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 artists, partners, collaborators, and friends to share their stories about Fabric, the sector, and what dance choreography and art mean to them, ultimately revealing the social value of dance.

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Fabric is an Arts Council England, National Portfolio Organisation. 

Transcript

Alan Lyddiard: I make work with performers that is created by those performers in the rehearsal room. And whatever happens in that process is how we make the piece of work. 

Becky Bailey, Fabric: Welcome to Dance Moves People, a podcast from Fabric. We are a strategic dance development organization based in the Midlands UK. 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.

Steve Stickley: I felt very safe there, very welcomed, very included, and I think, well, we are in this together. I found it very moving. 

Alan Lyddiard: I'm very worried about meaning, so I'm very worried about having to make a piece of work about something. 

Susan Roberts: You are still thinking about where your body's gonna end up next, and that's really integrating all the parts of your body and brain.

But it does get a bit better because it makes you think more expansively where it opens up ideas. 

Deane McQueen: Good grief. I thought you'd do this and you've just done that. And it's so much better than I'd imagined. So mistakes are valued because mistakes are often the new direction. 

Lucy Suggate: It's always that thing that art can't change the world.

But actually there are things that we can do, which is I think in how we organize time, how we gather people together, how we spend our time with each other. That can be something that. We can say, actually this is really important. This works. Like, let's try and make it happen more. 

Becky Bailey, Fabric: Please do like and subscribe on your usual podcast platform.