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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 026 with Peter and Yari
Yesterday00:49:30Tap 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 Amelia Hawk
5d ago00:50:15Tap to summarizeToday we dance with Amelia Hawk. To get in touch and follow Amelia go to amelia-hawk.com and @amelia_hawk_REFERENCESDe Montfort University (Leicester): dmu.ac.uk“Emotional coffee van” Flavour of Emotion (2023) https://www.amelia-hawk.com/flavour-of-emotion.htmlBrimham Rocks: nationaltrust.org.uk/brimham-rocksForest Bathing / Shinrin-yoku: forestryengland.uk/blog/forest-bathingPhytoncides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoncide / https://foresttherapyhub.com/phytoncides-and-forest-bathing/ Relax & Lactate / Rest & Play, Milk and Blankets (2025), https://www.amelia-hawk.com/milk-and-blankets.htmlSpike Island (Bristol): spikeisland.org.ukAdult Dyslexia: bdadyslexia.org.uk
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 025 with Peter and Yari
1w ago00:33:03Tap 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 Ep28 Dance Workshop (Interruptions and Disruptions – Breaking Patterns)
2w ago00:05:57Tap to summarizeThis episode focuses on interruption as an improvisational practice, using disturbance as a way to reveal how patterns form, persist, and resist change.The main improvisation begins with free dancing. As soon as a recognisable pattern appears, it is interrupted immediately. When something becomes familiar, named, or recognisable, the task is to do something else. The aim is not to avoid movement, but to disrupt recognition itself and see whether it is possible to become lost within the dance.Attention is placed on how quickly patterns form and how recognition shapes decision-making. Rather than trying to eliminate patterns completely, the practice acknowledges the impossibility of fully escaping them. Choreography, habit, and pattern are understood as deeply entangled.In the second task, you are invited to identify one pattern or habit that resisted interruption. Instead of breaking it, this recurring pattern becomes the centre of a new improvisation. You are encouraged to set a clear duration and build a dance around what could not be disrupted.The episode closes with reflections on interruption and resistance:How quickly do patterns form?Is interruption violent, playful, or both?What resists being broken, and how?How are patterns made, recognised, and sustained?What is the difference between habit and pattern, if there is one?This episode frames improvisation as a creative play with limitation, repetition, and disruption, where choreography emerges through the tension between recognition and refusal.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 024 with Peter and Yari
2w ago00:45:05Tap 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 Ep27 Dance Workshop (Blindfold Dance – Sensory Hierarchies)
3w ago00:06:22Tap to summarizeThis episode continues the exploration of improvisation by shifting attention to sensory hierarchy. Rather than adding more material, the practice works by removing or limiting one sense in order to notice how movement reorganises itself.The primary invitation is to reduce or remove vision. This can be done by closing the eyes, dimming the room, using a blindfold, or practising a “reverse blink”, where the eyes remain closed and briefly open from time to time, offering momentary snapshots of the space. With vision limited, movement is guided instead by balance, sound, touch, and whatever senses remain available once sight is reduced.After the first improvisation, the episode pauses for reflection. You are invited to write down three things that surprised you while dancing without vision. Reflection is treated as a structural part of improvisation, not something separate from dancing. The act of noticing and articulating experience feeds back into the next movement.The improvisation is then repeated, allowing the written reflections to inform the second dance. Attention is given to how perception shifts once awareness has been named.The episode closes with reflective questions:What replaces vision when it is removed?Does the body move differently when it is unseen?Who are you dancing for when sight is gone?These questions open onto issues of perception, performativity, and self-witnessing, and how improvisation changes when visual orientation is no longer dominant.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
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 023 with Peter and Yari
3w ago00:52:26Tap 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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A day in dance with SARA LINDSTRÖM LINDHE, Peter and Yari
4w ago01:28:09Tap to summarizeDance Reflection 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. This guest series extends that reflection by inviting dance artists and practitioners to recount their yesterday, a day in their lives, tracing what they did from beginning to end. Through this simple structure, each episode opens a conversation into the textures and rhythms of living with dance.Across the course of a day, a wide range of activity comes into view: rehearsals, teaching, creating, resting, travelling, organising, or simply noticing. Moments that might otherwise seem peripheral become part of a broader understanding of practice, revealing how dance is carried, interrupted, adapted, or sustained.The day becomes a way of approaching larger questions: what it means to work with dance, how a practice continues over time, and how it moves through different contexts, demands, and conditions. Whether the day is full or uneventful, structured or improvised, it offers a situated perspective on a life in dance, where practice is not separate from daily life, but continuously shaped within it.You can find more about all of Sara Lindström Lindhe’s work at: https://www.saralindstrom.com/ and @saralindstromlindheDance Reflection 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 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 Reflection 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: “isolate prior approx 89” by mobygratis
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 022 with Peter and Yari
4w 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)
Jun 1500:08:26Tap 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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