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| S1 Ep25 Dance Workshop (Call and Response) | 25 May 2026 | 00:10:44 | |
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/ Music leaning by mobygratis | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 018 with Peter and Yari | 22 May 2026 | 00:53:59 | |
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 | |||
| S1 Ep21 Dance Workshop (Research as Dancing, Dancing as Research) | 20 Apr 2026 | 00:29:39 | |
In this episode, we turn explicitly to research and recognise that we have, in fact, been researching all along. The workshop explores multiple ways research operates within dance practice: researching by watching dance in performances, studios, streets, screens, and archives; researching through taking classes and experiencing different aesthetics, techniques, and pedagogical approaches; researching through movement research, understood as open exploration through doing, often overlapping with improvisation; and researching for creation, where texts, images, stories, politics, and contexts become material for choreographic work. From there, the episode introduces artistic research as a distinct but still-emerging field. Artistic research is framed as a way of thinking through making, where practice is not an illustration of knowledge but a method of producing it. The artwork, process, and reflection form a single field of inquiry, and questions are asked not only with words, but through bodies, materials, time, and attention. What is discovered may remain situated, embodied, sensorial, and resistant to generalisation. The episode briefly situates artistic research historically, noting its relatively recent institutional emergence through PhD programmes in the arts in the 1990s. The episode then unfolds through three open assignments:
The episode concludes by returning to research as an ongoing attitude rather than a fixed method. It reflects on autonomy, intuition, and criticality, arguing that intuition and research are not opposites. Research can also mean looking back at what we intuitively do, documenting it, analysing it, and learning from it. Artistic research is framed as an epistemic critique, challenging what counts as knowledge, who is allowed to produce it, and which forms of knowing are valued, including embodied, affective, collective, and non-verbal knowledge. Rather than closing questions down, research is presented as a way of deepening complexity, increasing agency, and expanding the field of what dance can know and do. Keep dancing. Keep researching. Reflect on how research shapes your practice. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 013 with Peter and Yari | 17 Apr 2026 | 00:37:18 | |
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 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 | |||
| S1 Ep20 Dance Workshop (Care, Safety, and Risk) | 13 Apr 2026 | 00:16:17 | |
This workshop explores care, safety, and risk as choreographic conditions that shape how dance becomes possible. Rather than treating safety as a fixed set of rules, the episode considers care as an ongoing responsibility that is continuously negotiated within physical, emotional, and social contexts. The session begins by reflecting on how the word dance itself creates invitations and expectations, and how different dance spaces specify what kinds of movement are allowed, valued, or considered safe. From this starting point, the workshop asks how care operates when dance appears outside formal stages and studios, and how responsibility is cultivated both alone and with others. Listeners are invited to map the edges of their dancing by moving toward, but not crossing, their physical, emotional, and attentional limits. This practice focuses on noticing where risk, safety, and care begin to show their necessity, and how these boundaries shift depending on context and condition. The workshop then introduces a central question: are you caring for the dance, or for the dancer? Through movement, participants explore what the dance might need in a given moment, less intensity, more time, a pause, or an ending, and how choreography might change in response to the dancer rather than asking the dancer to conform to a fixed form. Further explorations examine the relationship between safety and unsafety, including the desire for risk in dancing and performance. The episode asks how unsafe sensations can be explored without physical harm, and what kinds of meaning, power, or resonance emerge from navigating this tension. The session closes by considering care as an ethical and choreographic decision, including the choice to stop early, reduce duration, or actively seek the least risky form of dancing. Listeners are invited to reflect on what a dance of care might be, one that includes risk without ignoring it, and how safety, consent, authority, and interpretation continue to shape the conditions in which dance is practiced. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 012 with Peter and Yari | 10 Apr 2026 | 00:39:58 | |
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 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 | |||
| S1 Ep19 Dance Workshop (Consent, Invitation, and Participation) | 06 Apr 2026 | 00:12:03 | |
