Dash Arts Podcast
56 episodes - English - Latest episode: 27 days ago -The Dash Arts podcast takes on big issues through an artistic lens. Hear artists, filmmakers, musicians, theatre makers and more explore the challenges facing society today. In each episode Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton hosts conversations delving into movements, legacies and ideas that continue to shape the cultural landscape worldwide.
For more information, videos and podcasts, please head to www.dasharts.org.uk. Dash Arts is a National Portfolio Organisation funded by the Arts Council of England.
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OI VA VOI - Back Together
April 03, 2024 08:07 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MB“In many ways, I owe everything to the band.” It’s been over 25 years since two students ran into each other on a street corner in Oxford and decided to set up a band. Oi Va Voi, rooted in Jewish and Eastern European musical traditions, would eventually reach hundreds and thousands of people across the world. Dash’s Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Jonathan Walton, also known as Lemez Lovas, knew they needed more people and more instruments. Soon after Sophie Solomon, Steve Levi, Le...
The Reckoning: How It All Began with Peter Pomerantsev
March 06, 2024 06:00 - 40 minutes - 55 MBIn this second episode on the journey towards our production, The Reckoning, we hear from journalist and author, Peter Pomerantsev who co-founded The Reckoning Project and who first shared with Dash the hundreds of witness testimonies from survivors of the Russian war in Ukraine. Dash’s Artistic Director, Josephine Burton and Podcast Producer, Marie Horner hear about Peter’s motivations for starting the project and why he asked Dash to bring these stories to the stage. The Reckoning Project ...
Our Public House : The Lock-In
February 07, 2024 13:24 - 16 minutes - 22.4 MBWe’re in the pub for the next stage of Our Public House, a state-of-the-nation theatre production. Hear the show take shape in the studio and how Artistic Director Josephine Burton and playwright Barney Norris are being led by the speeches and writing of extraordinary individuals and communities from across the country. How do you pull together over 120 voices, ideas and stories to lock in a play that will resonate with our audiences? Our Public House is funded by the National Theatre's Gen...
The Reckoning : Making a Theatre Show
January 11, 2024 14:28 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MB“Finding a way to keep the darkness but continue to keep the joy so that there’s moments of relief in the theatre, that the actors feel it, that the audience feel it too. That’s really the challenge for me - how to make powerful theatre.” Josephine Burton, Artistic Director, Dash Arts This year Dash Arts is developing a new theatre production, The Reckoning; based on personal accounts of survivors of the Russian war in Ukraine from the vast testimony archive shared by The Reckoning Project,...
2023 in Review
December 19, 2023 18:04 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBAs 2024 arrives we look back on a year of new beginnings for Dash Arts. Join Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Dash’s Podcast Producer Marie Horner as they explore what we’ve learnt and what we haven’t learnt…yet. From the persecution of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea 5am, touring England to support the writing and delivery of over 120 speeches with communities in Our Public House and our first steps to create The Reckoning, a theatre show based on personal accounts of the Ukrainian war. ...
Our Public House: Speak Out!
December 07, 2023 15:49 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MB“Grasp the subject, the words will follow.” Attributed to Cato The Elder Artistic Director, Josephine Burton and Podcast Producer, Marie Horner regroup in the studio to reflect on a series of live events in Manchester and London that were the 2023 culmination of this year’s Public House project. We heard from speechwriters, activists and academics as we explored the ingredients of a great speech, the power of activism and words, and their ability to change people’s minds and lives, along w...
Our Public House: England's Open Mic
November 08, 2023 15:01 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MB“Take a deep breath in, now think about the future you want” Heidi in Cornwall. What do you want to change? What do you want politicians to understand? We’ve travelled over 3000 miles and asked these questions to over 120 people during speech writing workshops across the country. The creative team at Dash Arts and our academic partners gather to reflect on what we’ve learnt and what’s surprised us, and to listen back to some of the incredible speeches from participants who took part in Ou...
Our Public House: The Country at a Crossroads
September 20, 2023 10:05 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBJoin us on the road as we travel the length and breadth of England to hear what people want to change. In communities across Cornwall, Yorkshire, Norfolk, the North West, South East and the Midlands, we’re supporting people to write and deliver speeches on what difference they want to see. Robust public debate and the freedom to make arguments and counterarguments are essential to democracy. Today, however, political dispute is ever more sectarian and angry, fears of misinformation are wide...
