the BearChanging relationship with food, challenging relationship with sex and women South Africans and diabetes and introduction of sugar "Spiritual underpinning of diabetes, is unrequited love" - Candy BowersEmpowering yourself, on others terms"The process of decolonisation is so much about self care and self loving...Pure nurture" - Candy Bowers , an opposition of the structure and binaries of colonials"You don't fight possession with possession" - Candy BowersGrowing self worth Legacies and monogamy Period blood and spinster-ism

"Decolonisation isn't colonisation" (by a different group)Candy Bowers

links:

https://thecandybowers.blog/https://www.linkedin.com/in/candy-bowers-82876338/?originalSubdomain=auhttps://www.facebook.com/candy.bowershttps://twitter.com/TheCandyBowershttps://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/theatre/a-hip-hop-fairytale-worth-hearing-20190701-p522xq.html

Curator: Anna Kirk

"Do less. Do it better."Anna May Kirk

Anna May Kirk is an emerging curator, artist and project maker based in Sydney, Australia. She currently holds positions as the Executive Producer of Arts and Culture at FBi Radio and the Coordinator of AD Space. 

Casula Powerhouse installation workFinding the creative process Running dancing workshopsBeing the performer and conducting the performanceQueer Nu werks performance work Imagining the future as an inquisitor and artist Making scentThe body as a home for manyMaking social comments in curating and presenting artworks

"Art making is kinda impulsive... An itch to be scratched" Anna May Kirk

links:

http://annamaykirk.com/https://www.facebook.com/anna.kirk.31https://www.instagram.com/anna_may_kirk/https://fbiradio.com/author/anna-kirk/

"We can easily fool ourselves to thinking we've created something new"Sophia Ndaba

Sophia Ndaba is a dance theatre, site specific, community outreach, object and installation and collaborator with live musicians and other multidisciplinary artists. Sophia is a founding member of the Dance Makers Collective, a group of independent dance artists in Sydney who collaboratively choreograph and produce contemporary dance work. We cover.

Searching through how we really feel, and how it manifests physically Acknowledging and communicating authentic emotion and frustration Being frustrated with Matt! Movement being a processing tool Keeping our ego in a safe place of questioning How do you know what has value Allow for people's dances Projection and perspective Having fixed mindsets and growth mindsets subscribing to magic and mystery

"Allow for people's dances and how they came about" "Keeping our ego in a safe place of questioning" Sophia Ndaba

links:

https://www.dancemakerscollective.com.au/members/sophia-ndabahttps://www.facebook.com/sophia.ndabahttps://www.instagram.com/sophiandaba/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RkapKx4OSw&feature=youtu.be

"Art is that space for difficult conversations"Andrew Westle

Andrew Westle is passionate about gender equality, social justice and making art accessible to everyone. His work defies boundaries and includes research, performance, evaluation, writing, theatre making, public health and stage management. We cover.

Providing art that is not socially engagingHow do we get rich people to come to artthe capacity for dance to agitate Circumnavigating the city Permission and getting it wrongHow to leave enough space for the dance Dance as a self referencing cannon Dance as reprieval to the literal and narrative Sharing similar politics Proving merit Madonna fansDavid Mcallister interview and character Who is speaking on behalf of the embodied? Finding interest in people Dance funding in Australiatime capsule interviews as archive for practise

links:

https://www.andrewwestle.com/https://theconversation.com/australias-major-dance-companies-need-to-step-up-on-gender-equality-97464https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/delving-into-dance/id1149339111https://twitter.com/AndrewWestlehttps://www.facebook.com/andrew.westle

"I make dance pieces because I can think through everything that interests me"

Kareth Schaffer and Cathy Walsh are performers and makers living in Berlin. We met just after their season of Merkel, a dual performance of Angela Merkel and life sized cutouts of other world leaders to talk about the show, their process, the power of coming together and the skill of thinking together.

