Inspiration conversations

Israel Aloni from ilDance

How do you stay creatively inspired? What other forms do you draw inspiration from? (e.g. music, literature, visuals, nature, podcast, film...)

I find seeds or triggers for my practice and processes in a really broad range of experiences and sources. I find philosophy particularly conducive to my processes of thinking, dreaming and making. The work of Spinoza, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Lacan, Braidotti, S. Ahmed, B. Wilderson III and L. Warren is particularly important for my practice. At the same time, I can be moved and motivated to research and make work by the angle of smiling or frowning lips on a stranger’s face I come across on the street. Very importantly, dancing keeps me curious about dance, dancing and people.

Agnese Krivade from LAUKKU

How do you approach the process of creating movement? Do you start with a feeling, a sound, a text, a visual, an idea, or something else? Is each case different?

For me the starting point is always a somatic sensation, grounded in a body system, and then connecting to some poetic or intellectual dimension that helps to “build the stage”, to construct the visual part. But the beginning is always non-visual, sensory, accompanied by a few words and sentences that come to me in dreams.

 Bal Castro from the Spain-based collective

How do you approach the process of creating movement, do you start with a feeling, a sound, a text, a visual, an idea, or something else? Is each case different?

In my way of creating I am very visual, most of the time I usually start from an image, either scenic, of nature, a memory, a desire... From that first image comes a context and from the context different themes can come out, being these the vehicle with which to complete that first image, at some point in this process I think of certain songs related to the theme that is brewing. In this way I get to define the image more and more, being this the starting point with which to begin my practice.