Isaac Babel: The Musical?
July 21, 2023 09:47 - 34 minutes - 39.5 MBHow might the stories of a Jewish man, writing in Russian, based in Odesa 100 years ago help us understand what’s happening in Ukraine today? Join Dash Arts’ Artistic Director Josephine Burton at the very start of an exploration into bringing to the stage the life and work of Isaac Babel. This episode catches up with Josephine as she gathers together artists, writers, composers and translators to venture into Babel’s turbulent life and rich writings. We uncover how having a coffee with the ...
Crimea 5am
May 24, 2023 09:58 - 53 minutes - 122 MBCrimea 5am brings together the voices of extraordinary women, bound together by the Russian persecution of Crimean Tatars in 2014. In this episode, Artistic Director Josephine Burton looks back on how Dash Arts brought together a cast of actors, activists and journalists to stage this unique piece of verbatim theatre in London during January 2023. Through personal stories and testimonies of love and struggle in Crimea today, and combining victim and activist interviews, Crimea 5am highlight...
Albion
April 05, 2023 07:17 - 53 minutes - 73.9 MBWelcome to Albion. A world with a legendary past, fallen present and hope-filled future. This podcast marks a new season of work for Dash Arts. We’re exploring what it means to be English today, searching through workshops, performances, events and podcasts for a way to talk about who we are as a people and as a country, and who we want to be. In this episode, our Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Podcast Producer Rachael Head discover the myths of Albion with guests: Carrolyne Lar...
2022 in Review
December 16, 2022 08:30 - 15 minutes - 21.4 MBWe take a look back on a crazily packed year at Dash Arts, reflecting on the highs and lows of our three productions, Songs for Babyn Yar, The Great Middlemarch Mystery and Dido's Bar and all our podcasts, and look forwards to what 2023 holds, with Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Podcast Producer Rachael Head. Music Credit: Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi Image Credit: Ali Wright Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dido's Bar in Newham
December 13, 2022 11:54 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBDash Arts' production of Dido's Bar was developed and made in Newham. As part of our year-long programme, we were privileged to work with Community Links, an amazing hub which offers young people advice, employment skills, and the chance to develop their audio skills in their top-notch production studio. We've brought some of these young people into the world of Dido's Bar through our podcast. Dash Producer Cristina Catalina and Podcast Producer Rachael Head worked in the studio with our p...
Dido's Bar: What Makes a Good Story?
October 05, 2022 10:57 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MBIn our latest episode: 'Dido's Bar: What Makes a Good Story?' we chat with the Director and Writer of Dido’s Bar about the ingredients of a good story. Listen to hear how they tackled telling the story of a refugee and how music has been weaved into the fabric of the performance. Featuring interviews with Dido’s Bar Director and Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton, and Playwright Hattie Naylor. Music Credits: Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi Music from the Dido’s B...
New Mythology: Reclaiming the Story
August 26, 2022 14:00 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBIn our latest episode, 'New Mythology: Reclaiming the Story', we chat with artists about how their work makes space for underrepresented gender identities in ancient myths. Listen to explore how storytelling can reclaim lost stories within our mythological canon and how we’re rebalancing the gender dynamics in our next production, Dido's Bar. Featuring interviews with Dash Arts Artistic director Josephine Burton; stand up storyteller Alys Torrance; drag artist Len Blanco and Dido’s Bar cast...
How We Tell Stories: Epic Poems and Mythology
July 27, 2022 12:45 - 1 hour - 117 MBIn this episode, we explore the epic poems, The Aeneid, The Shanameh and The Odyssey, and their relevance today. Delve into the narrative of these epics as we investigate why and how these stories are compelling in their contemporary renditions, as well as how oral storytelling traditions have shaped how we interpret them. Featuring interviews with Dash Arts artistic director Josephine Burton; Kurdish Iranian musician Marouf Majidi; director and former Dash Arts co-artistic director Ti...
