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PETER, dance with...
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Listen, dance, reflect.
In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together.
For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.
For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com#
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 022 with Peter and Yari
1w ago00:47:16Tap to summarizeDance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratis
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S1 Ep26 Dance Workshop (The One-Minute Dance)
2w ago00:08:26Tap to summarizeThis episode focuses on time as one of the largest compositional structures in improvisation. Until now, much of the responsibility for timing has been left open, but here timing becomes the frame itself. The session asks a simple but demanding question: when does an improvisation begin, and when does it end?The core task is to create a dance that lasts exactly one minute. You are invited to begin immediately when the timer starts and to end without preparing an ending. By working within an extremely short temporal frame, the episode explores how duration shapes decision-making, attention, and narrative. A one-minute dance refuses the long arc of endurance and instead sharpens urgency, clarity, and choice.The task is then repeated multiple times. You are asked to perform the one-minute improvisation at least three times, noticing what remains consistent and what changes from iteration to iteration. Through repetition, patterns begin to appear and questions of composition start to surface, even within improvisation.The episode reflects on temporal framing more broadly, including counting, pauses, and measured durations as tools for structuring movement. Time is treated as an active material rather than a neutral container.A reference is made to Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures, where participants hold simple actions for exactly one minute, temporarily becoming a sculpture before it disappears. This connection situates the exercise within a wider artistic context.The episode closes with three reflective questions:How does time change your decisions?What gets prioritised when time is scarce?When does improvisation start to feel composed?Dance workshopExplore, 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
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 021 with Peter and Yari
2w ago00:51:53Tap to summarizeDance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratis
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Dance Workshop Special Ep with Benjamin Pohlig (How Do Anarchists Dance?)
3w ago00:37:47Tap to summarizeThis is a special dance workshop episode with guest Benjamin Pohlig. After many years researching together dance and politics, Peter and Benni give this workshop after a focused research on “how anarchists dance” with the support of MARC (Milvus Artistic Research Center) and DansiT Koreografisk senter / Choreographic Center.In the workshop they stay with the main question: how do anarchists dance? This leads to other questions. What is anarchy? What is dance? and can movement happen without a leader or fixed plan?The episode works with simple prompts. What happens if you move and call it anarchy? Hide the dancing anarchist from domination. Find affinities hidden from domination. This is a practical session, cancels dance in the face of domination. It does not try to give a clear answer, but to let you test the question through movement.How does an anarchist dance?What is anarchy?What is dance?https://stillpeter.com/how-does-an-anarchist-dance/
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 020 with Peter and Yari
3w ago00:58:55Tap to summarizeDance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratis
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PETER, dance with Seke Chimutengwende
4w ago01:00:05Tap to summarizeTo we dance with Seke Chimutengwende. To get in touch with Seke go to or follow on and watch Seke perform see Seke’s up coming performances here: https://www.sekechimutengwende.com/performancesLast Quartet is on at The Place and Lancaster Arts + preview at Wainsgate DancesReferencesFabulous Beast Dance Theatre Forced Entertainment - https://www.forcedentertainment.com/DV8 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV8_Physical_TheatreLost Dog - https://www.lostdogdance.co.uk/The Place - https://theplace.org.uk/Rambert School - https://www.rambertschool.org.uk/The Last Quartet by Seke Chimutengwende - https://www.sekechimutengwende.com/copy-of-offering-1Wainsgate dance - https://wainsgate.co.uk/wainsgate-dances/Lancaster Arts - https://www.lancasterarts.org/Charlie Ashwell - https://www.charlieashwell.com/aboutTemitope Ajose - @temitope_ajosecutting https://www.instagram.com/temitope_ajosecutting/?hl=enMatthias Sperling - http://www.matthias-sperling.com/Jamie McCarthy - https://jamesmccarthyofficial.com/T. S. Eliot - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._EliotSadler's Wells East - https://www.sadlerswells.com/your-visit/sadlers-wells-east/welcome-to-sadlers-wells-east/Lewisham College - https://www.lewisham.ac.uk/Deborah Hay - https://dhdcblog.blogspot.com/On the Corner by Seke Chimutengwende - https://www.sekechimutengwende.com/miles-davisOn the Corner by Miles Davis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Corner
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 019 with Peter and Yari
4w ago00:44:48Tap to summarizeDance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratis
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S1 Ep25 Dance Workshop (Call and Response)
May 2500:10:44Tap to summarizeThis episode stays with improvisation and turns attention toward call and response, answering movement with movement. Rather than imagining improvisation as something that happens in isolation, the session proposes that dancing is always in relationship: to gravity, to the floor, to sound, to space, and to the presence or potential presence of others.The episode explores different ways of responding. You might copy a movement, counter it, ignore it, or add to it. Copying is framed not as repetition but as response, since no movement is ever truly the same. Ignoring is also treated as a meaningful response, one that creates tension and awareness through distance rather than alignment.A series of practical approaches are offered. You are invited to respond to music, to silence, and to the ambient sounds of the room, using rhythm, breath, and pulse as calls to move with, against, or alongside. Another prompt asks you to create a movement and then respond to it as if it were made by someone else, allowing pause and stillness to sharpen the identity of each response.For those working with others, the episode suggests working in pairs or groups, responding to multiple bodies and movements. For those working alone, attention is placed on imagination, timing, and the use of pause as an active part of call and response.The episode closes with an assignment: record a short improvisation, return to it after a few days, and improvise a response to the recording. This opens questions about what it means to answer rather than continue, when response becomes imitation, and whether a response can disagree.Dance workshopExplore, 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
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 018 with Peter and Yari
May 2200:53:59Tap to summarizeDance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2mYou can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/Music empty five by mobygratis
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S1 Ep24 Dance Workshop (Improvisation Needs Limits)
May 1800:11:29Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we move from broad acceptance into something more specific: limits. While improvisation is often framed as total freedom, this session explores how clear, strict rules can actually make dancing feel more possible, playful, and rich.The episode introduces three simple but demanding improvisation prompts. First, dance while only turning left, noticing how a seemingly obvious rule quickly becomes blurry, unstable, and full of questions. What does “turning left” really mean, and where does it begin or end in the body and the space?The second prompt asks you to never repeat a movement. This near-impossible task highlights how improvisation often thrives on attempting the unachievable, and what happens when we meet failure, repetition, self-policing, or ease while dancing alone with a rule.The third prompt restricts movement to the exhale only, shifting attention to breath, timing, and how the rule shapes rhythm and decision-making.Alongside the dancing, the episode reflects on whether rules restrict or generate movement, when rules disappear during improvisation, and who enforces them once they’re forgotten. The session closes with an open assignment: create one rule for the body and one rule for the space, and improvise until those rules contradict each other.This episode continues an exploration of autonomy, freedom, and creativity within constraint, asking how limits can become sites of play rather than control.Dance workshopExplore, 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
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