S1 Ep19 Dance Workshop (Consent, Invitation, and Participation) This workshop explores consent and invitation as ongoing choreographic processes rather than fixed permissions. The episode asks when participation begins, how it is negotiated, and how dancing emerges through subtle, often invisible invitations. The session begins by attending to unspoken invitations to dance. Listeners are invited to notice when alignment, attention, watching, or responding begins without explicit requests, and to observe where the lines of consent feel active or withdrawn. These explorations can be taken into different contexts, including spaces where dance is expected, unexpected, or usually discouraged, noticing how context shapes what kinds of movement feel possible. The workshop then introduces conditional participation, using self-imposed rules such as moving only when someone else moves, stopping only when another stops, or responding to attention, absence, or perceived invitation. These conditions foreground consent as relational and contingent, shaped by others and by the environment. From there, the session explores performativity by creating consent for dance to exist and then deliberately withdrawing it. This practice examines what remains active when permission is removed, how space is produced through restraint or silence, and how the edges of dance continue to operate even when movement pauses. The episode closes by turning attention inward, inviting listeners to notice when they allow themselves to dance. Reflection focuses on moments of inclusion and exclusion, asking who decides when one is inside or outside the dance, how invitations are internalised, and how different choreographic situations might allow for multiple forms of participation, refusal, and care. Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 011 with Peter and Yari | 03 Apr 2026 | 00:39:48 | |
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: You can find more about all of Peter’s work at: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| PETER, dance with Tim Spooner | 30 Mar 2026 | 01:16:55 | |
Today we dance with Tim Spooner. To get in touch and follow Tim go to https://timspooner.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/tspooner0. Tim will be performing:
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| DANCE REFLECTIONS 010 with Peter and Yari | 27 Mar 2026 | 00:34:13 | |
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: You can find more about all of Peter’s work at: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep18 Dance Workshop (Copying, Interpretation, and Misunderstanding) | 23 Mar 2026 | 00:11:53 | |
S1 Ep18 Dance Workshop (Copying, Interpretation, and Misunderstanding) This workshop explores copying as a choreographic practice, focusing on interpretation, accuracy, deviation, and misunderstanding. Rather than treating copying as uncreative or secondary, the episode examines how copying produces difference, imagination, and movement through what is lost, exaggerated, remembered, or transformed. The session begins by inviting listeners to copy something as accurately as possible, before shifting toward copying badly on purpose by prioritising a single aspect such as timing, effort, or direction. These contrasting approaches open questions around what is valued, ignored, or permitted when we copy movement. From there, the workshop explores copying from memory, noticing what disappears, what becomes distorted, and what remains as residue. Attention is given to how memory shapes interpretation and how distance in time alters what is reproduced. The session then moves into copying across mediums, translating movement into words, drawing, sound, or other forms, and then back into movement, foregrounding translation as a choreographic tool. The episode proposes copying as an ongoing chain of reformulations, a practice of moving movement through different bodies, mediums, and interpretations. Through this, the workshop asks where copying ends and interpretation begins, whether accuracy ever truly matters, and how misunderstanding might be a productive and creative force within dancing and choreography. Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTION 009 with Peter and Yari | 20 Mar 2026 | 00:36:15 | |
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: You can find more about all of Peter’s work at: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep24 Dance Workshop (Improvisation Needs Limits) | 18 May 2026 | 00:11:29 | |
In this episode, we move from broad acceptance into something more specific: limits. While improvisation is often framed as total freedom, this session explores how clear, strict rules can actually make dancing feel more possible, playful, and rich. The episode introduces three simple but demanding improvisation prompts. First, dance while only turning left, noticing how a seemingly obvious rule quickly becomes blurry, unstable, and full of questions. What does “turning left” really mean, and where does it begin or end in the body and the space? The second prompt asks you to never repeat a movement. This near-impossible task highlights how improvisation often thrives on attempting the unachievable, and what happens when we meet failure, repetition, self-policing, or ease while dancing alone with a rule. The third prompt restricts movement to the exhale only, shifting attention to breath, timing, and how the rule shapes rhythm and decision-making. Alongside the dancing, the episode reflects on whether rules restrict or generate movement, when rules disappear during improvisation, and who enforces them once they’re forgotten. The session closes with an open assignment: create one rule for the body and one rule for the space, and improvise until those rules contradict each other. This episode continues an exploration of autonomy, freedom, and creativity within constraint, asking how limits can become sites of play rather than control. 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 | |||
| S1 Ep17 Dance Workshop (Instruction, Authority, and Following) | 16 Mar 2026 | 00:30:53 | |
