Our ballet horror movie mash up podcast, continues with BLACK SWAN (2010) and US (2019).In this final instalment of Ballet Macabre we're looking at Duality. To start off, host Emma Lister and guests Amber Hunt and Rose Martin give their insight

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Ballet Macabre - Innocence

Oct 24th, 2023 44m 55s

This one is hot off the presses! Just as I was about to release the final episode in our mini series, Lucile Hadžihalilović 's award winning INNOCENCE (2004) was made available to stream. I had trouble tracking it down in my early research, and

Ballet Macabre - Pain

Oct 18th, 2023 1h 29m

BALLET MACABRE continues with SUSPIRIA (1977) and AUDITION (1999) as Emma Lister, long time film lover, podcast host and ballet dancer guides us down the dark hallway that is the use of ballet in horror movies. In this, the second episode in ou

Ballet Macabre - The Chosen One

Oct 10th, 2023 1h 27m

We start our mini series with THE RED SHOES (1948) and SUSPIRIA (2018) as Emma Lister, long time film lover, podcast host and ballet dancer guides us down the dark hallway that is the use of ballet in horror movies.Guests Zoe Ashe-Browne and Di

Roopa Mahadevan | Vocalist/Composer

Sep 26th, 2023 43m 48s

Hailed a “stirring voice” by the New York Times, Roopa Mahadevan is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her collaborative spirit. She leads the crossover ensemble Roopa in Flux,

Gavin Sutherland | Conductor

Sep 19th, 2023 41m 51s

Gavin Sutherland is a conductor, composer and orchestrator who specials in dance—he’s conducted for Northern Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Norwegian and Finnish National Ballet as well as English National Ballet wh

Charlotte Maclet | First Violinist

Sep 12th, 2023 40m 23s

Charlotte Maclet is an award winning violinist who first performed a Mendelssohn concerto at age nine! She has performed as a soloist in her native France and abroad. She led the acclaimed quartet Camerata Alma Viva and is now first violinist f

Andrew Mellor | Music Critic

Sep 5th, 2023 45m 13s

Andrew Mellor is a journalist and critic. He has written about music, architecture, design, and cultural politics for publications around the world and is a critic for Gramophone and the Financial Times. He and Emma chat about his new book The

Ballet Taboo - Pregnancy & Parenthood

Dec 22nd, 2022 1h 19m

In this, the last episode of our miniseries, Emma Lister and Amy Drew are joined by choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple and dancer/teacher Senri Kou to discuss how being pregnant and having a child fits (or doesn’t fit) into the dance sector.

Ballet Taboo - Cancel Culture Part II

Dec 15th, 2022 1h 7m

This week hosts Emma Lister, Amy Drew and Matthew Paluch continue their discussion of the phenomenon of “cancel culture” in the ballet and dance world. Please do listen to Part I first if you haven't! Where does the term 'cancel culture' come f

Ballet Taboo - Cancel Culture Part I

Dec 15th, 2022 59m 22s

This week, in part I, host Emma Lister and Matthew Paluch discuss the phenomenon of 'cancel culture' in the ballet and dance world. Where does this term come from and what are the mechanisms at work? How does it apply to ballet? What about call

Ballet Taboo - Periods

Dec 8th, 2022 1h 12m

Welcome to our new mini series! We’re talking about things that historically have been taboo to discuss in ballet. In episode one, host Emma Lister is joined by series co-host Amy Drew, they dissect what’s taboo about menstrual cycles in the c

Jessica Hung Han Yun | Lighting Designer

Sep 29th, 2022 43m 8s

Lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun won a Knight of Illumination Award for Equus at Stratford East when she was just 24. She’s since worked at the National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Rambert2, The Royal Court, and she has also designed ligh

Anders Duckworth | Choreographer

Sep 22nd, 2022 40m 25s

Anders Duckworth is a British/Swedish choreographer. With training in both design and dance, their work blurs movement, fashion and visual arts. Constantly seeking new collaborations, they have choreographed for short film, installations, and

Nicholas Thayer | Composer

Sep 15th, 2022 45m 25s

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 E

Yann Seabra | Stage Designer

Sep 8th, 2022 43m 16s

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 crysta

Alesandra Seutin | Choreographer

Sep 1st, 2022 33m 53s

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 fo

Alesandra Seutin | Choreographer

Sep 1st, 2022 33m 53s

Irish Women Making Dance - The Roundtable Pt 2

Mar 4th, 2022 1h 5m

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 expan

Irish Women Making Dance - The Roundtable Pt 1

Feb 22nd, 2022 1h 9m

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 wom

Irish Women Making Dance - The Introduction

Feb 18th, 2022 25m 57s

Ahead of our first roundtable discussion with six women making dance in Ireland, Emma Lister and cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne give a (tiny) bit of Irish history and pose the driving question of this new mini series: In a time when the conversation in

Dolly Brown⎪Photographer

Sep 23rd, 2021 42m 1s

Dolly Brown is a photographer who specialises in documenting art and artists. She may be best known as her Instagram alterego: @londonlivingdoll. She's worked with The Royal Ballet, Barbican, Tate Modern, Trisha Brown Dance Company, BalletBoyz,

Kalle Nio ⎪Magician/Visual Artist

Sep 7th, 2021 45m 59s

Kalle Nio is a magician and visual artist based in Finland. He is co-drector/founder of the theatre company WHS and the recipient of numerous awards including the Finnish state prize for Multidisciplinary Art and the Helsinki Cultural Prize.In

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Dance in the Time of Corona - Dancers in the Balance

Aug 24th, 2021 1h 2m

In the final episode of our three part miniseries, we zoom in to meet three dancers. They are all at different stages of their careers and their lives have been affected in different ways by the pandemic:GEAROID: 18 months into his professional

Dance in the Time of Corona - Dancers' Mental Health During the Pandemic

Aug 17th, 2021 1h 3m

The last 18 months have been a trying time for everyone’s mental health. But how have dancers been uniquely affected? A group of artists whose lives and identities are notoriously tied up in training and career—what happened when the theatres w