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Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratis

S1 Ep19 Dance Workshop (Consent, Invitation, and Participation)This workshop explores consent and invitation as ongoing choreographic processes rather than fixed permissions. The episode asks when participation begins, how it is negotiated, and how dancing emerges through subtle, often invisible invitations.The session begins by attending to unspoken invitations to dance. Listeners are invited to notice when alignment, attention, watching, or responding begins without explicit requests, and to observe where the lines of consent feel active or withdrawn. These explorations can be taken into different contexts, including spaces where dance is expected, unexpected, or usually discouraged, noticing how context shapes what kinds of movement feel possible.The workshop then introduces conditional participation, using self-imposed rules such as moving only when someone else moves, stopping only when another stops, or responding to attention, absence, or perceived invitation. These conditions foreground consent as relational and contingent, shaped by others and by the environment.From there, the session explores performativity by creating consent for dance to exist and then deliberately withdrawing it. This practice examines what remains active when permission is removed, how space is produced through restraint or silence, and how the edges of dance continue to operate even when movement pauses.The episode closes by turning attention inward, inviting listeners to notice when they allow themselves to dance. Reflection focuses on moments of inclusion and exclusion, asking who decides when one is inside or outside the dance, how invitations are internalised, and how different choreographic situations might allow for multiple forms of participation, refusal, and care.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Tim Spooner. To get in touch and follow Tim go to https://timspooner.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/tspooner0.Tim will be performing: Matter EraBattersea Arts Centre 7, 8, 9 May https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/Norfolk and Norwich Festival 12,13,14 May https://nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/Westflügel Leipzig 22 & 23 May https://www.westfluegel.de/veranstaltung/matter-era/The Microscope Sessions dates (after 30th March):6 April, 4 May, 1 June (1st Monday of each month, times TBC) https://themicroscopesessions.net/ References:Simon Vincenzi - https://www.simonvincenzi.com/Terrapin - https://terrapin.org.au/Sam Routledge - https://www.instagram.com/sirwam/THE GRID OF LIFE 2010 - https://www.timspooner.com/thegridoflife24 GROTESQUE MANIPULATIONS - https://www.timspooner.com/24grotesquemanipulationsLea Anderson - http://www.leaanderson.com/PETER, dance with Lea Anderson - https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/#LAThe Rest Is Science, Are Magnets The Most Familiar Mystery On Earth? - https://youtu.be/yXg_-2fpg-s?si=pUIv8VoPSzm0-RZ5On the calculations of volume by Solvej Balle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Calculation_of_VolumePanpsychism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PanpsychismO by Peter Mills - https://stillpeter.com/o/Matter Era by Tim Spooner and TerrapinBattersea Arts Centre 7, 8, 9 May https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/Norfolk and Norwich Festival 12,13,14 May https://nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/matter-era/Westflügel Leipzig 22 & 23 May https://www.westfluegel.de/veranstaltung/matter-era/The Microscope Sessions - https://sites.google.com/view/themicroscopesessions/homeRhiannon Armstrong - https://www.rhiannonarmstrong.net/https://www.youtube.com/@TheMicroscopeSessionsSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep18 Dance Workshop (Copying, Interpretation, and Misunderstanding)This workshop explores copying as a choreographic practice, focusing on interpretation, accuracy, deviation, and misunderstanding. Rather than treating copying as uncreative or secondary, the episode examines how copying produces difference, imagination, and movement through what is lost, exaggerated, remembered, or transformed.The session begins by inviting listeners to copy something as accurately as possible, before shifting toward copying badly on purpose by prioritising a single aspect such as timing, effort, or direction. These contrasting approaches open questions around what is valued, ignored, or permitted when we copy movement.From there, the workshop explores copying from memory, noticing what disappears, what becomes distorted, and what remains as residue. Attention is given to how memory shapes interpretation and how distance in time alters what is reproduced. The session then moves into copying across mediums, translating movement into words, drawing, sound, or other forms, and then back into movement, foregrounding translation as a choreographic tool.The episode proposes copying as an ongoing chain of reformulations, a practice of moving movement through different bodies, mediums, and interpretations. Through this, the workshop asks where copying ends and interpretation begins, whether accuracy ever truly matters, and how misunderstanding might be a productive and creative force within dancing and choreography.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep17 Dance Workshop (Instruction, Authority, and Following)This workshop focuses on instruction and authority as core choreographic materials. Rather than treating authority as something held by a single person or role, the episode explores how authority emerges, shifts, leaks, and is negotiated through instruction, sensation, memory, time, and context.Through a performative score titled Stand, listeners are invited to experience how even the simplest instruction is never neutral, how it organises bodies, perceptions, histories, and values. Standing becomes a site for questioning obedience, resistance, consent, politics, care, and inheritance, asking who taught us how to stand, for whom, and why.The workshop then moves through a series of practices: following instructions while internally disagreeing, leading through vague or contradictory instructions, delaying obedience to observe how memory and desire reshape what is followed, and finally working with multiple authorities at once, instruction, sensation, and memory.Throughout, the session asks what causes our dancing, how we negotiate internal and external authority, and what it might mean to choreograph with multiple authorities rather than choosing one. Instruction is approached not as control, but as a space of ambiguity, creativity, and care.