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Unscripted and Unchoreographed is a podcast that delves into the creative process and the stories behind the art. Hosted by Sarah Deane and Niamh McPhilips, the show features candid conversations with talented artists, exploring their journeys, inspirations, and the impact of their work. Whether you're an artist or an art enthusiast, this podcast offers a unique glimpse into the minds of creatives and their projects, both current and future. Join us for inspiring, unscripted discussions that celebrate creativity in all its forms.

  1. 19 HR AGO

    Episode 36: Inma Pavon

    On this week’s episode, we chat with Inma Pavon, a Spanish multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, and teacher based in Cork. We talk about her journey to Ireland—arriving first as an au pair before studying dance—and how her experiences shaped her creative path. Inma shares how practices like breath work inspire her classes, and why she prioritizes letting each participant move at their own pace. Her impressive background includes a BA in Physical Education (Granada), an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance (University of Limerick), and an MPhil in Creative Dance/Art Practice (UCC). She is a dance member of the International Dance Council UNESCO, an affiliate member of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance (UK), and the director of InmaPavonDanceCo, where she teaches contemporary dance to adults. Inma has been widely recognized for her work: Creative Dance Artist in Residence at the Rory Gallagher Music Library Cork (2023). Commissioned by the Glucksman Gallery UCC to create Art Movements, now part of the UCC Arts Collection. Selected for the Irish Choreographers New Work Platform (2007), mentored by Wendy Houstoun. Participant in Daghdha Dance Company’s Year-long Mentoring Programme, directed by Michael Kliën. Recipient of a Dance Ireland/Arts Council Bursary Award to develop new work with Amanda Coogan. She has performed in major projects, including The Passing with Amanda Coogan at the RHA Dublin and Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, and continues her collaboration with Robert Monaghan on Isolation, presented at LOOP Barcelona and CIACLA Los Angeles. Beyond her solo practice, Inma has collaborated with a wide range of artists across disciplines, including Helle Helsner, Carolyn Collier, Mary Nunan, Brian Lane, Mick O’Shea, Danny McCarthy, and many more. Most recently, she created 24 Houses with the Quiet Music Ensemble, combining 24 A3 mixed-media artworks with a solo improvisation dance. This episode is an inspiring look at how Inma blends performance, choreography, collaboration, and teaching into a deeply personal and community-rooted practice. Connect with us:⁠Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/confession_boxcollective/⁠Website⁠⁠: https://confessionboxcollective.com/⁠Facebook⁠: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562754885256⁠LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/confession-box-collective/Book a podcast recording with us: https://calendly.com/confessionboxcollective/pod-recording

    42 min

  2. 28 AUG

    Episode 35: Patrice Bowler

    On today’s episode, we chat to Patrice Bowler, a Canadian multi-disciplinary theatre artist from Salt Spring Island, located off the West Coast of British Columbia. Patrice brings a dynamic range of professional experience across numerous facets of performance and creation, including movement direction, puppetry, intimacy direction, choreography, performing, production management, and teaching. They are particularly passionate about consent-based practices in devising and collaborative creation, with a strong focus on ensemble building and empowering others through physical storytelling. Whether working on new works or supporting the development of others’ visions, Patrice is committed to fostering creative environments grounded in trust, agency, and embodied expression.

