‘The challenge has been to create these processes that we can carry Country with us. So whether we’re, you know, performing internationally or you know on other people’s Country here in Australia, we’re carrying part of that - that process is always with us. So if it was a production that’s had choreographic processes that have been out on a specific site or a place that that has given us material, we carry that with us.’ Dalisa Pigram Co-Artistic Director Marrugeku Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Photography by Heidrun Lohr Dalisa Pigram is the Co Artistic director Marrugeku. She ..read more

Daniel Riley, Artistic Director Australian Dance Theatre (ADT). Image Credit: © Jonathan VDK Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google ‘I think there's something about contemporary dance that people are fearful of, afraid of what they think personally. It's like, ‘oh, no, I don't get it’. ‘I don't want to try’, or, ‘I thought it was this, but maybe that's wrong.’ Maybe it is wrong, but that's okay. Contemporary dance is really opening a door to an intimate kind of personal connection as well as, what do you think that is? It's okay that we all think something different. We don't have to all ..read more

Antony Hamilton, Artistic Director Chunky Move. Image Credit: Peter Rosetzky Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google 'What we want the company to be able to do is to produce really incredible work that you're not going to see anywhere else. We want the company itself to be a space of flow, where people feel that it's a place for them, that everyone can come in and be a part of what's happening.’ Antony Hamilton- Chunky Move Artistic Director AB_TA_ Response photography by Eva Otsing Antony Hamilton is Artistic Director and co-CEO of Chunky Move. His work employs a sophisticated ..read more

Listen on Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google ‘…if you say Ballet, there's a definite aesthetic and behaviour that comes to mind, and, you know, it doesn't look like that for everyone. […] we are people. We're not mannequins, we're not robots, ballet isn't for the elite. We're all people that have pets and walk the dogs in the morning and get burgers on a Friday night. We're all human. But I think there's this idea that ballet looks and behaves a certain way, and it can be pretty unforgiving at times that stereotype and really doesn't look like that for everyone.’ Alice Topp Alice was born and r ..read more

In this episode Thomas Bradley and Felix Sampson, create an experimental soundscape to accompany the reading of Thomas’ essay ON A DANCING*, first published on Delving into Dance on 27 November 2019. You can read the full essay here, with an extract provided below. The declaration is a precursor to the dancing, akin to preparation rather than a recipe. Ideas must be extradited from consciousness through speech or writing, like a clarification of behaviour, or practice of exorcism. And it is after these literary articulations that his liberation, and Good Dancing, will begin: post-declarat ..read more

This interview was conducted by Samual Gaskin, delving into being a person of colour making your mark in the Australian dance and entertainment community featuring Yvette Lee & Sophia Laryea. They talked about inclusion inspiration and appreciation ..read more

Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, currently Director of Mirramu Creative Arts Centre and Artistic Director of Mirramu Dance Company, founded Australia’s iconic contemporary dance company, Australian Dance Theatre and was its Artistic Director from 1965 - 1975.  Elizabeth was awarded an OAM for her contribution to contemporary dance in Australia.  Included among her many other awards are an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship, an ACT Creative Arts Fellowship and several Canberra Critics Circle Awards. In 2015 she was inducted into the Australian Dance Hall of Fame and awarded the Canberra ..read more

Lillian Crombie is a proud woman from the Pitjintjara/Yungkunjara Nation. She is one of Australia’s leading actors and studied acting, dance and drama at the Port Pirie Ballet School, NIDA, NAISDA, the EORA Centre and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, NY. Crombie has trained in classical, modern, jazz ballet and traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island dance. She has had feature roles in numerous films including in Baz Luhrmann’s highly acclaimed Australia. She has extensive credits in television including the “Secret Life of Us” and most recently, 13 episodes of the children’s dr ..read more

Gregory is the author of the 2020 International Dance Day message – which so poignantly addresses the fragility of the world and humankind. Gregory’s dance journey provides a powerful insight to the dance of dance as a political voice and his voice has carried across the world. His insightful, unflinching, International Dance Day message speaks to his empathy and insight as an activist and artist. Gregory became interested in dance in the late 1980s as a means to escape the political tensions growing in his place of birth. He started his formal dance training in 1990 at Moving Into Dance where ..read more

In this episode, we meet Edna Reinhardt, a passionate creative dance and yoga educator with decades of experience in the field. Edna’s commitment to dance education developed during her foundational training in the 1970’s at the former Managala studios in Carlton under the guidance of Dorethea Mangimele, where yoga, music and dance were married to cultivate this unique discipline. As principal and founder of Over The Moon studios in Castlemaine, we discuss the integration of yoga and dance, education principles and her self-proclaimed life’s mission to develop community and culture through d ..read more