S1 Ep17 Dance Workshop (Instruction, Authority, and Following) This workshop focuses on instruction and authority as core choreographic materials. Rather than treating authority as something held by a single person or role, the episode explores how authority emerges, shifts, leaks, and is negotiated through instruction, sensation, memory, time, and context. Through a performative score titled Stand, listeners are invited to experience how even the simplest instruction is never neutral, how it organises bodies, perceptions, histories, and values. Standing becomes a site for questioning obedience, resistance, consent, politics, care, and inheritance, asking who taught us how to stand, for whom, and why. The workshop then moves through a series of practices: following instructions while internally disagreeing, leading through vague or contradictory instructions, delaying obedience to observe how memory and desire reshape what is followed, and finally working with multiple authorities at once, instruction, sensation, and memory. Throughout, the session asks what causes our dancing, how we negotiate internal and external authority, and what it might mean to choreograph with multiple authorities rather than choosing one. Instruction is approached not as control, but as a space of ambiguity, creativity, and care. Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTION 008 with Peter and Yari | 13 Mar 2026 | 00:37:37 | |
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: You can find more about all of Peter’s work at: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| PETER, dance with Katye Coe | 09 Mar 2026 | 02:02:36 | |
Today we danced with Katye Coe. To get in touch with Katye’s work visit https://www.katyecoe.org or https://www.seauk.org.uk/directories/katye-coe-somatic-experiencing-practitioner-and-ait/ For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTION 007 with Peter and Yari | 06 Mar 2026 | 00:37:53 | |
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: You can find more about all of Peter’s work at: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep16 Dance Workshop (Stages, Performance, and Audience) | 02 Mar 2026 | 00:21:43 | |
S1 Ep16 Dance Workshop (Stages, Performance, and Audience) In this workshop, we use the idea of the stage as a way to think about how dance appears, how it becomes present, and how it is witnessed. Rather than treating the stage only as a traditional theatre space, the episode expands the notion of staging to include solo practice, social dance, public space, teaching situations, media, and everyday contexts. The session explores how different stages produce different kinds of performativity, attention, and choreography. Who is watching? How is the dance being witnessed? What codes are at play? Through a series of invitations, listeners are encouraged to experiment with staging their dance alone, with others, for known and unknown audiences, in private and public settings, and through non-bodily media such as sound, scores, and images. The workshop proposes staging as an active choreographic material, something that shapes how dance is understood, felt, and practiced, and invites dancers to explore how audience, context, codes, and framing continuously choreograph the dance itself. Types of Stages Mentioned
More detail: https://stillpeter.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/ Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 006 with Peter and Yari | 27 Feb 2026 | 00:36:43 | |
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: Episode reffernce: Catherine Malabou, "Stop Thief!: Anarchism and Philosophy" (Polity Books, 2023) on New Books in Political Science https://lnns.co/WFXNRuI-n_j You can find more about all of Peter’s work at: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep15 Dance Workshop (Habits) | 23 Feb 2026 | 00:25:30 | |
S1 Ep15 Dance Workshop (Habits) In this episode, we turn our attention to habits and their complex role in dancing and choreography. Drawing on Jonathan Burrows’ questions “Are you doing what you want to do, or are you following your habits?” and “What if following your habits is the right thing to do?”, the session approaches habits not as something to simply overcome, but as embodied knowledge formed through repetition, practice, and skill. The episode begins by unpacking what habits are: repeated actions that have become unconscious, allowing movement to happen without constant decision-making. Habits make dancing possible, yet they are also often what dancers attempt to disrupt in order to find new ways of moving. Rather than treating habits as a problem, this workshop holds them in a more neutral space, asking what they give us, what they limit, and whether it is ever truly possible to move outside them. A guided improvisation follows, led continuously through voice and music. You are invited to move, sit, lie down, or walk, wherever you are, while listening to a series of spoken prompts inspired by Deborah Hay–like questioning. The guidance encourages you to notice initiation, effort, attention, stillness, ease, difficulty, and choice, and to explore what happens when habits are neither corrected nor avoided, but observed as information. The voice acts as a score, gently disrupting habitual decision-making and shifting focus away from self-judgement or performance. After this shared improvisation, you are invited to explore the opposite approach: deliberately following your habits. In this short solo investigation, the task is to dance only what feels habitual and familiar, and to notice whether creativity, difference, or accident still appear. This raises questions about repetition, awareness, and whether habits can ever be fully known or isolated. The episode closes with a reflective assignment focused on practice and repetition. You are invited to journal, map, or schedule your dancing habits, noticing how practices form over time and how they choreograph the body. This reflection can be observational or intentional, structured or loose, offering a way to consider how habits shape both daily life and long-term dancing practices. This session sits between acceptance and resistance, asking not how to escape habits, but how to dance with them. Music mason by mobygratis Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 005 with Peter and Yari | 20 Feb 2026 | 00:34:11 | |