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we danced with Katye Coe. To get in touch with Katye’s work visit https://www.katyecoe.org or https://www.seauk.org.uk/directories/katye-coe-somatic-experiencing-practitioner-and-ait/ReferencesSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep16 Dance Workshop (Stages, Performance, and Audience)In this workshop, we use the idea of the stage as a way to think about how dance appears, how it becomes present, and how it is witnessed. Rather than treating the stage only as a traditional theatre space, the episode expands the notion of staging to include solo practice, social dance, public space, teaching situations, media, and everyday contexts.The session explores how different stages produce different kinds of performativity, attention, and choreography. Who is watching? How is the dance being witnessed? What codes are at play? Through a series of invitations, listeners are encouraged to experiment with staging their dance alone, with others, for known and unknown audiences, in private and public settings, and through non-bodily media such as sound, scores, and images.The workshop proposes staging as an active choreographic material, something that shapes how dance is understood, felt, and practiced, and invites dancers to explore how audience, context, codes, and framing continuously choreograph the dance itself.Types of Stages MentionedSolo and Personal Staging Dancing alone, self-witnessing, and private attentionRelational and Social Staging Dancing with others, shared focus, and negotiated presenceEducational and Workshop Staging Teaching, learning, demonstrating, and being watched while learningTraditional Performance Staging Theatre spaces, frontal viewing, and performance conventionsPublic and Street Staging Accidental audiences, exposure, and everyday visibilityContextual and Codified Staging Social rules, cultural codes, and stylistic expectationsParticipatory and Invitational Staging Audiences as contributors, hosts, or co-performersMaterial and Object-Based Staging Objects, surfaces, and environments as stagesMobile and Guided Staging Walking, moving audiences, and choreographed attentionMedia and Representational Staging Sound, images, scores, recordings, and documentationPerceptual and Imagined Staging Mental stages, remembered dances, and imagined witnessesMore detail: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mEpisode reffernce: Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy" (Polity Books, 2023) on New Books in Political Science https://lnns.co/WFXNRuI-n_jYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep15 Dance Workshop (Habits)In this episode, we turn our attention to habits and their complex role in dancing and choreography. Drawing on Jonathan Burrows’ questions “Are you doing what you want to do, or are you following your habits?” and “What if following your habits is the right thing to do?”, the session approaches habits not as something to simply overcome, but as embodied knowledge formed through repetition, practice, and skill.The episode begins by unpacking what habits are: repeated actions that have become unconscious, allowing movement to happen without constant decision-making. Habits make dancing possible, yet they are also often what dancers attempt to disrupt in order to find new ways of moving. Rather than treating habits as a problem, this workshop holds them in a more neutral space, asking what they give us, what they limit, and whether it is ever truly possible to move outside them.A guided improvisation follows, led continuously through voice and music. You are invited to move, sit, lie down, or walk, wherever you are, while listening to a series of spoken prompts inspired by Deborah Hay–like questioning. The guidance encourages you to notice initiation, effort, attention, stillness, ease, difficulty, and choice, and to explore what happens when habits are neither corrected nor avoided, but observed as information. The voice acts as a score, gently disrupting habitual decision-making and shifting focus away from self-judgement or performance.After this shared improvisation, you are invited to explore the opposite approach: deliberately following your habits. In this short solo investigation, the task is to dance only what feels habitual and familiar, and to notice whether creativity, difference, or accident still appear. This raises questions about repetition, awareness, and whether habits can ever be fully known or isolated.The episode closes with a reflective assignment focused on practice and repetition. You are invited to journal, map, or schedule your dancing habits, noticing how practices form over time and how they choreograph the body. This reflection can be observational or intentional, structured or loose, offering a way to consider how habits shape both daily life and long-term dancing practices.This session sits between acceptance and resistance, asking not how to escape habits, but how to dance with them.Music mason by mobygratisDance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we danced with Lea Anderson. Stay in contact with Lea via http://www.leaanderson.com/, @speakingshoes and @leaandersonscholmondeleys.References:The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs - http://www.leaanderson.com/worksLaurel and Hardy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_HardyLaurel and Hardy - Dance Routine - Way Out West (1937) - https://youtu.be/LXCwlO2jnYU?si=yra0RLSojsATBJy0Hannah Höch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_H%C3%B6chHannah Höch, Grotesque - https://artofcollage.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/hannah-hoch/#jp-carousel-3017Hannah Höch , Balance - https://artofcollage.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/hannah-hoch/#jp-carousel-3005Yippeee!!! (2006) - http://www.leaanderson.com/tag/yippeeBusby Berkeley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_BerkeleyEdits (2010) - http://www.leaanderson.com/worksSadlers Wells - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadler's_Wells_TheatreNeu! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neu!Neu!, Super https://youtu.be/DJ4Pf-WB57U?si=KeP26P39PBHYxRffMerce Cunningham Company - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_CunninghamZeitgeist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeitgeistThe Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs: 40 years of style and design - http://www.leaanderson.com/works/birthday-bookSteve Blake - https://steveblakemusic.wordpress.com/bio/Simon Vincenzi - https://www.simonvincenzi.com/Sandy Powell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Powell_(costume_designer)Lea Anderson, Laboratorio de danza Step by Step, presentación - https://youtu.be/3ztxV4A3_9o?si=du9h0VAkUOTQ3s8hPETER, dance with Frank Bock - https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/#fbPETER, dance with Simon Vincenzi - https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/#svSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep14 Dance Workshop (Movement or experience as Material / Scores)In this session, the focus shifts from choreography as set steps toward