The PAUSE with Ari Clibe

Ari Clibe
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Ari Clibe hosts conversations for a more human world. As always, in the sanctuary for the wild ones.

  1. Episode 1

    Listening for Footsteps: A Ten-Year Old Singer on Attention and Play, with Virginia Sexton (S4E1)

    The premiere episode of Season Four begins in Denver with ten-year-old returning guest Virginia “Ginny” Sexton. Before heading to Red Rocks, Ginny sings, talks about growing up, and pulls Ari into a series of unexpected listening and acting experiments. What begins as a conversation about music gradually becomes something less controlled: an inquiry into attention, play, change, and what happens when a host stops steering long enough to follow where a guest is actually going.

    Listening for Footsteps: A Ten-Year Old Singer on Attention and Play, with Virginia Sexton (S4E1)

  2. Episode 2

    Wild Intelligence: What Humans Do Better as AI Gets Faster, with Asher Crispe (S4E2)

    What kinds of intelligence become more valuable as artificial intelligence gets faster? Technology futurist and self-described “free-range chicken” Asher Crispe joins Ari from Vermont for a conversation about AI, education, failure, embodiment, curiosity and the limits of efficiency. Asher works near the accelerating edge of artificial intelligence, but the conversation keeps returning to what cannot be reduced to speed or computation: deep listening, signaling intent, getting lost, nonlinear thought, the body, the forest, and the difference between the map and the territory. Along the way: teenage zombies, a year of work compressed into a week, brakes for AI, becoming rejection-proof, “world-poor” digital life, and why walking in the woods may be a necessary counterweight to technological acceleration. An episode about preserving something unruly in the way we think.

  3. Episode 3

    What the Baby Body Remembers: Choreographer Alexandra Beller on Intuition, Movement, and Memory (S4E3)

    Choreographer, author, and movement analyst Alexandra Beller joins The PAUSE for a conversation about intuition, surrender, and the body’s memory. She recounts learning the dances of her young children, and how that process opened a path to younger parts of herself. Together, we explore the meaning we make from uncertainty, the grief of losing faith in humanity, and the hope that keeps us creating. At the heart of it is a question of belonging: what might become possible when we let ourselves be fully seen?

    What the Baby Body Remembers: Choreographer Alexandra Beller on Intuition, Movement, and Memory (S4E3)

  4. Episode 4

    Fried Grief: Performance in Two Voices on Work, Worth, and Belonging (S4E4)

    What happens when being useful becomes the price of belonging? In Fried Grief, Ari performs a two-voice dialogue between his former identity Andy and current identity Ari—two sides of a conversation about work, worth, childhood wounds, friendship, and the longing to be loved without having to prove anything. A memory of a work ticket dropped onto a desk becomes an unexpected exploration of power, vulnerability, and trust. Through anger, silence, play, and the simple act of holding a folded piece of paper, the conversation asks what it means to stay with another person without needing to fix them—or open them up. An intimate experiment in grief, listening, and the possibility of belonging. The PAUSE: A sanctuary for the wild ones.

    Fried Grief: Performance in Two Voices on Work, Worth, and Belonging (S4E4)

  5. Episode 5

    The Unspoken Sounds of Somatic Silence: Composer David Shea on Listening, Failure, and Compassion, Part One (S4E5)

    What if listening isn't something we do with our ears, but something we experience with our entire bodies? Composer, improviser, and educator David Shea joins Ari again this season for the first of two conversations exploring the relationships between sound, chaos, creativity, and human connection. Drawing on more than forty years of friendship, they consider what it means to pursue artistic excellence without demanding perfection. David challenges familiar ideas about mastery, failure, and authorship, suggesting that composition itself is an act of listening — and listening an act of co-creation. From Buddhist practice and experimental music to cultural appropriation and the vulnerability of performance, their conversation opens into a larger inquiry: Can we make room for one another without needing to control what happens between us?

    The Unspoken Sounds of Somatic Silence: Composer David Shea on Listening, Failure, and Compassion, Part One (S4E5)
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