Listen, dance, reflect.
In this podcast PETER invites you and a guest to dance one of their practices, then they reflect on it together.
For dancers and dance artists and anyone interested in spending some time with their body and thoughts around dance. For creativity with our physical experiences.
For information about PETER visit www.stillpeter.com, and to contact PETER email peterapeterpeter@gmail.com#
Stefanos Zymvragoudakis is an engineer who became a dancer. Right now he is studying at the University of arts in Stockholm (SKH) a bachelor in Dance.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/stef.zym?cplk=NGVtOGt5bTZjM21p
PETER dance with… is so excited to host this series of podcasts where Bengt Elmèn interviews choreographers and dancers about their dance with his amazing witty and perspectives.
Assistant: Yearime Castel
Featuring guest Caterina Daniela Mora Jara: https://caterinamora.jimdofree.com/
References:
- Chrysa Parkinson, https://www.skh.se/english/people/co-workers/chrysa-parkinson/
- Piece Boca dieFerro by Marcela Levi & Lucía Russo | Improvável Produções ; dancer Ícaro dos Passos Gaya- https://improvavelproducoes.com/boca/
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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In this workshop, Peter is joined by Yari Stilo for the second episode in a series exploring the gaze. This time, they explore two different forms of gaze: low gaze and own gaze.
Beginning with the question “What happens when the audience disappears from the dance?”, the workshop first explores Low gaze through dancing while looking down, dancing as if nobody is watching, and deliberately performing shyness. These experiments consider withdrawal, exposure, spectatorship, and the difference between genuinely withdrawing and performing withdrawal.
The workshop then moves into Own gaze: looking at the dancer’s own body while dancing. Beginning with Deborah Hay’s “Turn Your F*****g Head”, the experiments move through looking at the hands, feet, chest, and finally the place where movement is happening. The gaze becomes a way of tracking and discovering the body rather than directing attention towards an audience.
Along the way, the distinction between Low gaze and Own gaze becomes increasingly subtle. One turns away from the audience; the other turns attention towards oneself. Both raise questions about who is watching, what is being exposed, and whether looking itself can become part of the movement.
Questions Explored
What happens when the audience disappears from the dance?
When does not looking at the audience become a performance for the audience?
What does it mean to look at yourself while dancing?
Does looking at a body part change the movement, or is it simply observation, attention, or performance?
When does the dancer become both performer and observer?
What happens when the gaze becomes interested in the dancer’s own body?
Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.
A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.
To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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Stefanos Zymvragoudakis is an engineer who became a dancer. Right now he is studying at the University of arts in Stockholm (SKH) a bachelor in Dance.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/stef.zym?cplk=NGVtOGt5bTZjM21p
PETER dance with… is so excited to host this series of podcasts where Bengt Elmèn interviews choreographers and dancers about their dance with his amazing witty and perspectives.
Assistant: Yearime Castel
Featuring guest Caterina Daniela Mora Jara: https://caterinamora.jimdofree.com/
References:
- Chrysa Parkinson, https://www.skh.se/english/people/co-workers/chrysa-parkinson/
- Piece Boca dieFerro by Marcela Levi & Lucía Russo | Improvável Produções ; dancer Ícaro dos Passos Gaya- https://improvavelproducoes.com/boca/
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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In this workshop, Peter is joined by Yari Stilo for the second episode in a series exploring the gaze. This time, they explore two different forms of gaze: low gaze and own gaze.
Beginning with the question “What happens when the audience disappears from the dance?”, the workshop first explores Low gaze through dancing while looking down, dancing as if nobody is watching, and deliberately performing shyness. These experiments consider withdrawal, exposure, spectatorship, and the difference between genuinely withdrawing and performing withdrawal.
The workshop then moves into Own gaze: looking at the dancer’s own body while dancing. Beginning with Deborah Hay’s “Turn Your F*****g Head”, the experiments move through looking at the hands, feet, chest, and finally the place where movement is happening. The gaze becomes a way of tracking and discovering the body rather than directing attention towards an audience.
Along the way, the distinction between Low gaze and Own gaze becomes increasingly subtle. One turns away from the audience; the other turns attention towards oneself. Both raise questions about who is watching, what is being exposed, and whether looking itself can become part of the movement.
Questions Explored
What happens when the audience disappears from the dance?
When does not looking at the audience become a performance for the audience?
What does it mean to look at yourself while dancing?
Does looking at a body part change the movement, or is it simply observation, attention, or performance?