movement and experience as material. Building on the previous episode’s exploration of set choreography, the workshop opens choreography back up again, asking what happens when movement is treated less as a fixed product and more as something that can be shaped, altered, abstracted, and reworked.The session begins by proposing movement as something similar to clay: a material that can be molded, refined, reduced, layered, and reshaped over time. Participants are invited to take a movement and work on it incrementally, making small changes, extracting parts, adding texture, tone, or emphasis, and viewing the movement from multiple angles. This process can be done directly through the body or through external materials such as clay, drawing, writing, video, or images, continually returning to the experience of movement itself.Alongside this, the workshop addresses the complications of treating the body as material. Attention is given to how choreographing on oneself can lead to over-identification with image, self-presentation, and visibility. By working with movement as material among other materials, the practice offers a way to distance choreography from personal identity, allowing movement to be handled, tested, and changed without needing to fully represent the self.The session then introduces choreography as score. Rather than choreography only meaning set steps, it is framed as a system of instructions or written directions that inform movement. Participants are invited to write scores ranging from highly detailed to extremely minimal, noticing how different forms of instruction affect autonomy, intention, memory, and interpretation. The relationship between scoring and improvisation is acknowledged as fluid, with scores functioning both as compositional tools and as prompts for exploration.Toward the end of the workshop, attention turns to what else might be considered material: not only movements or instructions, but also the transitions, gaps, and relationships between elements. From here, participants are invited to work with what is most readily available in their experience, allowing ease, accessibility, and external materials to lead the dance. Objects, environments, or simple external cues are used to guide movement, shifting choreography away from control and toward acceptance of what emerges.The session closes with a reflective assignment that moves outside the studio, encouraging participants to articulate their dancing through conversation, using language as another way of shaping and understanding choreographic material.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep13 Dance Workshop (Choreography as Set and Setting Steps)In this session, we focus on choreography in its most familiar sense: choreography as set material, as steps that can be repeated, remembered, ordered, and followed. Building on the previous episode’s exploration of what choreography is and where it comes from, this workshop turns toward how choreography is made concrete through steps, phrases, and sequences.The workshop begins with a sustained repetition of a single, simple movement. By repeating one step for an extended duration, attention is drawn to how a movement is initiated, what elements of it are essential, and how repetition relies on memory, sensation, and bodily awareness. This exercise foregrounds the labour of precision and the difficulty of doing “the same thing” again and again.From there, the session opens into improvisation, inviting participants to notice when steps begin to emerge from free movement. Rather than deciding steps in advance, the focus is on recognising how movements become identifiable, repeatable, and potentially part of a sequence.The workshop then shifts toward consciously setting choreography. Participants create a short sequence of steps and observe how they remember, order, and connect movements. Attention is given to decision-making around transitions, timing, spacing, and orientation, as well as the different tools that can support memorisation and composition, such as writing, counting, recording, or visual reference.Finally, the session addresses choreography as something that can exist outside oneself, by copying and following an external source such as a video or written description. This brings questions of authority, accuracy, control, and interpretation into focus, asking where choreography actually resides when steps are set and followed.The session closes with a reflective task that turns away from strict execution and toward description. By describing movement qualities in words, participants are invited to consider how language itself can influence, prompt, and shape dancing, without fixing it into a rigid form.Linda Wardal: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2251240/episodes/14185052Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we danced with Sara Ruddock. Stay in contact with Sara at  https://sararuddock.com/.References:Trinity Laban - https://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/Roehampton University - https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/study/academic-areas/arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/dance/Deborah Hay - https://dhdcblog.blogspot.com/Market 2009, by Deborah HayPauline Oliveros - https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/deep-listening/pauline-oliveros/Deep listening practice - https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/F choir - https://fchoir.com/Jenny Moore - https://jennymoore.bandcamp.com/Rajni Shah, performance artist, writer and producer https://www.rajnishah.com/Support the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep12 Dance Workshop (What is choreography?)In this session, we shift focus from how we dance to what is being danced. After exploring multiple approaches to improvisation and movement, the workshop turns toward choreography, not as fixed steps to be copied, but as the set of conditions, influences, and structures that inform movement.The episode begins by questioning a common understanding of choreography as something taught and reproduced. Instead, choreography is approached as that which informs dancing: histories, contexts, people, objects, spaces, moods, language, and attention. Improvisation is examined not as complete freedom, but as something already shaped by these influences. This opens a blurred space where choreographed and improvised practices overlap rather than oppose one another.From here, the session introduces the idea of choreography as an art form in itself, sometimes referred to as expanded choreography. Rather than asking only how steps are made, the workshop asks what causes dance to take the form it does, and whether those causes might themselves be considered choreographic material. Furniture, clothing, architecture, habits, music, instructions, and social situations are all considered as potential choreographers.The practical exploration invites