dance moves people: A Fabric podcast
Fabric is a strategic dance development organisation based in the Midlands, UK, with sites in the cities of Birmingham and Nottingham.
Fabric’s 10-year strategy sets out to show how we will play our role to ensure the sector can flourish. In these conversations, we invite artists, partners, collaborators and friends to share their stories about Fabric, about the sector, and about what dance, choreography and art mean to them, revealing ultimately, the social value of dance.
Fabric is an Arts Council England, National Portfolio Organisation.
Episodes
16 episodes
Fabric's Centre for Advanced Dance Training (CAT) - Alumni Reflections
In this episode of dance moves people, we chat with alumni from Fabric's Centre for Advanced Dance Training (CAT). We explore their journeys in dance, reflecting on their experiences in the programme and how it has shaped their careers. Each gu...
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Episode 6
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43:52
nottdance: four curators in conversation - part 2
In the second part of this conversation, past and current nottdance curators Bill Gee, Jane Greenfield, Nicky Napier and Paul Russ talk with De Montfort PhD student and Organisational Archive Researcher Andi Johnson about the innovative program...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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48:15
nottdance: four curators in conversation - part 1
In the first part of a conversation with past and current curators of the nottdance festival, Andi Johnson, De Montfort PhD student and Organisational Archive Researcher, focuses on the festival's rich history and its significant role in shapin...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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44:23
Fat Dance | Dança Gorda
Fat Dance | Dança Gorda is funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants, designed to support UK and overseas organisations to collaborate on international arts projects. FABRIC is a lead partner, alongside Corpo Ras...
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Episode 3
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42:23
Lucy Suggate in conversation with Alan Lyddiard
Alan Lyddiard is on a mission to create, with others, extraordinary performances and build long-lasting relationships with older people, locally, nationally, and internationally.He retired in 2014 at the age of 65 and went to live in Spa...
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Episode 2
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35:35
Lucy Suggate and Cool Company
Cool Company is a dance improvisation ensemble for people aged 55 and over, based in Nottingham Contemporary. Referencing current exhibitions, they explore and develop relationships between visual arts and movement. Key to these workshops is th...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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37:32
Welcome to dance moves people
Welcome to dance moves people, a podcast from Fabric. Fabric is a strategic dance development organisation based in the Midlands, UK, with sites in the cities of Birmingham and Nottingham.In these conversations, we invite art...
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Season 1
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2:03
DLG Learning & Skills: In Conversation With Rachel Liggitt
This is the second episode in a series of one-hour ‘In Conversation with’ zoom sessions, inviting Critical Mass leads and organisers to share the story of their role in the project, how the experience has influenced/changed their practice and 3...
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Episode 9
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54:09
DLG Learning & Skills: In Conversation With Zoie Golding
This the first episode in a series of one-hour ‘In Conversation with’ zoom sessions, inviting Critical Mass leads and organisers to share the story of their role in the project, how the experience has influenced/changed their practice and 3 key...
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Episode 8
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55:33
In Conversation: The Director's Cut - Shane Shambhu & Paul Anthony Morris
In Episode 4 Shane speaks with Paul Anthony Morris about the importance of dance in his work and it’s relevance and his own unique physical training approach and its effect on actors.This is part of Shane's curated Dance Insights Online...
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Episode 7
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21:22
In Conversation: The Director's Cut - Shane Shambhu & Ramiro Silveira
In Episode 3 Shane speaks with Brazilian-born Theatre Director, Ramiro Silveira about his physical-theatre practises, the relevance of physicality in drama and plays and Brazil’s place on the global stage.This is part of Shane's curated...
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Episode 6
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20:46
In Conversation: The Director's Cut - Shane Shambhu & Kristine Landon-Smith
In Episode 2 Shane speaks with Kristine Landon-Smith about her approach to intra-cultural creating and its importance, development of physical actions and abstraction in theatre contexts and why there is a lack of female directors and choreogra...
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Episode 5
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24:00
In Conversation: The Director's Cut - Shane Shambhu & Jatinder Verma
In Episode 1 Shane speaks with acclaimed and noted Theatre Director, Jatinder Verma about process and methodologies, how his practice from Sanskrit Theatre has evolved and they converse on the differences between dance and theatre.This ...
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Episode 4
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24:48
In Conversation: Johnny Autin & Orit Azaz
As part of our Dance Insights Online programme, our artist in residence Johnny invites independent artistic director, theatre-maker and facilitator Orit Azaz to discuss outdoor arts, choreographic practices and activism.
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Episode 3
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1:00:12
In Conversation: Jamaal, Mahalia & Zane Burkmar
As part of our Dance Insights Online programme, our artist in residence, Jamaal invites his two siblings Mahalia and Zane into an online chat about how Dancing with ACE dance and music’s youth company began their personal journeys into the crea...
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Episode 2
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1:15:42
In Conversation: Carlos Pons Guerra & Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
As part of our Dance Insights Online programme, our artist in residence, Carlos invites Belgian-Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa for an online aperitif to celebrate International Dance Day. They Talk about how their Hi...
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Episode 1
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36:07