    1h 7m

  3. 21 AUG

    Episode 34: Macha Shewolf

    In today’s episode, we sit down with Macha Shewolf – a neurodivergent, queer, multi-disciplinary ritual artist from Cork – to talk about her journey through creativity, challenge, and resilience. Macha opens up about navigating the difficulties of studying in college while living with ADHD and dyslexia, and how these experiences have shaped both her perspective and her art practice. She also shares how motherhood has become a powerful source of inspiration in her work, and what she believes the government could be doing better to support single parents. Her practice spans performance, sound, and film, rooted in radical and eco-feminism, indigeneity, ecology, and the persistent structures of capitalism and colonialism. Guided by intuition and lived experience, Macha’s work is embodied – delivered through movement, voice, sound, words, and the environments they inhabit. Drawing on a background in folk and contemporary dance, circus, and music medicine, she continues to create work that challenges perspectives and invites us to reimagine presence. ✨ One of Macha’s guiding philosophies: “Conception to Death, the in-between is for Living.” Topics we cover in this episode: Growing up and studying with ADHD and dyslexia The role of motherhood in shaping creativity The intersections of art, ecology, feminism, and ritual What single parents need from government support The challenges and resilience of being a neurodivergent artist Why presence is at the heart of her practice About Macha Shewolf:Macha completed her Honours BA in Visual Art in 2024. Her multi-disciplinary practice bridges film, performance, and sound, exploring new ways of being and creating in resistance to colonial and capitalist frameworks.Connect with us:⁠Instagram:⁠   / confession_boxcollective  ⁠Website⁠⁠: https://confessionboxcollective.com/⁠Facebook⁠: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...⁠LinkedIn:   / confession-box-collective  Book a podcast recording with us: https://calendly.com/confessionboxcol...

    31 min

  4. 14 AUG

    Episode 33: Susie Lamb

    On this week's episode we chat to Susie Lamb. Susie is an actor, writer, singer and performance working from Kilkenny and Dublin. She has acted in Theatres all over Ireland in conventional and unconventional spaces in both English and Irish. Recent acting credits include Sanctuary, A Witches Tale from AMC TV (2024); The Local, The Big Chapel (Asylum); The M House, National Tour and Dublin Theatre Festival (Equinox); Holy Father Little Ghost, BAI/KCLR and playWildParty (Watergate Theatre/Asylum Productions), both by Jeffrey Gormly. She has acted in Gillian Grattan's Decade of Centenary Radio Dramas as well as Hooked, Gúna and many others of Gillian's plays. She is an experienced bi-lingual Voiceover artist: Daphne, Scooby Doo (Warner Brothers); multiple shows on TG4; Cartoon Saloon's recently released Eriú. Susie’s one woman performances, which she writes and produces, include The Waiting, scheduled to be performed in The Project Cube in 2026, and Horae performed in Complex Theatre, Carlow Visual and Nest Festival, Kilkenny. Songlines, written with longterm collaborator Jeffrey Gormly and performed with Kate Powell was presented in a work-in-progress stage for culture Night 2024. Susie tailors her creative response to the needs of each performance context working with a diverse range of people, timelines, organisations and funding structures, to support both her own work and the development of the theatre eco-system in the SouthEast. In 2014 she co-created and co-produced NEST festival with Niamh Moroney to create space and dialogue for female-led work. In 2016 she co-created and produced HATCH in Visual Carlow which was a networking and performance platform for South East Based Artists.

    27 min

  5. 7 AUG

    Episode 32: Martha Tribe

    This week, we’re joined by Martha Tribe, a contemporary dance artist whose work explores the intersection of movement, environment, and geography. Originally from South East England and now based in Dublin, Martha shares how their background in folk dance, classical ballet, and somatic practices has shaped their choreographic voice.We talk about:How Martha’s love for the environment influences their choreographyThe role of geography and philosophy in danceNavigating life as a freelance performance artist across the UK and IrelandThe importance of fair treatment and research in the dance industryHighlights from performing at venues like The Royal Opera House and The Linbury TheatreTheir upcoming 2025 return to Oxford University for a lecture-demonstration🎓 Martha graduated with First-Class Honours from the Rambert School and has performed in works by Adrian Look, Faye Tan, Jason Mabana, and Darren Ellis. They were part of the 2023 restagings of Class by Sir Robert Cohan and Entity by Sir Wayne McGregor.💬 Whether you're a dancer, choreographer, or simply curious about the creative process behind movement, this episode offers rich insights into how space, place, and practice come together in contemporary dance. Connect with us:⁠Instagram:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/confession_boxcollective/⁠Website⁠⁠: https://confessionboxcollective.com/⁠Facebook⁠: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562754885256⁠LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/confession-box-collective/Book a podcast recording with us: https://calendly.com/confessionboxcollective/pod-recording

