Feras Shaheen

“I don’t know if I want a ‘main’ focus.”

Feras Shaheen

Feras Shaheen is a Sydney based dancer/performer and choreographer. we discuss;

  • making a show with your mum – ferasshaheen.com.au/19772986
  • Dabke
  • street dancing
  • working freelance
  • transparency when it comes to institutional agenda
  • Klapping – ferasshaheen.com.au/Klapping
  • humour
  • initiation
  • church
  • getting into installation
  • foundations
  • Palestinian heritage
  • Nick Power
  • how to say yes
  • getting burnt out
  • the problem with expectations of being “professional”
  • arabic poetry

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Zachary Lopez

“…so then I don’t have to rely on the dancers ethnicity to provide answers for my questions around ethnicity.”

Zachary Lopez

Zachary Lopez is a performer and choreographer. He explores the duality between his identities to understand cultural lineage and nationality within his practice. We talk about;

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Alice Weber

“to find a shared language that doesn’t rest on a shared technique or visual reference but is produced together with someone, with people, with yourself, and your environment.”

Alice Weber

Alice Weber is a dance artist working with choreography, performance and discursive outputs. Using and misusing her various training backgrounds across ballet, somatic practice and critical dance studies, Alice’s work considers contemporary embodiments and intimacies, through questions of agency and desire. We talk about:

  • “problematize through exaggeration” – Alice Weber
  • beauty capital
  • having baggage
  • work – dream cellscapes
  • intimacy across distance
  • desire
  • clarity
  • entanglement of how things look and feel
  • work – solo for a body
  • aesthetic and kinesthetic
  • somatic vs touch
  • inspiration
  • marxist critique of capitalism
  • moving slowly

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