MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS
What makes creative people tick? How do they find and develop their inspiration? Welcome to the podcast that draws back the curtain on the inventive mind and its artistic process with a series of interviews between host Emma Lister and performers, choreographers, designers and other artists. Look out for our special mini-series, like 'Ballet for the 21st Century' and 'Dance in the Time of Corona'.
Episodes
46 episodes
Ballet Macabre - Duality
Our ballet horror movie mash up podcast, continues with BLACK SWAN (2010) and US (2019).In this final instalment of ...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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1:30:37
Ballet Macabre - Innocence
This one is hot off the presses! Just as I was about to release the final episode in our mini series, Lucile Hadžihalilović 's award winning INNOCENCE (2004) was ...
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Season 6
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44:55
Ballet Macabre - Pain
BALLET MACABRE continues with SUSPIRIA (1977) and AUDITION (1999) as Emma Lister, long time film lover, podcast host and ballet ...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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1:29:57
Ballet Macabre - The Chosen One
We start our mini series with THE RED SHOES (1948) and SUSPIRIA (2018) as Emma Lister, long time film lover, podcast host and ba...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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1:27:34
Roopa Mahadevan | Vocalist/Composer
Hailed a “stirring voice” by the New York Times, Roopa Mahadevan is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her collaborative spirit. She leads the crossover ensemble Roopa in Flux,...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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43:48
Gavin Sutherland | Conductor
Gavin Sutherland is a conductor, composer and orchestrator who specials in dance—he’s conducted for Northern Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Norwegian and Finnish National Ballet as well as English National Ball...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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41:51
Charlotte Maclet | First Violinist
Charlotte Maclet is an award winning violinist who first performed a Mendelssohn concerto at age nine! She has performed as a soloist in her native France and abroad. She led the acclaimed quartet Camerata Alma Viva and is now first violinist f...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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40:23
Andrew Mellor | Music Critic
Andrew Mellor is a journalist and critic. He has written about music, architecture, design, and cultural politics for publications around the world and is a critic for Gramophone and the Financial Times. He and Emma chat about his new boo...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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45:13
Ballet Taboo - Pregnancy & Parenthood
In this, the last episode of our miniseries, Emma Lister and Amy Drew are joined by choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple and dancer/teacher Senri Kou to discuss how being pregnant and having a child fits (or doesn’t fit) into the dance se...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:19:00
Ballet Taboo - Cancel Culture Part II
This week hosts Emma Lister, Amy Drew and Matthew Paluch continue their discussion of the phenomenon of “cancel culture” in the ballet and dance world. Please do listen to Part I first if you haven't! Where does the term 'cancel culture' come f...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:07:44
Ballet Taboo - Cancel Culture Part I
This week, in part I, host Emma Lister and Matthew Paluch discuss the phenomenon of 'cancel culture' in the ballet and dance world. Where does this term come from and what are the mechanisms at work? How does it apply to ballet? What about call...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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59:22
Ballet Taboo - Periods
Welcome to our new mini series! We’re talking about things that historically have been taboo to discuss in ballet. In episode one, host Emma Lister is joined by series co-host Amy Drew, they dissect what’s taboo about menstrual cy...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:12:55
Jessica Hung Han Yun | Lighting Designer
Lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun won a Knight of Illumination Award for Equus at Stratford East when she was just 24. She’s since worked at the National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Ra...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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43:08
Anders Duckworth | Choreographer
Anders Duckworth is a British/Swedish choreographer. With training in both design and dance, their work blurs movement, fashion and visual arts. Constantly seeking new collaborations, they have choreographed for short film, installations,...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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40:25
Nicholas Thayer | Composer
Nicholas Thayer is a London-born, Netherlands-based composer, producer and inter-disciplinary artist. His electronic and new classical work has been composed for dance pieces, gallery ins...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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45:25
Yann Seabra | Stage Designer
Yann Seabra is a stage designer whose work has been sought after by companies such as The Royal Opera House, San Francisco Ballet, Circa, Ballet Black and Protein Dance company.He and Emma discuss t...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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43:16
Alesandra Seutin | Choreographer
Alesandra Seutin is an award-winning multidisciplinary performance artist and choreographer who works internationally between Senegal, Belgium and the UK. She leads two international touring dance performance companies:
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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33:53
Irish Women Making Dance - The Roundtable Pt 2
Last week’s episode circled around the taboo of motherhood in the dance world, the lack of a full time company in Ireland and the question of why there is comparatively so many women making dance work in Ireland. We’ll be following up and expan...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:05:46
Irish Women Making Dance - The Roundtable Pt 1
What do you think of when you think of Ireland? The Emerald Isle, Guinness, Oscar Wilde and Riverdance? What about women making dance? Because this tiny island turns out loads of them--just over 80% of recent dance bursary awardees were for wom...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:09:09
Irish Women Making Dance - The Introduction
Ahead of our first roundtable discussion with six women making dance in Ireland, Emma Lister and cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne give a (tiny) bit of Irish history and pose the driving question of this new mini series: In a time when the conversation in...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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25:57
Dolly Brown⎪Photographer
Dolly Brown is a photographer who specialises in documenting art and artists. She may be best known as her Instagram alterego: @londonlivingdoll. She's worked with The Royal Ballet, Barb...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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42:01
Kalle Nio ⎪Magician/Visual Artist
Kalle Nio is a magician and visual artist based in Finland. He is co-drector/founder of the theatre company WHS and the recipient of numerous awards including the Finnish state prize for Multidisciplinary Art and the...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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45:59
Dance in the Time of Corona - Dancers in the Balance
In the final episode of our three part miniseries, we zoom in to meet three dancers. They are all at different stages of their careers and their lives have been affected in different ways by the pandemic:GEAROID: 18 months into his profe...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:02:01
Dance in the Time of Corona - Dancers' Mental Health During the Pandemic
The last 18 months have been a trying time for everyone’s mental health. But how have dancers been uniquely affected? A group of artists whose lives and identities are notoriously tied up in training and career—what happened when the theatres w...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:03:09
Dance in the Time of Corona - Pay Your Dancers
In this, the first episode of our mini-series Dance in the Time of Corona, Emma Lister is joined by cohosts Zoë Ashe-Browne and Shelby Williams. They reveal the results of a survey they conducted after the controversial Venice Biennale...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:03:39
