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Delving into Dance
by Andrew Westle
Delving into Dance is a podcast of conversations with dance makers and lovers, sharing interviews that are both intimate and thought provoking. Through a diversity of views, experiences and practices, we can better understand the role dance plays in individuals’ lives, while demystifying and opening dance up to new audiences. What can those who don’t regularly engage with dance learn from the artform? Delving into Dance is a passion project of researcher and dance-lover Andrew Westle. Andrew is not a dancer, instead he brings his unique perspective and passion for the art-form.
Episodes
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Dalisa Pigram
Dalisa Pigram is the Co Artistic director Marrugeku. She is a Yawuru/Bardi woman with Malay and Filipino heritage born and raised in Broome, Dalisa studied in Perth after high school to complete an Advanced Certificate in Aboriginal Musical Theatre, a course developed and facilitated by Michael...
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Daniel Riley
Daniel is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and creative from the Wiradjuri nation of Western NSW, and is currently Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre. He began his dance training at Quantum Leap, ACT and since graduating from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2006 has danced...
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Antony Hamilton
Antony Hamilton is Artistic Director and co-CEO of Chunky Move. His work employs a sophisticated melding of choreography, sound and visual design to collaboratively imagine complete worlds in performance. Antony has been the recipient of major fellowships from Bangarra Dance Theatre (the Russell...
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Alice Topp
Alice was born and raised in Bendigo and started dancing at the age of four. After two years with Royal New Zealand Ballet, she joined The Australian Ballet in 2007. Her passion for choreography began when she created her first work, Trace, for the 2010 season of Bodytorque, the company’s...
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On a Dancing*
In this episode Thomas Bradley and Felix Sampson, create an experimental soundscape to accompany the reading of Thomas’ essay ON A DANCING*, first published on Delving into Dance on 27 November 2019. You can read the full essay here, with an extract provided below. The declaration is a precursor…
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Samuel Gaskin speaks with Yvette Lee and Sophia Laryea
This interview was conducted by Samual Gaskin, delving into being a person of colour making your mark in the Australian dance and entertainment community featuring Yvette Lee & Sophia Laryea. They talked about inclusion inspiration and appreciation.
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Elizabeth Cameron Dalman
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, currently Director of Mirramu Creative Arts Centre and Artistic Director of Mirramu Dance Company, founded Australia’s iconic contemporary dance company, Australian Dance Theatre and was its Artistic Director from 1965 - 1975. Elizabeth was awarded an OAM for her...
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Lillian Crombie
Lillian Crombie is a proud woman from the Pitjintjara/Yungkunjara Nation. She is one of Australia’s leading actors and studied acting, dance and drama at the Port Pirie Ballet School, NIDA, NAISDA, the EORA Centre and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, NY. Crombie has trained in classical,...
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Gregory Vuyani Maqoma
Gregory is the author of the 2020 International Dance Day message – which so poignantly addresses the fragility of the world and humankind. Gregory’s dance journey provides a powerful insight to the dance of dance as a political voice and his voice has carried across the world. His insightful,...
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Edna Reinhardt
In this episode, we meet Edna Reinhardt, a passionate creative dance and yoga educator with decades of experience in the field. Edna’s commitment to dance education developed during her foundational training in the 1970’s at the former Managala studios in Carlton under the guidance of Dorethea...
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Lloyd Newson
Lloyd Newson is best known as the founder and artistic director of DV8 Physical Theatre, in London. Born in Albury, Australia, Lloyd studied psychology and social work at Melbourne University, becoming interested in dance. This interest continued to deepen when he attended the London Contemporary...
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Juliet Burnett part two
Juliet Burnett grew up in Sydney, while spending considerable time in Indonesia. Dancing was in Juilet’s blood; her grandmother, was the Sultan’s star dancer at his court in Jogjakarta. At the age of five her parents enrolled her in ballet school to see if she took after her grandmother. Later,...
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Juliet Burnett part one
Juliet Burnett grew up in Sydney, while spending considerable time in Indonesia. Dancing was in Juilet’s blood; her grandmother, was the Sultan’s star dancer at his court in Jogjakarta. At the age of 5 her parents enrolled her in ballet school to see if she took after her grandmother. Later…
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James Vu Anh Pham
James Vu Anh Pham is from Perth, Western Australia, and was the first generation of his Vietnamese family to be raised in a Western society. James loved music as a child, playing piano, clarinet and saxophone, he planned on becoming a musician. Struggling with stage-fright a friend suggested he...
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Dan Daw
Dan Daw is an Australian dance artist based in Birmingham. Dan grew up in Whyalla, in country South Australia. Starting dance at a young age, his grandmother was a callisthenics teacher, so was surrounded by dance and movement from a young age. "It gave me an outlet and a way to express myself…
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Cadi McCarthy
Dance started for Cadi McCarthy at the youthful age of four, having been taken along to a ballet class by her parents. At the age of 17, she was accepted into the Western Australian Academy for Performing Arts (WAAPA). At WAAPA and the world of what dance was opened up for Cadi, sparking what has...
