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Performing Capers
by Shaper/Caper
Podcasts with our Artistic Director, dancers and young people from The Body talking about the world of dance and performing arts
Episodes
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Episode 35: The In/Out Crowd with Rhiana Laws
In this episode of our The In/Out Crowd podcast we are joined by Rhiana Laws. Rhiana is a Dance Artist based in Scotland. She works with 'Safe To Be Me' - a project for young people in schools that provides a space to introduce and develop conversations around equality, and discrimination towards...
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Episode 34: The In/Out Crowd with Emma Thorne
In this episode of our The In/Out Crowd podcast we are joined by bisexual YouTuber, Emma Thorne. Working in the VFX industry by day, by weekends and evenings she takes to YouTube to discuss everything from consumer protection to misogyny, shady business practices to bigoted podcasters and always...
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Episode 33: The In/Out Crowd with Queer the Ballet
In this episode of our The In/Out Crowd podcast we are joined by NYC-based ballet dancer, Adriana Pierce. Through her #QueerTheBallet initiative, Adriana showcases queer stories and identities in ballet and highlights the stories of queer folks from all walks and ways of life! You can keep up to...
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Episode 32: The In/Out Crowd with Amazin LeThi
On this month’s The In/Out Crowd podcast, we are joined by a brilliant special guest, Amazin LeThi. Amazin LeThi is a global LGBTQ advocate, keynote speaker, athlete and cultural change leader. She is the only Asian LGBTQ Athlete to simultaneously hold six LGBTQ sports ambassador roles across the...
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Episode 31: The In/Out Crowd with Somewhere: For Us
In this episode of our The In/Out Crowd podcast we are joined by Thomas and Kathryn from the Scotland-based LGBTQ+ magazine Somewhere: For Us. They offer some advice to their younger selves and older selves. Plus, they play another game of 'This or That'! You can keep up to date with what they're...
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Episode 30: The In/Out Crowd
As part of Pride Month, we delighted to bring The In/Out Crowd to a podcast near you……erm…..here! We’re here, we’re queer, we’re a podcast! Ta-dah! Each month, The In/Out Crowd can be found once a month on our social channels and once a month as a podcast. For this episode, Alex is joined by our...
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Episode 29: Finding Your Feet - With special guest Vince Virr
In this special LGBTQ+ History Month edition of our Finding our Feet podcast, we are joined by dance artist, Vince Virr. Vince has worked with us for many years as a dancer in productions including 'Within This Dust', and he will also be in our new show 'Teeny Weeny' commissioned by Starcatchers....
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Episode 28: Finding Your Feet - With special guest Linzi McLagan
Joining us today is dance activist and educator, Linzi McLagan! Linzi works as Head of Education at YDance and is a self-confessed learning lover. She joins us for a chat about 3 significant moments in her life. She also considers advice for her 14 and 90 year old self. Plus 'This or That'!
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Episode 27: Finding Your Feet - With special guest, singer Mark Franks from The Overtones!
After a wee lick of paint, we are back with a new format! Welcome to Finding Your Feet with our special guest, Mark Franks. Mark is a singer/songwriter from the platinum-selling vocal harmony group, The Overtones. Mark worked with us at Shaper/Caper last year when he created original songs for…
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Episode 25: Performing Capers - Dancing in Lockdown
On today’s Performing Caper’s Podcast we have our Creative Learning Coordinator, Sarah chatting with two of our lovely Body members, Jorja and Lesley, about teaching and training online. Jorja discusses what it’s like teaching online vs in a studio setting and Lesley shares her thoughts about…
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Episode 24: Performing Capers - Working Class Access
On today’s episode of “Performing Capers”, we have two of our core team members, Trainee Fundraiser, Dylan, and Dance Artist, Alex, chatting about working class access to contemporary dance and the arts as a whole. Drawing from their own experiences of early dance exposure, through their years of...
