MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS

Nicholas Thayer is a London-born, Netherlands-based composer, producer and inter-disciplinary artist. His electronic and new classical work has been composed for dance pieces, gallery installations and site specific work.

He and Emma discuss Entropy,a lockdown collaboration for Ballet Zurich that has finally been performed live on stage and the album it lead to: Tetramer, out now. They also talk about adolescent musical tastes, how Glenn Gould revolutionised the recording studio and that time Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee sent Nicholas an email...

The 3 Questions...

Was there a piece of art that changed everything for you?

'Appetite for Destruction', Guns‘n Roses,

Was there a piece of art that you think has value but don’t necessarily like?

N/A! If he thinks a piece of art has value, he must therefore like it.

What/who should we check out that we may not know about?...

The documentary film Sisters with Transistors

Thoughts and lectures of Brian Eno

The work of Ryoji Ikeda

Nicholas Thayer is a London-born, Netherlands-based composer, producer and inter-disciplinary artist. His electronic and new classical work has been composed for dance pieces, gallery installations and site specific work.

He and Emma discuss Entropy,a lockdown collaboration for Ballet Zurich that has finally been performed live on stage and the album it lead to: Tetramer, out now. They also talk about adolescent musical tastes, how Glenn Gould revolutionised the recording studio and that time Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee sent Nicholas an email...

The 3 Questions...

Was there a piece of art that changed everything for you?

'Appetite for Destruction', Guns‘n Roses,

Was there a piece of art that you think has value but don’t necessarily like?

N/A! If he thinks a piece of art has value, he must therefore like it.

What/who should we check out that we may not know about?...

The documentary film Sisters with Transistors

Thoughts and lectures of Brian Eno

The work of Ryoji Ikeda

Yann Seabra is a stage designer whose work has been sought after by companies such as The Royal Opera House, San Francisco Ballet, Circa, Ballet Black and Protein Dance company.

He and Emma discuss the tutu he designed with 5000 Swarovski crystals on it for Cira Robinson, why he loves a 70s silhouette, his long time collaboration with choreographer Arthur Pita and his new work for Mthuthuzeli November's piece Wailers at Northern Ballet.

www.yannseabra.com

The 3 Questions...

Was there a piece of art that changed everything for you?

Alternative Miss World

Was there a piece of art that you think has value but don’t necessarily like?

Tate Modern: Surrealism Beyond Borders

What/who should we check out that we may not know about?...

Dmitri Papapganos and Katrin Brach

Yann Seabra is a stage designer whose work has been sought after by companies such as The Royal Opera House, San Francisco Ballet, Circa, Ballet Black and Protein Dance company.

He and Emma discuss the tutu he designed with 5000 Swarovski crystals on it for Cira Robinson, why he loves a 70s silhouette, his long time collaboration with choreographer Arthur Pita and his new work for Mthuthuzeli November's piece Wailers at Northern Ballet.

www.yannseabra.com

The 3 Questions...

Was there a piece of art that changed everything for you?

Alternative Miss World

Was there a piece of art that you think has value but don’t necessarily like?

Tate Modern: Surrealism Beyond Borders

What/who should we check out that we may not know about?...

Dmitri Papapganos and Katrin Brach

Alesandra Seutin is an award-winning multidisciplinary performance artist and choreographer who works internationally between Senegal, Belgium and the UK. She leads two international touring dance performance companies: Vocab Dance which she founded 2007 and she is also Co-Artistic Director of the famed École des Sables. Alesandra is an artistic advisor at Sadler’s Wells, where she is also Guest Artistic Director of National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) for the second year running. In 2022 she worked with the young dancers of the current NYDC cohort to create a new show Quartier Paradis.

In this episode host Emma Lister and she discuss the vital ways movement can be influenced by voice, new dance hierarchies, how French magical realist film, Night of Kings, part inspired her piece for NYDC…and the relevancy of Eurovision Song Contest!

The 3 Questions...

Was there a piece of art that changed everything for you?

Dakar Biennale

Was there a piece of art that you think has value but don’t necessarily like?

Eurotrash pop music

What/who should we check out that we may not know about?...