When does the dancer become both performer and observer?
What happens when the gaze becomes interested in the dancer’s own body?
Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.
A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.
To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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Salka Ardal Rosengren, Bengt puts on your dance pants! In this episode, Salka and Bengt explore the importance of finding your own path and having the courage to embark on the journey.
Link: @onlysalka https://sitesweden.se/konstnarer-pa-site/salka-ardal-rosengren/
PETER dance with… is so excited to host this series of podcasts where Bengt Elmèn interviews choreographers and dancers about their dance with his amazing witty and perspectives.
Assistant: Yearime Castel
Featuring guest Caterina Daniela Mora Jara: https://caterinamora.jimdofree.com/
References:
Marie Bardet - https://wp.nyu.edu/esferas/making-a-front-with-our-backs-marie-bardet-translator-ellen-heaghney/
SMAK: https://smak.be/en/exhibitions/meg-stuart-ricochet-days
With Florencia Milanese and Andrea Manso Hoffman
Training of visual system - https://www.cicade.com.ar/courses/certificacion-en-entrenamiento-del-sistema-visual/
MÁRCIO KERBER CANABARRO
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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In this workshop, Peter is joined by Yari Stilo to begin a series exploring the gaze: what it is, how it operates, and what it does to dancing.
Starting with the question “What is a gaze?”, the episode moves through a sequence of physical experiments:
Unfocused vs. Deliberate Sight: Dancing without deliberately looking at anything vs. anchoring on a specific object.
Near, Middle & Far: Exploring different visual ranges, including imaginary horizons.
Initiation & Tracking: Allowing the eyes to lead the body’s movement vs. allowing the body to move first while the gaze follows.
Choreographing the Witness: Changing only the gaze while keeping the movement constant, observing how looking creates frontality and connection.
Along the way, the gaze becomes more than simply looking. It becomes a choreographic tool, a way of directing attention, a relationship to space, and something that alters both dancing and witnessing.
Questions Explored
What is the difference between simple looking and the gaze?
Where does the gaze actually reside—in the eyes, the back of the head, or the environment?
Can you gaze without looking directly at something?
Who or what is being addressed when the gaze shifts?
Reference:Caterina Daniela Mora Jara
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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Bengt puts on your dance pants! Ep02 Ģirts Dubults
Ģirts Dubults is a dance and choreographer from Latvia. In this episode Bengt and Ģirts talk about norms and how use humor to fight them.
Links: website https://girtsdubults.work/
PETER dance with… is so excited to host this series of podcasts where Bengt Elmèn interviews choreographers and dancers about their dance with his amazing witty and perspectives.
Personal Assistant: Yari Stilo
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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Dance Reflection is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. This guest series extends that reflection by inviting dance artists and practitioners to recount their yesterday, a day in their lives, tracing what they did from beginning to end. Through this simple structure, each episode opens a conversation into the textures and rhythms of living with dance.
Across the course of a day, a wide range of activity comes into view: rehearsals, teaching, creating, resting, travelling, organising, or simply noticing. Moments that might otherwise seem peripheral become part of a broader understanding of practice, revealing how dance is carried, interrupted, adapted, or sustained.
The day becomes a way of approaching larger questions: what it means to work with dance, how a practice continues over time, and how it moves through different contexts, demands, and conditions. Whether the day is full or uneventful, structured or improvised, it offers a situated perspective on a life in dance, where practice is not separate from daily life, but continuously shaped within it.
Rebecca Hilton is an Australian dance person now living in Sweden. She was a Professor of Choreography in the research profile area Site, Event, Encounter at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH). Her practice spans decades of dancing, performance-making, and collaborative research across embodied, community, and institutional contexts. Interested in how choreographic thinking operates in daily life, her work explores oral traditions, embodied knowledge, citation, and the relational spaces where movement meets lived experience. More with Becky: REBECCA HILTON | I MISS OUTSIDE | KEYNOTE | MODES OF CAPTURE SYMPOSIUM 2020
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Dance Reflection sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and refl...
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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So excited to host this series of podcasts where Bengt Elmèn interviews choreographers and dancers about their dance with his amazing and witty perspective.
Julia Müllner is a dancer and choreographer based in Vienna, Österreich. This spring she finished her Masters in Choreography at SKH here in Stockholm. She presented her graduation work together with Ottavia Catenacci at MDT under the title fly to fly, fly to girl.
