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.

Nasim Patel

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Nasim Patel is dancing and making and writing and thinking his way through the VCA Dance undergraduate. We talk about his current efforts and influences, many of which can be watched here – Youtube playlist to all the goodies mentioned

 

 

 

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Kate Harman

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Kate Harman is a dancer, performer, choreographer and collaborator who has created and performed in works within the realms of dance, theatre, circus, performative installation and in projects created with amateurs and young people.

 

We stole some moments (with her son Sam in the background) to discuss very broadly:

  • where dancing comes from
  • her show Depthless with Ben Ely
  • how to share responsibility for safety and creation
  • vibration (movement) emitting and translating them
  • being sensitive
  • how others frame our emotions for us
  • stimulation
  • being compelled
  • danced together
  • being a bag of chemicals
  • matt’s soloing project – dancing for pleasure
  • the subjectivity of time
  • trying really hard to listen

 

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Eilit Marom (part 2)

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Eilit Marom is a dancer, choreographer and teacher.

we cover:

  • to come see – show
  • the body – how to be with it
  • learning how to be in the world, how to operate the system
  • “this is how i can do it in my own way even while they think i did it in my way”
  • when art is a mystery it becomes exclusive
  • “I give people the chance to connect to their bodies and connect to other peoples bodies” – EM
  • european art world english
  • not making a plan but know the core of the thing and follow that
  • “people think they are having the same conversation but they are not” EM
  • leaving space
  • institutions – “if we only pour ourselves into the structures that are already there…” we can become the structure
  • the people in power need us to tell them what we need
  • “change it if it’s not what we need” – EM
  • art being behind the times
  • how we work
  • adam and eve costumes

 

 

 

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