Author: TheMattmosphere

Matt Cornell is based in the Asia-Pacific region and grew up in Darwin, on Larrakia land. He works through dance, choreography, sound, photography, and discussion to question the arbitrary configuration of systems, and is passionate about overcoming cognitive bias... to ask better questions… to dissolve malignant social narratives.

Kassidy Waters

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Kassidy Waters is a 22-year old emerging artist from the Hunter Valley in NSW. She is a proud Aboriginal Wanaruah Woman.

 

(i’m excited by) “what can’t we see that shapes everything” – KW

 

we talk about:

  • space
  • dancing
  • living in and out of cities
  • community barn dance
  • employment as a dancer
  • indigeneity and tasking in a dance process
  • the fresh prince of bel air
  • pilates scholarship
  • upcoming dirty feet residency – apply here
  • Darug dances and land
  • studio process
  • vibrational hum of the universe
  • catfish
  • creating your own universe
  • growing up around animals

 

via GIPHY

via GIPHY

 

people mentioned:

  • fresh prince of bel air
  • vicki van hout
  • yothu yindi
  • Seini Taumoepeau
  • Beyonce

 

bat echolocation explanation explained in a song – bats.mattcornell.com

Sami Jane Smith

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“I do all of the dance things” – Sami Jane Smith.

 

  • ausdance DAIR residency – “Like a lady“
  • tasking eg. making the audience uncomfortable
  • improvising
  • directing using your words
  • growing up ‘out west’
  • sexuality
  • vulnerability
  • doing something that’s important to yourself
  • teaching
  • conduct

 

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Katina Olsen

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Katina Olsen is a proud Wakka Wakka and Kombumerri dancer / choreographer currently based between Sydney and the Sunshine Coast in Australia. We focus on respecting and questioning tradition with in her work.

 

“to have the platform that my mother, grandmother, great grandmother, didn’t have” – Katina Olsen

 

we talk about:

  • who Katina is
  • living between two cities
  • beginning as a choreographer
  • cultural protocols
  • traditional vs contemporary aboriginal dance
  • INstar
  • critical path residency
  • choreographing on QUT students
  • Min Min lights/stories
  • being on country in Norway and parts of Australia
  • working
  • blak friday event
  • heritage, lineage, embodiment
  • Acknowledging country residency at Critical Path
  • being visible as indigenous and as a woman
  • having dances withheld
  • historical vs cultural
  • respecting and questioning tradition
  • the power of conversation
  • Yalu dad
  • having witnesses and being accountable
  • emoji skin colour tone usage eg:  👌🏾 💃🏼

 

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