“But there was a life that's probably more the stronger point; there was a lifestyle thing in there that I totally fell in love with this strong sense of community and support.”
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Lauren Langlois- Transcript
“I have all this information in my body, through working with many different choreographers, and having some incredible experiences on stage as a performer. “
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Bridget Fiske- Transcript
“For me, dance is about what it's doing with people, for people and what it's expressing.”
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photo Pia Johnson
Joel Bray- Transcript
“I've been incredibly blessed to be working for the last four or five years at Chucky Move because the little tribe that we've got here including Anouk but the other dances are seriously bunch of the most talented rigorous thinkers and movers around. It's like been an absolute joy and that's totally influenced what I do and how I do it”.
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Harper Watters- Transcript
“ I like to shake things up, I like to go against the grain. And I think I more people need to show who they are as people so that your work on stage becomes more authentic.”
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Daniel Jaber- Transcript
“Complacency will kill the opportunity to make it in this industry.”
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Rafael Bonachela- Transcript
“I think dance, movement, is something so, so primal, you know, and it's something that so many people could get so much out of it. So, for me, I guess it's about this whole thing…we're creating great work, we will keep raising that bar at Sydney Dance Company”
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photo by Danny Willems
Mette Ingvartsen- Transcript
“like the fact that the sexual undertone or the desiring undertone that a lot of dancers operating through - and for me, it was very important to make it explicit to actually say, okay, part of what is happening here is actually a question of desire, it is a question of being stimulated physically.”
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Luke George- Transcript
“I'm trying to understand is how do we be together and how do we share space?”
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Melanie Lane- Transcript
Read More“Dance has that very exclusive possibility to express something physically, something that other forms aren’t able to express…watching a body go through some kind of negotiation, experience or sensation, which as an audience you can share”
Noel Tovey- Transcript
“…when I danced in my world there was no racism, no one screaming abuse at me, no one bullying me, no one making me have sex with them, it was just me.”
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Jane Desmond- Transcript
“I think as dancers, we develop the capacity to see in great detail.”
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San Francisco Ballet in Marston's Snowblind. (© Erik Tomasson)
Cathy Marston- Transcript
“I do think we need to work harder to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to make that work. And for some reason, even though we might not be deliberately favouring men and giving them more opportunities. I think that’s what has been the case in the past, but it is changing and that the conversation is being had is really, really important.”
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Justin Shoulder- Transcript
“In many ways I started doing performance as a kind of reaction to having a very digital based practice working with images. And I wanted to physically feel more alive in this reality as opposed to a simulation.”
Read MoreBruno Isaković- Transcript
“I explore the subject of body as a reflection of society.”
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Hillel Kogan- Transcript
“So it's - I don't like this comparison, but it is in a way, like psychological treatment for me, you know, to bring out things that I'm dealing with the form of sublimation, I guess, and transcending things that are complex and things that are inhibiting me or issues that I feel bad with myself. They stimulate me artistically; I tried to find a form to transcend them.”
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Chase Johnsey- Transcript
“So there was something about the strength of the females going on point that really interested me, I liked that, that there was strength behind that beauty.”
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David McAllister- Transcript
“With dance it sort of felt right, I felt I could be myself and express myself, when I was dancing.”
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'Brasilia' collaboration with Matthew Bird (2015) Photo credit Vitor Schietti
Phillip Adams- Transcript
“I'm an artist that chooses conversations with my body and with other bodies that provoke something in me that I don't know about myself.”
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Mirjam Sögner and Renae Shadler- Transcript
“From the very beginning there was an interest in each other's work, but we just let it evolve slowly.”
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