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Adam Rutherford
Adam Rutherford an independent creative practitioner, performer, choreographer, Rehearsal Director and Artistic Director of both Rutherford Dance Company (RDC) and multi-award-winning Rutherford Dance Company Youth (RDC Youth). He explores Global Equality through choreographic projects spanning...
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Aparna Nagesh
Aparna was born in Chennai, India, into a very musical family. Formal training started “quite late at 15” but the joy of moving started long before then, and she remembers dancing around to ABBA music. She would run home from school, to catch the two hours of Western music on a radio station…
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Anna Kenrick
"In term of my career, I've spent most of it - if not all of it - in youth dance." And she has. Anna Kenrick, from her beginnings training at the Northern Contemporary School of Dance through to her current position as Artistic Director of YDance in Scotland, has forged a career pushing for the...
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Isabella Stone
Isabella Stone is a contemporary dance performer, choreographer, and teacher. Isabella believes in the power of movement and performance to connect, communicate, transform and inspire people and communities through performance experiences. Based in Perth, Isabella is a graduate of the West...
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Daniel Riley
Daniel Riley, from the Wiradjuri nation of Western NSW, first began his training in tap dance before joining QL2 Dance in Canberra. Daniel has danced with companies both in Australia and in the UK, most notably dancing with Bangarra Dance Theatre for twelve years. He has choreographic credits…
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Adam Wheeler
Adam Wheeler is a Tasmanian born contemporary dance artist. He is an alumni of Stompin and Victorian College of the Arts whose practice is interested in diversifying how dance can be experienced both as a performer and audaicne member. He has invested the better part of his 20-year career...
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Vicki Van Hout
Vicki Van Hout is an Indigenous independent choreographer with Wiradjuri, Dutch, Scottish, and Afghan heritage. Originally desiring a career in theatre, she was encouraged to join NAISDA Dance College (National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association Dance College). Before entering she...
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Paul White
Paul White is an Australian born dancer and choreographer, based in Berlin, with an international reputation. After starting as a dancer at Jupiters Casino in Queensland, Paul went on to do a pre-professional year at Queensland Ballet, before moving in to a career as a contemporary dancer. One of...
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Danielle Micich
“I want us to all be held responsible for watching what is happening on stage, as opposed to 'I can't see the person next to me. And so therefore, it doesn't matter'. Actually, I want us to all take part in what I'm putting on stage and be responsible and have thoughts about that. If we do that,...
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Jo Lloyd
Jo Lloyd is Melbourne based dance maker and choreographer. Jo started dance at a young age before going on to further study at the Victorian College of the Arts. Jo has worked with a range of companies as a dancer and choreographer including Lucy Guerin Inc, Chunky Move, Back to Back Theatre...
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Amrita Hepi
Amrita Hepi is a first nations choreographer and dancer from Bundjulung (Aus) and Ngapuhi (NZ) territories. Amrita trained at the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA) dance college and Alvin Ailey American Dance School, New York. As an artist she pushes the…
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Thomas Bradley
Thomas Bradley is an Australian dancer based between Brussels and Sydney. Growing up in Cootamundra, in regional NSW, Thomas discovery of dance came through choreographing a Jennifer Lopez routine. Thomas went to study at New Zealand School of Dance before joining Sydney Dance Company (SDC) in...
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Joel Bray
Joel Bray has established himself as a contemporary dancer and choreographer both nationally and internationally. The Melbourne-based artist and proud Wiradjuri man began dancing at age 20, leaving a Law Degree to start training in traditional Aboriginal and Contemporary dance forms at NAISDA…
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Lauren Langlois
Lauren Langlois is a dancer, actor and choreographer based in Melbourne. Starting dance at a young age Lauren went on to train classical ballet at the Marie Walton-Mahon Dance Academy and also studied contemporary dance at the New Zealand School of Dance. Upon graduating Lauren danced for...
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Bridget Fiske
Bridget Fiske is a dancer, choreographer and dance facilitator. Originating from Australia and now based in Manchester, UK, her work takes place across different locations and spaces. Studying at WAAPA, Bridget went on to dance with Buzz Dance Theatre. Bridget has worked with Belarus Free Theatre...
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Jane Desmond
Professor Jane Desmond is one of those people who you would want on a trivia team. Starting as a dancer and choreographer, Jane’s work has moved into academia and has covered a range of fascinating areas. This interview reveals just how much dance, as a practice, has informed Jane’s work in other...
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Harper Watters
Harper Watters is a Soloist for the Houston Ballet, where he has been dancing since 2011, starting at age 18. Harper’s success on stage has taken place alongside an incredibly vast reach on social media, with hundreds of thousands of followers across Instagram, YouTube, Facebook. This reach has...
