Today we're chatting with Johannes Weiland. I am extremely happy to share this conversation with you and it is complicated to present Johannes in a couple of lines, his experience is so varied and dense.
He grew up in Berlin and worked as a dancer for Béjart, before deepening his approach to choreography in NY. He then became the in-house choreographer at the Staatstheater Kassel for 15 years. While creating for that company, he also kept making work independently as a free-lance choreographer. With Evangelos Poulinas he co-founded B12 the festival for contemporary dance and performance art in Berlin running in the summer and in the fall and gathering fascinating international practitioners each year.
Throughout this chat, he got me to remember the fluctuation of states that makes us, that constructs us. It’s spiritual and grounded in the constant change of things, in their impermanence.
Embracing the endless research and exploration art offers, the derivations, the openness, the surprises and the precious relationship and feedback from his collaborators. I hope you’ll enjoy this chat as much as I did!

Today we’re chatting with Joachim Maudet.

This chat was a delicious mix of sincerity, vulnerability, love and laughters. Joachim and I met about 12 years ago.. and I loved him straight from the beginning, he is a radiant, sunny, funny, deep and generous person and artist.

As a dancer he trained at the National Conservatoire in Paris. He made his way to that training with the best creativity inventing company names and wearing jazz pants. He then worked with Arthur Perole (Cie F), Akram Khan Dance Company (UK), the Noord Nederlandse Dans (The Netherlands), Christian Ubl, National Dance Company Wales (UK), Leonard Rainis and Katell Harterau (Le Pôle) and La Vouivre (FR) amongst others.

Joachim has been creating with his own company Les Vagues. His piece ‘WELcome’ was part of Aerowaves 2023. Throughout his work, he explores the relation between voice and body.

His pieces are touring Europe, and the world. Do catch it if you can.
For those of you in Luxembourg he’ll be at Kinneksbond in April 2025.
For those of you in London he’ll be on at The Place in March 2025.

Together we chatted about acrobatic rock, innocence, working around success rather than towards it, failure, and selling fruits on the market.

I hope you’ll enjoy this chat as much as I did!

Today we are chatting with Ramona Nagabczyńska.

Ramona is a Canadian and Polish dance artist from Toronto, based in Warsaw. She trained at the Warsaw State Ballet School, at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt and at The Place in London.

She then performed with (only to name a few!) Polish Dance Theatre, Saju Hari, Fleur Darkin, Tom Dale, Emma Martin, Junk Ensemble, David Wampach, and Clod Ensemble. In 2008 Ramona co-founded the Universal Law of Impermanence (U/LOI) collective, and in 2013 she co-founded Centrum w Ruchu (Centre in Motion), a cooperative of Warsaw based dance artists.

Her work has been touring internationally and was selected twice by Aerowaves. She was supported by the apap Network, project co-financed by the European Union in the frame of the „Creative Europe” program.

Together we talked about BALLET LEGS / the UNAVOIDABLE MATERIALITY OF DANCE / DANCING DESIRES / OBJECTIFICATION OF PERFORMERS / DOING SOMETHING YOU HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT.

I hope you'll enjoy this chat as much as I did!