Link: https://www.instagram.com/juli.muellner/
PETER dance with… is so excited to host this series of podcasts where Bengt Elmèn interviews choreographers and dancers about their dance with his amazing witty and perspectives.
Assistant: Yearime Castel
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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In this workshop, we explore the question “Why dance?” by deliberately moving away from movement and finding our way back to it through a chain of material transformations.
Starting with five minutes of automatic writing, we select five words, translate them into everyday objects, compose those objects into a sculpture, transform that composition into bodily positions, draw those positions, invent and describe a creature from the drawing, create a costume for it, record a movement video, meditate with the image, and finally return to writing. Each step reformulates what came before into a different medium—without needing to know why or where the process is heading.
Through this sequence, we explore what follows us between materials, what gets lost or carried across, and how dance can emerge through text, objects, drawing, fabric, sensation, and imagination. The workshop asks what happens when we stop looking for the next logical step and instead allow unexpected reformulations to guide the practice.
Ultimately, it is an inquiry into the materiality of dance, expression, and the conceptual containers different forms create for us—and a playful attempt to discover why we return to dance at all.
Reference: ♻ The Reformulation Handbook (2013) — Download
Questions Explored:
What is the materiality of dance if its expression can happen through so many different mediums?
What stays with us when we reformulate something across different materials?
How can unexpected reformulations free us from our own expectations?
How do different forms, text, objects, drawings, costumes, act as containers for understanding our dance?
What happens when we use scores and instructions to surprise ourselves rather than reach a predetermined result?
Why do we return to dance at all?
Featuring guest Laressa Dickey: https://www.laressadickey.com
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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A day in dance with PER SACKLÉN, Peter and Yari
Dance Reflection is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. This guest series extends that reflection by inviting dance artists and practitioners to recount their yesterday, a day in their lives, tracing what they did from beginning to end. Through this simple structure, each episode opens a conversation into the textures and rhythms of living with dance.
Across the course of a day, a wide range of activity comes into view: rehearsals, teaching, creating, resting, travelling, organising, or simply noticing. Moments that might otherwise seem peripheral become part of a broader understanding of practice, revealing how dance is carried, interrupted, adapted, or sustained.
The day becomes a way of approaching larger questions: what it means to work with dance, how a practice continues over time, and how it moves through different contexts, demands, and conditions. Whether the day is full or uneventful, structured or improvised, it offers a situated perspective on a life in dance, where practice is not separate from daily life, but continuously shaped within it.
You can find more about all of Per Sacklén’s work at: https://raserbyran.wordpress.com/.
Dance Reflection sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.
Watch videos of all Dance Reflection episodes here:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
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Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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In this workshop, we explore continuity, specificity, and the conditions that allow a practice to develop. What does it mean to stay with something, to keep following a movement or idea, and to recognise a “red thread” through a practice?
Through improvisation and reflection, we investigate going forward rather than simply staying still, and consider how contracts, environments, video, habits, and other conditions shape what becomes possible. The workshop then expands outward: what happens when we explore what isn't part of a work in order to understand what is? And when does exploration need to give way to practice?
The final exercise asks you to practise within an imperfect or unexpected container, discovering what conditions are actually necessary for your practice to continue.
How do we stay with something?
What allows continuity to emerge?
What is the “singular” or specific thing at the heart of a practice?
What does it mean to go forward in movement?
What happens when we reset?
What contracts or conditions allow continuity to exist?
What exists outside the regime or contract we create?
How do we know what we like or want before we've tried it?
What is gained by exploring what doesn't belong in a work?
What other materials: lighting, costume, sound, atmosphere, architecture, etc. contribute to what a dance becomes?
When does exploration become practice?
When is something “enough”?
What conditions does a practice actually need?
Can specificity be found in an imperfect or unsuitable environment?
What happens when we practise somewhere that isn't the ideal place to practise?
Reference:S4 Ep1 PETER, dance with Seke Chimutengwende | [⤓] DOWNLOAD mp3
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Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.
A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.
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Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This episode returns to the non-verbal terrain of movement, exploring what happens when we intentionally step away from speech, and what happens when we saturate movement with it.
The workshop begins with a practice in non-talking: stepping into shared or individual spaces without speech to observe how presence, relationality, and communication are negotiated through direct action and listening rather than verbal agreement.
In contrast, a counter-practice adapted from Elise Brewer invites continuous, stream-of-consciousness verbalization while moving or walking. By attempting to name every thought, sensation, and action in real time, the task exposes the speed, limits, and friction of language against lived experience.
