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Gavin Webber is co-Artistic Director of THE FARM with Grayson Millwood, a company based on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Throughout his career Gavin has worked between Australia and Europe and directed theatre, dance, circus, film and installation.
we talk about:
- breathing
- putting the body and the emotion against the mind
- matt’s solo project
- propaganda
- show – Food Chain
- show – Frankenstien
- the knife edge between states and the way to shift between
- vibration
- “do you think that people are so simple that they can’t laugh at something funny and have other reactions at the same time?” – Gavin Webber
- “if you can affect people’s breathing, then you’ve affected the body chemistry” Matt Cornell
- trauma
- show – Good Little Soldier
- homogeneity in training
- comedians
- show – fish called wanda
- the state of understanding requires at least a moment of agreeance
- why bother? “we all have to have something to do” GW
- bare bones dance festival
- finding where you are inside chaos rather than avoiding
- “there’s not joy in avoiding” – GW
- “to be in the room” GW
- show – Cockfight
- “people don’t understand enthusiasm” – GW
- explore/exploit arc
- the power of novelty
- “fiercely decide that you are the one that’s learning” GW
- naivety and experience and resilience – a professional naivety
- hitchhiking in America and in Australia
- people being weird and endlessly fascinating
mentioned:
- Ismael evo
- ivo dimchev
- Ben Ely
- Kate Harman
- Michael Jackson
- Kate Harmen
- Meg Stuart
- Mark Howitt
- Russell Peters
- John Cleese
- Louis CK
- Robert LePage
shows that Matt mentioned:
- I Learnt My Cultural Dance from Youtube – with Tiyan Baker, Vanessa Marian, Mikaela Carr and more
- Dancing With – collaboration with Miranda Wheen
- The BLOKES Project – collaboration with Joshua Thomson