    42 min

  6. 31 JUL

    Episode 31: Tanya Dean

    On this week's episode we chat to Dr Tanya Dean, who is a Lecturer and Programme Coordinator for the B.A. (Hons) in Drama (Performance) in the Technological University Dublin Conservatoire. She completed her Doctor of Fine Arts with Yale School of Drama in 2016, where she also received her Master of Fine Arts in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism in 2011. Tanya has worked extensively as a freelance dramaturg on numerous scripts, workshops and productions in Ireland, the UK, the USA, and Iceland. Tanya is a board member for Rough Magic Theatre Company, and from 2015-2017, Tanya served as a committee member for #WakingTheFeminists, and was a Research Associate on the report, Gender Counts: An Analysis Of Gender In Irish Theatre 2006-15. From 2020 to 2021, Tanya served as one of the judges for the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards. She is currently the Script Associate for the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre.

    1h 2m

  7. 24 JUL

    Episode 30: Holly Huges

    This week, we’re joined by Holly Hughes — a writer, poet, actor, and multidisciplinary artist — to talk about her sharp, hilarious, and thought-provoking debut show: I Want To Speak To Your Manager (How I Was Radicalised And Became...Karen). Originally from West Cork and now based in Limerick, Holly’s work spans poetry, spoken word, creative nonfiction, and performance. She’s been published widely in Irish magazines and newspapers since 2019, and served as The Gloss Magazine’s eco-columnist from 2020 to 2025. Her one-woman show premiered to a sold-out crowd at Scene + Heard 2025, and now she’s bringing it to the Dublin Fringe Festival. This year, she’ll also represent Ireland at the International Slam Poetry World Cup in Paris. A 2024 All-Ireland Poetry Slam runner-up and 2023 Australian Poetry Slam state finalist, Holly’s work walks the tightrope between outrage and absurdity — taking on patriarchy, ecocide, inequality, and dating culture with razor-sharp wit and compassion. In this episode, Holly shares how she — once mild-mannered and people-pleasing — slowly transformed into someone who demands to speak to the manager. But as she asks: with billionaires wrecking the planet and systems failing us, is being a Karen really the worst thing you can be? We chat about female rage, complaint emails as performance art, the politics of accountability, and how sometimes, being difficult is just standing your ground. 🎭 Catch Holly’s Show at the Dublin Fringe Festival Venue: The Pearse Centre Dates & Times: 📅 5 Sept – 18:30 (Preview) 📅 6–8 Sept – 20:30 📅 13 Sept – 13:30 📅 13–14 Sept – 20:30 🎟 €16 (Full) | €14 (Concession) | €12 (Preview) ⏱ Duration: 45 mins Connect with us:⁠Instagram:⁠   / confession_boxcollective  ⁠Website⁠⁠: https://confessionboxcollective.com/⁠Facebook⁠: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...⁠LinkedIn:   / confession-box-collective  Book a podcast recording with us: https://calendly.com/confessionboxcol...

    51 min

  8. 17 JUL

    Episode 29: Vithoria Escobar

    On this week's episode we chat to Vithoria Escobar. Vithoria is a Brazilian multidisciplinary dance artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Deeply rooted in community and collaboration, she actively contributes to the growth and diversification of the Irish dance scene. Her movement vocabulary is a fusion of diasporic street dance styles, including Dancehall, Afrodance, and Brazilian Funk. Vithoria's versatility has allowed her to gain experience as a researcher, artistic director, choreographer, performer, teacher, and battle dancer on both national and international stages.

    32 min
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Unscripted and Unchoreographed is a podcast that delves into the creative process and the stories behind the art. Hosted by Sarah Deane and Niamh McPhilips, the show features candid conversations with talented artists, exploring their journeys, inspirations, and the impact of their work. Whether you're an artist or an art enthusiast, this podcast offers a unique glimpse into the minds of creatives and their projects, both current and future. Join us for inspiring, unscripted discussions that celebrate creativity in all its forms.

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