Dushime music maker/actor

Amapiano

Alesandra Seutin is an award-winning multidisciplinary performance artist and choreographer who works internationally between Senegal, Belgium and the UK. She leads two international touring dance performance companies: Vocab Dance which she founded 2007 and she is also Co-Artistic Director of the famed École des Sables. Alesandra is an artistic advisor at Sadler’s Wells, where she is also Guest Artistic Director of National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) for the second year running. In 2022 she worked with the young dancers of the current NYDC cohort to create a new show Quartier Paradis.

In this episode host Emma Lister and she discuss the vital ways movement can be influenced by voice, new dance hierarchies, how French magical realist film, Night of Kings, part inspired her piece for NYDC…and the relevancy of Eurovision Song Contest!

The 3 Questions...

Was there a piece of art that changed everything for you?

Dakar Biennale

Was there a piece of art that you think has value but don’t necessarily like?

Eurotrash pop music

What/who should we check out that we may not know about?...

Dushime music maker/actor

Amapiano

Last week’s episode circled around the taboo of motherhood in the dance world, the lack of a full time company in Ireland and the question of why there is comparatively so many women making dance work in Ireland. We’ll be following up and expanding on all these topics in this week’s episode.

In this series we’ll be interviewing Irish women making dance in a virtual roundtable with MOSHMA host Emma Lister and her regular cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne, winner of the Constance Markievicz Award, 2021.

Ep 3 - Roundtable part 2, Liz Roche, Liv O'Donoghue, Sibéal Davitt

This mini series has been made possible by support from the Arts Council Ireland on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

REFERENCES

Dance Data Project statistics
NYTimes profile of DDP found Elizabeth Yntema

Last week’s episode circled around the taboo of motherhood in the dance world, the lack of a full time company in Ireland and the question of why there is comparatively so many women making dance work in Ireland. We’ll be following up and expanding on all these topics in this week’s episode.

In this series we’ll be interviewing Irish women making dance in a virtual roundtable with MOSHMA host Emma Lister and her regular cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne, winner of the Constance Markievicz Award, 2021.

Ep 3 - Roundtable part 2, Liz Roche, Liv O'Donoghue, Sibéal Davitt

This mini series has been made possible by support from the Arts Council Ireland on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

REFERENCES

Dance Data Project statistics
NYTimes profile of DDP found Elizabeth Yntema

What do you think of when you think of Ireland? The Emerald Isle, Guinness, Oscar Wilde and Riverdance? What about women making dance? Because this tiny island turns out loads of them--just over 80% of recent dance bursary awardees were for women making work. In a time when the dance world is confronting the predominance of men in roles of leadership, what is Ireland getting right? Is it ahead of the curve?

But where are these makers to go? Ireland does not have one permanent dance company...lots to discuss here!

Over three episodes we’ll be interviewing Irish women making dance in a virtual roundtable with host Emma Lister and her regular cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne, winner of the Constance Markievicz Award, 2021.

Roundtable part 1: Marguerite Donlon, Sarah Reynolds, Roisin Whelan

This mini series has been made possible by support from the Arts Council Ireland on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

REFERENCES

Dance Data Project Statistics

Gender pay gap in Ireland in the Irish Times
and also here in RTE

What do you think of when you think of Ireland? The Emerald Isle, Guinness, Oscar Wilde and Riverdance? What about women making dance? Because this tiny island turns out loads of them--just over 80% of recent dance bursary awardees were for women making work. In a time when the dance world is confronting the predominance of men in roles of leadership, what is Ireland getting right? Is it ahead of the curve?

But where are these makers to go? Ireland does not have one permanent dance company...lots to discuss here!

Over three episodes we’ll be interviewing Irish women making dance in a virtual roundtable with host Emma Lister and her regular cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne, winner of the Constance Markievicz Award, 2021.

Roundtable part 1: Marguerite Donlon, Sarah Reynolds, Roisin Whelan

This mini series has been made possible by support from the Arts Council Ireland on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

REFERENCES

Dance Data Project Statistics

Gender pay gap in Ireland in the Irish Times
and also here in RTE