Wombat Radio Podcast with choreographers interrogating artistic process. @TheMattmosphere

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"we follow our instincts and continue to communicate with one another"Cass Mortimer Eipper







Charmene Yap is a multi-award winning dancer, rehearsal director and choreographer. Cass Mortimer Eipper is an award winning director/choreographer/dancer. Together they are creating a work called "Grey Rhino".







* Grey Rhino - obvious dangers that are often ignored anyway.* process* self funding seed developments* instinct* collaboration* intuition and critique* abstraction, metaphor, hyper-objects







links:







* https://www.thegrayrhino.com/* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Wucker* https://money.cnn.com/2017/07/17/investing/china-stocks-gray-rhino-crackdown/index.html* https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-is-a-gray-rhino-and-why-are-they-so-dangerous-to-investors-5-questions-for-michele-wucker-2019-01-23* Sydney Morning Herald interview - https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/dance/dancers-devise-new-works-20141028-11azq2.html* Charmene Yap - Sydney Dance Company bio - https://www.sydneydancecompany.com/people/charmene-yap/* Cass Mortimer Eipper website- https://www.cmeipper.com/a-b-o-u-t







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https://vimeo.com/401842189









"To be bound by discipline and tradition, personally I feel like, is to be complicit critically."Nithya Nagarajan







Nithya Nagarajan is an interdisciplinary performance maker, creative producer and cultural researcher. Having a background in Indian neo-classical dance and allied movement traditions, her live art works embody a decolonised feminism and are characterised by a strong physical vocabulary, we cover;







* Sacred Grooves for Secular Spaces - https://vimeo.com/401842189* Movement as a system of enquiry * Collaborators* Subcontinent / South Asia/ns* Religion* Hindu and Sufi practises* Representation* Patriarchy* Australian Islamic centre - Newport







links:







* NIDA bio - https://www.corporate.nida.edu.au/Nithya-Nagarajan* LinkedIN - https://au.linkedin.com/in/nithyanagarajan89* Footscray Community Arts - https://footscrayarts.com/profile/nithya-nagarajan/* Peril - https://peril.com.au/author/nithya-nagarajan/* Wheeler Centre - https://www.wheelercentre.com/people/nithya-nagarajan* Panel discussion - https://www.wheelercentre.com/events/one-infinity* Being a Curator of Colour - https://performing.artshub.com.au/news-article/opinions-and-analysis/performing-arts/nithya-nagarajan/being-a-curator-of-colour-257730* Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/user111123069

"the physical, the somatic, the perceptual practise of moving switches something else on in the imagination."Nikki Heywood







Nikki Heywood is a Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist working across dance, performance, writing and live art.  Nikki’s practice includes devising, direction and choreography as a solo performer, in collective creation and collaboratively generated projects, running skills based workshops for students and emerging practitioners, assisting the creative process of others as a mentor and dramaturg. Co-curator of regular platforms for improvised performance Rushing for the Sloth and Whip It in Sydney for over a decade. As 2005 Recipient of Rex Cramphorn Scholarship (NSW Ministry of the Arts) Nikki undertook research of collaborative performance practice in Europe and Australia and intensive workshop with Goat Island Company of Chicago in Cork, Ireland.







* Broadcasting into the oblivion* extended choreography* translating a score onto paper* voice* writing* photography* creating the big bang* intimate performed experience







links:







* critical path - https://criticalpath.org.au/program/responsive-research-residency/* bundanon - https://www.bundanon.com.au/artworks-2017/f-fflying-_-low-w-nikki-heywood-and-mark-cauvin/* readymade - https://www.readymadeworks.com.au/writing-nikki

"I have so many ideas that I know I can kill a lot of darlings because there will be so many others."Mercedes Dassy







Mercedes Dassy (*1990, Bruxelles) est danseuse et chorégraphe, active dans les domaines de la danse, du théâtre, de la performance et de la vidéo. 







Mercedes Dassy is a dancer and choreographer, active in the fields of dance, theater, performance and video.







* iclit - https://cargocollective.com/mercedesdassy/i-c-l-i-t* beyond feminist aesthetic* female body and sexuality and pop culture* globalism* instinct* rupture* mass culture and mass that we carry* drawing







links:







* https://cargocollective.com/mercedesdassy* instagram - https://www.instagram.com/merced.assyd

https://player.vimeo.com/video/401348822









"I've made this decision, whether it's wrong or right, I'm just gonna back it."Romain Hassanin







Romain Hassanin is a generalist at heart, his training and practice combines different disciplines: breaking, acrobatics, tricking, parkour and contemporary dance. He is interested in developing and finding new ways in which these can work together through contemporary dance and performance. we cover:







* clowning* performing ones shadow self* nihilism and the solace it offers* being self obsessed* decision making during improvisation* training instinct







links:







* Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/373845963









"the amount of time it (the work) sits in activated states in front of other humans"Holly Durant







Holly Durant is an artist who crafts sites for performance with choreography to evoke senses of pleasure and empowerment. Her works consistently gather communities and provide platforms for interrogating how bodies occupy and negotiate space. 







By exploring ideas of embodiment, co-presence and ‘worlding,’ her inhabited installations blur the boundaries between subject and environment, between private and public experience. Layered sensorial environments and disobedient gestures transform the body, questioning the concept of the ‘blank’ body onto which narratives and meaning are projected.







These constructed worlds centre fluid arrangements and encounters, rather than self-contained or fixed symbols and scenarios, Durant confronts and negotiates structural obstacles with the power of the body.







* shows* sharing space* where one's body might "fit"* experimental queer venues and events* talking and thinking and process and academia* the job of the artist* fem construct







links:







* https://vimeo.com/hollydurant* https://rmitart.com/projects/holly-durant* https://new-adventures.net/profile/holly-durant#overview* https://www.instagram.com/hollydurant* http://tanzabend.com.au* https://www.beat.com.au/holly-durant-announces-dance-death-at-grant-street/* https://www.facebook.com/hollytegandurant* https://vimeo.com/374034693