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“i’m kinda bam straight into dance” SS
“you have these feelings when you dance and you don’t know what they look like” SS
“that same body that i have out there is the same one that i have in here” SS
Ep 50:
Stuart Shugg is an Australian dancer currently living in New York.
We talk about:
- karaoke as a practise
- just dancing
- fried chicken
- stuarts film work – Bogart St or Chez Bushwick Residency 2014
- staying interested while being in a rep company
- solo dance making
- double plus season at gibney dance centre
- “looking back i would change things but at the time it’s what i did” SS
- generation and ownership of choreography
- “going to the studio and dancing was a way of trying to explore those other movement” SS
- “a way of processing information to improvise on it and embody it more” SS
- “then you have to bring yourself to recreate it and in recreating it maybe you’ll learn something more about this way of moving” SS
- dance as the most resilient medium
- non dance trained people creating works and 40 years later that work is reperformed by dance trained people
- editing dances together from footage of self-dancing
- the choreography of self-dialogue
- what weight is
- spending time on worksites and farms as a child
- applying understanding of mechanical structural integrity to dancing
- everyday use of our bodies
- fast pace
- warm up vs training vs focus vs centering
- “realising that you are so small” SS
- no one in new york is from new york… because of that, building communities here seems to happen easily
- leading the “just dance” revolution
places:
- the hungry ghost in Fort Green
- the east village
- gibney dance centre
- brooklyn studio for dance
- movement research
- VCA
- new york
- broome
- darwin
- port hedland
- sydney
works:
people:
- robert rauschenberg
- hadar
- TJ
movies:
- Matilda
more info:
- New York Times article