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: You can find more about all of Peter’s work at: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| PETER, dance with Lea Anderson | 16 Feb 2026 | 00:55:53 | |
Today we danced with Lea Anderson. Stay in contact with Lea via http://www.leaanderson.com/, @speakingshoes and @leaandersonscholmondeleys. References: Laurel and Hardy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_and_Hardy Laurel and Hardy - Dance Routine - Way Out West (1937) - https://youtu.be/LXCwlO2jnYU?si=yra0RLSojsATBJy0 Hannah Höch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_H%C3%B6ch Hannah Höch, Grotesque - https://artofcollage.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/hannah-hoch/#jp-carousel-3017 Hannah Höch , Balance - https://artofcollage.wordpress.com/2019/09/26/hannah-hoch/#jp-carousel-3005 Yippeee!!! (2006) - http://www.leaanderson.com/tag/yippee Busby Berkeley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby_Berkeley Edits (2010) - http://www.leaanderson.com/works Sadlers Wells - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadler's_Wells_Theatre Neu! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neu! Neu!, Super https://youtu.be/DJ4Pf-WB57U?si=KeP26P39PBHYxRff Merce Cunningham Company - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_Cunningham Zeitgeist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs: 40 years of style and design - http://www.leaanderson.com/works/birthday-book Steve Blake - https://steveblakemusic.wordpress.com/bio/ Simon Vincenzi - https://www.simonvincenzi.com/ Sandy Powell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Powell_(costume_designer) Lea Anderson, Laboratorio de danza Step by Step, presentación - https://youtu.be/3ztxV4A3_9o?si=du9h0VAkUOTQ3s8h PETER, dance with Frank Bock - https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/#fb PETER, dance with Simon Vincenzi - https://stillpeter.com/peter-dance-with-podcast/#sv For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 004 with Peter and Yari | 13 Feb 2026 | 00:35:57 | |
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: You can find more about all of Peter’s work at: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 017 with Peter and Yari | 15 May 2026 | 01:03:59 | |
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 now 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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| S1 Ep14 Dance Workshop (Movement or experience as Material / Scores) | 09 Feb 2026 | 00:21:52 | |
S1 Ep14 Dance Workshop (Movement or experience as Material / Scores) In this session, the focus shifts from choreography as set steps toward movement and experience as material. Building on the previous episode’s exploration of set choreography, the workshop opens choreography back up again, asking what happens when movement is treated less as a fixed product and more as something that can be shaped, altered, abstracted, and reworked. The session begins by proposing movement as something similar to clay: a material that can be molded, refined, reduced, layered, and reshaped over time. Participants are invited to take a movement and work on it incrementally, making small changes, extracting parts, adding texture, tone, or emphasis, and viewing the movement from multiple angles. This process can be done directly through the body or through external materials such as clay, drawing, writing, video, or images, continually returning to the experience of movement itself. Alongside this, the workshop addresses the complications of treating the body as material. Attention is given to how choreographing on oneself can lead to over-identification with image, self-presentation, and visibility. By working with movement as material among other materials, the practice offers a way to distance choreography from personal identity, allowing movement to be handled, tested, and changed without needing to fully represent the self. The session then introduces choreography as score. Rather than choreography only meaning set steps, it is framed as a system of instructions or written directions that inform movement. Participants are invited to write scores ranging from highly detailed to extremely minimal, noticing how different forms of instruction affect autonomy, intention, memory, and interpretation. The relationship between scoring and improvisation is acknowledged as fluid, with scores functioning both as compositional tools and as prompts for exploration. Toward the end of the workshop, attention turns to what else might be considered material: not only movements or instructions, but also the transitions, gaps, and relationships between elements. From here, participants are invited to work with what is most readily available in their experience, allowing ease, accessibility, and external materials to lead the dance. Objects, environments, or simple external cues are used to guide movement, shifting choreography away from control and toward acceptance of what emerges. The session closes with a reflective assignment that moves outside the studio, encouraging participants to articulate their dancing through conversation, using language as another way of shaping and understanding choreographic material. Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 003 with Peter and Yari | 06 Feb 2026 | 00:21:59 | |
