Episodes
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Tony danced among Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet for many years and performed for Jan Fabre among others. He has been creating his own pieces and teaching ballet for decades.
His view of ballet is out of the ordinary and he brings passion and fullness to everything he does. I find Tony exceptionally inspiring and wanted to share with you a dash of his story and guidance.
Book your tickets for his new show @Frankfurt LAB
—> 13.11.2021, 19:30
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In this special double-host episode, Wouter and Alix share their experience as "Corona-podcasters". How did they manage the lockdowns as freelancers? What made them start this new journey? What is it like to be juggling with dance and other passions?
Wouter Vertogen is the founder and CEO of The Freelancer Talk as well as a freelance dancer and teacher based in Rotterdam (Netherlands). Follow him on instagram @rebellevertogen and join his community of creative freelancers to showcase your portfolio, connect with other freelancers and find your next projects on the platform thefreelancertalk.com.
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Julia Schunevitsch is a dancer / martial artist / professional stunt woman. She keeps switching from one discipline to another, creating her unique path between the performing arts and art of fight and self-control.
In this episode, she shares how she ended up being the double of Hollywood stars, her travel to Indonesia and the search for her genuine style.
Hope you enjoy this as much as we did.
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Working as a souffleuse for an opera allows you to embody every single character of the piece and live the performance at its fullest, being connected to the singers, the musicians and the chef of the orchestra. Fabienne Jost has been working at the Komische Oper Berlin for the past 6 years after a career of 20 years as an opera singer through Germany and Europe.
Get to know about her job and her passion for text in this episode.
Mentioned in this episode:
• Komische Oper Berlin
• vocal coaching
• Oedipe
• Orphée
• Dialogues des Carmélites
• Régine Crespin
• Poulenc
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Fanny Rognone approaches asanas under her architect eye. While she was completing her teacher training, she launched a blog that became famous very fast and the family of B.K.S. Iyengar (an Indian guru) commissioned her to illustrate a book. A 3 years journey started...
Fanny is now teaching in Nice (South of France) in her yoga studio called Super Studio (www.superstudio.yoga) and online since the start of the pandemic.
Mentioned in this episode:
• Iyengar Yoga, Hatha Yoga and Vinyasa Yoga
• breathing techniques
• meditation
• postures (asanas)
• B.K.S. Iyengar
• Krishna Macharia
• alignment
• anatomy
• yoga teacher training
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The Pill and other hormonal contraceptives shut down your brain in order to avoid pregnancy.
With Jenny Koos aka Vulverine - a Justisse reproductive health practitioner and a faculty member of the Justisse College International - discover how hormonal contraception really works.
Disclaimer: this episode is not against the Pill. It gives information about hormonal contraceptives to encourage active choice making instead of passive acceptance.
I highly recommend that you checkout a previous episode called “What are the different phases of a menstrual cycle?” if you are not familiar with this topic.
Facts:
• In 2010, Bayer made $1.5 billion from Yaz, then its second best-selling product.
• Today, 80% of women will take the birth control pill at some point during their lifetimes.
• 50% of women under age 25 use the pill in the US.
• 50% of women taking the pill say they want to regulate their periods and are prescribed the pill for this reason first.Find Jenny on:
• vulverine.se
• boon.tv/vulverine
• instagram.com/vulverinekoosMentioned in this episode:
• the Pill
• hormonal IUD, vaginal ring, hormonal implant
• hormonal glands
• Hypothalamus, pituitary gland, ovaries
• negative feedback loop
• menstrual cycle
• estrogen and progesterone
• Follicular phase and Luteal phase
• Progestin, ethinyl estradiol and gestogens
• ovulation
• menstruation
• withdrawal bleeding
• the boomerang effect
• uterus and Fallopian tubes
• ectopic pregnancy
• PMS and PCOS
• combined Pill, mini Pill
• going off the Pill
• endocrine disruptor
• Sweetening the Pill or how we got hooked on hormonal birth control, by Holly Grigg-Spall -
Yukie has a double curve S-shaped-scoliosis. She was bullied as a kid, told by her doctor that she would be in a wheelchair by the age of 16, told by the director of her dance academy that she would never be a dancer but she chose to travel from the Netherlands to America to make her dream come true.
Today, she has to navigate the dance world with its "being straight" standard, face the ignorance of many people and the emotional challenges of being a dancer but she wouldn't trade that life for anything.
Mentioned in this episode:
• The National Ballet Academy of Amsterdam
• corset / brace
• Pilates, Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis
• rods (implanted to treat scoliosis)
• Yuko Giannakis
• Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
• Codarts
• The Ailey School
• Amala Dianor
• trigger point therapyYukie gives Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis classes in Amsterdam at Full Circle Studio and online. You can contact her at [email protected].