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Episode 23: Performing Capers - Yoga and Dance
On today’s episode of ‘Performing Capers’ we are joined by Edinburgh based photographer, performer and yoga instructor Sophie O’Brien and our Dance Artist Alex. Having met as colleagues at a previous performance job, now close friends, they chat about the connections between yoga and dance, how...
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Episode 22: Performing Capers - Welcome to Village Hall
On today’s ‘Performing Capers’ podcast, we are joined by our Artistic Director, Tommy, and our Dance Artist, Alex. They’re having a chat about the launch of our brand-new online platform … Shaper/Caper’s Village Hall! Our Village Hall is our online programme of classes, events, films, and talks....
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Episode 21: Performing Capers - Intersectionality: Tolerance vs Acceptance
This week’s ‘Performing Capers’ podcast is a discussion about Intersectionality: Tolerance vs Acceptance. Brought to you by our Co-Chair of The Body, Lesley, and our Dance Artist, Alex, they bring up topics recently raised during our company training about unconscious biases as well as issues...
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Episode 20: Performing Capers - A chat about visibility
For this week’s Performing Capers Podcast, we have our dance artist Alex chatting with their good friend and fellow artist Emma Lynn Harley. Chatting about their experiences as being bisexual folks, what it means to be bisexual, the issues facing our community today and of the great things about...
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Episode 19: Performing Capers - A chat with Polish artists, Remi and Kasia, about LGBTQ+ life in Poland
On this week’s Performing Capers podcast, we catch up with dance artist Katarzyna Leszek and artist, Remigiusz Jabłecki, Both Remi and Kasia joined our very first LGBTQ+ magazine show, The In/Out Crowd, to talk about the political situation in Poland right now. Here, they tell us first-hand...
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Episode 18: Performing Capers - Chat with one of our Trustees, Allan McIntyre
On today’s ‘Performing Capers’ we are joined by our Artistic Director, Tommy Small, and one of our Trustees, Allan McIntyre. As well as chatting all things Shaper/Caper, Allan and Tommy also have a few fun behind the scenes stories to share from their 18 years of being friends and colleagues –...
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Episode 17: Performing Capers - Rainbow Ramblings
Today’s ‘Performing Capers’ is brought to you by our Dance Artist and LGBTQ+ champion Alex McCrossan and is based all around our plans for an LGBTQ+ company policy. Alex chats briefly about their experiences of being a non-binary dance artist both at college and as a recent (but not so recent!)...
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Episode 16: Performing Capers - Micro Bursaries with Jorja and Eleanor
With thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund, we are super excited to announce that we have managed to offer two bursaries to a couple of members of our Youth Advisory Council The Body! Jorja will be joining us to assist with our social media content and Eleanor to help us with our new…
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Episode 15: Performing Capers - Introducing The In/Out Crowd
On this week's episode, Shaper/Caper's Tommy and Alex talk about our new LGBTQ+ project, The In/Out Crowd. It's a fun, magazine style, online show looking at culture and politics with reviews, quizzes and debates! Also, Alex talks about their new blog writing as part of non binary awareness week.
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Episode 14: Performing Capers - Behind the scenes at Children's Capers
So far, we’ve had 81 Children’s Capers episodes and over 70k views…… and we aren’t stopping any time soon! On today’s podcast, Shaper/Caper’s Alex and Sarah take a deep dive into the creation and development of our online children’s workshops, Children’s Capers. We chat about how the project came...
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Episode 13: Performing Capers - Jorja and Myrthe from The Body talk about managing routines and habits during lockdown
On this week’s podcast episode we are joined by two of our Body members Jorja and Myrthe. They will be discussing Jorja’s recent blog created during the lockdown period with lots of tips and tricks including ways to manage our time and how to keep routine. They talk about the impact of making...