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: 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: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep13 Dance Workshop (Choreography as Set and Setting Steps) | 02 Feb 2026 | 00:27:58 | |
S1 Ep13 Dance Workshop (Choreography as Set and Setting Steps) In this session, we focus on choreography in its most familiar sense: choreography as set material, as steps that can be repeated, remembered, ordered, and followed. Building on the previous episode’s exploration of what choreography is and where it comes from, this workshop turns toward how choreography is made concrete through steps, phrases, and sequences. The workshop begins with a sustained repetition of a single, simple movement. By repeating one step for an extended duration, attention is drawn to how a movement is initiated, what elements of it are essential, and how repetition relies on memory, sensation, and bodily awareness. This exercise foregrounds the labour of precision and the difficulty of doing “the same thing” again and again. From there, the session opens into improvisation, inviting participants to notice when steps begin to emerge from free movement. Rather than deciding steps in advance, the focus is on recognising how movements become identifiable, repeatable, and potentially part of a sequence. The workshop then shifts toward consciously setting choreography. Participants create a short sequence of steps and observe how they remember, order, and connect movements. Attention is given to decision-making around transitions, timing, spacing, and orientation, as well as the different tools that can support memorisation and composition, such as writing, counting, recording, or visual reference. Finally, the session addresses choreography as something that can exist outside oneself, by copying and following an external source such as a video or written description. This brings questions of authority, accuracy, control, and interpretation into focus, asking where choreography actually resides when steps are set and followed. The session closes with a reflective task that turns away from strict execution and toward description. By describing movement qualities in words, participants are invited to consider how language itself can influence, prompt, and shape dancing, without fixing it into a rigid form. Linda Wardal: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2251240/episodes/14185052 Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 002 with Peter and Yari | 30 Jan 2026 | 00:35:51 | |
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: 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: Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| PETER, dance with Sara Ruddock | 26 Jan 2026 | 01:09:42 | |
Today we danced with Sara Ruddock. Stay in contact with Sara at https://sararuddock.com/.
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| DANCE REFLECTIONS 001 with Peter and Yari | 23 Jan 2026 | 00:37:47 | |
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: Watch videos of all Dance Reflections Episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5iebzO4vouz_45v7u7SeYn6fpgp7uN2m
Listen to the other podcast series here: DANCE WORKSHOP Music empty five by mobygratis For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep12 Dance Workshop (What is choreography?) | 19 Jan 2026 | 00:19:32 | |
S1 Ep12 Dance Workshop (What is choreography?) In this session, we shift focus from how we dance to what is being danced. After exploring multiple approaches to improvisation and movement, the workshop turns toward choreography, not as fixed steps to be copied, but as the set of conditions, influences, and structures that inform movement. The episode begins by questioning a common understanding of choreography as something taught and reproduced. Instead, choreography is approached as that which informs dancing: histories, contexts, people, objects, spaces, moods, language, and attention. Improvisation is examined not as complete freedom, but as something already shaped by these influences. This opens a blurred space where choreographed and improvised practices overlap rather than oppose one another. From here, the session introduces the idea of choreography as an art form in itself, sometimes referred to as expanded choreography. Rather than asking only how steps are made, the workshop asks what causes dance to take the form it does, and whether those causes might themselves be considered choreographic material. Furniture, clothing, architecture, habits, music, instructions, and social situations are all considered as potential choreographers. The practical exploration invites participants to dance while paying attention to what is structuring their movement. This includes revisiting earlier exercises, such as trying not to dance and noticing when dance emerges, or deliberately dancing and asking what makes it feel like dance. Participants are encouraged to experiment with music and silence, different spaces, and varying contexts, while observing what informs their movement choices. The second part of the session focuses on collecting choreographic influences. Participants are invited to gather what choreographs them: movements they’ve learned, music they return to, objects, environments, images, words, or observed behaviours. Reflection is approached through multiple methods including journaling, drawing, recording, watching, copying, and revisiting material, emphasising rehearsal, repetition, and noticing. The workshop concludes with a reflective practice drawn from Zoë Poluch’s work: a simple instruction to “just dance.” Without analysing or structuring, participants are invited to let go and allow dancing itself to become the reflection on choreography and the questions raised throughout the session. This episode frames choreography as an ongoing, lived process rather than a finished product, offering tools to notice how dance is continually shaped in everyday life. