Talk Dance host, Justin Jones speaks with Hofesh Shechter about his dance company’s performance Political Mother.
1:00 / Hofesh’s Musical Background
5:30 / Rock Bands and Dancemaking
8:00 / Live Music
10:50 / Seeds of Political Mother
13:30 / Social Conditioning vs. Natural Instincts
15:50 / Governments and People and Need
20:45 / The Politics of Dance (what does dance do?)
26:55 / Speed!
29:50 / Origins of the movement vocabulary
34:00 / Unison Movement
39:30 / Narrative
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