As part of out unique online training Towards Vivencia, once a month we invite dance-artists we admire to talk about Peak Performance Presence, how to sustain a long and successful career in the arts and what are the books and other resources our guests feed from.

In this fourth episode we had a conversation with Paolo Mangiola, artistic director of Zfin Malta, the national company of Malta. In this episode we talked about:

• Why dancers are the main asset of any dance company
• Interdependency
• What is the role of a national dance company and why they should exist
• A dystopian future where Earth’s rotation slows down and gravity increases exponentially
• What does Paolo Mangiola look for on a dancer during an audition process
• Presence, humanity and honesty in performance
• What Zfin Malta next season looks like
• What happens to artists when the work you want to make has been made by Boris Charmatz already
• How all the negative answers we receive throughout a lifetime equipped us to go further and further
• How do you know whether a piece has changed your life…

Resources we mentioned

• 21 lessons for the 21st century by Yuval Noah Harari
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Strange DaysbyKathryn Bigelow

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