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Mette Ingvartsen
Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer based in Brussels. Mette’s work also crosses over in to writing and research, holding a PhD in choreography from UNIARTS, Lunds University in Sweden. Mette established her company in 2003 and has since toured throughout Europe, US, Canada and...
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Bruno Isaković
Bruno Isaković is a performer, teacher and choreographer based in Zagreb, Croatia. Bruno’s dancing emerged from rave parties. "I loved it, a wave took me away from all the things I couldn’t connect with in Croatia” Dance lead Bruno to studying contemporary dance at the Amsterdam School of the…
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Luke George
Luke George is a dancer and choreographer. His work often explores connection between the audience and the performers, creating a space in which the audience is a part of the event, not just a passive watcher. “Dance is an embodied space, it is a visual space, it’s a sensual space and I just have...
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Chase Johnsey
Chase Johnsey is a gender-queer dancer that is making his mark on the ballet world. Dancing professionally for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo for 14 years, Chase was known for his expertise, speed and grace. In 2017 he won one of the UK’s top dance prices for the Best Male Dancer in the...
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Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams began his dancing career as a back-up dancer for a variety show on Channel 9. In the 1980’s Phillip hitch-hiked to Melbourne, with a red mohawk, to study dance at the Victorian Collage of the Arts (VCA). After being awarded the ANZ International Fellowship Award in 1988, Phillip…
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Justin Shoulder
Justin Shoulder is a performance-based artist, whose work cuts across performance, sculpture, dance and video. His performance work was born in the queer club scene, and has found a home in theatres and gallery spaces. Justin cites his experiences at Club Kooky and Club 77 as incredibly...
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Ilse Ghekiere
“Problem comes when there is no transparency in the hierarchy” Ilse Ghekiere is a Belgian artist, writer, researcher, teacher and historian. As a dancer she has worked with choreographers Michèle Anne De Mey, Mette Ingvartsen and Jan Martens. I came to know Ilse’s work through an article that was...
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Cathy Marston
Cathy Marston is a choreographer, artistic director and Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow. Educated in Cambridge, Cathy spent two years at the Royal Ballet School, London, before launching a successful international career now spanning over twenty years. As a student her ballet teacher told her...
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Judith Mackrell
Judith Mackrell has had an incredible career as a dance critic and as a writer. When it comes to dance, particularly in the UK, Judith’s expertise, knowledge and commentary is cherished. Judith studied a degree in English Literature at University, and was exploring life as an academic when things...
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David McAllister
David McAllister’s life in ballet started with a wish upon a star. What sounds like a scene of a movie, set up a remarkable career, that continues to shape the essence of Australian dance, particularly ballet. David has been associated with the Australian Ballet for 35 years, celebrated this…
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Bec Reid
“I don’t dance” is music to the ears of Bec Reid. It’s a provocation and an invitation. For those who are not dancers, the dance floor can seem incredibly overwhelming – the idea of moving a body in a way that is outside of the ‘normal’ is frightening. But what are we afraid of? Bec’s advice to...
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Wendy Martin
Delving into Dance more often than not focuses on the experiences of dancers, choreographers and dance makers. But it is time to shake it up. The arts ecology is intricate and integrated and there are so many people involved in bringing arts and culture to audiences and communities. This episode…
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Damien Jalet
Damien Jalet is a freelance choreographer and performer from Belgium. Starting in theatre, Damien was originally interested in becoming a director, until he discovered dance. “What I was looking for in theatre, didn’t have anything to do with words, it was much more about the physical presence…
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Hillel Kogan
Hillel Kogan is a dancer, choreographer and dramaturge based in Israel. His diverse range of works have been performed all around the world. Of particular acclaim is his piece We Love Arabs. This duet explores the dynamic relationship between an Israeli choreographer and an Arab dancer. The piece...
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Cheryl Stock
Cheryl Stock PhD AM, has had a diverse and influential career with the common theme of dance running throughout. Cheryl has worked as a dancer, choreographer, academic, teacher and advocate. Cheryl has created over 50 dance works and has been a pioneer in collaborative exchanges with Asia, of...
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Shirley McKechnie
Shirley McKechnie’s influence on Australian Dance is extraordinary. Shirley trained with Daisy Purnitzer, a former member of Gertrude Bodenweiser's Company. In 1963, Shirley founded the Contemporary Dance Theatre of Melbourne. After traveling abroad on a trip funded by the Theatre Board of the...
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Delving into Dance is a podcast of conversations with dance makers and lovers, sharing interviews that are both intimate and thought provoking. Through a diversity of views, experiences and practices, we can better understand the role dance plays in individuals’ lives, while demystifying and opening dance up to new audiences. What can those who don’t regularly engage with dance learn from the artform? Delving into Dance is a passion project of researcher and dance-lover Andrew Westle. Andrew is not a dancer, instead he brings his unique perspective and passion for the art-form.
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