Ep: 26 a conversation with Mina Estrada Benevolent Instruction

Welcome to another episode of Benevolent Instruction.

Season 2 Episode 26 to be exact!

I'm CoCo Loupe, co-creator and facilitator along with Mina Estrada, Nicole Garlando and Noelle Chun.

For today's journey through the Benevolent Instruction world, we offer another interview slash conversation. This time i sat down with Mina Estrada. the person who without her playful presence and rigorous commitment to being my friend and fellow movement interrogator, this practice would have never really existed.

This is the second episode of this particular kind...the first conversation episode was #24 with Noelle Chun and because that one was so much fun and so fruitful, we decided to keep going with this format and offer them every once in a while as we continue to publish our regularly scheduled instruction recordings.

anyway! we have these conversations all of the time as collaborators and creators but wanted to start offering them to our listeners and fellow practitioners so we could all delight in these musings on dancing, making dances, creative processes, writing, living and any other subject that feels relevant and related to this practice.

now Much like Noelle and I, Mina and I have known each other for years and also co-produced dance works, concerts and community projects together. and in fact, Benevolent Instruction, originally referred to as Voice Recognition, actually started as a text-based pen-pal dance game between the two of us. as soon as we met back in 2014 we formed a close bond of friendship and almost immediately started to produce dreamy, playful and mysterious (to us at least) dance experiences for ourselves and our communities. benevolent instruction happens to be the longest running of these many projects (going on a full 4 years now) and we're still delighting in its rigorously complex yet comforting and easeful qualities.

If you'd like to know more about Mina, you can check out her bio on our website at benevolentinstruction.com but for now we'll jump right into our conversation.

I hope you enjoy the topics we cover and that through conversations like this one, we can all continue to get what we more of what we need out of the Benevolent Instruction process and practice.

As always, you can follow us on Instagram @benevolent_instruction where we post information about new podcast episodes and upcoming community events.

Speaking of which, our next community zoom session is at 12pm EST on August 20th.

You can register to join by heading over benevolentinstruction.com.

I hope you're having a beautiful day and now, my conversation with Mina Estrada!