Naomi Rukavina is an actor with design sensitivities. We met up at the Malthouse and spoke about:

 

* performing at the sydney opera house

* show - away

* being excited to see people

* yielding to the director

* being intimidating

* giant posters of oneself

* work environments

* greek mythology

* asking why

* what it is to be an actor

* ego

* aesthetic

* trusting the team your working with

* injury

* going to hollywood

* entertainment and the value of it

* stigma around being an actor

* helping people workout how to feel about life events

* literacy with physical and mental self and social and cultural construct

* class

* working out what you want and what you're into

* "what is what i'm doing, doing to me?" Matt Cornell

* extravert and intravert

 

mentioned:

* lamama

* elbow room

 

other links:

* showreel

* STC interview

* the fabric social - interview

* western edge youth arts

* IMDB

* starnow

* Kubla

* Austage

* webinsta

* popculture

Gavin Webber is co-Artistic Director of THE FARM with Grayson Millwood, a company based on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Throughout his career Gavin has worked between Australia and Europe and directed theatre, dance, circus, film and installation.

 

we talk about:

* breathing

* putting the body and the emotion against the mind

* matt's solo project

* propaganda

* show - Food Chain

* show - Frankenstien

* the knife edge between states and the way to shift between

* vibration

* "do you think that people are so simple that they can't laugh at something funny and have other reactions at the same time?" - Gavin Webber

* "if you can affect people's breathing, then you've affected the body chemistry" Matt Cornell

* trauma

* show - Good Little Soldier

* homogeneity in training

* comedians

* show - fish called wanda

* the state of understanding requires at least a moment of agreeance

* why bother? "we all have to have something to do" GW

* bare bones dance festival

* finding where you are inside chaos rather than avoiding

* "there's not joy in avoiding" - GW

* "to be in the room" GW

* show - Cockfight

* "people don't understand enthusiasm" - GW

* explore/exploit arc

* the power of novelty

* "fiercely decide that you are the one that's learning" GW

* naivety and experience and resilience - a professional naivety

* hitchhiking in America and in Australia

* people being weird and endlessly fascinating

 

 

mentioned:

 

* Ismael evo

* ivo dimchev

* Ben Ely

* Kate Harman

* Michael Jackson

* Kate Harmen

* Meg Stuart

* Mark Howitt

* Russell Peters

* John Cleese

* Louis CK

* Robert LePage

 

 

 

 

shows that Matt mentioned:

* I Learnt My Cultural Dance from Youtube - with Tiyan Baker, Vanessa Marian, Mikaela Carr and more

* Dancing With - collaboration with Miranda Wheen

* The BLOKES Project - collaboration with Joshua Thomson

Gavin Webber is co-Artistic Director of THE FARM with Grayson Millwood, a company based on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Throughout his career Gavin has worked between Australia and Europe and directed theatre, dance, circus, film and installation.

 

we talk about:

* breathing

* the knifes edge of entertainment and realisation

* being in the room

* hitch hiking

* talent

* living in Germany

* "define so that you may refine" MC

* "what you leave out is as important as what you put in" GW

* "it's a danger that we all start to move in one certain way rather than finding something" GW

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mentioned:

* Inaki Azpillager - bio

* David Zambrano

* Laura Aris

* Ribbon Farm was mentioned but I actually meant Melting Ashphalt and their  essay on plural belief systems

* Rachel Swain

* Kate Harman

* Force Majeure - Kate Champion - "The Age I'm In" - Daniel Daw

* Joshua Mu

* Angela Goh's "Predictable Dances"

* Michael Jackson

* Kate Harmen

* Alice Hinde

 

Aaron (Projekt) Lim is a Bboy based in Darwin, Northern Territory. (You can catch him in Melbourne during the next few weeks as well)

We talk about:

 

* freestyle games/improvisational tasks ie. "kick, stop, hop"

* biting moves/logos

* training

* D*city Rockers

* show - Between Tiny Cities by Nick Power

* show - Man Made

* studio residency

* engineering degree

* Darwin

* book - The Alchemist

 

people mentioned:

* Nick Power

* Josh Mu

* Marko Taopo

* David and Tim

 

links:

* ABC news

* Artback NT

* Tracks Dance Company

* Dtix

* youtube

* instagram

* corrugated iron

* stamping ground dance festival

Hillary Goldsmith is dancing for others and making her own dancing and films and adventures. We talk about:

 

* spotify playlist - vibes

* the show she's in at the moment - Utterance

* bodysurf - work

* being at home in melbourne

* friends and collegues

* "a mostly light- hearted good time for all" HG

* dragonball Z

* VCA

* european dance lineage

* new york dance lineage

* vimeo and making films

 

people mentioned:

* Jo Lloyd

* Stuart Shugg

* Phillip Adams

* Siobhan Mckenna

* Arabella frahn- Starkie

* Olivia Mcpherson

Nasim Patel is dancing and making and writing and thinking his way through the VCA Dance undergraduate. We talk about his current efforts and influences, many of which can be watched here - Youtube playlist to all the goodies mentioned

 

 

 

other things mentioned:

 

* Jaden Smith

* A boring world where the concept of dirty jokes doesn't exist - anime

* Star Maker - Olaf Stapledon - book

* Essay by W J T Mitchell titled Cloning Terror: The War of Images 2001-04 from the book The Life and Death of Images.