participants to dance while paying attention to what is structuring their movement. This includes revisiting earlier exercises, such as trying not to dance and noticing when dance emerges, or deliberately dancing and asking what makes it feel like dance. Participants are encouraged to experiment with music and silence, different spaces, and varying contexts, while observing what informs their movement choices.The second part of the session focuses on collecting choreographic influences. Participants are invited to gather what choreographs them: movements they’ve learned, music they return to, objects, environments, images, words, or observed behaviours. Reflection is approached through multiple methods including journaling, drawing, recording, watching, copying, and revisiting material, emphasising rehearsal, repetition, and noticing.The workshop concludes with a reflective practice drawn from Zoë Poluch’s work: a simple instruction to “just dance.” Without analysing or structuring, participants are invited to let go and allow dancing itself to become the reflection on choreography and the questions raised throughout the session.This episode frames choreography as an ongoing, lived process rather than a finished product, offering tools to notice how dance is continually shaped in everyday life.https://www.buzzsprout.com/2251240/episodes/15073886-ep-29-peter-dance-with-zoe-poluchDance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep11 Dance workshop (Coordination)In this session we investigate coordination as the practical work of organising different moving elements so they relate rather than collide. We begin simply: choose one or two parts of yourself and explore timing and sequencing — can you make a rhythm or pattern that feels connected rather than disjointed? From there we broaden into multiple-element awareness, noticing and managing several impulses or qualities at once (speed, intensity, flow) and trying the work with and without music. Next we examine independence and interaction — how one movement depends on, supports, or interferes with another, and how these relations change when you bring in space, gravity, breath or imagined constraints. We then extend coordination outwards: match and contrast your movement with the environment, furniture, objects, other people, or music, testing opposition and counterpoint as part of being “coordinated.” Finally, we explore fluidity and adaptability — how patterns arise, how established habits shift, and how transitions are coordinated between different activities. The session closes with a short reflection: what does coordination mean to you after practising it — timing and sequencing, balancing multiple qualities, or something else?Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we danced with Jonathan Burrows. To follow Jonathan’s artistic work go to burrowsfargion.com and for his academic work go to pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/jonathan-burrows. To watch full length videos of Burrows and Fargion's work go to vimeo.com/burrowsfargion.Jonathan Burrows danced for 13 years with the Royal Ballet in London, during which time he also began performing regularly with experimental choreographer Rosemary Butcher. He has since created an internationally acclaimed body of performance work including ‘The Stop Quartet’ (1996), ‘Weak Dance Strong Questions’ with Jan Ritsema (2001), and his long series of collaborations with composer Matteo Fargion including  ‘Both Sitting Duet’ (2002), ‘The Quiet Dance’ (2005), ‘Speaking Dance’ (2006), ‘Cheap Lecture’ (2009), ‘The Cow Piece’ (2009), ‘Body Not Fit For Purpose’ (2014), ‘Rewriting’ (2021) and 'The Unison Piece' (2025). Burrows is a founder visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S Belgium and has for many years been a regular collaborator for Jonzi D’s Back To The Lab hip hop theatre mentoring project at Breakin’ Convention, Sadler’s Wells London. He is the author of 'A Choreographer's Handbook' (Routledge) and ‘Writing Dance’ (Varamo Press, 2022), and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University.References: stillpeter.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/peter-dance-with-jonathan-burrows-refferences-and-transcript.pdfSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep10 Dance workshop (Breath)In this episode, we return to breath as the basis of movement. I speak about the role breath played in my performance O, and how the score I used there can function as a simple structure for dancing:grounding, breath, vocal resonance, expansion, and release.We begin with grounding and noticing the breath without changing anything. From there, we work through a series of vocal and physical expansions inspired by Leah Landau and Lisa Schåman. We follow a progression of sounds — sighs, yawns, small vibrations, and vowel tones (u–o–e–a–m) — noticing how each one creates a different kind of movement or softening. The session also includes panting, laughter, and crying as physical rhythms rather than emotional expressions.At one point, the group builds toward a short collective scream, simply as a shared peak of breath and sound, before letting everything drop back into quiet. After the scream, we stay with whatever movement remains when we stop “trying” to move.Throughout the episode the focus stays on breath as the primary mover, allowing the body’s movement to remain secondary or responsive. The session ends with a period of dancing with breath in your own way — in silence or with music — followed by a brief reflection on how breath affected the quality of movement.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep9 Dance workshop (Effort and Ease)This episode focuses on the tone and energy of movement, exploring the dynamic spectrum between effort and ease. You’ll start by sensing where tension, holding, or gripping exists in your body, gradually exaggerating and then releasing it, noticing how attention itself carries effort.Through free movement, you’ll explore high-effort gestures—pushing, resisting, reaching—contrasted with low-effort, yielding, and softening actions. Imaginative prompts, such as moving through air, water, syrup, or stone, help you feel how effort adapts to different qualities of resistance.Next, you’ll engage in “repetitive waves”: small repetitive movements that swell to intensity and fade to near nothing, discovering how to sustain, release, and let ease lead. The session culminates in whole-body movement in ease, inviting flow, suspension, and softness with and without music.Finally, reflection exercises encourage you to map where effort and ease live in your body, sketch or write about your sensations, and consider how this awareness can inform your next movements, daily activities, and ongoing practice. By the end, you’ll have a deeper sensitivity to the tonal qualities of your dancing and a richer sense of how effort and ease interact in motion.