The Dancer's Cut
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance's podcast
How do you create dance movement? What parts are played by the different dancers, and by the choreographer? How does movement become choreography? Is there a difference between a movement sequence and a dance phrase?
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Staging Schiele: Bonus Episode
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance's podcast
In this bonus episode listen to the Q&A with Sanjoy Roy and Shobana Jeyasingh on stage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, after the London premiere of Staging Schiele on 4 November 2019. This accompanies Episode 5 of Surface Tension which charts the process of creation, rehearsal and touring of Staging Schiele.
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Staging Schiele
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance's podcast
Episode 5 of Surface Tension charts the process of creation, rehearsal and touring of the company’s latest piece, Staging Schiele. Presenter Sanjoy Roy chats to Shobana, composer Orlando Gough, costume designers COTTWEILER, visual artist Ben Cullen Williams and dancers Dane Hurst, Estela Merlos and Catarina Carvalho about their respective collaborations on the piece.
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Science and Science Fiction
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance's podcast
Episode 4 of Surface Tension investigates the impact of science and science fiction on Shobana Jeyasingh's work. Presenter Sanjoy Roy asks what are the connections between science and dance and sci-fi and Shobana’s choreography?
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Counterpoint, TooMortal & Outlander
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance's podcast
Sanjoy Roy asks Shobana about the practical and artistic questions of making work for different spaces. We speak to Jenny Waldman who commissioned Counterpoint in 2010 to be performed in and amongst the fountains in the courtyard of Somerset House. Too Mortal was commissioned by Dance Umbrella and the Venice Biennale to be performed in churches. We talk to Betsy Gregory, former Artistic Director for Dance Umbrella. We move on to Outlander from 2016, made for a monastery in Venice.
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Faultline
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance's podcast
Episode 2 of Surface Tension turns the spotlight on Faultline from 2007. Presenter Sanjoy Roy recollects his memories of the piece, the style, aesthetic and evocative atmosphere. The anxiety, the coolness and the swagger of what it meant to be young, British and Asian at that time. We talk to Londonstani author Gautam Malkani, composers Robin Rimbaud and Errollyn Wallen, plus filmmaker Pete Gomes who all collaborated on the piece.
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Configurations
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance's podcast
When Shobana Jeyasingh met Michael Nyman.
info_outlineIn this bonus episode listen to the Q&A with Sanjoy Roy and Shobana Jeyasingh on stage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, after the London premiere of Staging Schiele on 4 November 2019. This accompanies Episode 5 of Surface Tension which charts the process of creation, rehearsal and touring of Staging Schiele.