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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 028 with Peter and Yari
1w ago00:43:53Tap 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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S1 Ep30 Dance Workshop (Invent a Game – Improvisation as World-Building)
2w ago00:06:16Tap to summarizeThis episode treats improvisation as a form of world-building. Rather than starting with fixed instructions, you are invited to invent a game while dancing. Let rules emerge from the movement itself, play them seriously, and at some point break one of them.The task begins with improvising until a sense of a game appears. This might be something simple, like avoiding certain areas of the floor, responding to imagined dangers, or establishing unspoken agreements with space, timing, or direction. Once the game becomes clear, commit to its rules as if they matter. Then deliberately break one rule and notice what changes.After dancing, write down the rules you think you were following. Then dance the game again using those written rules and compare the two experiences. What you thought you were doing and what actually happened may not be the same, and that gap becomes part of the research.The episode closes with questions around play, performance, and agency:When does play become dance or performance?Who decides when the game ends?Is breaking the rule part of the game itself?This final reflection opens onto a broader idea of improvisation, not as absolute freedom, but as an ongoing awareness of the rules you are already following and the choice, moment by moment, to continue, bend, or refuse them. You are invited to finish by writing a short manifesto on what improvisation means to you.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 027 with Peter and Yari
2w ago00:52:47Tap 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 Ep29 Dance Workshop ( Movement Mash-Up – Layering Scores and Memory)
3w ago00:07:38Tap to summarizeThis episode explores layering as an improvisational tool: combining multiple scores, rules, and past experiences into a single dance. Layered scores can make dancing cognitively demanding, asking you to hold several instructions at once. This difficulty is not a problem to solve, but a strategy that helps the body take over when thinking becomes too busy.The practice begins by mashing together fragments from earlier exercises. You might combine turning left with never repeating a movement, or hold several past prompts simultaneously. There is no fixed order and no planning ahead. The task is simply to improvise while allowing different scores to coexist and interfere with one another.After dancing, you are invited to pause and reflect. Notice three movements or actions that keep returning during the mash-up. Write them down, draw them, or name them in whatever way feels useful. Then return to the dance and repeat each of these movements intentionally, just once.The episode closes with questions around memory, repetition, and authorship:What returns without being invited?How does memory choreograph you?Which movements live in the body, and which require conscious recall?When does improvisation begin to function as an archive?This episode treats improvisation as a meeting point between thinking and not thinking, where past dances, tasks, and experiences resurface and reorganise themselves in the present moment.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 026 with Peter and Yari
3w ago00:49:30Tap 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
4w 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
Jul 1000:33:03Tap 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)
Jul 600:05:57Tap 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
Jul 300:45:05Tap 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)
Jun 2900:06:22Tap 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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