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PETER

Listen, dance, reflect. In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to practice one or a part of their practices, then they relfect on it together. For creativity with our experiences in the world. For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com

  1. S1 Ep9 Dance workshop (Effort and Ease)

    −3 D · BONUSINNEHÅLL

    S1 Ep9 Dance workshop (Effort and Ease)

    S1 Ep9 Dance workshop (Effort and Ease) This episode focuses on the tone and energy of movement, exploring the dynamic spectrum between effort and ease. You’ll start by sensing where tension, holding, or gripping exists in your body, gradually exaggerating and then releasing it, noticing how attention itself carries effort. Through free movement, you’ll explore high-effort gestures—pushing, resisting, reaching—contrasted with low-effort, yielding, and softening actions. Imaginative prompts, such as moving through air, water, syrup, or stone, help you feel how effort adapts to different qualities of resistance. Next, you’ll engage in “repetitive waves”: small repetitive movements that swell to intensity and fade to near nothing, discovering how to sustain, release, and let ease lead. The session culminates in whole-body movement in ease, inviting flow, suspension, and softness with and without music. Finally, reflection exercises encourage you to map where effort and ease live in your body, sketch or write about your sensations, and consider how this awareness can inform your next movements, daily activities, and ongoing practice. By the end, you’ll have a deeper sensitivity to the tonal qualities of your dancing and a richer sense of how effort and ease interact in motion. Dance workshop Explore, imagine, move. A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone. To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/ Music leaning by mobygratis Support the show For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com PETER would love to hear from you. Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter

    12 min
  2. S1 Ep8 Dance workshop (Size and Scale)

    8 DEC. · BONUSINNEHÅLL

    S1 Ep8 Dance workshop (Size and Scale)

    S1 Ep8 Dance workshop (Size and Scale) In this session, we explore the scale of movement, from the tiniest gestures inside the body to the expansive reach of the whole universe. Starting with the human body as a reference point, you’ll notice the range and limits of your gestures, the arcs and sweeps you naturally make, and the spaces you inhabit as a mover. You’ll then be guided through exercises inspired by Glenda Batson and Susan Sentler, exploring the concept of the fold. First, you’ll investigate folds in your environment—fabric, paper, furniture—then shift your attention inward to the folds and creases within your own body. Finally, you’ll play with folding and unfolding yourself, imagining how your movements can expand into the surrounding world or contract into the universe. The session concludes by inviting you to map your dance across multiple scales: from the particle level to planetary phenomena, from micro-movements to cosmic gestures. By the end, you’ll have developed a heightened awareness of scale, attention, and imagination in your dancing, and new ways to perceive and shape movement in relation to space, self, and the wider world. Dance workshop Explore, imagine, move. A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone. To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/ Music leaning by mobygratis Support the show For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com PETER would love to hear from you. Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter

    13 min
  3. S1 Ep7 Dance workshop (Direction and Pathways)

    1 DEC.

    S1 Ep7 Dance workshop (Direction and Pathways)

    S1 Ep7 Dance workshop (Direction and Pathways) In this session, we turn our attention to where movement goes, to direction, pathway, and the lines our bodies trace through space. What determines where we move? Is it choice, curiosity, gravity, emotion, or something else entirely? We begin by drawing invisible lines through the air, straight, curved, spiralled, zigzagged, inspired by William Forsythe’s improvisation technologies, where the dancer becomes a kind of draftsman, sketching motion in space. From there, the session shifts toward losing and finding orientation: following impulses, sounds, or sensations that redirect us. We wander and deviate, noticing what happens when direction dissolves into discovery. The episode then explores the body as compass, guided not by left and right but by north, south, east, and west, a way to reimagine orientation as planetary rather than anatomical. This expands into experiments with momentum and redirection, asking: how can we keep moving without simply continuing? What does it mean to be redirected, by a wall, the floor, another person, without stopping? Finally, we play with forgetting direction: moving toward something, then letting go of the intention and finding a new path in the same motion. This practice of continuous reorientation invites a softer sense of purpose, where each line and curve becomes an open question. By the end, the focus widens back to daily life, noticing how direction and pathway shape not only our dancing, but the way we inhabit the world: every trace, curve, and hesitation a kind of personal choreography. Dance workshop Explore, imagine, move. A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone. To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/ Music leaning by mobygratis Support the show For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com PETER would love to hear from you. Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter

    20 min
  4. S1 Ep6 Dance workshop (Tempo and Rhythm)

    17 NOV.

    S1 Ep6 Dance workshop (Tempo and Rhythm)

