“I think when people are exposed to something, like queer dance or queer art, it can either trigger two things: it can firstly make them want to learn or understand it, or secondly, they refuse it because it scares them. I think both actions can trigger change.”
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Melanie Lane
“Dance has that very exclusive possibility to express something physically, something that other forms aren’t able to express….watching a body go through some kind of negotiation, experience or sensation, which as an audience you can share”
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Meryl Tankard
“People say to me, ‘are you still dancing’, and I go ‘well what is dancing? What does dancing mean, I go into the studio and put music on?’ Maybe I dance when I play with my niece. […] we are sort of dancing everyday aren’t we?”
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Sue Healey
“I am interested in how we talk about dance. Because: a. I think many people are scared about it, they don’t really understand it. b. we don’t often, really get to uncover it, and talk about it much. ”
— Sue Healey
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Daniel Jaber
“Movement gave me a greater sense of freedom and expression.”
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“I like working with the dancers, I like working on the detail of the choreography and the structure of the work.”
Lucy Guerin
“I like working with the dancers, I like working on the detail of the choreography and the structure of the work.”
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Anouk van Dijk
“I will never forget…Ian filled the room. He filled the room with energy, with his passion, with his power. That was it. I was sold […] I wanted to be a dancer”.
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Alexandre Hamel
“Branding it as contemporary dance is bad for marketing. Contemporary dance is often seen as elitist, boring […] for snobs by a very large section of the public.”
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Gideon Obarzanek
“I didn’t have a great interest in having a dance company or directing a dance company, it came out of necessity. […] My interest has always been about making work.”
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Rafael Bonachela
In this conversation we discussed Kylie Minogue, dance, leadership, inspiration and arts funding.
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Stephanie Lake
“My hair would never go neatly into a bun … I didn’t know any of the ballet language… I think that it can actually be a positive, because you want individual voices in the arts.”
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Michael J Morris
“sexuality is a choreography as much as anything else”
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