MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS
Episodes
The Next Step - Saturday Night Fever (1977)
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We conclude our 6 part series, The Next Step, with SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)! The surprisingly harsh film that launched a #1 bestselling soundtrack ...
The Next Step - Save the Last Dance (2001)
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re making our entrance for this one running in with arms in bras bas! Was SAVE THE LAST DANCE (2001) the beginning of the dance movie craze of th...
Rerelease - Boys Dance Too
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
5 years after first recorded, we're rereleasing this episode of our first dance flavoured mini series - Ballet for the 21st Century. We've c...
The Next Step - Billy Elliot (2000)
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We couldn't make The Next Step mini series without including BILLY ELLIOT. Is this the seminal dance coming of age film? How does it hold up a qu...
The Next Step - Fame (1980)
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
FAME (1980) fed the world a version of performing arts schools where everyone is constantly jumping around dancing and singing. But how much truth is ...
The Next Step - Dirty Dancing (1987)
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Up next in our new mini-series, The Next Step, is DIRTY DANCING (1987)! With bonus film--FLASHDANCE (1983).Long a stalwart of slumber parties, Dirty D...
The Next Step - Center Stage (2000)
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our first episode of the new mini series, The Next Step, is CENTER STAGE (2000)! Can you believe this dancer classic is celebrating 25 years since its...
Ballet Macabre - Duality
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our ballet horror movie mash up podcast, continues with BLACK SWAN (2010) and US (2019).In this final instalment of Ballet Macabre we're looking...
Ballet Macabre - Innocence
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This one is hot off the presses! Just as I was about to release the final episode in our mini series, Lucile Hadžihalilović 's award winning IN...
Ballet Macabre - Pain
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
BALLET MACABRE continues with SUSPIRIA (1977) and AUDITION (1999) as Emma Lister, long time film lover, podcast host and ballet dancer guides us down ...
Ballet Macabre - The Chosen One
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We start our mini series with THE RED SHOES (1948) and SUSPIRIA (2018) as Emma Lister, long time film lover, podcast host and ballet dancer guides us ...
Roopa Mahadevan | Vocalist/Composer
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hailed as a “stirring voice” by the New York Times, Roopa Mahadevan is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the ...
Gavin Sutherland | Conductor
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gavin Sutherland is a conductor, composer and orchestrator who specials in dance—he’s conducted for Northern Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Roya...
Charlotte Maclet | First Violinist
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Maclet is an award winning violinist who first performed a Mendelssohn concerto at age nine! She has performed as a soloist in her native Fr...
Andrew Mellor | Music Critic
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Mellor is a journalist and critic. He has written about music, architecture, design, and cultural politics for publications around the world an...
Ballet Taboo - Pregnancy & Parenthood
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this, the last episode of our miniseries, Emma Lister and Amy Drew are joined by choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple and dancer/teacher Senri Ko...
Ballet Taboo - Cancel Culture Part II
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week hosts Emma Lister, Amy Drew and Matthew Paluch continue their discussion of the phenomenon of “cancel culture” in the ballet and dance w...
Ballet Taboo - Cancel Culture Part I
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in part I, host Emma Lister and Matthew Paluch discuss the phenomenon of 'cancel culture' in the ballet and dance world. Where do...
Ballet Taboo - Periods
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to our new mini series! We’re talking about things that historically have been taboo to discuss in ballet. In episode one, host Emma Lister ...
Jessica Hung Han Yun | Lighting Designer
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun won a Knight of Illumination Award for Equus at Stratford East when she was just 24. She’s since worked at ...
Anders Duckworth | Choreographer
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anders Duckworth is a British/Swedish choreographer. With training in both design and dance, their work blurs movement, fashion and visual arts. Con...
Nicholas Thayer | Composer
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Thayer is a London-born, Netherlands-based composer, producer and inter-disciplinary artist. His electronic and new classical work has been...
Yann Seabra | Stage Designer
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yann Seabra is a stage designer whose work has been sought after by companies such as The Royal Opera House, San Francisco Ballet, Circa, Ballet Black...
Alesandra Seutin | Choreographer
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alesandra Seutin is an award-winning multidisciplinary performance artist and choreographer who works internationally between Senegal, Belgium and the...
Irish Women Making Dance - The Roundtable Pt 2
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week’s episode circled around the taboo of motherhood in the dance world, the lack of a full time company in Ireland and the question of why th...
Irish Women Making Dance - The Roundtable Pt 1
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do you think of when you think of Ireland? The Emerald Isle, Guinness, Oscar Wilde and Riverdance? What about women making dance? Because this ti...
Irish Women Making Dance - The Introduction
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of our first roundtable discussion with six women making dance in Ireland, Emma Lister and cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne give a (tiny) bit of Irish hi...
Dolly Brown⎪Photographer
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dolly Brown is a photographer who specialises in documenting art and artists. She may be best known as her Instagram alterego: @londonlivingdoll. She&...