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S3 Ep5  PETER, dance with Lorea BurgeToday we dance with Lorea Burge. You can get in contact with Lorea Burge here https://www.loreaburge.com/ and follow Lorea on instagram @loreaburge. And at the Rose Choreographic School https://rosechoreographicschool.com/.References:Choreographic Devices 4 https://www.ica.art/live/choreographic-devices-4ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) https://www.ica.art/Rose Choreographic School https://rosechoreographicschool.com/Martin Hargreaves (Head of the Rose Choreographic School) https://rosechoreographicschool.com/peopleSadler’s Wells East https://www.sadlerswells.com/your-visit/sadlers-wells-east/welcome-to-sadlers-wells-east/O baby performance by PETER https://stillpeter.com/o/Johnathon Burrows A Choreographer's HandbookSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep8 Dance workshop (Size and Scale)In this session, we explore the scale of movement, from the tiniest gestures inside the body to the expansive reach of the whole universe. Starting with the human body as a reference point, you’ll notice the range and limits of your gestures, the arcs and sweeps you naturally make, and the spaces you inhabit as a mover.You’ll then be guided through exercises inspired by Glenda Batson and Susan Sentler, exploring the concept of the fold. First, you’ll investigate folds in your environment—fabric, paper, furniture—then shift your attention inward to the folds and creases within your own body. Finally, you’ll play with folding and unfolding yourself, imagining how your movements can expand into the surrounding world or contract into the universe.The session concludes by inviting you to map your dance across multiple scales: from the particle level to planetary phenomena, from micro-movements to cosmic gestures. By the end, you’ll have developed a heightened awareness of scale, attention, and imagination in your dancing, and new ways to perceive and shape movement in relation to space, self, and the wider world.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep7 Dance workshop (Direction and Pathways)In this session, we turn our attention to where movement goes, to direction, pathway, and the lines our bodies trace through space. What determines where we move? Is it choice, curiosity, gravity, emotion, or something else entirely?We begin by drawing invisible lines through the air, straight, curved, spiralled, zigzagged, inspired by William Forsythe’s improvisation technologies, where the dancer becomes a kind of draftsman, sketching motion in space. From there, the session shifts toward losing and finding orientation: following impulses, sounds, or sensations that redirect us. We wander and deviate, noticing what happens when direction dissolves into discovery.The episode then explores the body as compass, guided not by left and right but by north, south, east, and west, a way to reimagine orientation as planetary rather than anatomical. This expands into experiments with momentum and redirection, asking: how can we keep moving without simply continuing? What does it mean to be redirected, by a wall, the floor, another person, without stopping?Finally, we play with forgetting direction: moving toward something, then letting go of the intention and finding a new path in the same motion. This practice of continuous reorientation invites a softer sense of purpose, where each line and curve becomes an open question.By the end, the focus widens back to daily life, noticing how direction and pathway shape not only our dancing, but the way we inhabit the world: every trace, curve, and hesitation a kind of personal choreography.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we danced with Neil Paris. To contact Neil Paris email [email protected]:Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary danceFabulous Beast Dance TheatreMicheal Kegan Dolan https://teacdamsa.com/about/Rite of Spring Fabulous Beast - https://youtu.be/jsRKugYT03c?si=aI0dO4iS4AjEmNn3 Agnes and Walter: A Little Love Story Created and Directed by Neil ParisLaban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_von_LabanDartington college of artsSteve Paxton ’Small Dance’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oWA1sWMlOkAlejandro Mexican SharmanMorris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_danceThe Corby group is Deep Roots Tall Trees Dancetheatre https://www.deeprootstalltrees.org/Activities/The group in Brighton is led by Yael Flexer https://www.flexerandsandiland.com/brighton-classes'Course E' at Shawbrook 2007 summer school for aspiring dancers in Ireland led by Fabulous Beast (Micheal Kegan Dolan, Neil Paris,  and Philip Feeney)London Coliseum https://londoncoliseum.org/Family Constellations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_ConstellationsSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep6 Dance workshop (Tempo and Rhythm)In this session we turn to time: the internal clocks that live in your breath and pulse, and the external cues that shape how we move. You’ll be invited to listen first, to your heartbeat, your breathing, the quiet rhythms already present in your body, then to use that inner tempo as a guide for movement.We move through simple experiments: syncing movement to breath, exploring snail-slow and lightning-fast tempi, and noticing what kinds of movement each speed invites. Then you’ll make rhythm with your body, claps, stomps, vocal sounds, and feel the difference between sounding a beat and marking it with gesture. After that we bring in outside rhythms: dancing with, against, or ignoring a chosen piece of music, and watching how it changes your choices.The episode also opens up the idea of polyrythm, multiple rhythms layered through the body, and offers a practical challenge: try moving one body part slow while another moves fast. Finally, there’s a long, free exploration without music, so you can discover how many rhythms may already be living in you and how they shape what you want to make.By the end you’ll have a clearer sense of whether rhythm is central to your dance, how external structure helps or limits you, and what tempos light up your curiosity. Bring patience, a willingness to sound silly, and a notebook if you like, this one rewards listening and reflection.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep5 Dance workshop (Balance & Imbalance)In this session we explore balance as both a physical and conceptual experience, how we find stability and how we lose it. Building from last week’s work on Weight & Gravity, this episode looks at balance as an ever-changing negotiation rather than a fixed position.You’ll be guided through a series of experiments: finding your own centre of balance, tipping, twisting, and reaching beyond your base of support. We’ll play with different dynamics, stillness and suspension, speed and softness, to notice how balance shifts with every choice we make.Rather than drawing from established dance techniques, this session invites you to explore your own ways of balancing and destabilising, to ask how risk and control shape your dancing. Is balance a point of safety, or a moment of daring? How do you balance your references, your emotions, your sense of self within dance?Through this, we continue developing a personal and felt understanding of dance, one that’s grounded, unstable, and alive.