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Weronika Frodyma was followed by the director Aneta Popiel-Machnicka and her husband, Michał Popiel-Machnicki for the documentary called "Sometimes I dream I'm flying" released in 2013. During 6 years, from the Warsaw Ballet School to the Berlin Staatsballett, the two Polish cinematographers got to film her professional and private life, in the dance studio, on stage, at home, in hospital and more.
Get to know Weronika's impressions on this experience and how this chapter of her life - approached from the angle of frustration, loneliness and pain - made her grow and blossom.
Mentioned in this episode:
• Aneta Popiel-Machnicka
• Michał Popiel-Machnicki
• Warsaw Ballet School
• National Opera in Warsaw
• Vaganova Academy
• American Ballet Theatre
• Carmen de Robles Dance Academy in Las Palmas, Anatol Yanowsky and Carmen Robles
• Berlin Staatsballett
• Polina Semionova
• knee injury (patella)
• rehabilitation and physiotherapy
• Xenia WiestThe documentary is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuOtBdghrjY
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The inventor of Flying low and the founder of TIC TAC art center started dancing in clubs in Venezuela with his sister before moving to New York and setting the dance floor on fire with disco dance. In night clubs, he met good dancers and invited them to explore movement in a studio he rented.
It's only later that David Zambrano met the floor ; after an injury. What started with rolls then developed into a worldwide language known as Flying low before Passing through and couple dance came along. After more than thirty years of travelling, David decided to take a 10 years "rock star" break in Brussels and build his temple ; TIC TAC.
Discover his full story in this episode.
Mentioned in this episode:
• couple dance
• disco dance
• Flying low
• Passing through
• Impuls Tanz
• improvisation
• floor work
• P.A.R.T.S, Rosas
• Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus
• Simone Forti
• Anna Halprin
• Mat Voorter
• ZOO/Thomas Hauert
• nano movements
• Deltebre dansaFind David Zambrano in TIC TIC art centre: tictacartcentre.com
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While many people have trouble squatting, people from some cultures and demographics seem to find it easy and comfortable.
Is the deep squat impossible for me because I am from a different culture and background? Is it possible but it will take time? Is it possible but it will take generations? Tomislav English, a mover and researcher - who in 2015 founded Ferus Animi //Terra Nova movement research - will answer these questions by taking us through anthropological, cultural, biomechanical and philosophical knowledge and more.
Mentioned in this episode:
• flexibility and mobility
• ethnicity, physiology, anthropology and culture
• environment interaction
• technology
• neurosciences
• evolution
• sedentary lifestyle
• environmental tools
• biomechanical energy needs
• the stretch reflex
• skills and movements
• childhood and puberty
• postural integrityFind Tomislav and his collective on ferus-animi-terra-nova.org and on instagram @ferus.animi.terra.nova.
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Feeling like crying when your physio gives you a psoas stretch? That’s not surprising. Most of the time, this stretch feels really nasty and the psoas is known as the “emotion muscle”.
With Chloé Arnoux, an osteopath, yoga teacher and blogger based in Paris, you’ll get to know more about this muscle and how to pamper it. Nutrition, posture, balance between reinforcing and stretching… so many things enter into consideration!
Mentioned in this episode:
• warm up
• stretching
• Pilates
• Svadhisthana
• inguinal, umbilical and scrotal hernias
• crunches
• dance educationFind Chloé on osteo-arnouxb.fr
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The French Cancan was a forbidden dance when the Moulin Rouge opened.
And when Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller opened this cabaret, they recruited the best Parisian performers and offered them a fortune to join the Moulin Rouge. Thierry Outrilla, the "living legend" of the Moulin, recruited 46 years ago, tells us about this phenomenal place, its dancers, its shows...
A special thanks to Alexia Pau and Fanny Rabasse who made the Moulin Rouge interviews' series possible.
Mentioned in this episode:
• Montmartre
• French Cancan
• Toulouse Lautrec
• Quadrille réaliste
• Celeste Mogador
• Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller
• La Goulue, Jane Avril, Valentin le Désossé
• Monsieur Clerico
• Cécile Sorel
• Casino de Paris
• Les Folies Bergères
• Liza Minelliwww.moulinrouge.fr
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Feeling controlled by your hormones is not inevitable or a divine punishment. And, yes, painkillers or the pill are not the real solution.
Get to discover the natural functioning of a menstrual cycle, what is “normal” and what should make you change your habits and see a health practitioner. Understand what are your body mechanisms linked to fertility and give a chance to tune with yourself.
