Adam Rose is a dancer based in Chicago, and the Founder and Artistic Director of Antibody Corporation. Topics include the mind-body problem, fragmented adolescent theories, and spirituality.   Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com.

Some Small Magic

3.6 Adam Rose on Magic and the Body

Corey Smith, an artist and friend, joins me for an informal chat about his recent show The New Prairie School, the Midwest, the Neo-Futurists, objects, capital-P capital-A Performance Art, art galleries, and ambient fish.   Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com

3.5 Corey Smith

Erica Mott tells me about overcoming deep fear through joy and surprise, making new objects out of trash, learning from every voice, and the magical elements of presence.   Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com

3.4 Erica Mott

Don Share is the editor of Poetry Magazine, the longest-running monthly English language periodical dedicated to poetry. We talk about the idealism of poetry, poetry's durability and portability, editing with a legacy, and the joy of literary magazines.   Music by SJ Roberts. Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com.

3.3 Don Share on Poetry

Cut from a recording that's being saved for a future project, here's a quick conversation between Christopher Knowlton and I about puppetry and object performance.   Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com

x.6 Christopher Knowlton on Object Performance

Lee Mikeska Gardner is the Artistic Director of the Nora Theatre Company in Cambridge, MA. We talk about the differences in Boston and D.C.'s arts scenes, collaborating with scientists, honesty in practice, and how to put the work first.   Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com.

x.5 Lee Mikeska Gardner

This week, Meghan Beals, the Artistic Director of Chicago Dramatists, tells me about working with a legacy, being just a part of a process, building the new American canon, and that it's okay not to know.   Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com

3.2 Meghan Beals

Some Small Magic is back for Season 3! For this season, we're focusing on the "Breadth of New Work," so we're kicking it off with Liz Anderson, a Chicago-based writer and comedian who creates one-of-a-kind theatrical events. Topics include how Liz makes the One Woman No Show, the showmanship of wrestling, and, of course, yelling at ghosts.   Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com. 

3.1 Liz Anderson

Closing out the 2nd season of Some Small Magic, Walkabout Theater Company's Thom Pasculli and I talk about vitality, making a way to make theatre, learning to touch your toes, the obligation in ritual, and investing in our imaginations.   Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com.   There won't be a bonus episode between Season 2 and Season 3, so the next episode will be out in 4 weeks instead of 2 on 10/11/17. Thanks for listening!

2.7 Thom Pasculli

Vanessa Valliere - a Chicago-based performer with Manual Cinema and Mucca Pazza who toured with Tour de Fat, and now takes her puppet shows around the country - tells me about the pain of creating, swing dancing in Japan, finding one's place in the ensemble, and trying not to eat your puppets.   Music by S.J. Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com

2.6 Vanessa Valliere

Some context: After interviewing Bonnie Duncan (1.4) back in March, she suggested some other artists I should interview while I was in Boston. This is with Brendan Burns, one of Bonnie's collaborators, recorded at Brookline Music School. Talking points include taking a musical snapshot of a city's scene, confidence as practice, and music as a preferred language. Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com.

x.4 Brendan Burns

Recorded at the 2017 Puppeteers of America National Festival in St. Paul, Yngvild Aspeli (the Artistic Director of Plexus Polaire) and I discuss collaboration, perfection in fragility, starting from the theme, and changing a show with every performance.   Music by SJ Roberts: find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com

2.5 Yngvild Aspeli

Digging an episode out from the March archives, I talk with Boston-based writer Patrick Gabridge about spacial formality, where farming and theatre line up, and how to fill up a box. Among other things.

x.3 Patrick Gabridge

Onye Ozuzu - creator of Technology of the Circle, founder of Project Tool, and Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Columbia College - explains a circle's organizing principle, culture as a way, embodied discourse, and preparing to leave.   Music by SJ Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com.

2.4 Onye Ozuzu

Mark Jeffery - co-founder of ATOM-r and former company member of the elusive Goat Island Performance Group - describes the importance of duration, how to demand time, working body/thinking brain, and listening for magic.   Music by S.J. Roberts: Find more at sjroberts.bandcamp.com

2.3 Mark Jeffery

Some Small Magic is an interview series about path and craft - how they affect each other, and how they have shaped and been shaped by the artist who wields them. Join Fletcher Pierson as he travels Chicago and the country to learn contemporary artist's methods and theories, and discover their stories, their dreams, and their favorite moments of magic.

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