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S3 Ep3  PETER dance with Hanna GillgrenToday we dance with Hanna Gillgren. You can get in contact with Hanna Gillgren here https://h2dance.com/hanna-gillgren-biography-and-cv/ and follow Hanna on instagram @h2hanna. At the Rose Choreographic School https://rosechoreographicschool.com/ , Roehampton (University of Roehampton, London) https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/hanna-gillgren and at Fest en Fest (festival founded by H2 Dance) https://festenfest.info/fest-en-fest/ .Dates for festenfest 2026:24th to the 29th March: APT gallery Deptford London 21st /22nd March : southeast dance Brighton 25th March: Colchester arts centre.References:Choreographic Devices 4 https://www.ica.art/live/choreographic-devices-4ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) https://www.ica.art/Rose Choreographic School https://rosechoreographicschool.com/Roehampton (University of Roehampton, London) https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/hanna-gillgrenSKH fka DOCH (Stockholm university of the arts) https://www.uniarts.se/english/H2 Dance (co-founded by Hanna Gillgren and Heidi Rustgaard) https://h2dance.com/25-2/Heidi Rustgaard (co-founder of H2 Dance) https://h2dance.com/heidi-rustgaard-biography-and-cv/Martin Hargreaves (Head of the Rose Choreographic School) https://rosechoreographicschool.com/peopleGuy Dartnell https://www.choreographiclab.co.uk/guy-dartnell/Jonathan Burrows and Jan Ritsema (Weak Dance Strong Questions) https://vimeo.com/383037271 (https://burrowsfargion.com/)Fest en Fest (festival founded by H2 Dance) https://festenfest.info/fest-en-fest/Sadler’s Wells East (London, overlooking the Olympic Park) https://www.sadlerswells.com/your-visit/sadlers-wells-east/welcome-to-sadlers-wells-east/Support the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

In this session we explore one of the most fundamental forces in dance: gravity. Together we investigate how weight shapes every movement, from the subtle balancing of Steve Paxton’s Small Dances to the dynamic play of falling and catching yourself. You’ll be guided through exercises that invite you to feel your centre of gravity, to yield or resist weight, and to notice how balance is constantly negotiated in the body.We expand this exploration into movement with the ground, furniture, and even the walls around you, introducing ideas from contact improvisation, release technique, and somatic practices like Body-Mind Centering. You’ll also experiment with the “weight of consciousness,” sensing how holding or remembering weight changes your awareness and your movement possibilities.By the end, you’ll have a richer felt understanding of how weight supports, challenges, and inspires dance, whether you’re walking, rolling, balancing, or simply standing still.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep3 Dance workshop (Stillness as Dance)In this episode, we explore the role of stillness in dance and how pauses, holds, and subtle micro-movements shape the way we perceive and create movement.Through guided exercises, you’ll develop a deeper awareness of your body’s natural stillness, experiment with accumulating stillness, and play with the contrast between motion and pause. You’ll also reflect on how stillness interacts with movement, space, and attention, helping you notice nuances in your dancing and expand your creative expression.With exercises designed for solo practice or paired exploration, this episode highlights how both movement and stillness are essential tools for understanding and shaping your personal dance vocabulary.Ref. If you liked this check out this audio recording of Steve Paxton guiding “The Small Dance” https://soundcloud.com/the-amam/audio-recording-of-steve-paxton-guiding-the-small-danceDance WorkshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S3 Ep2  PETER, dance with Dan CanhamToday we danced with Dan Canham. Follow Dan Canham on instagram @dan_canham https://www.instagram.com/dan_canham/ or on Dan’s website https://www.dancanham.com/And see Dan’s work at the closing event for Bradford City of Culture 2025, Winter Solstice 20th and 21st of December in Myrtle Park. Book here https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/brighter-still/   References:Fabulous Beast Dance TheatreNational Theatre Public Acts -  https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/about-us/theatre-nation-partnerships/public-acts/Public Record - https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/whats-on/public-record/Marina Abramović & Ulay (Great Wall of China walk)Rite of Spring Fabulous Beast - https://youtu.be/jsRKugYT03c?si=aI0dO4iS4AjEmNn3Cèilidh - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A8ilidhOlivier Theatre - https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/your-visit/venues-at-the-national-theatre/olivier-theatre/Peter Carter (traditional eel catcher in the Fens)Dance is life, Hudson River Park’s Pier 76 - https://www.danceislife.love/locationsRestoke - http://restoke.org.ukPaul Rogerson director at restoke - https://www.restoke.org.uk/peopleROSALÍA & Travis Scott - https://youtu.be/q5xIoeG4uVI?si=kOMydrTFuzKVTXMvPublic Works New York - https://publictheater.org/artistic-programs/public-works/Dahlia Lopez Ramsay - https://magnettheater.com/people/dahlia-ramsay/Emily Lim - https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/artists/emily-lim/Closing event for Bradford City of Culture 2025, Winter Solstice 20th and 21st of December in Myrtle Park - https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/brighter-still/   Support the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep2 Dance workshop (Space and Self)In this session, we turn our attention to space, the rooms we move in, the pathways we carve, and the invisible boundaries that shape how we dance.Through guided explorations, you’ll notice how your body relates to positive and negative space, how personal space expands and contracts, and how moving across a room creates paths that carry meaning. You’ll also experiment with proximity, boundaries, and how awareness of the environment, walls, objects, even imagined others, changes your felt sense of dancing.This episode invites you to deepen your awareness of where you are, how you occupy space, and how space itself becomes a partner in your dancing. By the end, you’ll have new insights into how the environments around you shape your movement, your choices, and your evolving sense of dance.Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S1 Ep1 Dance workshop, What is dance?In this first session, we begin with the deceptively simple but endlessly complex question: what is dance?Through a series of guided exercises, you’ll explore your own felt sense, the bodily awareness that tells you when something feels like dance and when it doesn’t. Starting with the practice of not dancing, you’ll learn to notice where dance emerges in your everyday actions, how it shifts with your attention, and how your personal definitions already shape the way you move.No experience is required. Whether you’re new to dance or returning after years of practice, this episode invites you to pause, experiment, and reflect on your unique relationship to movement.By the end, you’ll have started building your own map of dance, one rooted in curiosity, perception, and the knowledge already in your body.Dance WorkshopExplore, imagine, move.A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music leaning by mobygratisSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