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Episode 12: Performing Capers - Pride Month with Andromeda and Phoenix
As part of Pride month, our podcast features another member of The Body, Andromeda, joined by her brother Phoenix where they are discussing their thoughts around Pride both pre and post lockdown. They chat about both of them being part of the LGBTQIAP+ community and share some stories around…
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Episode 11: Performing Capers - Pride Month with Tommy, Alex, Eleanor and Myrthe
As Pride month draws to a close, today’s podcast is a bit of a trip across Europe! We have Artistic Director, Tommy and Dance Artist, Alex here in sunny Scotland joined by Body members Eleanor in Germany and Myrthe in the Netherlands. Chatting about coming stories, differences in being out…
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Episode 10: Performing Capers - Mindfulness with Shaper/Caper's Sarah and Dylan
In this Performing Capers podcast, Sarah Greene and Dylan Boswell, team members of Shaper/Caper, have a chat about all things Mindfulness. They discuss what it’s like leading a Mindfulness practise in person compared to digital sessions and how the lockdown has been affecting people’s mental…
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Episode 9: Performing Capers - Clare & Lesley from our Youth Advisory Board talk about dance, disability and their experiences.
As lockdown continues, so does our Podcast Series! This week’s episode features another couple of members from our Youth Advisory Board ‘The Body’. We have recent dance degree graduates Lesley Howard and Clare Adam chatting about their experiences as dancers living with disabilities. They’ll be...
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Episode 8: Performing Capers - Training and Graduating During Lockdown with The Body members, Eleanor and Hannah
Today on ‘Performing Capers’ we have two members of our Youth Advisory Board, ‘The Body’, chatting about the experiences and difficulties dancers in training and recent dance graduates are facing during the current lockdown restrictions. They talk about the dance training process moving to…
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Episode 7: Performing Capers - Tommy & Alex talk about Section 28, coming out and Madonna!
Tommy chats about what it was like to grow as gay man in the 80's during the AIDS crisis and the aftermath of Section 28 whilst Alex chats about their mum working as a charge Nurse during the crisis. Oh, and there's a chat about George Michael and Madonna too.....for balance! Part of our…
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Episode 6: Performing Capers - Vince & Lisa talk 9/11
In this episode, company dancers Lisa Hood and Vince Virr talk about their work with Tommy over the past few years. They talk about their experience of dancing in our show Within This Dust and where they were when 9/11 happened. (Sadly, half of the interview got lost due to a corrupted SD card…
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Episode 5: Performing Capers - A young person in conversation with a pro dancer
In this week’s podcast, we catch up with Harper, a 12 year old boy from Dundee who is taking part in our Hubbub project funded by Cashback for Communities. Harper has been working with one of our professional dancers, Robert Anderson and they talk about how they started in dance and what inspires...
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Episode 4: Performing Capers - The Body's creative responses to Paper Moon
In this week’s podcast, our Creative Learning Dance Artist, Sarah Greene and Dance Trainee, Alex McCrossan, talks to members of Shaper/Caper's Youth Advisory Council called The Body. The Body have, once again, been creating their own works of art inspired by Shaper/Caper’s productions and…
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Episode 3: Performing Capers - Mid rehearsal week blether with cast of No Offence
This week we catch up with Tommy and the dancers as they research and develop a new show for young people aged 12 to 15 called ‘No Offence’ that explores LGBTQ issues in the 21st Century.
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Episode 2: Performing Capers - After show chat with cast from Paper Moon
In this episode, we catch up with performers Rob and Miranda about the creative process of making Paper Moon for Cumbernauld Theatre.
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Episode 1: Introducing The Body of Work
In our first every podcast, our Creative Learning Dance Artist, Sarah Greene, talks to members of Shaper/Caper's Youth Advisory Council called The Body. The Body have been creating their own works of art inspired by Shaper/Caper’s productions and project. For this first episode, The Body members...
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Podcasts with our Artistic Director, dancers and young people from The Body talking about the world of dance and performing arts
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Podcasts with our Artistic Director, dancers and young people from The Body talking about the world of dance and performing arts
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