The Art of Faux Pas

Seeta Patel is an award-winning choreographer and dancer based in London. She began her training under the guidance of Kiran Ratna in 1990. She has since worked with a range of Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance professionals including (and to name a few) Mavin Khoo or Darshan Singh Bhuller. She has also performed and toured with a number of companies such as DV8 Physical Theatre

Breanna O’Mara is a Dance Artist from Detroit (US) and is now based in Vienna. She has worked with Liquid Loft, Staatstheater Kassel, Ballett Baselm, and has danced and toured the wolrd with Tanztheater Wuppertal and Dimitris Papaioannou. She is currently the Contemporary Dance Rehearsal Director at the Paris Opera. Breanna shines bright with passion, enthusiasm, humility and emp

Sarah Blanc is an Irish artist based in London. She is simply magnificent: she shines with positivity, passion and enthusiasm. She s also funny as hell. I love that she describes herself as a loud mouth choreographer, performer and host. Sarah is the Artistic Director of Moxie Brawl - a spicy inclusive dance theatre company who makes work that your mum would love (isn’t that best

Anne-Mareike Hess is a Luxembourgish dance artist and has been working in the field of contemporary dance for 17 years. Her work has toured extensively and counts amongst others, the piece Warrior which was part of Aerowaves 2020. I personally love Anne-Mareike’s take on life, work and her exquisite sense of humour! Together we talked about being tutu number 26, about the importa

Seke Chimutengwende is a choreographer, performer, movement director and teacher based in London. As a performer, he’s worked with DV8, Lost Dog and Forced Entertainment amongst others. Improvisation is at the centre of Seke’s work.He has been practicing completely improvised performance, using movement and text, since 2006 and has performed over 70 solo improvisations internat

Laura Patay is a French dancer. She’s worked for several years with Candoco Dance Company where she performed works by Trisha Brown and Yasmeen Godder and amongst others. Laura is phenomenal, fierce, fearless and quite frankly the incarnation of resilience.Together we talked about different bodies, pleasure, touring the world, accelerated solo, motherhood and postpartum bodies...

Orrow Bell is a London based dance artist. They make, perform, work as dramaturg, facilitator, and curator. Orrow’s solo works have toured widely. As a performer, they worked with Tino Sehgal, Hussein Chayalan & Damien Jalet, Lea Anderson, Maresa von Stockert, Alessandro Sciarroni and Chiara Frigo amongts others. To me, Orrow is a quiet strength. The kind of strength that rad

Samir is a french dancer based in Marseille, he worked with DV8, Les Ballets C de la B, Peeping Tom, Blanca Li, and Philippe Lafeuille amongst others. Together we talked about training, fitting in, taking actions, self-sabotage, working hard, working with kids, and..dreams.He has such a powerful presence, he’s determined, hard-working and his journey is, I believe, one of the mos

SUNG-IM HER. Sung-im is a South-Korean dance artist based in London, she danced with Jan Fabre, Les Ballets C de la B and NeedCompany amongst others. Her work has been touring internationally and she was an Aerowaves artist in 2021. She’s radiant, her energy is joyfully contagious… I hope you’ll enjoy the chat as much as I did!!

A presentation of where this podcast comes from, and what I imagine it might become!Music: Martin Durov (from the piece 'The Ephemeral life of an octopus')