Body of Work. Doing Dance Heritage
The Body of Work podcast of STUK explores the joys and challenges of dance heritage work.
The first season focuses on dance repertory from the dancers' perspective.
The transmission of dance from body to body, audience to audience, is what keeps dance alive. Repertory - choreographies from the past, revived, and performed again in the present - is a way of connecting us to work from the past.
Through interviews with dance practitioners in the Flemish and international contemporary dance scene, we tap into lively stories, vast experience and deep insight, directly from the dance studio and the stage.
STUK, House for Dance, Image and Sound is an art center in Leuven, Belgium.
This podcast is made possible by DanceMap, funded by Horizon Europe, the European Union's funding programme for research and innovation.
CREDITS
concept Delphine Hesters
researcher & narrator Tessa Hall
interviews Tessa Hall, Katharina Smets, Delphine Hesters
podcast maker Katharina Smets
intern podcast maker Teresa Van Eycken
sound/music Inne Eysermans
mix Inne Eysermans & Yves De Mey
voices Mélanie Lomoff, Ross McCormack, Rosalba Torres Guerrero, Laura Maria Poletti, Clinton Stringer, Jacob Storer, Jan Martens, Steven Michel, Naomi Gibson, Elisha Mercelina, Dan Mussett, Jim Buskens, Stijn Vandenbroucke, Loes Meulemans, Michèle Anne De Mey, Yuika Hashimoto, Tale Dolven, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Madison Vomastek, Jonathan Burrows, Franz Anton Cramer, Timmy De Laet, Madeline Ritter and Delphine Hesters
thanks to laGeste, Rosas, GRIP, Klankverbond
The Body of Work podcast and the oral research project from which it draws its source material, are part of DanceMap, funded by the European Union (Horizon Europe).
Body of Work. Doing Dance Heritage
Latest Episodes
Introduction. Welcome to Body of Work. Doing Dance Heritage
In this introductory episode we lay out the episodes of this season of the Body of Work podcast, and take the opportunity to speak with Delphine Hesters, coordinator of dance heritage at STUK. Sound featured in the epi...
Episode 1. Jumping through time. Transmitting THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER
THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER, by Jan Martens, premiered in 2014. Now, 11 years later, this complex and exhausting choreography has returned to the stage as THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 2.0.During the final month of rehearsals before ...
Episode 2. Dance archeology. Working with the repertory of Rosas
Rosas, the dance company of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, has developed an extensive and diverse repertoire over the years. This means that Rosas provides a rich case study to explore questions of repertory. We can examine the various roles in th...
Episode 3. Out of Context - for Pina. What if we danced this work forever?
When we think of dance repertoire, we think of pieces that are passed on from generation to generation. But Alain Platel’s Out of Context – For Pina is different. After premiering in 2010 and touring the world extensively, its time on ...
Episode 4. Forty years of Unfolding Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich
In 1982, before her company Rosas even existed, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker premiered Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. Over the years, Fase has been passed on to multiple generations of dancers, meaning that ov...