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2251240/episodes/15073886-ep-29-peter-dance-with-zoe-poluch Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep11 Dance workshop (Coordination) | 12 Jan 2026 | 00:18:10 | |
S1 Ep11 Dance workshop (Coordination) Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| PETER, dance with Jonathan Burrows | 05 Jan 2026 | 01:09:01 | |
Today we danced with Jonathan Burrows. To follow Jonathan’s artistic work go to burrowsfargion.com and for his academic work go to pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/jonathan-burrows. To watch full length videos of Burrows and Fargion's work go to vimeo.com/burrowsfargion. Jonathan Burrows danced for 13 years with the Royal Ballet in London, during which time he also began performing regularly with experimental choreographer Rosemary Butcher. He has since created an internationally acclaimed body of performance work including ‘The Stop Quartet’ (1996), ‘Weak Dance Strong Questions’ with Jan Ritsema (2001), and his long series of collaborations with composer Matteo Fargion including ‘Both Sitting Duet’ (2002), ‘The Quiet Dance’ (2005), ‘Speaking Dance’ (2006), ‘Cheap Lecture’ (2009), ‘The Cow Piece’ (2009), ‘Body Not Fit For Purpose’ (2014), ‘Rewriting’ (2021) and 'The Unison Piece' (2025). Burrows is a founder visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S Belgium and has for many years been a regular collaborator for Jonzi D’s Back To The Lab hip hop theatre mentoring project at Breakin’ Convention, Sadler’s Wells London. He is the author of 'A Choreographer's Handbook' (Routledge) and ‘Writing Dance’ (Varamo Press, 2022), and is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University. For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep10 Dance workshop (Breath) | 29 Dec 2025 | 00:38:38 | |
S1 Ep10 Dance workshop (Breath) In this episode, we return to breath as the basis of movement. I speak about the role breath played in my performance O, and how the score I used there can function as a simple structure for dancing: grounding, breath, vocal resonance, expansion, and release. We begin with grounding and noticing the breath without changing anything. From there, we work through a series of vocal and physical expansions inspired by Leah Landau and Lisa Schåman. We follow a progression of sounds — sighs, yawns, small vibrations, and vowel tones (u–o–e–a–m) — noticing how each one creates a different kind of movement or softening. The session also includes panting, laughter, and crying as physical rhythms rather than emotional expressions. At one point, the group builds toward a short collective scream, simply as a shared peak of breath and sound, before letting everything drop back into quiet. After the scream, we stay with whatever movement remains when we stop “trying” to move. Throughout the episode the focus stays on breath as the primary mover, allowing the body’s movement to remain secondary or responsive. The session ends with a period of dancing with breath in your own way — in silence or with music — followed by a brief reflection on how breath affected the quality of movement. Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| A day in dance with SARA MÖRK, Peter and Yari | 11 May 2026 | 01:09:17 | |
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 Mörk’s work at: @thesaramork 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.com/peter-audio-dance-workshop/ Music: “empty five” by mobygratis | |||
| S1 Ep9 Dance workshop (Effort and Ease) | 22 Dec 2025 | 00:12:05 | |
S1 Ep9 Dance workshop (Effort and Ease) This episode focuses on the tone and energy of movement, exploring the dynamic spectrum between effort and ease. You’ll start by sensing where tension, holding, or gripping exists in your body, gradually exaggerating and then releasing it, noticing how attention itself carries effort. Through free movement, you’ll explore high-effort gestures—pushing, resisting, reaching—contrasted with low-effort, yielding, and softening actions. Imaginative prompts, such as moving through air, water, syrup, or stone, help you feel how effort adapts to different qualities of resistance. Next, you’ll engage in “repetitive waves”: small repetitive movements that swell to intensity and fade to near nothing, discovering how to sustain, release, and let ease lead. The session culminates in whole-body movement in ease, inviting flow, suspension, and softness with and without music. Finally, reflection exercises encourage you to map where effort and ease live in your body, sketch or write about your sensations, and consider how this awareness can inform your next movements, daily activities, and ongoing practice. By the end, you’ll have a deeper sensitivity to the tonal qualities of your dancing and a richer sense of how effort and ease interact in motion. Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| PETER, dance with Lorea Burge | 15 Dec 2025 | 01:10:31 | |