Dance in theatre art as operational or instrumental Music and dance as dangers to leftist discourse How is dance contributing to revolutionary change Practicalities of Theresa May's posture Merkel dancesUnderpromising and overdelivering as dancersDisagreements and choosing battles Movement practises that lead to epiphanies How to circumnavigate the work process

links:

https://karethschaffer.com/https://about.me/cathywalshhttps://timetomeettanzfabrik.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/kareth-schaffer-unheard-of/https://www.ballhausost.de/produktionen/merkel-dances-en/http://faberresidency.com/project/cathy-walsh/https://www.instagram.com/cathysqwalsh/https://www.facebook.com/cathysqwalshhttps://www.facebook.com/kareth.madeline

"Seeing what can happen when we observe very basic things"Alice Gale-Feeny

Alice Gale-Feeny is an artist working with performance, video, writing and facilitation. Interested in dialogical ways of working, non-theatrical techniques, processes of improvisation and the voice, her work examines the relations between individual subjective experience and shared space. We cover.

Commonalities between teaching and performing How to Arrange Ourselves A consideration of space Two Speakers, One Speaker (A Hall, A Room) Dialogue and discussion, David Bohm, On DialogueThe suspension of disbeliefFeeling illiterate Crafting performance and responsibility Want to value self subjectivity by valuing others Searching for conditions of connection Putting faith in the situationStarting a Masters in movement weaving out embodied practise from bullshitQuestioning intention, discipline and ethics

links:

https://alicegale-feeny.com/https://www.facebook.com/alice.feenyhttps://www.instagram.com/alicegalefeeny/https://alicegale-feeny.com/howtoarrangeourselveshttps://alicegale-feeny.com/twospeakersonespeakerhttps://vimeo.com/user11394926

Photo by Jai Rafferty

"Making art happen better"Cui Yin

Cui, pronounced as tsuèi is an independent producer and arts / project manager based in Singapore. Exploring the intersection(s) between anthropology, art, and social action. We cover.

The business of making art and making art happen What do you do when you artistically and creatively disagree? Wombat toysPushing back arts as an industry Dance as a circular economy Questioning instincts and impulsesSuper-powers, the power of conviction! Being responsive and to considerately seeBeing meaningful for the people involved

links:

https://tsuei.co/https://www.facebook.com/cuiyin.mhttps://www.instagram.com/tsuei/https://artsequator.com/smu-series-arts-managers/https://www.b-side.city/post/sathecollective

Venuri Perera is a Colombo-based performer, performance artist and movement facilitator and is interested in the body as a "political provocateur".

View this post on Instagram I felt pretty darn fierce moulding the light. 📸 From my latest residency 🔭💡⌛️⏳ @critical_path_ A post shared by Brianna Kell (@briannakkell_) on May 3, 2018 at 1:14am PDT

"I was obsessed with this one move..."Brianna Kell

Brianna Kell is an independent dance artist based in Sydney who is a force on the dance floor! We speak about

what to do in a studioimprovisationinspiration

works mentioned:

Light Boxes by Shane Jones A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody The drama highway book 6 a graded course in drama edited by John Hampden M.A (the one I used whilst performing for inspiration) Shakespeare's SonnetsIntroducing Postmodernism

other links:

Mr Nobody - Film

Nasim Patel is an artist working with dance as well as many and varied millennial mediums. We catch up about:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BrkrH6plzRo/ - his video choreographytime in swedenKrangspace since graduating dance collegebeing ethnically ambiguousbecoming "the kid"trendingcollaborations with Rachael Wisbyselfishness and not wanting to be watchedrunning around video game worldsartificiality across timeauthenticity

"There's always something to be gained from an experience if you're willing to gain"Nasim Patel

mentioned:

Alice HeywardBoJack HorsemanVCAluke georgeabbotsford convent

links:

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nasim.patel.invisibleArt, Not Apart: https://artnotapart.com/artist/2018/the-kids/youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgjozGTWjWBvFaQtGSZBoaQthe right brothers: https://artnotapart.com/artist/2017/the-right-brothers/previous podcast