S3 Ep1  PETER, dance with Matthias SperlingToday we danced with Matthias Sperling. To follow and get in touch with Matthias Sperling visit, http://matthias-sperling.com or on instagram @matthias_sperling.In Stockholm in early October 2025 Matthias will give a two-week series of workshops and performances https://www.fylkingen.se/en/events/no-how-generator-matthias-sperling-and-katye-coe#title of No-How Generator , thanks to support from Fylkingen, Uniarts and Dansalliansen. Special thanks to Efrosini Protopapa.References:Stockholm University of the Arts / ADiE project (Artistic Doctorates in Europe) – linked to the PhD Practice Week.https://nivel.teak.fi/adie • “No Answers, Questions Only”https://nivel.teak.fi/adie/no-answers-questions-only/No-How Generator (2019–ongoing) – Sperling’s choreographic work and PhD project. nohowgenerator.com Back-and-forthing – the central practice within No-How Generator. View the score (PDF) http://nohowgenerator.com/nhg_choreographic_score.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.comNeurolive project – five-year collaboration between artists and neuroscientists.http://neurolive.infoDeborah HaySteve Paxton Small DancesLimón techniqueKatye Coe – dancer and Sperling’s collaborator in No-How Generator. http://katyecoe.orgPaul Feyerabend – philosopher of science, known for Against Method and the idea of “epistemological anarchy.”Karl Popper – philosopher of science, mentioned in contrast to Feyerabend.Catherine Malabou – philosopher known for the concept of plasticity.Guy Claxton – learning scientist who researches the body, intuition, and intelligence. https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Intelligence_in_the_Flesh/xqpJCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcoverCindy Millstein – anarchist writer, referenced for her ideas about freedom.Aby Warburg – magic and science.Website of the Warburg Institute (London) -  A short biography of Aby Warburg and history of the Warburg Institute: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/about-us/history-warburg-instituteMatthias  interest in Warburg's epistemoloigcal approaches is very influenced by the ways that art historian Georges Didi-Huberman articulates them in this book: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Atlas_or_the_Anxious_Gay_Science/FXlvDwAAQBAJ?hSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Season 3 of PETER dance with... Welcome back to PETER dance with. This season is recorded in the UK and features conversations with exciting guests including Matthias Sperling, Dan Canham, and Hanna Gillgren, with many more to come.Episodes will be released once every three weeks, giving each conversation time to breathe and unfold. The first episode of Season 3 arrives on Monday, September 22nd, with guest Matthias Sperling.Introducing: The Dance Workshop serise Alongside the conversations, Peter launches a new strand: the Dance Workshop. Not a class where you learn steps, and not a performance to watch, this is a workshop in sound. A chance to listen, move, experiment, imagine, and explore dance in your own way.The first workshop begins with a simple but expansive question: What is dance?Music leaning by mobygratisPhotography by Thomas ZamoloSupport the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Martin Sonderkamp. Contact Martin at https://www.uniarts.se/english/people/co-workers/martin-sonderkamp/ This episode is based on a particular listening practice Martin shared with me. The following 40 minutes is a listening piece written by composer Hara Alonso, sound artist Jenny Sunesson, and dancer and choreographer Martin Sonderkamp as part of their artistic research project titled Bodies as Ears-speculations on acoustosomatics in which they investigate listening modes across music, sound art, and dance.Feel free to listen to it at home, or anywhere you feel comfortable doing so. You will need headphones. The piece takes 40 minutes.References:Jenny SunessonHara AlonsoUlrika BergJennifer Lacey Darko DragičevićHelen WalkleySNDO School for New Dance Development AmsterdamIrmgard Bartenieff ( Bartenieff Fundamentals)Rudolf von LabanBonnie Bainbridge Cohen (BMC)Daniela Herlyn (BMC)Linda Hartley (BMC)Susan Klein (Klein Technique)Barbara Mahler  (Klein Technique)Hanna Hegenscheidt  (Klein Technique)Steve Paxton Dances from the Ga, greater Accra region, Ghana,  West AfricaAlexander TechniqueTom Koch (Alexander Technique)Silvia Sferlazzo (Alexander Technique)Gilles Estrain (Alexander Technique)Jacques RancièreGiorgio Agamben Homo SacerJanet Cardiff (Sound Artist)Ligna (Media Art Collective)Gotthard Graubner (Visual Artist)Listen, dance, reflect.In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together. For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending? some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.To listen to the podcast audio https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email [email protected] the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Agnieszka Sjökvist Dlugoszewska. Contact Agnieszka at agnieszkadance15(at)hotmail.comMusic:It starts now, BLOND:ISHUnderwater Love, Smoke cityHaha, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis PupulBig bad wolf, Duck sauceDon't stop believing, JourneyReferences:Rachel TessCullberg MADE, Master’s Programme Dance Education Stockholm University of the ArtsAnna Pehrsson Anna GripJonna Bornemark- professor in philosophy at Södertörn University and works at The Center for Studies in Practical Knowledge. Lecture at Kulturhuset ”At vrida världen” Att föda kunskap (To give birth to knowledge) OrionteaternVaginal DavisEleanor BauerClare Guss-WestMalcolm Gladwell ”Outliers: The Story of Success” Deborah HaySteven PaxtonAnthony HopkinsSanna Nordin-Bates, GIH — The Swedish School Of Sport And Health SciencesWilliam (Bill) ForsytheListen, dance, reflect.In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together. For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending? some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.To