Kalle Nio ⎪Magician/Visual Artist
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kalle Nio is a magician and visual artist based in Finland. He is co-drector/founder of the theatre company WHS and the recipient of numerous awards i...
Dance in the Time of Corona - Dancers in the Balance
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of our three part miniseries, we zoom in to meet three dancers. They are all at different stages of their careers and their lives...
Dance in the Time of Corona - Dancers' Mental Health During the Pandemic
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The last 18 months have been a trying time for everyone’s mental health. But how have dancers been uniquely affected? A group of artists whose lives...
Dance in the Time of Corona - Pay Your Dancers
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this, the first episode of our mini-series Dance in the Time of Corona, Emma Lister is joined by cohosts Zoë Ashe-Browne and Shelby Williams. They...
Adrian Berry⎪Artistic Director of Jacksons Lane
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian Berry is Artistic Director of the UK's leading circus and arts centre, Jacksons Lane. He is also a producer, writer and director and wrote...
Stina Quagebeur ⎪ Associate Choreographer, English National Ballet
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stina Quagebeur is the associate choreographer and a first artist at English National Ballet. Nora, her first mainstage choreographic work for ENB, wa...
Manjinder Virk⎪Actor/Director
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Manjinder Virk is an actor, writer and director. As an actor she can currently be seen on The Beast Must Die with Jared Harris and Cush Jumbo on Britb...
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS Season 3 Trailer
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3 of MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS is out now!Featuring a new set of interviews with fascinating artists and the mini-series: DANCE IN THE TIME OF CORO...
Alice Williamson ⎪Artist
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode of series 2, Emma talks to Alice Williamson--a difficult artist to categorise. Essentially, she works with movement and design, be...
Sean Gandini ⎢ Juggler
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Juggler Sean Gandini and his partner Kati Ylä-Hokkala have built one of the UK’s most successful contemporary circus companies: Gandini Juggling. G...
Ballet for the 21st Century - Boys Dance Too
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why is the bullying of boys who want to take ballet so persistent? Emma Lister seeks to answer this question and why their love of dance is often defe...
Ballet for the 21st Century - Orientalism and Ballet
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS mini-series, Ballet for the Twenty-first Century, Emma Lister and guest Phil Chan discuss his first book Fina...
Ballet for the 21st Century - Ballet and Mental Health - The Survey Pt II
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In part II of our episode on mental health and the classically trained ballet dancer, Emma Lister talks to counsellor (and ex-dancer) Terry Hyde. They...
Ballet for the 21st Century - Ballet and Mental Health - The Survey Pt I
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emma Lister and cohost Zoë Ashe-Browne released a 30 question survey about ballet dancers' mental health. They never expected the response it go...
Piers Harrison-Reid ⎪Performance Poet
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Performance poet, Piers Harrison-Reid rose to national visibility with a poem that bridged two of the UK’s greatest institutions: The National Healt...
Monique Jonas ⎢ Dancer/Choreographer
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Monique Jonas is still only at the beginning of her dance career and she’s already worked with Rambert Dance, Kim Brandstrup, New Adventures and Ric...
Kellie Shirley⎪Actor
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kellie Shirley knows about the highs and lows of being an actor in Britain. She chats to Emma Lister about resisting early pressure to shed her accent...
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS Season 2 Trailer
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're back for a second season with more fascinating chats with artists!Mid-season we also have our first mini-series: Ballet for the Twenty Firs...
Rhoda Ofori-Attah ⎢ Actor
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode of our inaugural season Emma Lister speaks to actor Rhoda Ofori-Attah. Born in Ghana but raised in the UK, Rhoda trained at the Ox...
Sakari Männistö ⎢ Circus Artist
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Finnish circus artist Sakari Männistö is a performer recognised for his innovative, technical juggling. In this week’s podcast, he and Emma Lister...
Gabriela Muñoz ⎢ Chula the Clown
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As ‘Chula the Clown’, Gabriela Muñoz has performed all over the world with her hit show Perhaps, Perhaps, Quizas. She discusses it and why ten ye...
Guy Hoare ⎢ Lighting Designer
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emma speaks to Guy Hoare, the British lighting designer whose striking work has appeared at the Royal Opera House, Sadler’s Wells, The Old Vic, Donm...
Seeta Patel ⎢ Bharatanatyam dancer/choreographer
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Seeta Patel talks to Emma Lister about her new Bharatanatyam Rite of Spring, and why she can be nervous when starting a new project. The classical Ind...
Zoë Ashe-Browne ⎢ Choreographer
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of series one host Emma Lister talks to classically trained dancer Zoë Ashe-Browne, currently an artist at the Royal Ballet of F...
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS Trailer
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS is the podcast all about the creative mind and what makes it tick. In this first season, host Emma Lister talks to performers, c...