Marking the first episode recorded on video, this iteration opens up questions around mimicry, vulnerability, and the choreographic line between scoring and documentation: Do our words lead the body, follow it, or run entirely out of sync with the dance taking place?
Reference:Elise Brewer walking practice in SITE&MARC Residency with Mentor 2024, https://on.soundcloud.com/eqbCrmWfRASF7Dawn5
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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PETER, dance with Nicolai Allessandro Amador
Today we dance with Nicolai Allessandro Amador. To get in touch with Nicolai go to or follow Nicolai on instagram:
@nicolaiallessandro @rawdancestudio @rosendalteater
Music danced to: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Yssirvf7TRbqtCg17narm?si=scO_AI8rSTSm_XQtZQ1azA
References:
Sweet Spot by Harald Beharie https://haraldbeharie.com/SWEET-SPOT-2026
Benjamin Pohlig https://khio.no/en/staff/benjamin-pohlig
Rhys Davies (local friend)
Exchanging Presen(ts/ce)
Exchange street dance tradition
Stalking house dance - Henry Link & Kapela - Stalking (Demo)
Raw dance studio - https://www.instagram.com/rawdancestudio/
Rosendal teater - https://rosendalteater.no/en/
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This workshop continues an exploration into the perceived separation between dance and language, extending the inquiry into another possible divide: the relationship between music and the moving body.
Why do we often experience dance as something separate from sound? And how does music influence what the body already knows?
Building on the idea of the body as a site of knowledge rather than expression, this session investigates how different forms of sound; music, rhythm, and pure tone, interact with and reveal the body’s inherent intelligence.
We begin by observing how the body responds to music. Participants will select a piece of music and witness how their body already knows how to engage with its rhythm, tone, and mood. Rather than trying to interpret or express the music, the focus is on recognizing what is already present; what patterns, movements, and structures emerge without conscious decision.
From here, we expand into an exploration of musical diversity. By working with contrasting genres, participants will examine how different musical traditions shape bodily organization, perception, and movement. This becomes an opportunity to reflect on how cultural, historical, and rhythmic structures are already embedded in the body.
A different music genre everyday for a year:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/9ee15f69e58c599b2637cac488cf64850dc7e1191c331aaf78ef1ef02e99bc8b%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
The workshop then shifts toward a more elemental investigation of sound. Using simple audio phenomena—such as frequency sweeps, resonant tones, decay, and binaural beats—we explore how the body responds to sound beyond music, at the level of vibration and sensation.
Participants will:
Listen to and move with shifting frequencies, noticing how sound resonates within the body
Follow the gradual disappearance of sound, attending to decay, silence, and lingering sensation
Experience internally generated rhythms through binaural listening, observi...
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This workshop explores the often-felt “silence” of dance—its muted, non-verbal quality—and questions why, particularly in Western contexts, dance is so often understood as separate from speech and language.
Together, we will examine how meaning arises in movement: not as something spoken or symbolically defined, but as something sensed, embodied, and relational. Drawing on both historical and contemporary perspectives, we will briefly consider how dance has been positioned as expressive rather than intellectual—shaped by traditions where language carries meaning and movement supports it. In contrast, we will explore dance as a form of knowledge in itself.
Rather than treating movement as expression, this workshop proposes a shift:What changes if we treat movement as knowledge?
Through guided improvisations, participants will investigate the intelligence of the body—its capacity to act, respond, and organize itself without relying on verbal explanation or narrative intention. We will work with simple, everyday (pedestrian) actions such as sitting, standing, walking, or reaching, observing how the body already knows how to do what it does.
A key practice within the session involves continuously asking:“Is this it? Is this what I think it is?”This question invites a mode of witnessing—pausing, adjusting, repeating, and lingering with movement—to sense whether what is happening is being performed, expressed, or simply known.
The workshop will move between:
Observing the body’s inherent knowledge
Staying close to everyday, non-stylized movement
Gently approaching what we might call “dance,” without losing this sense of knowing
Participants will also reflect on:
The difference between sensation, expression, and knowledge
Whether the body “knows” before we can think or name
How language may fix or reduce experience
Whether expression is something constructed on top of a more immediate bodily intelligence
This is an open, exploratory session. It does not aim to define dance...