Protest Songs: Bella Ciao
July 13, 2022 08:59 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBProtest Songs: Bella Ciao In the final episode of our Protest Songs mini-series, we discuss the history and ongoing significance of the Italian protest song ‘Bella Ciao’. Josephine Burton speaks to Professor Philip Cooke about the origins of the song and how its history has been gendered throughout time. Italian singer and songwriter, Virginia Sirolli, speaks of her personal connection to the song and its adaptations, and Composer Orlando Gough discusses how he used it in a recent product...
Reflecting on Middlemarch
May 04, 2022 11:44 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBIn the third and final episode of Making Middlemarch, the cast and crew reflect on their experience of The Great Middlemarch Mystery. Listen to director Josephine Burton chat to actors Aimee Powell and Ryan Van Champion and podcast producer Rachael Head about the realities of modernising Middlemarch, Otherness and much more. Music Credits Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi Wes Finch: https://wesfinch.bandcamp.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Evolving Middlemarch
March 30, 2022 10:02 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBThe second episode of Making Middlemarch brings you conversations straight from the rehearsal room. Listen to cast members Tom Gordon, Amanda Hurwitz and Ryan Van Champion discussing their characters’ fears of change, and how those opinions are realised in the show. Featuring clips of some of the actors reading lines in the rehearsal room and snippets of the show’s sound design. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
REcreating Middlemarch
March 11, 2022 15:37 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MBIn this first episode of Making Middlemarch, discover how the idea of The Great Middlemarch Mystery was conceived and why the source text’s author, George Eliot, continues to enchant us today. Delve into the inspirations behind this adaptation and the creator’s theatrical visions. Uncover the real life stories from Coventry locals and how they will be woven into the show. Featuring a conversation between creator and director Josephine Burton and co-writer and researcher Ruth Livesey, inter...
Protest Songs: The Internationale
February 07, 2022 09:39 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBProtest Songs: The Internationale In the first episode of our Protest Songs series, we explore the history of 'The Internationale' and how it continues to inspire social change. Josephine Burton speaks to singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, who was motivated by the collapse of communism to rewrite the song and devote an album to it in 1990. Other speakers include historian Robert Service who gives an overview of the history of the song and its many adaptations, including its role as the first n...
Songs for Babyn Yar: Performing in Kyiv
January 19, 2022 10:05 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBAfter its genesis in Berlin and its London premiere, our initial journey of Songs for Babyn Yar culminated in a performance in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 7 December 2021 - the city in which more than 100,000 people were massacred in the ravine of Babyn Yar during Nazi occupation. In this podcast episode, the three artists involved and its director reflect on this climactic performance, and the emotional and creative journey it took to get there. Ukrainian musicians Yuriy Gurzhy, Svetlana Kundish an...
Dido's Bar: The Creative Process
November 26, 2021 10:40 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MBThe second in our mini-series of episodes about our Dido's Bar project delves into the creative process of the three artists at the heart of this production. Hear about how director Josephine Burton, playwright Hattie Naylor and composer Marouf Majidi crossed paths and came to collaborate on this project, and how our recent music and creative writing workshops with communities in London and Oxford have inspired and fed into the production. Dido’s Bar is an immersive multi-lingual gig theat...
Songs for Babyn Yar: The Making Of
November 03, 2021 10:35 - 1 hour - 113 MB80 years ago this autumn, Nazi occupying forces murdered more than 33,000 Jews in the ravine of Babyn Yar in the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukraine, over just two days. In the following two years of Nazi occupation, Babyn Yar became the site of over 100,000 deaths. This month, Dash Arts marks this anniversary by premiering a new music theatre production, Songs for Babyn Yar, in London and Ukraine with a work-in-progress sharing in Berlin. This performance sees three Ukrainian musicians explore the le...
Dido's Bar: The Origin Myth
October 15, 2021 15:19 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBWelcome to the first in a mini-series of podcast episodes dedicated to the creation of our upcoming show Dido's Bar, planned for autumn 2022. Dido's Bar is an immersive site-specific gig theatre production set in a cabaret bar on the borders of Europe that reimagines Virgil's Aeneid, exploring this timeless tale of migration through the lens of Europe today. In this podcast episode, discover the myth of Aeneas, his dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido and his foundin...
