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Dance Reflection 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. This guest series extends that reflection by inviting dance artists and practitioners to recount their yesterday, a day in their lives, tracing what they did from beginning to end. Through this simple structure, each episode opens a conversation into the textures and rhythms of living with dance.Across the course of a day, a wide range of activity comes into view: rehearsals, teaching, creating, resting, travelling, organising, or simply noticing. Moments that might otherwise seem peripheral become part of a broader understanding of practice, revealing how dance is carried, interrupted, adapted, or sustained.The day becomes a way of approaching larger questions: what it means to work with dance, how a practice continues over time, and how it moves through different contexts, demands, and conditions. Whether the day is full or uneventful, structured or improvised, it offers a situated perspective on a life in dance, where practice is not separate from daily life, but continuously shaped within it.You can find more about all of Sara Mörk’s work at: @thesaramorkDance Reflection 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 Reflection 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

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

This episode continues the exploration of improvisation by focusing on acceptance, momentum, and the compositional power of saying yes. Drawing inspiration from theatre improvisation and the principle of “yes, and”, the workshop treats improvisation as an ongoing practice of agreement, where impulses are not rejected but allowed to enter the dance.Listeners are invited to work with continuous acceptance: moving by saying yes to every impulse that arises. Refusal is reframed as delay rather than rejection, creating space for momentum without force. The episode begins with an improvisation that follows every impulse safely and attentively, asking what a bodily yes feels like and how it changes the flow of movement.From there, the focus shifts toward acceptance without correction. Participants are asked to keep moving without refining, improving, or adjusting what appears. Doubt, judgement, and the desire to “fix” movement are noticed but not acted upon. This opens a space where habits of control soften and unexpected qualities can emerge.The workshop then deepens into wrongness as material. Rather than correcting what feels incorrect, dancers are invited to fully include it, allowing awkwardness, imbalance, or uncertainty to become the dance itself. The episode treats wrongness not as failure, but as a generative choreographic force that can reveal new pathways and sensitivities.The session closes with reflection, asking when and why a no appeared, what grew from staying with discomfort, and how yes is experienced in the body. When does yes become exhausting? Can hesitation also be a yes? Through movement, writing, or discussion, the episode invites listeners to consider acceptance as both a compositional tool and an ethical practice within improvisation.Episode 23 frames improvisation as a sustained practice of allowance, where agreement, delay, fatigue, and resistance all become active materials for dancing and thinking in motion.

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