listen to the podcast audio https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email [email protected] the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Caterina Daniela Mora Jara. Contact Caterina at [email protected] https://www.uniarts.se/english/people/co-workers/caterina-mora/mora jara, caterina daniela (2023) Conflicted Embodiment, Notes from dancing on both sides of the Atlantic. a.pass, Belgium.Possible to get a PDF copy, published under CC4r, Collective Conditions for (re-)use.Music:La Yegros, Trocitos de Madera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRsHUCK-YnoLa Yegros, Viene de Mi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtsjrvwqIr0References:BalletApass https://apass.be/ Reggaetón and perreo (known as “doggy dance style”)Cumbia Tango Chrysa ParkinsonContact ImprovisationSalsaCunningham TechniqueGraham TechniquePa-KuaRelease TechniquePassing throughBrazilian SambaArgentinian ZambaMalamboFlamenco Andrea MansoDJContemporary Dance HistoriesSandra NoethCognitive learningAuthentic Movement practiceListen, dance, reflect.In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together. For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending? some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.To listen to the podcast audio https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email [email protected] the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Andreas Berchtold. Contact Andreas at https://www.uniarts.se/english/people/co-workers/andreas-berchtold/ MusicPatrik Andersson and Vegar Vårdal - https://youtu.be/AamgxB-TqeM?si=eJBqG1SZEr25RcpcReferences:In circles leading on, folkdance, a choreographic intersection https://www.visjournal.nu/i-cirklar-som-leder-vidare-folkdans-en-koreografisk-skarningspunktDancing Dots - the exhibition by Olof MisgeldRebecca Berchtold 5678 5678 | Lyssna här | Poddtoppen.seChrysa Parkinson https://www.en.visjournal.nu/documenting-experiential-authorshipPatrik AnderssonVegar VårdalListen, dance, reflect.In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together. For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending? some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.To listen to the podcast audio https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email [email protected] the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Emil Ertl. Contact Emil at https://emilertl.com/ or on Instagram @emxi_maux References:Iokasti MantzogAn*dre NeelyOnur AgbabaTchivett Self care , self as other Zine Martin SonderkampListen, dance, reflect.In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together. For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending? some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.To listen to the podcast audio https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email [email protected] the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Cecilia Roos. Contact Cilia at https://www.uniarts.se/folk/medarbetare/cecilia-roos/References:To let things unfold(by Catching the Centre) https://uniarts.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1631198&dswid=-9987Jan BurkhardtHermeneuticsRiks Teatern https://www.riksteatern.se/Chrysa ParkinsonDaniel SjökvistHemmagympa med Sofia, SvT https://www.svtplay.se/hemmagympa-med-sofiaCall and responseCatherine Malabou - Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy https://youtu.be/3Ova40bfrl8?si=HzDabgz89HeGPePzPauline Oliveros, Deep Listening “The new sound meditation (1989)”Eleanor BauerMatilda Bilberg, All those things left behind, for nowListen, dance, reflect.In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together. For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending? some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.To listen to the podcast audio https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email [email protected] the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Zoë Poluch. Contact Zoë on instagram @zozozozzle References:Certainly! Here's the corrected information:MA Choreography at the Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), formerly known as Dans och Cirkushögskolan (DOCH)The dance company ZOO, founded by Thomas HauertSamlingen with Nadja Hjorton, Stina Nyberg, Halla Ólafsdóttir, and Amanda ApetreaExample, On Air with Nadja HjortonKUR, Swedish Arts Council is KulturrådetRadio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ with Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa HarkinsDancing is… with Stina NybergMartin Kilvady“Mody Bind” by Eleanor BauerPaloma MadridExhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement by André LepeckiAutomatic writingFrédéric Gies “Good Girls Go To Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere”Authentic Movement (AM) Mary Starks Whitehouse further developed by Janet Adler and Joan ChodorowKarl Marx AlienationDo what you like, like what you do PETERDon't dance. If it feels like dance, do something else. What feels more or less like dance PETERCullbergDansplats SkogCatherine Malabou Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthoughthttps://www.uniarts.se/english/people/co-workers/zoe-poluch/Listen, dance, reflect.In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together. For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending? some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.To listen to the podcast audio https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email [email protected] the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter 

Today we dance with Frank Bock. Contact Frank at https://www.uniarts.se/english/people/co-workers/frank-bock/.References:The Cholmondeleys and The FeatherstonehaughsSimon VincenziStockholm university of the artsDance studio conversations https://uniarts.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1807269&dswid=-1752Anna Pehrsson Ep12 PETER, dance with Anna PehrssonChrysa ParkinsonCatherine MalabouMichel FoucaultMA expanded dance practice https://theplace.org.uk/lcds-courses/maexpandeddancepracticehttps://www.frankbock.net/ https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/profiles/frank-bock/https://sosinternationale.org/https://www.seforeningen.se/https://www.uniarts.se/english/courses/master-programmes/master-programme-new-performative-practices/Listen, dance, reflect.In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together. For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending? some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.To listen to the podcast audio https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email [email protected] the showFor information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email [email protected] PETER would love to hear from you.Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter