DOWNTIME - interviews with dance artists & arts leaders, talking about dance & the arts Podcast
1) Lloyd Newson
Lloyd Newson OBE is a director, dancer and choreographer. He formed DV8 Physical Theatre in 1986, and the company went on to tour across the world for decades, winning 55 national and international aw...Show More
2) Silvia Gribaudi
Lou talked with Italian choreographer and performer Silvia Gibraudi, sometimes referred to as ‘the prophet of the free body’, in December 2022.Silvia talked about her journey of trying to find joy and...Show More
3) Movement Direction with Ayse Tashkiran and Ingrid Mackinnon
Lou talked with Movement Directors Ayse Tashkiran and Ingrid Mackinnon about how they approach the key relationships at the heart of their work - namely directors, individual and groups of actors and ...Show More
4) Julia Cheng
Lou spoke to Julia in November 2022. They talked about how her journey and values underpin everything she does; how important it is for her to be part of a movement that advocates for the representati...Show More
5) Lou Cope and Sanjoy Roy
Hello and welcome to a rather unusual one-off episode of Downtime.Lou has absolutely loved talking to all her brilliant guests about how they approach their work. But a while ago it was suggested that...Show More
6) Damien Jalet
Damien and Lou spoke in mid October 2022. They talked about the interest in ritual that has informed all of his work; his collaborations with visual artists to make the pieces Thr(o)ugh, Vessel and Sk...Show More
7) Caroline Bowditch
Caroline spoke with Lou about the work she has done, as a ‘mosquito buzzing in the ears of the arts industry’, striving for cultural equity both in the UK and Australia, and how far there is yet to go...Show More
8) Tarek Iskander
Tarek Iskander is the Artistic Director of Battersea Arts Centre, in London. Born in Sunderland to parents born in Egypt, Tarek moved to the Middle East when he was five, and returned to the UK at 17...Show More
9) Participatory Practice
Lou talked with Ned, Alan and Naomi about what motivates them, what models they use, their different approaches and what’s difficult about the work they do. They talked about how trust and time are ke...Show More
10) Sasha Waltz
Multi- award winning Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. In 1993 she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests, together with Jochen...Show More