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Sophia Ndaba

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“We can easily fool ourselves to thinking we’ve created something new”
Sophia Ndaba

Sophia Ndaba is a dance theatre, site specific, community outreach, object and installation and collaborator with live musicians and other multidisciplinary artists. Sophia is a founding member of the Dance Makers Collective, a group of independent dance artists in Sydney who collaboratively choreograph and produce contemporary dance work.
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Searching through how we really feel, and how it manifests physically
Acknowledging and communicating authentic emotion and frustration
Being frustrated with Matt!
Movement being a processing tool
Keeping our ego in a safe place of questioning
How do you know what has value
Allow for people’s dances
Projection and perspective
Having fixed mindsets and growth mindsets
subscribing to magic and mystery

“Allow for people’s dances and how they came about”
“Keeping our ego in a safe place of questioning”
Sophia Ndaba

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Andrew Westle

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“Art is that space for difficult conversations”
Andrew Westle

Andrew Westle is passionate about gender equality, social justice and making art accessible to everyone. His work defies boundaries and includes research, performance, evaluation, writing, theatre making, public health and stage management. We cover.

Providing art that is not socially engaging
How do we get rich people to come to art
the capacity for dance to agitate
Circumnavigating the city
Permission and getting it wrong
How to leave enough space for the dance
Dance as a self referencing cannon
Dance as reprieval to the literal and narrative
Sharing similar politics
Proving merit
Madonna fans
David Mcallister interview and character
Who is speaking on behalf of the embodied?
Finding interest in people
Dance funding in Australia
time capsule interviews as archive for practise

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Kareth Schaffer and Cathy Walsh

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“I make dance pieces because I can think through everything that interests me”

Kareth Schaffer and Cathy Walsh are performers and makers living in Berlin. We met just after their season of Merkel, a dual performance of Angela Merkel and life sized cutouts of other world leaders to talk about the show, their process, the power of coming together and the skill of thinking together.

Dance in theatre art as operational or instrumental
Music and dance as dangers to leftist discourse
How is dance contributing to revolutionary change
Practicalities of Theresa May’s posture
Merkel dances
Underpromising and overdelivering as dancers
Disagreements and choosing battles
Movement practises that lead to epiphanies
How to circumnavigate the work process

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