Words by Ines Carvalho. If this year is teaching us something in the arts sector, it’s definitely that the digital world can enhance a global community of artists to connect and reach wider audiences. Even […]
Category: interviews
Shifting the perception of Black dance – an Interview with Beverley Glean, founder of IRIE! dance theatre
During Black History Month, we look at the past, present and future of Black Dance and how we can act towards a more equitable diverse dance scene. We spoke with Beverley Glean MBE, founder and artistic director of IRIE! dance theatre, about her journey and mission of raising the profile of Dance of the African Diaspora (DAD) in the United Kingdom.
Back to the theatre: Dimitris Papaioannou’s ‘INK’
Words by Giordana Patumi. And so, after seven months I am back at the theatre, almost a year after watching the acclaimed The Great Tamer in New York. I am sitting at the Carignano theatre, […]
Valerie Ebuwa talks ‘Body Data’, quarantine & racism
Words by Stella Rousham. ‘The inspiration is my life, I guess. A combination of wanting to fight for dancers, wanting to fight for artists and wanting people to understand how racism works.’ Since graduating with […]
An interview with Mass Hysteria
Mass Hysteria is an all-female dance collective consisting of 12 members based across the globe. On the 17th May our writer Angelos was joined by seven of them for a virtual hang out to discuss their […]
Navigating the routes to being: Julie Cunningham talks ‘fire bird’
Words by Katie Hagan. “It’s my own story, I guess, exploring the contradictions within myself. I feel like I am so many different things in my own body and making fire bird was a way […]
“It’s time for dance to ask itself: what is really important?” An interview with Gianna Burright
Words by Katie Hagan. ‘At one point I had eight jobs’ is a statement pretty much every freelancer can relate to. It’s a piece of insight divulged by choreographer and Trinity Laban MFA graduate, Gianna Burright, […]
An interview with Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion
Words by Katie Hagan. It seems apt that choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have based their new work Let us stop this mad rush towards the end on an interpretation of Shakespeare’s line: […]
In conversation with Peeping Tom
Words by Giordana Patumi. I had the opportunity to interview the two directors and choreographers of the Belgian dance theatre collective Peeping Tom, who will make their US and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) debut […]
Interview with Akeim Toussaint
Welcome to the first Choreocast! Our first guest is dance artist Akeim Toussaint – aka Toussaint To Move – who will be speaking to us about his personal experiences of moving from Jamaica to UK, […]