* wong ka wai

 

links:

* QL2 reflection

* Facebook

 

Kate Harman is a dancer, performer, choreographer and collaborator who has created and performed in works within the realms of dance, theatre, circus, performative installation and in projects created with amateurs and young people.

 

We stole some moments (with her son Sam in the background) to discuss very broadly:

* where dancing comes from

* her show Depthless with Ben Ely

* how to share responsibility for safety and creation

* vibration (movement) emitting and translating them

* being sensitive

* how others frame our emotions for us

* stimulation

* being compelled

* danced together

* being a bag of chemicals

* matt's soloing project - dancing for pleasure

* the subjectivity of time

* trying really hard to listen

 

links:

* flowers in the basement

* the farm

 

referred:

* Benoit Lechambre

* Eckhart Tolle

 

Eilit Marom is a dancer, choreographer and teacher.

we cover:

* to come see - show

* the body - how to be with it

* learning how to be in the world, how to operate the system

* "this is how i can do it in my own way even while they think i did it in my way"

* when art is a mystery it becomes exclusive

* "I give people the chance to connect to their bodies and connect to other peoples bodies" - EM

* european art world english

* not making a plan but know the core of the thing and follow that

* "people think they are having the same conversation but they are not" EM

* leaving space

* institutions - "if we only pour ourselves into the structures that are already there..." we can become the structure

* the people in power need us to tell them what we need

* "change it if it's not what we need" - EM

* art being behind the times

* how we work

* adam and eve costumes

 

 

 

links:

* vimeo

* anouk company

* teachers bio

* soundcloud

* facebook

mentioned:

* anna massoni

* jonathan burrows

* how to find your life purpose in 3 minutes TED talk

"if i get a bit longer eye contact, it's such a powerful tool, it changes the dynamic of the room" - EM

Eilit Marom is a dancer, choreographer and teacher.

we cover:

* people who cannot hide

* experimenting with social norms

* ones moving affecting the people one is talking to

* sharing vulnerability to get connected

* abuse to power of the stage

* liquids of the body

* performances being good in the same way

* a tendency to get either depressed or anxious

* living in israel vs netherlands

* knowing what you don't want but not knowing what you do want

* strategy

* fascination starts when you notice

* thomas metzinger

* "i guess it's like choreography but more powerful" EM

 

links:

* vimeo

* anouk company

* teachers bio

* soundcloud

* facebook

* danceatelier

* linkdIN

* TEDx - The Power of Movement

"being a producer, the two most important things are feeding people and telling them what time it is" - Neridah Ross

"stuff leads to stuff" - Nerida Ross

Nerida Ross gets excited about things and making them happen. She also dances excellently at events like after pARTY (co-founded with Anna Kirk) and spreads the good word for FBi Culture guide.

we cover:

* knowing your capacity

* not faffing

* valuing peoples time

* "doing things with other people is way more fun"

* Lewis McKirdy (of JJJ) todo list tattoo

* games theory = giving scaffold

* top down resources meeting the grass roots resources

* a systemic lack of trust

* science funding

* no strings attached money = experimentation

* doing is like walking - steps to take

* competence to fuel confidence

* "giving yourself the permission to work" - matt cornell

* "knowing what to be stressed about" - Neridah Ross

* attending to the sick and attending to the well

* "i want nice people to win in this game" - Neridah Ross

* stability vs creativity

* "dance more, be content with where you are" - Neridah Ross

mentioned:

* after pARTY

* Eilit Moram

* Anna Kirk

* Angela Goh

* down/under

* Re:Map

* submarine internet cable map

* leuli eshraghi

* joshua thomson

* Legs On The Wall

* Hat holder

* The Big Bounce

* MCA

* amrita hepi

* waangenga blanco

* Angela Tiatia

* caroline garcia

* benji rah

* maslow's hierarchy of needs

* hissy fit

* ivey wawn

* patricia wood

* eugene choi

* fast and furious

* thomas e. s. kelly

links:

* twitter

* two up

* instagram

* FBi Radio

* TEDx Youth Sydney

* Broadsheet after pARTY

* linkdIN