Quiet Bodies: Recent Episodes
Charlotte Mathiessen
Welcome to Quiet Bodies! This is a podcast that opens up feminist conversations about the body and seeks to make the unknown and quiet stories of our bodies heard and felt.
I am Charlotte Mathiessen, a dancer, choreographer and feminist. In each episode, I invite someone for a conversation about a topic related to the body and feminism. Body awareness exercises pop up throughout the conversation to integrate the topics we talk about into the body.
In this last episode before the summer holidays once again it's all about moving your body. This time the theme is textures. We explore different textures of the body through movement and sensation. Enjoy!
Music:
Blue Dressed Man - Lock down
Brent Gutzeit - Autumn Remix
Entitled - Young Kratz
Nathaniel Wyvern - Total Eclipse https://nathanielwyvern.bandcamp.com/track/total-eclipse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Sound effects: https://www.zapsplat.com
In this episode things, again, are a little different. I will ask you to actually move your body so go find a space where you can move and get ready to follow my voice.
This is the second part of a three-part series where moving the body is the main focus. Enjoy!
Music:
Blear Moon - Letting go again
Lobo Loco - Area 42
Makaih Beats - Same Way
Doctor Turtle - G of the Bang
Nathaniel Wyvern - Total Eclipse https://nathanielwyvern.bandcamp.com/track/total-eclipse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
In this episode things are a little different. I will ask you to actually move your body so go find a space where you can move and get ready to follow my voice.
This is the first part of a three-part series where moving the body are the main focus. Enjoy!
Music:
Brevyn - Waterwalk
Krillminima - Sommerdellen
The Lights Galaxia - While she sleeps
Nathaniel Wyvern - Total Eclipse https://nathanielwyvern.bandcamp.com/track/total-eclipse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Sound effects: https://www.zapsplat.com
In this episode, I continue my conversation with Katarina Jazbec and Angeliki Diakrousi about their collaboration on the short film You Can't Automate Me. This time we explore the ways in which Katarina and Angeliki guided the group of lashers through movements and awareness exercises, and we talk about the role of the cleaner of containers called Martin in the film. The body awareness exercises draw from the extreme focus the lashers have to develop in order to do their work and allow us to explore how focussed attention can be learned and practiced. Enjoy!
Shownotes:
IFFR Programme https://iffr.com/en/2021/films/you-can%E2%80%99t-automate-me
Katarina Jazbec https://www.katarinajazbec.com/you-cant-automate-me
Angeliki Diakrousi https://w-i-t-m.net/
Music:
Soundtrack of You Can't Automate Me by Giliam Spliethoff and Jorick Bronius
Nathaniel Wyvern - Total Eclipse https://nathanielwyvern.bandcamp.com/track/total-eclipse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Sound effects: https://www.zapsplat.com
In this episode, I spoke to Katarina Jazbec and Angeliki Diakrousi about their collaboration on the short film You Can't Automate Me. The film follows lashers working at the Rotterdam harbour and shows their bodies at work in this otherwise automated and highly dangerous environment. Inspired by images of the film and our conversations I propose ways of listening to your body and the space around you. The second part of the conversation will be released as episode 6 in about 2 weeks.
Shownotes:
Trailer You Can't Automate Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcoXMQ_Q0KM&ab_channel=LightsOn
IFFR Programme https://iffr.com/en/2021/films/you-can%E2%80%99t-automate-me
Katarina Jazbec https://www.katarinajazbec.com/you-cant-automate-me
Angeliki Diakrousi https://w-i-t-m.net/
Music: Nathaniel Wyvern - Total Eclipse https://nathanielwyvern.bandcamp.com/track/total-eclipse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Sound effects: https://www.zapsplat.com
In this week's episode I talk to dancer, dance teacher and nurse Bess Kuil about Brazilian Zouk, teaching sensuality in dance classes and about West African dance. I carry the theme of sensuality through in the body awareness exercises and allow myself to venture off into a thought experiment about gender. Enjoy!
Shownotes:
Check out Bess' work www.besskuil.nl www.facebook.com/BessKuilDancer
Watch Bess dance Brazilian Zouk www.youtu.be/FDiFJ_cMpaw
Watch Bess dance Afro dance www.youtu.be/UyjYXq1HAyk
TED talk about rejection www.ted.com/talks/magna_gopal_the_benefits_of_rejection
Music: Nathaniel Wyvern - Total Eclipse https://nathanielwyvern.bandcamp.com/track/total-eclipse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Sound effects: https://www.zapsplat.com
In the third episode of Quiet Bodies, I speak to Amy Tait Westwell about running, feeling safe and political strategies of the late 18th century. In the body awareness exercises, I get experimental this week playing with how changing the state of the body can change the way we feel. Enjoy!
Shownotes:
Follow Amy on Twitter @amywestwell
Online course about radical tactics https://www.plebsschool.org/course/sma-shot-workshop/
Music: Nathaniel Wyvern - Total Eclipse https://nathanielwyvern.bandcamp.com/track/total-eclipse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Sound effects: https://www.zapsplat.com
In the second episode of Quiet Bodies I speak to dancer, performer, and performance maker Vera Goetzee about beauty standards, ballet aesthetics, and the Japanese rope art Shibari. Every now and again I bring your attention to your own body, your body image, and how the two line up. Enjoy!
Shownotes: Follow Vera Goetzee @veragoetzee www.veragoetzee.com The performance Harness based on Shibari https://knotapplicable.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/first-blog-post/ Performance impression of the solo Aan de wand https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ZPoSzFJ8e/?igshid=5nu8xfynu1hj
Beauty in Ugly Times by Philosophytube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iilzRF_5EL8&ab_channel=PhilosophyTube
Music: Nathaniel Wyvern - Total Eclipse https://nathanielwyvern.bandcamp.com/track/total-eclipse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Sound effects: https://www.zapsplat.com
In this very first episode of Quiet Bodies I talk to performing artist Laila el Bazi about wildness, Krumping and the importance of expressing yourself. The body awareness exercise that pop up during the conversation are inspired by those same themes. Enjoy!
About Laila el Bazi
https://www.instagram.com/laila_performingartist/
https://vimeo.com/user46987921
Documentary Rize about Krumping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLo32UulVY
Short Film about master clown Slava Plotunin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4uT3ergY04
Music: Nathaniel Wyvern - Total Eclipse https://nathanielwyvern.bandcamp.com/track/total-eclipse
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Sound effects: https://www.zapsplat.com