Siri.Kalla from Our Fertlity speaks to us in detail about the menstrual cycle and our inner-seasons. You will see that nothing happens “locally” and that the body works as a whole thanks to her knowledge in the Justisse Method (a symptothermal method of Fertility Awareness).
Enjoy!
Mentioned in this episode:
• period
• cervical mucus
• ovulation
• follicular phase / luteal phase
• menstrual bleeding
• menstrual health
• imbalance / disturbances
• menstruation
• estrogen / progesterone
• follicle
• corpus luteum
• fertile window
• infertile phase
• ovaries
• endometrium
• sexual hormones
• serotonin / dopamine
• neurochemicals
• uterus
• PMS
• cycle synch training
• holistic health
• Justisse Method
• SENSIPLANFind Siri on ourfertility.no and connect with her on Facebook and Instagram @our.fertility.
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The idea that Martha Graham was suddenly revolutionary is a myth. It was a whole process.
Rafael Molina, a dancer, choreographer, writer and the founder of Graham for Europe will take us back to the birth of this dance in New York and through time and space in the steps of Martha and her disciples.
Mentioned in this episode:
• Denishawn
• Loïe Fuller
• Isadora Duncan
• American Modern Dance
• Louis Horst
• Movement Studies
• Bennington college
• Doris Humphrey
• Mary Wigman
• Juilliard
• The Ailey School
• floor work / standing work / going across the floor
• Graham technique
• Batsheva Dance Company
• London School of Contemporary Dance
• London Contemporary Dance Theatre
• Robert Cohan
• Rudra Béjart's School
• Jerusalem Dance Academy
• Kibbutz Dance Company
• Ohad Naharin
• LaGuardia High SchoolFind Rafael on grahamforeurope.com
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Amanda has been dancing at the Moulin Rouge for 14 years.
In this episode, she tells us about her story.Mentioned in this episode:
• French Cancan
• Australia
• soloist dancer
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Summer festivals with traditional dances are a great opportunity to gather and share beautiful moments. But behind this fun and relaxed facette, there are some tough training and high standards. This is the case for Sardana, a traditional dance from Catalunya (in Spain and France).
Béatrice Marty - a former competition dancer - introduces us to this style and its rules.
Mentioned in this episode:
• contrepas
• espadrilles
• cap de colla
• faixa
• cobla
• Collioure -
Giving birth is like sex, it's an intense and pleasurable experience. That's how Shirley Pavlik, a nurse and the founder of the WanderWomen Clinic (based in Haifa, Israel) feels about birth.
After a traumatic experience in hospital and loosing confidence in the medical establishment, she chose to empower herself with knowledge about the body and self-connection. She got to understand the reproductive functions of the body, tuned in with her menstrual cycles, and embraced her inner-seasons. Fertility awareness was the starting point of this journey toward her life changing experience.
Get to know her whole orgasmic birth stories in this episode.
Enjoy!
Mentioned in this episode:
• fear of the medical establishment
• Fertility Awareness
• Natural Family Planning
• cervical mucus, cervix and basal body temperature
• menstruation
• menstrual cycle
• SENSIPLAN
• symptothermal method
• contraception
• sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) / parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest)
• mucus plug
• nipple stimulation
• water birth
• oxytocin surgewanderclinic.info
Books recommendation:
Spiritual midwifery, Ina May Gaskin
Taking Charge of your Fertility, Toni Weschler -
Dive into the world of the Moulin Rouge! This is the first episode of a series about this famous Parisian cabaret.
Today, discover what it is like to be the dance captain of a renown show with Aurore Houet who stayed at this position for 14 years before retiring 3 years ago.
Enjoy the Féérie!
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Breaking a vicious circle happens most times when you hit rock bottom. What if we weren’t waiting for that and educating ourselves as soon as possible? It’s one of the messages that I got from my exchange with Frey Faust, the founder of Axis Syllabus.
He danced for several iconic choreographers such as Merce Cunningham, Daniel Ezralow, Stephen Petronio and Meredith Monk but felt that something was wrong as a lot of dancers around him were getting injured and as he was feeling more and more pain throughout his career. But, he still had to reach the point of not being able to walk to dive into the scientific findings of the study of the human body and movement in order to find a better way of training and moving.
Discover Frey’s story in this episode.
Mentioned in this episode:
• Joseph Pilates and Pilates
• Juliu Horvath and Gyrotonic
• Axis Syllabus
• Marcel Marceau
• Daniel Ezralow, Merce Cunningham, Stephen Petronio, Meredith Monk
• Cecchetti method / Vaganova method
• Janet Panetta
• rolling, crawling, running, walking, climbing and jumping
• human movement alphabet
• axisforums.org
• [email protected] -
In this episode, I share the reasons why I started this podcast and my feelings about this first season :) Enjoy.
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