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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Dance Reflection is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. This guest series extends that reflection by inviting dance artists and practitioners to recount their yesterday, a day in their lives, tracing what they did from beginning to end. Through this simple structure, each episode opens a conversation into the textures and rhythms of living with dance.
Across the course of a day, a wide range of activity comes into view: rehearsals, teaching, creating, resting, travelling, organising, or simply noticing. Moments that might otherwise seem peripheral become part of a broader understanding of practice, revealing how dance is carried, interrupted, adapted, or sustained.
The day becomes a way of approaching larger questions: what it means to work with dance, how a practice continues over time, and how it moves through different contexts, demands, and conditions. Whether the day is full or uneventful, structured or improvised, it offers a situated perspective on a life in dance, where practice is not separate from daily life, but continuously shaped within it.
You can find more about all of Leonora Wahl Danzi’s work at: https://www.leonoradanzi.com/ and on instagram @leonora.dancing
Dance Reflection sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.
Watch videos of all Dance Reflection episodes here:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpet...
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This episode treats improvisation as a form of world-building. Rather than starting with fixed instructions, you are invited to invent a game while dancing. Let rules emerge from the movement itself, play them seriously, and at some point break one of them.
The task begins with improvising until a sense of a game appears. This might be something simple, like avoiding certain areas of the floor, responding to imagined dangers, or establishing unspoken agreements with space, timing, or direction. Once the game becomes clear, commit to its rules as if they matter. Then deliberately break one rule and notice what changes.
After dancing, write down the rules you think you were following. Then dance the game again using those written rules and compare the two experiences. What you thought you were doing and what actually happened may not be the same, and that gap becomes part of the research.
The episode closes with questions around play, performance, and agency:
When does play become dance or performance?
Who decides when the game ends?
Is breaking the rule part of the game itself?
This final reflection opens onto a broader idea of improvisation, not as absolute freedom, but as an ongoing awareness of the rules you are already following and the choice, moment by moment, to continue, bend, or refuse them. You are invited to finish by writing a short manifesto on what improvisation means to you.
Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.
A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.
To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
Music leaning by mobygratis
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This episode explores layering as an improvisational tool: combining multiple scores, rules, and past experiences into a single dance. Layered scores can make dancing cognitively demanding, asking you to hold several instructions at once. This difficulty is not a problem to solve, but a strategy that helps the body take over when thinking becomes too busy.
The practice begins by mashing together fragments from earlier exercises. You might combine turning left with never repeating a movement, or hold several past prompts simultaneously. There is no fixed order and no planning ahead. The task is simply to improvise while allowing different scores to coexist and interfere with one another.
After dancing, you are invited to pause and reflect. Notice three movements or actions that keep returning during the mash-up. Write them down, draw them, or name them in whatever way feels useful. Then return to the dance and repeat each of these movements intentionally, just once.
The episode closes with questions around memory, repetition, and authorship:
What returns without being invited?
How does memory choreograph you?
Which movements live in the body, and which require conscious recall?
When does improvisation begin to function as an archive?
This episode treats improvisation as a meeting point between thinking and not thinking, where past dances, tasks, and experiences resurface and reorganise themselves in the present moment.
Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.
A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.
To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
Music leaning by mobygratis
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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Today we dance with Amelia Hawk. To get in touch and follow Amelia go to amelia-hawk.com and @amelia_hawk_
REFERENCES
De Montfort University (Leicester): dmu.ac.uk
“Emotional coffee van” Flavour of Emotion (2023) https://www.amelia-hawk.com/flavour-of-emotion.html
Brimham Rocks: nationaltrust.org.uk/brimham-rocks
Forest Bathing / Shinrin-yoku: forestryengland.uk/blog/forest-bathing
Phytoncides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoncide / https://foresttherapyhub.com/phytoncides-and-forest-bathing/
Relax & Lactate / Rest & Play, Milk and Blankets (2025), https://www.amelia-hawk.com/milk-and-blankets.html
Spike Island (Bristol): spikeisland.org.uk
Adult Dyslexia: bdadyslexia.org.uk
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This episode focuses on interruption as an improvisational practice, using disturbance as a way to reveal how patterns form, persist, and resist change.
The main improvisation begins with free dancing. As soon as a recognisable pattern appears, it is interrupted immediately. When something becomes familiar, named, or recognisable, the task is to do something else. The aim is not to avoid movement, but to disrupt recognition itself and see whether it is possible to become lost within the dance.
