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.

Hsiao Tzu Tien – 田孝慈

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“How can I do?”

Hsiao Tzu Tien – 田孝慈

Hsiao Tzu Tien – 田孝慈 – is a choreographer, dancer and performer Born in 1984 in Tainan, Taiwan, focusing her choreography research on human emotions shaped by time, history, culture and environment. We discuss;

  • Growing up in Tainan
  • How to choreograph
  • Collaborating with technology
  • Making the invisible, visible
  • Dancing as a verb – something to do.
  • What is the first dance step?
  • Impulse/inspiration/intuition/desire
  • “How do we tune the intuition?” And make it relevant?
  • Pre-conditions
  • Dancing for each other vs the audience
  • Thinking and feeling
  • Making it safe to ask dancers to share themselves during collaboration
  • Building a belief in the piece
  • Digital as choreographic context
  • Collaborating with virtual currency via kinetic light sculpture
  • Misusing motion-capture
  • Fighting against the digital as a way to develop choreography
  • The things that we know that we don’t even know that we know.

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Yuiko Masukawa

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“I couldn’t express myself in English (i’m actually a very funny person!)… so I used my dancing”

Yuiko Masukawa

Yuiko Masukawa is a Japanese choreographer and dancer based in Melbourne, Australia, working with the classical form in contemporary contexts, we cover;

  • After Party – www.yuikomasukawa.me/after-party
  • study in Japan and Canada and Australia
  • working at Kinosaki International Arts Center
  • Indian and Ballet similarities
  • Ballet as “French Classical” dance
  • Minidiscs
  • Classical ballet in Japan being another culture
  • 2nd century Indian classical dance
  • how to know between contemporary and classical choreography
  • making work
  • running a youth dance program
  • collaborating with technologies

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Alisdair Macindoe

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“I’d find myself unable to not respond”

Alisdair Macindoe

Alisdair Macindoe is an independent multidisciplinary choreographer living on Woi Wurrung country (Melbourne, Australia). With an interest in extending the boundaries of choreographic practice, Alisdair’s work spans dance, sound, electronics, coding and text. Recent works have seen him explore automated dance and Artificial Intelligence; new technology for music expression; trans-humanism; waste and climate change and identity in the age of narcissism. We cover..

  • making choreography from words
  • AI vs algorithm
  • data stacks
  • collaborating with non-human entities
  • digital
  • midi and music
  • sound design
  • wombat radio as ongoing effort
  • social media as a faux internet
  • context free grammar
  • decision making
  • body intelligence
  • the gift of working for others
  • feeling like you’re dancing
  • the payoff is in the doing

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