Music & Dance: Musicians, Composers, Singers, Dancers, Choreographers, Performers Talk Art, Creativity & The Creative Process

Music & Dance: Musicians, Composers, Singers, Dancers, Choreographers, Performers Talk Art, Creativity & The Creative Process

Author: Musicians, Composers, Performers, Dancers, Choreographers...in Conversation: Creative Process Original Series Language: English Episodes: 100
Music & Dance: Musicians, Composers, Singers, Dancers, Choreographers, Performers Talk Art, Creativity & The Creative Process pulls its conversations from the wider archive of The Creative Process series, focusing specifically on the voices that move us. This curated collection zeros in on the rhythms, disciplines, and spontaneous sparks that define a life in performance. Each episode is a direct line into the studio, the rehearsal space, and the quiet moments of doubt and breakthrough that precede any curtain rise. You’ll hear from composers dissecting the architecture of a score, dancers articulating the physical language of emotion, and singers exploring the vulnerability at the core of their craft. The discussions go beyond technique to grapple with the realities of sustaining an artistic practice-how ideas are born, shaped, and ultimately shared with an audience. It’s about the raw material of creativity before it becomes a finished piece. For anyone intrigued by the unseen work behind the music they love or the dances they witness, this podcast offers a rare, unfiltered glimpse. While this feed gathers all music and dance focused interviews, the full spectrum of arts and culture conversations from the main series is available wherever you typically find your podcasts. These are intimate, meandering talks that remind us art is never made in a vacuum, but through a continuous, often demanding, dialogue with inspiration itself.
Episodes
Animals & The Healing Power of Music [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:40
How is music a pathway to understanding animals?Musician Plumes‍ takes his guitar to the world's most unlikely concert halls—farms, sanctuaries, and wild habitats. A passionate advocate for veganism and animal welfare, w…
AI WEIWEI'S TURANDOT [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:36
“Everything is Art. Everything is Politics.I think art competes with reality. And art will give you the last words.” –Ai WeiweiThe renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei has used sculpture, photography, documentaries, an…
The Theory of Water with LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:11
“So I think that part of colonialism for Indigenous peoples has been this idea that Indigenous peoples aren't thinking peoples and that we don't have thought on a kind of systemic level. One of the things that I was inte…