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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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A day in dance with SARA MÖRK, Peter and Yari
4d ago01:09:17Tap 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 Mörk’s work at: @thesaramorkDance 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: “empty five” by mobygratis
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 016 with Peter and Yari
1w ago00:30:04Tap 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 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 Ep23 Dance Workshop (Yes to Everything)
2w ago00:10:57Tap to summarizeThis episode continues the exploration of improvisation by focusing on acceptance, momentum, and the compositional power of saying yes. Drawing inspiration from theatre improvisation and the principle of “yes, and”, the workshop treats improvisation as an ongoing practice of agreement, where impulses are not rejected but allowed to enter the dance.Listeners are invited to work with continuous acceptance: moving by saying yes to every impulse that arises. Refusal is reframed as delay rather than rejection, creating space for momentum without force. The episode begins with an improvisation that follows every impulse safely and attentively, asking what a bodily yes feels like and how it changes the flow of movement.From there, the focus shifts toward acceptance without correction. Participants are asked to keep moving without refining, improving, or adjusting what appears. Doubt, judgement, and the desire to “fix” movement are noticed but not acted upon. This opens a space where habits of control soften and unexpected qualities can emerge.The workshop then deepens into wrongness as material. Rather than correcting what feels incorrect, dancers are invited to fully include it, allowing awkwardness, imbalance, or uncertainty to become the dance itself. The episode treats wrongness not as failure, but as a generative choreographic force that can reveal new pathways and sensitivities.The session closes with reflection, asking when and why a no appeared, what grew from staying with discomfort, and how yes is experienced in the body. When does yes become exhausting? Can hesitation also be a yes? Through movement, writing, or discussion, the episode invites listeners to consider acceptance as both a compositional tool and an ethical practice within improvisation.Episode 23 frames improvisation as a sustained practice of allowance, where agreement, delay, fatigue, and resistance all become active materials for dancing and thinking in motion.
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 015 with Peter and Yari
2w ago00:35:17Tap 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 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 Ep22 Dance Workshop (What Is Improvisation?)
3w ago00:12:31Tap to summarizeIn this episode, the workshop turns directly toward the question what is improvisation? building on earlier explorations of movement research, consent, authority, and care. Improvisation is approached not as a stylistic outcome or a demand to be spontaneous, but as a method, a way of working, thinking, and deciding through movement in real time.The episode frames improvisation as a practice of attention and responsibility. Rather than being free from structure, improvisation is revealed as something that always follows something: a rule, a habit, a sensation, a memory, a sound, an environment, or an internalised idea of how movement should look. In this sense, improvisation is not the absence of choreography, but choreography happening in the moment, where authority is distributed and constantly negotiated.Through a series of guided explorations, listeners are invited first to improvise freely and notice what they are actually following. This is followed by a reflective pause, using writing as a way to articulate the often-unseen forces shaping improvisation. From there, the workshop narrows the focus, asking participants to deliberately follow one identified influence and observe how choice, memory, mood, attention, distraction, and environment continue to intervene.The episode proposes several ways of thinking improvisation: as decision-making in time, as attention before expression, as composition without rehearsal but not without structure, as play with consequences, and as response rather than originality. Rather than settling on a single definition, the workshop encourages each listener to formulate their own understanding of improvisation, including its difficulties, fears, pleasures, and limits.Episode 22 positions improvisation as a form of dancing that is ethical, relational, and deeply choreographic, inviting listeners to reflect on how improvisation operates not only in open-ended movement, but also within set choreography, performance, and everyday dancing practice.