Identity: Brexit and Europe
October 01, 2021 10:06 - 32 minutes - 45 MBIn the final episode of The Identity Series, our investigation into what happens to identity during moments of great national change brings our attention to Brexit and its impact on our own national identities in the UK. What does Europe mean today? What do we want from Europe, post-Brexit? This podcast series forms part of EUTOPIA, our multi-year project that emerged as a direct response to the 2016 EU Referendum; as the UK voted to leave the EU, we felt the need to explore what it means ...
Identity: The Collapse of Yuguslavia
September 15, 2021 08:25 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MBIn this third episode of The Identity Series, we deepen our investigation into fractured national identity across Europe, through one of its most contemporary and violent examples: the collapse of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars that ripped across the former country. Hosted by Josephine Burton, a range of artists and historians discuss the tensions leading up to the collapse and its heartbreaking aftermath. Together, we explore how this shaped the artists born out of it and changed the artis...
Identity: The Collapse of Yugoslavia
September 15, 2021 08:25 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MBIn this third episode of The Identity Series, we deepen our investigation into fractured national identity across Europe, through one of its most contemporary and violent examples: the collapse of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars that ripped across the former country. Hosted by Josephine Burton, a range of artists and historians discuss the tensions leading up to the collapse and its heartbreaking aftermath. Together, we explore how this shaped the artists born out of it and changed the artis...
Identity: The Legacy of Empire
September 01, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes - 228 MBIn this second episode of The Identity Series, we delve into the fraught and complex topic of empire, examining the decline and collapse of various empires across Europe, their aftershocks and their impact on the identity of their citizens. Speaking to experts and artists from a range of backgrounds, we discuss topics including the legacy of empire, the impact of colonisation, how different cultures and nationalities have shaped British music, and the power of music to shape identity and ex...
Identity: Czeslaw Milosz and the Borderlands
August 18, 2021 08:14 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBIn this first episode of The Identity Series, we explore the meaning and power of identity through the fascinating case of Polish-Lithuanian Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz. Born in Lithuania, Milosz survived the Nazi occupation of Poland, became a member of the Polish Foreign Service under the communist regime, and was then exiled for being a strong critic of communism. His famous collection of essays, The Captive Mind, reveals his struggle with his own sense of identity and belo...
Disco and Atomic War (Live)
June 16, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBIn this episode recorded from our online Dash Café in May, we return to the iconic 2009 Estonian documentary Disco and Atomic War and the topic of borders, propaganda and censorship. Audiences enjoyed excerpts from the film and conversation from speakers including Estonian TV journalist and Disco and Atomic War co-producer and co-screenwriter Kiur Aarma; Soviet-born British journalist and author Peter Pomerantsev; former ambassador of Finland to Estonia Kirsti Narinen; and political analyst...
Breaking Silence: Censorship and Self-Censorship
May 19, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 65.7 MBThe fourth and final episode of our podcast mini-series, Breaking Silence, explores issues of censorship, self-censorship and cancel culture in the creation of art. Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to arts consultant Manick Govinda, who co-founded Brexit Creatives, about what he sees as the art world's censorship or 'cancelling' of pro-Brexit views; Samuel Beckett scholar Dr Jackie Blackman on Beckett's use of silence in his plays as a form of self-censorship; journalist Mayssa Iss...
Breaking Silence: Across Borders
May 05, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MBThe third episode of our podcast mini-series, Breaking Silence, looks at the silencing of cultural identity across national, ethnic and religious borders and ways in which international artists are unearthing these issues in their work. Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to theatre-maker Krzysztof Czyzewski, whose Borderlands project aims to revive the multicultural heritage of Poland’s Sejny region in the aftermath of war; Kurdish singer Nawroz Oramari, who was forced to flee his ho...
Breaking Silence: Women and Trauma
April 22, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes - 63.1 MBThe second episode of our podcast mini-series, Breaking Silence, features writers and practitioners who are addressing the silencing of women and giving voice to female experience through artistic mediums. Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to theatre-maker Lucy Dear (All in Your Head); screenwriter and playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida; Her Naked Skin); theatre director Athina Kasiou (A Thousand Ships); and art therapist Diane Waller. Topics range from hidden stories of...