S3 Ep5 PETER, dance with Lorea Burge Today we dance with Lorea Burge. You can get in contact with Lorea Burge here https://www.loreaburge.com/ and follow Lorea on instagram @loreaburge. And at the Rose Choreographic School https://rosechoreographicschool.com/. References:
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| S1 Ep8 Dance workshop (Size and Scale) | 08 Dec 2025 | 00:12:49 | |
You’ll then be guided through exercises inspired by Glenda Batson and Susan Sentler, exploring the concept of the fold. First, you’ll investigate folds in your environment—fabric, paper, furniture—then shift your attention inward to the folds and creases within your own body. Finally, you’ll play with folding and unfolding yourself, imagining how your movements can expand into the surrounding world or contract into the universe. The session concludes by inviting you to map your dance across multiple scales: from the particle level to planetary phenomena, from micro-movements to cosmic gestures. By the end, you’ll have developed a heightened awareness of scale, attention, and imagination in your dancing, and new ways to perceive and shape movement in relation to space, self, and the wider world. Dance workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep7 Dance workshop (Direction and Pathways) | 01 Dec 2025 | 00:20:11 | |
S1 Ep7 Dance workshop (Direction and Pathways) In this session, we turn our attention to where movement goes, to direction, pathway, and the lines our bodies trace through space. What determines where we move? Is it choice, curiosity, gravity, emotion, or something else entirely? We begin by drawing invisible lines through the air, straight, curved, spiralled, zigzagged, inspired by William Forsythe’s improvisation technologies, where the dancer becomes a kind of draftsman, sketching motion in space. From there, the session shifts toward losing and finding orientation: following impulses, sounds, or sensations that redirect us. We wander and deviate, noticing what happens when direction dissolves into discovery. The episode then explores the body as compass, guided not by left and right but by north, south, east, and west, a way to reimagine orientation as planetary rather than anatomical. This expands into experiments with momentum and redirection, asking: how can we keep moving without simply continuing? What does it mean to be redirected, by a wall, the floor, another person, without stopping? Finally, we play with forgetting direction: moving toward something, then letting go of the intention and finding a new path in the same motion. This practice of continuous reorientation invites a softer sense of purpose, where each line and curve becomes an open question. By the end, the focus widens back to daily life, noticing how direction and pathway shape not only our dancing, but the way we inhabit the world: every trace, curve, and hesitation a kind of personal choreography. Dance workshop 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/ For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| PETER, dance with Neil Paris | 24 Nov 2025 | 01:25:58 | |
Today we danced with Neil Paris. To contact Neil Paris email smith_paris@hotmail.com References:
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| S1 Ep6 Dance workshop (Tempo and Rhythm) | 17 Nov 2025 | 00:20:03 | |
S1 Ep6 Dance workshop (Tempo and Rhythm) In this session we turn to time: the internal clocks that live in your breath and pulse, and the external cues that shape how we move. You’ll be invited to listen first, to your heartbeat, your breathing, the quiet rhythms already present in your body, then to use that inner tempo as a guide for movement. We move through simple experiments: syncing movement to breath, exploring snail-slow and lightning-fast tempi, and noticing what kinds of movement each speed invites. Then you’ll make rhythm with your body, claps, stomps, vocal sounds, and feel the difference between sounding a beat and marking it with gesture. After that we bring in outside rhythms: dancing with, against, or ignoring a chosen piece of music, and watching how it changes your choices. The episode also opens up the idea of polyrythm, multiple rhythms layered through the body, and offers a practical challenge: try moving one body part slow while another moves fast. Finally, there’s a long, free exploration without music, so you can discover how many rhythms may already be living in you and how they shape what you want to make. By the end you’ll have a clearer sense of whether rhythm is central to your dance, how external structure helps or limits you, and what tempos light up your curiosity. Bring patience, a willingness to sound silly, and a notebook if you like, this one rewards listening and reflection. Dance workshop 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/ For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep5 Dance workshop (Balance and Imbalance) | 10 Nov 2025 | 00:14:05 | |
S1 Ep5 Dance workshop (Balance & Imbalance) In this session we explore balance as both a physical and conceptual experience, how we find stability and how we lose it. Building from last week’s work on Weight & Gravity, this episode looks at balance as an ever-changing negotiation rather than a fixed position. You’ll be guided through a series of experiments: finding your own centre of balance, tipping, twisting, and reaching beyond your base of support. We’ll play with different dynamics, stillness and suspension, speed and softness, to notice how balance shifts with every choice we make. Rather than drawing from established dance techniques, this session invites you to explore your own ways of balancing and destabilising, to ask how risk and control shape your dancing. Is balance a point of safety, or a moment of daring? How do you balance your references, your emotions, your sense of self within dance? Through this, we continue developing a personal and felt understanding of dance, one that’s grounded, unstable, and alive. Dance workshop 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/ For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| PETER, dance with Hanna Gillgren | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:53:15 | |
