DOWNTIME - interviews with dance artists & arts leaders, talking about dance & the arts
DOWNTIME features a series of interviews with dance artists and arts leaders about how they work, what it is that drives them, and whether their purpose has changed in response to the challenges of the past couple of years. It is hosted by internationally respected dramaturg Lou Cope, who spearheaded The Centre of Applied Dramaturgy (CoAD). CoAD seeks to make the value of dramaturgical practice clear, embed it into organisations – artistic and otherwise, and develop its reach – both in terms of form and scope.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Downtime with Jo Verrent
The extraordinary Jo Verrent is my guest on downtime today. Jo is the senior producer for Unlimited - the world’s largest commissions programme for disabled artists, ensuring that work gets seen, dis…
Downtime with Kate Prince
My guest on Downtime today is Kate Prince - the AD of Zoonation – and the choreographer behind the massive hits Some Like it Hip Hop, Into The Hoods and most recently Message in a Bottle – a show set…
Downtime with Aditi Mangaldas
In this episode Lou spent some Downtime with Aditi Mangaldas, a leading dancer and choreographer in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak, based in Delhi, India. Aditi runs her own rep company - …
Downtime with Gary Clarke
Today’s Downtime chat is with UK-based choreographer Gary Clarke.
Gary is known for creating a place to tell socio-political stories and histories of the British working class, in a contemporary dance…
Downtime with Claire Cunningham
One of the UK’s most acclaimed and internationally renowned disabled artists, Claire Cunningham is a performer and creator of multi-disciplinary performance based in Glasgow, Scotland. Claire and Lou…
Downtime with Sharon Watson
For the past 11 years Sharon Watson has been AD of Phoenix Dance Theatre. She is now CEO & Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance. This exciting and inspiring conversation took place as L…
Downtime withTheo Clinkard
I had a great chat with choreographer, dancer and designer Theo Clinkard, in early June 2020.
In addition to making pieces for his own company, pieces like Ordinary Courage (2012) Chalk (2014), Of La…
Downtime with Cathy Marston
Cathy Marston is an award-winning choreographer, based in both Switzerland and the UK. Recent shows in the UK include The Cellist for The Royal Ballet, The Suit – initially created for Ballet Black, …
Downtime with Lucy Guerin
Melbourne-based choreographer Lucy Guerin presents her work regularly across Australia and Europe. In addition to touring such shows as Split, Attractor and Untrained with her own company Lucy Guerin…
Downtime with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Belgian/Moroccan Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is one of the world’s most sought after choreographers. He’s made over 50 shows, works in contemporary dance, ballet, film and theatre and has picked up a frank…
Downtime with Botis Seva & Lee Griffiths
For this episode of DownTime I was so pleased to be able to talk with Botis Seva and Lee Griffiths.
Botis is a dance artist, choreographer and director working in contemporary dance, physical theatre …