Attention is placed on how quickly patterns form and how recognition shapes decision-making. Rather than trying to eliminate patterns completely, the practice acknowledges the impossibility of fully escaping them. Choreography, habit, and pattern are understood as deeply entangled.
In the second task, you are invited to identify one pattern or habit that resisted interruption. Instead of breaking it, this recurring pattern becomes the centre of a new improvisation. You are encouraged to set a clear duration and build a dance around what could not be disrupted.
The episode closes with reflections on interruption and resistance:
How quickly do patterns form?
Is interruption violent, playful, or both?
What resists being broken, and how?
How are patterns made, recognised, and sustained?
What is the difference between habit and pattern, if there is one?
This episode frames improvisation as a creative play with limitation, repetition, and disruption, where choreography emerges through the tension between recognition and refusal.
Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.
A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.
To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
Music leaning by mobygratis
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This episode continues the exploration of improvisation by shifting attention to sensory hierarchy. Rather than adding more material, the practice works by removing or limiting one sense in order to notice how movement reorganises itself.
The primary invitation is to reduce or remove vision. This can be done by closing the eyes, dimming the room, using a blindfold, or practising a “reverse blink”, where the eyes remain closed and briefly open from time to time, offering momentary snapshots of the space. With vision limited, movement is guided instead by balance, sound, touch, and whatever senses remain available once sight is reduced.
After the first improvisation, the episode pauses for reflection. You are invited to write down three things that surprised you while dancing without vision. Reflection is treated as a structural part of improvisation, not something separate from dancing. The act of noticing and articulating experience feeds back into the next movement.
The improvisation is then repeated, allowing the written reflections to inform the second dance. Attention is given to how perception shifts once awareness has been named.
The episode closes with reflective questions:
What replaces vision when it is removed?
Does the body move differently when it is unseen?
Who are you dancing for when sight is gone?
These questions open onto issues of perception, performativity, and self-witnessing, and how improvisation changes when visual orientation is no longer dominant.
Dance workshop Explore, imagine, move.
A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.
To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
Music leaning by mobygratis
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
Music empty five by mobygratis
Dance Reflection is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. This guest series extends that reflection by inviting dance artists and practitioners to recount their yesterday, a day in their lives, tracing what they did from beginning to end. Through this simple structure, each episode opens a conversation into the textures and rhythms of living with dance.
Across the course of a day, a wide range of activity comes into view: rehearsals, teaching, creating, resting, travelling, organising, or simply noticing. Moments that might otherwise seem peripheral become part of a broader understanding of practice, revealing how dance is carried, interrupted, adapted, or sustained.
The day becomes a way of approaching larger questions: what it means to work with dance, how a practice continues over time, and how it moves through different contexts, demands, and conditions. Whether the day is full or uneventful, structured or improvised, it offers a situated perspective on a life in dance, where practice is not separate from daily life, but continuously shaped within it.
You can find more about all of
Sara Lindström Lindhe’s work at: https://www.saralindstrom.com/ and @saralindstromlindhe
Dance Reflection sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.
Watch videos of all Dance Reflection episodes here:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.co...
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This episode focuses on time as one of the largest compositional structures in improvisation. Until now, much of the responsibility for timing has been left open, but here timing becomes the frame itself. The session asks a simple but demanding question: when does an improvisation begin, and when does it end?
The core task is to create a dance that lasts exactly one minute. You are invited to begin immediately when the timer starts and to end without preparing an ending. By working within an extremely short temporal frame, the episode explores how duration shapes decision-making, attention, and narrative. A one-minute dance refuses the long arc of endurance and instead sharpens urgency, clarity, and choice.
The task is then repeated multiple times. You are asked to perform the one-minute improvisation at least three times, noticing what remains consistent and what changes from iteration to iteration. Through repetition, patterns begin to appear and questions of composition start to surface, even within improvisation.
The episode reflects on temporal framing more broadly, including counting, pauses, and measured durations as tools for structuring movement. Time is treated as an active material rather than a neutral container.
A reference is made to Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures, where participants hold simple actions for exactly one minute, temporarily becoming a sculpture before it disappears. This connection situates the exercise within a wider artistic context.
The episode closes with three reflective questions:
How does time change your decisions?What gets prioritised when time is scarce?When does improvisation start to feel composed?
Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.
A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.
To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This is a special dance workshop episode with guest Benjamin Pohlig. After many years researching together dance and politics, Peter and Benni give this workshop after a focused research on “how anarchists dance” with the support of MARC (Milvus Artistic Research Center) and DansiT Koreografisk senter / Choreographic Center.