S3 Ep3 PETER dance with Hanna Gillgren Dates for festenfest 2026:
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| S1 Ep4 Dance workshop (Weight and Gravity) | 27 Oct 2025 | 00:28:27 | |
In this session we explore one of the most fundamental forces in dance: gravity. Together we investigate how weight shapes every movement, from the subtle balancing of Steve Paxton’s Small Dances to the dynamic play of falling and catching yourself. You’ll be guided through exercises that invite you to feel your centre of gravity, to yield or resist weight, and to notice how balance is constantly negotiated in the body. We expand this exploration into movement with the ground, furniture, and even the walls around you, introducing ideas from contact improvisation, release technique, and somatic practices like Body-Mind Centering. You’ll also experiment with the “weight of consciousness,” sensing how holding or remembering weight changes your awareness and your movement possibilities. By the end, you’ll have a richer felt understanding of how weight supports, challenges, and inspires dance, whether you’re walking, rolling, balancing, or simply standing still. Dance workshop 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/ For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep3 Dance workshop (Stillness as Dance) | 20 Oct 2025 | 00:20:31 | |
S1 Ep3 Dance workshop (Stillness as Dance) In this episode, we explore the role of stillness in dance and how pauses, holds, and subtle micro-movements shape the way we perceive and create movement. Through guided exercises, you’ll develop a deeper awareness of your body’s natural stillness, experiment with accumulating stillness, and play with the contrast between motion and pause. You’ll also reflect on how stillness interacts with movement, space, and attention, helping you notice nuances in your dancing and expand your creative expression. With exercises designed for solo practice or paired exploration, this episode highlights how both movement and stillness are essential tools for understanding and shaping your personal dance vocabulary. Dance Workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| DANCE REFLECTIONS 016 with Peter and Yari | 08 May 2026 | 00:30:04 | |
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 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 | |||
| PETER, dance with Dan Canham | 13 Oct 2025 | 00:41:58 | |
S3 Ep2 PETER, dance with Dan Canham References:
Closing event for Bradford City of Culture 2025, Winter Solstice 20th and 21st of December in Myrtle Park - https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/brighter-still/ For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep2 Dance workshop (Space and Self) | 06 Oct 2025 | 00:15:45 | |
S1 Ep2 Dance workshop (Space and Self) In this session, we turn our attention to space, the rooms we move in, the pathways we carve, and the invisible boundaries that shape how we dance. Through guided explorations, you’ll notice how your body relates to positive and negative space, how personal space expands and contracts, and how moving across a room creates paths that carry meaning. You’ll also experiment with proximity, boundaries, and how awareness of the environment, walls, objects, even imagined others, changes your felt sense of dancing. This episode invites you to deepen your awareness of where you are, how you occupy space, and how space itself becomes a partner in your dancing. By the end, you’ll have new insights into how the environments around you shape your movement, your choices, and your evolving sense of dance. Dance workshop 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/ For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| S1 Ep1 Dance workshop (What is dance?) | 29 Sep 2025 | 00:23:25 | |
S1 Ep1 Dance workshop, What is dance? In this first session, we begin with the deceptively simple but endlessly complex question: what is dance? Through a series of guided exercises, you’ll explore your own felt sense, the bodily awareness that tells you when something feels like dance and when it doesn’t. Starting with the practice of not dancing, you’ll learn to notice where dance emerges in your everyday actions, how it shifts with your attention, and how your personal definitions already shape the way you move. No experience is required. Whether you’re new to dance or returning after years of practice, this episode invites you to pause, experiment, and reflect on your unique relationship to movement. By the end, you’ll have started building your own map of dance, one rooted in curiosity, perception, and the knowledge already in your body. Dance Workshop 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 For information about PETER visit stillpeter.com. | |||
| PETER, dance with Matthias Sperling | 22 Sep 2025 | 01:08:22 | |
S3 Ep1 PETER, dance with Matthias Sperling In Stockholm in early October 2025 Matthias will give a two-week series of workshops and performances https://www.fylkingen.se/en/events/no-how-generator-matthias-sperling-and-katye-coe#title of No-How Generator , thanks to support from Fylkingen, Uniarts and Dansalliansen. Special thanks to Efrosini Protopapa. References:
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