Though Shotput’s primary form is dance, we also like to talk. Each live project that we make involves a lot of talking with people from different fields. In The Shotput Podcast, we open up these conversations to our audience.
New episodes of The Shotput Podcast will be released weekly starting 13 September 2022. Like, subscribe, and rate us on all major podcasting platforms.
Series 1: Film
This first 3-part series accompanies the Scottish tour of Shotput’s live show, Ferguson and Barton. That show is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Vertigo. Live camera work plays a large role in the performance, and the shows asks questions about how cinema shapes our lives and relationships. Therefore, this first series is all about film.
Episode 1: Video Design with Rob Willoughby. LISTEN | TRANSCRIPT
Episode 2: Screen Dance with Anna Clifford and Omari ‘Motion’ Carter of The Motion Dance Collective. LISTEN | TRANSCRIPT
Episode 3: Making film v making theatre with Adura Onashile. LISTEN | TRANSCRIPT
The Shotput Podcast is edited and its music composed by Sonia Killmann. Artwork by Gallusness.
Our other podcast, The Slow Dance, is part of our larger project, DISCOTHEQUE. In this podcast, teens talk to other teens about sex.
In Series 1, we spoke to dozens of teenagers from Scotland, the UK, Norway, and Denmark. Episodes were released in Spring 2021, and we plan to make future episodes with teenagers local to each touring location of the live show DISCOTHEQUE.
Series 1, Episode 1: FIRSTS
Let's start at the very beginning. Firsts. In this episode of The Slow Dance, you'll hear teenagers talk about the beginnings of lust. Is it part of puberty - or earlier - or later? We'll hear about the joys and the sorrows of first kisses, first relationships, first sexual experiences. We'll journey into house parties and playgrounds. And we'll question whether passing the threshold from virginity to sexual being is a 'fall from paradise' or a lifelong adventure.
Series 1, Episode 2: SEND PICS
This week, we look at a particular, popular, and controversial corner of social media: sending risqué photos. A photo says a thousands words, but it also lasts forever. This week, the teens navigate the overlapping borders of play, objectification, self-fashioning, and agency in the world of 'Send Pics'.
Series 1, Episode 3: SEX ED
What could be more cringey than Sex Ed? Bad Sex Ed. In this episode, the teenagers take us through the many and varied ways in which formal sex education is not fit for purpose in the 21st century. When sex ed is vague, homophobic, patriarchal, scare-mongering, how can we find ourselves implicated in it? As ever, the teens have some good ideas.
Series 1, Episode 4: HARDCORE
Porn: it's contents and discontents. This episode is all about fictions and realities. The teens take us through what we see on screen, and what it's like in real life.
Series 1, Episode 5: BODY COUNT
Sex and…murder? How did teens adopt the language of serial killers in their conversations about sexuality? This episode sees the teens at both their grittiest and their most romantic.
The Slow Dance is edited by Amanda Stanley. Music is by Cat Myers. Artwork by Ashwin Chacko.