Breaking Silence: The Pact of Forgetting
April 07, 2021 05:30 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBIn the first episode of our four-part podcast series Breaking Silence, we examine Pacto del Olvido, Spain's 'pact of forgetting' - a collective decision to forget the thousands of crimes against humanity under Franco's 40-year dictatorship. Many of those who committed atrocities have still not been prosecuted and held to account, and Franco's victims continue to seek justice to this day. Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar a...
Dust and Shadow
February 24, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes - 67.3 MBIn this episode of the podcast, we delve into the remarkable history of 59 Brick Lane in London’s East End. With the Dash Arts base in East London’s Toynbee Studios and events regularly hosted at Rich Mix London, this ever-evolving building has long been our neighbour. A spiritual and communal home to thousands over the centuries; 59 Brick Lane was born as a Huguenot church, later becoming a Methodist church, then a synagogue, and is now home to the Brick Lane Mosque. To get to grips wi...
Arvo Pärt: Time, Text and Tintinnabuli
January 27, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 88.1 MBIn October 2020 we hosted our first ever Digital Dash Café EUROPEANS: ARVO PÄRT to celebrate Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s 85th birthday, and were overwhelmed and delighted to be joined by almost 300 screens from 25 countries. Due to popular demand, we’ve turned the event into a podcast, with some new, bonus content for our listeners. We were joined by son of the composer and Chairman of the Arvo Pärt Centre, Michael Pärt, violinist Andres Kaljuste and pianist Sophia Rahman to listen to Pä...
Art on the Brink of Brexit
December 16, 2020 07:01 - 1 hour - 103 MBAs we release our final podcast of 2020, we're still muddling through Brexit in the UK, with the nation holding its breath to see what this momentous change will mean for us all In timely fashion, we're revisiting our live event Art on the Brink of Brexit, recorded in 2018, which hosted a panel of first and second generation migrant artists working in the UK, to discuss what Brexit would mean for them, and what it would mean for the future of the arts in Britain. We were joined by Bojana...
Second Hand Memory
November 25, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBCan trauma be healed through art? Does it pass from generation to generation and how can we break the cycle? In this episode of the podcast, we look at memory, family history and inherited trauma through the eyes of artists and thinkers from around the world, who have investigated the impact of these issues in their work. Hosted by Artistic Director Josephine Burton, with award-winning filmmaker Mark Rosenblatt, twice Booker-nominated Nigerian writer Chigozie Obiama, theatre director Maj...
George Eliot's Radicals
November 11, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 99.6 MBAt Dash Arts, we are in the process of developing our brand new production The Great Middlemarch Mystery, a site-specific production in Coventry based on writer George Eliot’s classic Middlemarch, one of the greatest novels written in the English language. In this episode we return to our February Dash Café on George Eliot, hosted at Warwick Arts Centre by Artistic Director Josephine Burton with collaborator Professor Ruth Livesey and guests Martina Hall, producer of 2019 BBC Arena document...
Felix de Rooy: Art in the face of Empire
October 14, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBIn this episode of the Dash Arts Podcast, we delve into the life and work of the Curaçaoan-born Dutch artist, filmmaker and director Felix de Rooy. Originally planned as a live Dash Café back in April (cancelled due to the pandemic), we had hoped to explore Felix’s work in a discussion with visual artist Charl Landvreugd and a panel of playwrights from the BOOM! Project, a Dutch-British theatre initiative examining and challenging colonial history and narratives. In many ways, we’ve done on...
What Would Ingrid Bergman Do?
September 23, 2020 06:00 - 53 minutes - 46.8 MBDiscover the fascinating life and work of Hollywood icon and beloved Swede Ingrid Bergman in this week's episode, hosted this time by Dash Arts Creative Associate and director Sophie Austin. Taking a journey through Bergman’s life, we look at how her strength, determination and Swedishness made her into one of the world’s most famous movie stars. In the face of sexism, scandals and tragedy, Bergman’s strident independence and ambition saw her carve out a career led by passion and creativit...