    S1 Ep6 Dance workshop (Tempo and Rhythm) In this session we turn to time: the internal clocks that live in your breath and pulse, and the external cues that shape how we move. You’ll be invited to listen first, to your heartbeat, your breathing, the quiet rhythms already present in your body, then to use that inner tempo as a guide for movement. We move through simple experiments: syncing movement to breath, exploring snail-slow and lightning-fast tempi, and noticing what kinds of movement each speed invites. Then you’ll make rhythm with your body, claps, stomps, vocal sounds, and feel the difference between sounding a beat and marking it with gesture. After that we bring in outside rhythms: dancing with, against, or ignoring a chosen piece of music, and watching how it changes your choices. The episode also opens up the idea of polyrythm, multiple rhythms layered through the body, and offers a practical challenge: try moving one body part slow while another moves fast. Finally, there’s a long, free exploration without music, so you can discover how many rhythms may already be living in you and how they shape what you want to make. By the end you’ll have a clearer sense of whether rhythm is central to your dance, how external structure helps or limits you, and what tempos light up your curiosity. Bring patience, a willingness to sound silly, and a notebook if you like, this one rewards listening and reflection. Dance workshop Explore, imagine, move. A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone. To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/ Music leaning by mobygratis Support the show For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com PETER would love to hear from you. Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter

    20 min
  5. S1 Ep5 Dance workshop (Balance and Imbalance)

    10 NOV. · BONUSINNEHÅLL

    S1 Ep5 Dance workshop (Balance and Imbalance)

    S1 Ep5 Dance workshop (Balance & Imbalance) In this session we explore balance as both a physical and conceptual experience, how we find stability and how we lose it. Building from last week’s work on Weight & Gravity, this episode looks at balance as an ever-changing negotiation rather than a fixed position. You’ll be guided through a series of experiments: finding your own centre of balance, tipping, twisting, and reaching beyond your base of support. We’ll play with different dynamics, stillness and suspension, speed and softness, to notice how balance shifts with every choice we make. Rather than drawing from established dance techniques, this session invites you to explore your own ways of balancing and destabilising, to ask how risk and control shape your dancing. Is balance a point of safety, or a moment of daring? How do you balance your references, your emotions, your sense of self within dance? Through this, we continue developing a personal and felt understanding of dance, one that’s grounded, unstable, and alive. Dance workshop Explore, imagine, move. A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone. To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/ Music leaning by mobygratis Support the show For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com PETER would love to hear from you. Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter

    14 min
  6. PETER, dance with Hanna Gillgren

    3 NOV.

    PETER, dance with Hanna Gillgren

    S3 Ep3  PETER dance with Hanna Gillgren Today we dance with Hanna Gillgren. You can get in contact with Hanna Gillgren here https://h2dance.com/hanna-gillgren-biography-and-cv/ and follow Hanna on instagram @h2hanna. At the Rose Choreographic School https://rosechoreographicschool.com/ , Roehampton (University of Roehampton, London) https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/hanna-gillgren and at Fest en Fest (festival founded by H2 Dance) https://festenfest.info/fest-en-fest/ . Dates for festenfest 2026: 24th to the 29th March: APT gallery Deptford London 21st /22nd March : southeast dance Brighton 25th March: Colchester arts centre. References: Choreographic Devices 4 https://www.ica.art/live/choreographic-devices-4ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) https://www.ica.art/Rose Choreographic School https://rosechoreographicschool.com/Roehampton (University of Roehampton, London) https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/hanna-gillgrenSKH fka DOCH (Stockholm university of the arts) https://www.uniarts.se/english/H2 Dance (co-founded by Hanna Gillgren and Heidi Rustgaard) https://h2dance.com/25-2/Heidi Rustgaard (co-founder of H2 Dance) https://h2dance.com/heidi-rustgaard-biography-and-cv/Martin Hargreaves (Head of the Rose Choreographic School) https://rosechoreographicschool.com/peopleGuy Dartnell https://www.choreographiclab.co.uk/guy-dartnell/Jonathan Burrows and Jan Ritsema (Weak Dance Strong Questions) https://vimeo.com/383037271 (https://burrowsfargion.com/)Fest en Fest (festival founded by H2 Dance) https://festenfest.info/fest-en-fest/Sadler’s Wells East (London, overlooking the Olympic Park) https://www.sadlerswells.com/your-visit/sadlers-wells-east/welcome-to-sadlers-wells-east/Support the show For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. And contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com PETER would love to hear from you. Support the podcast paypal.me/dancepeter

    53 min

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Listen, dance, reflect. In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to practice one or a part of their practices, then they relfect on it together. For creativity with our experiences in the world. For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com