How a performance gets built to do something to a spectator: choreographer Catherine Gaudet talks ambiguity, ritual, exhaustion and the working conditions of dancers with Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova and Patrick Oancia, at Espace Libre in Montreal.
Ksenia Asia Shcherbakova and Matan Levkowich discuss dance’s profound role in shaping human consciousness on the Material for The Brain podcast.
Though dance is supposed to grow “embodiment,” can it lead to disembodied perceptual experience? Catherine Gaudet’s “Les jolies choses” held my attention so completely that my body awareness dropped away for an hour.
In this episode, Patrick, Asia and Maria Lucia discuss the experiences that shaped Maria Lucia’s career in dance, from co-founding the Tanzmoto Dance Company to the creation of Mukti Espacio Vivo. The conversation gets into Maria’s personal journey, including her struggles with educational expectations, the importance of family support, and the influences that led her to focus on authenticity and self-expression in her professional and personal life.