In the workshop they stay with the main question: how do anarchists dance? This leads to other questions. What is anarchy? What is dance? and can movement happen without a leader or fixed plan?
The episode works with simple prompts. What happens if you move and call it anarchy? Hide the dancing anarchist from domination. Find affinities hidden from domination.
This is a practical session, cancels dance in the face of domination. It does not try to give a clear answer, but to let you test the question through movement.
How does an anarchist dance?
What is anarchy?
What is dance?
https://stillpeter.com/how-does-an-anarchist-dance/
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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To we dance with Seke Chimutengwende. To get in touch with Seke go to or follow on and watch Seke perform see Seke’s up coming performances here: https://www.sekechimutengwende.com/performancesLast Quartet is on at The Place and Lancaster Arts + preview at Wainsgate Dances
ReferencesFabulous Beast Dance Theatre
Forced Entertainment - https://www.forcedentertainment.com/
DV8 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV8_Physical_Theatre
Lost Dog - https://www.lostdogdance.co.uk/
The Place - https://theplace.org.uk/
Rambert School - https://www.rambertschool.org.uk/
The Last Quartet by Seke Chimutengwende - https://www.sekechimutengwende.com/copy-of-offering-1
Wainsgate dance - https://wainsgate.co.uk/wainsgate-dances/
Lancaster Arts - https://www.lancasterarts.org/
Charlie Ashwell - https://www.charlieashwell.com/about
Temitope Ajose - @temitope_ajosecutting https://www.instagram.com/temitope_ajosecutting/?hl=en
Matthias Sperling - http://www.matthias-sperling.com/
Jamie McCarthy - https://jamesmccarthyofficial.com/
T. S. Eliot - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
Sadler's Wells East - https://www.sadlerswells.com/your-visit/sadlers-wells-east/welcome-to-sadlers-wells-east/
Lewisham College - https://www.lewisham.ac.uk/
Deborah Hay - https://dhdcblog.blogspot.com/
On the Corner by Seke Chimutengwende - https://www.sekechimutengwende.com/miles-davis
On the Corner by Miles Davis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Corner
Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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This episode stays with improvisation and turns attention toward call and response, answering movement with movement. Rather than imagining improvisation as something that happens in isolation, the session proposes that dancing is always in relationship: to gravity, to the floor, to sound, to space, and to the presence or potential presence of others.
The episode explores different ways of responding. You might copy a movement, counter it, ignore it, or add to it. Copying is framed not as repetition but as response, since no movement is ever truly the same. Ignoring is also treated as a meaningful response, one that creates tension and awareness through distance rather than alignment.
A series of practical approaches are offered. You are invited to respond to music, to silence, and to the ambient sounds of the room, using rhythm, breath, and pulse as calls to move with, against, or alongside. Another prompt asks you to create a movement and then respond to it as if it were made by someone else, allowing pause and stillness to sharpen the identity of each response.
For those working with others, the episode suggests working in pairs or groups, responding to multiple bodies and movements. For those working alone, attention is placed on imagination, timing, and the use of pause as an active part of call and response.
The episode closes with an assignment: record a short improvisation, return to it after a few days, and improvise a response to the recording. This opens questions about what it means to answer rather than continue, when response becomes imitation, and whether a response can disagree.
Dance workshopExplore, imagine, move.
A companion series to PETER, dance with. These short audio workshops invite you to explore dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity. A space to rethink what dance can be, anywhere, for anyone.
To listen to the workshops: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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Dance Reflections is a weekly Friday podcast with Peter Mills and Yari Stilo, centred on conversation, shared practice, and taking time to look back in order to think forward. The series reflects on recent episodes, past experiences, and ongoing questions around dance, life, and practice. Through talking, occasionally dancing, and revisiting shared histories, Dance Reflections creates a regular space for continuity, response, and staying in contact across distance.
Dance Reflections sits alongside two other podcast series:PETER, dance with…, released every third Monday, where Peter invites a guest to dance one of their practices and reflect on it together; and A Day In Dance with… where Peter and Yari reflect with a guest about a day in dance, and DANCE WORKSHOP, released on the Mondays in between, a series of short audio workshops exploring dance through imagination, movement, and curiosity.Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
You can find more about all of Peter’s work at:https://stillpeter.com/
Listen to the other podcast series here:PETER, dance with…https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/
DANCE WORKSHOPhttps://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/
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