Songs of the Migrant Worker
September 09, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBThe Dash Arts Podcast is back! In this episode we look at the treatment of invited guest workers (Germany’s ‘Gastarbeiter’), economic migrants and relocating members of the British Empire. Through music and poetry, we examine the similarities and differences between the UK’s Windrush scandal and Germany’s treatment of Turkish ‘gastarbeiter’ and the huge cultural legacy by these migrant workers. Hosted by Artistic Director Josephine Burton, we were joined by poet Hannah Lowe, Artistic Direc...
On the Border
July 29, 2020 05:55 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBIn this episode of the podcast we revisit our Dash Café ON THE BORDER, which explored the experience of living on the border through the prism of art, film, music, literature and economics. We reflected on the actual borders that existed for our speakers growing up on the edges of the Iron Curtain and today’s visible and invisible borders with Berlin-based author, composer and editor-in-chief of Flaneur Magazine Fabian Saul, visual artist Mariana Gordan (originally from Romania), Norwegian-...
Borsch and Other Stories
July 16, 2020 05:54 - 1 hour - 76.8 MBThis episode threads together Ukrainian culture and history with memory, politics and the female perspective. We look at what we can learn about a country through the eyes of women; through their stories, songs and food. Cook borsch with Artistic Director Josephine Burton and chef Olia Hercules, whose beautiful new book of recipes Summer Kitchen has just been published by Bloomsbury, discover Ukrainian history and politics with prolific writer Oksana Zabuzhko, who has just released a book ...
Dora Maar: Out of the Shadow
July 01, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBIn this LIVE episode from our 100th Dash Café (January 2020) we delve into the life and legacy of French Surrealist icon Dora Maar. The photographer and artist’s radical work strikingly depicts the anxieties of interwar Europe and the internal horrors of the mind. Yet Maar was often overlooked, her role as Picasso’s lover and ‘weeping woman’ dominating world view, until now. In January 2020 a major exhibition of her work travelled from the Centre Pompidou to the Tate Modern, introducing ma...
Django Reinhardt: Music, Myth and Reality
June 17, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBOur brand new podcast episode Django Reinhardt: Music, Myth and Reality is a journey into the life of the genius jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt. With a host of international musicians performing entirely new music for the podcast, we look at the life of the Roma musician who survived personal tragedy and World War II to become a leading figure in 20th century jazz. Hosted by our Artistic Director Josephine Burton, this episode features authors Michael Dregni and Garth Cartwright, Roma ac...
LIVE: Brussels: Whose City Is It Anyway?
June 03, 2020 06:00 - 52 minutes - 60.3 MBIn this week's LIVE episode we delve into Brussels; the complex, cosmopolitan, interconnected city that's home to the EU. We look at the city's troubling history with colonialism, explore the impact of the European Union HQ on its inhabitants and architecture, and hear from artists living and creating change in the city. Hosted by our Artistic Director Josephine Burton, this episode features prominent academic and activist Eric Corijn, poet Elisabeth Severino Fernandes (aka Miss Elli) and ...
LIVE: Dash Arts Podcast does Eurovision
May 20, 2020 04:54 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBEurovision might have been cancelled, but not at Dash Arts! In this LIVE episode we head back to our Eurovision Dash Café last year for an entertaining rundown of its history. Hear from Dr Eurovision (aka Paul Jordan, who did his PhD on the subject) performance artist Richard DeDomenici, our Artistic Director Josephine Burton and our audience, plus BRAND NEW interviews with Tom Taylor of the celebrity-clad Isolation Song Contest and an update from Richard DeDomenici on his new virtual event...
Art in adversity: Tadeusz Kantor's fighting spirit
May 05, 2020 16:13 - 48 minutes - 48.9 MBOur first tailor-made podcast episode Art in adversity: Tadeusz Kantor's fighting spirit delves into the work of Polish artist and theatre maker Tadeusz Kantor, whose work inspired the likes of Joseph Beuys (whom Kantor worked closely with), choreographer Pina Bausch and theatre company Complicité, to name a few. Kantor made work under extraordinarily challenging times. Under the Nazi occupation of Poland, he founded the Independent Underground Theatre, and later carried on creating work th...