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 014 with Peter and Yari
3w ago00:33:28Tap 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 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 Ep21 Dance Workshop (Research as Dancing, Dancing as Research)
4w ago00:29:39Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we turn explicitly to research and recognise that we have, in fact, been researching all along.The workshop explores multiple ways research operates within dance practice: researching by watching dance in performances, studios, streets, screens, and archives; researching through taking classes and experiencing different aesthetics, techniques, and pedagogical approaches; researching through movement research, understood as open exploration through doing, often overlapping with improvisation; and researching for creation, where texts, images, stories, politics, and contexts become material for choreographic work.From there, the episode introduces artistic research as a distinct but still-emerging field. Artistic research is framed as a way of thinking through making, where practice is not an illustration of knowledge but a method of producing it. The artwork, process, and reflection form a single field of inquiry, and questions are asked not only with words, but through bodies, materials, time, and attention. What is discovered may remain situated, embodied, sensorial, and resistant to generalisation. The episode briefly situates artistic research historically, noting its relatively recent institutional emergence through PhD programmes in the arts in the 1990s.The episode then unfolds through three open assignments:Research a dance aesthetic or style Investigate a specific aesthetic through watching, reading, taking classes, or speaking with practitioners. Consider its history, imagery, context, and social or political conditions, then use this research as a starting point to create a dance. The outcome may be set or improvised, brief or extended, and should reflect on how different research methods shape the resulting choreography.Research anatomy and bodily function Drawing on concerns of care, safety, and risk, this task focuses on researching a specific anatomical function or bodily system. Using critical sources from dance science, anatomy, and movement research, develop a warm-up, cool-down, improvisation, score, or choreography grounded in functional and safe practice. The episode reflects on how ideas of “correct” posture and healthy movement are historically, culturally, and scientifically unstable.Research a non-dance topic Investigate a theme, person, story, place, image, or social situation not directly related to dance, such as people-watching, a character from a film, or a personal obsession. Use this research as material to generate a dance, allowing non-dance knowledge to shape movement qualities, structures, and staging.The episode concludes by returning to research as an ongoing attitude rather than a fixed method. It reflects on autonomy, intuition, and criticality, arguing that intuition and research are not opposites. Research can also mean looking back at what we intuitively do, documenting it, analysing it, and learning from it. Artistic research is framed as an epistemic critique, challenging what counts as knowledge, who is allowed to produce it, and which forms of knowing are valued, including embodied, affective, collective, and non-verbal knowledge.Rather than closing questions down, research is presented as a way of deepening complexity, increasing agency, and expanding the field of what dance can know and do.Keep dancing. Keep researching. Reflect on how research shapes your practice.
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 013 with Peter and Yari
4w ago00:37:18Tap 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 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 Ep20 Dance Workshop (Care, Safety, and Risk)
Apr 1300:16:17Tap to summarizeThis workshop explores care, safety, and risk as choreographic conditions that shape how dance becomes possible. Rather than treating safety as a fixed set of rules, the episode considers care as an ongoing responsibility that is continuously negotiated within physical, emotional, and social contexts.The session begins by reflecting on how the word dance itself creates invitations and expectations, and how different dance spaces specify what kinds of movement are allowed, valued, or considered safe. From this starting point, the workshop asks how care operates when dance appears outside formal stages and studios, and how responsibility is cultivated both alone and with others.Listeners are invited to map the edges of their dancing by moving toward, but not crossing, their physical, emotional, and attentional limits. This practice focuses on noticing where risk, safety, and care begin to show their necessity, and how these boundaries shift depending on context and condition.The workshop then introduces a central question: are you caring for the dance, or for the dancer? Through movement, participants explore what the dance might need in a given moment, less intensity, more time, a pause, or an ending, and how choreography might change in response to the dancer rather than asking the dancer to conform to a fixed form.Further explorations examine the relationship between safety and unsafety, including the desire for risk in dancing and performance. The episode asks how unsafe sensations can be explored without physical harm, and what kinds of meaning, power, or resonance emerge from navigating this tension.The session closes by considering care as an ethical and choreographic decision, including the choice to stop early, reduce duration, or actively seek the least risky form of dancing. Listeners are invited to reflect on what a dance of care might be, one that includes risk without ignoring it, and how safety, consent, authority, and interpretation continue to shape the conditions in which dance is practiced.
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DANCE REFLECTIONS 012 with Peter and Yari
Apr 1000:39:58Tap 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 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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