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1830EST: Artists Talk
Intimate Conversations with Artists about Art
1830EST: Artists Talk offers an online forum to explore art-making practices through the lens of working artists and their creativity. Each episode assembles multiple viewpoints and includes interviews, field recordings, soundscapes and stories representing the diverse creative practitioners within the Core Dance global landscape.
1830EST: Artists Talk was initiated in 2021 to cultivate community in response to the pandemic, when live experiences were not possible. The ongoing pandemic disrupted the rhythms of everyday life, prompting us to reconfigure how we connect, communicate, and work together.
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Current 2024-2025 Season
Amelia Reiser
Event Date: September 19th, 2024
is Atlanta based creator, performer, and movement facilitator Amelia Reiser was raised on the Osage Plains of Central Oklahoma. She attended The University of Georgia, earning a BFA in Dance Performance (2011). Amelia was a founding member of Skwhirlhaus collective in Atlanta, GA (2012-2016) alongside Maryn Whitmore, choreographing, performing and helping curate an annual series of works from emerging and established artists. Her most recent choreographic work includes ditto (2024) a duet in collaboration with Kathleen Wessel, The Games We Play (2023) commissioned by The University of Georgia’s Department of Dance, and thread b a r e (film, 2021) presented at HomeTraining: an experiential gallery show (Atlanta, GA) and Elephant Gallery: Quilty Pleasures (Nashville, TN). Over many years of performing and creating, Amelia has...
Stuart Gerber & Jan Berry Baker
Event Date: October 10th, 2024
Founded in 2003, Atlanta-based Bent Frequency brings the avant-garde to life through adventurous and socially conscious programming, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and impactful community engagement. Committed to being inclusive of the diverse and dynamic community they are a part of, one of BF’s primary goals is championing the work of historically marginalized composers –music by women, composers of color, and LGBTQIA+. Hailed as “one of the brightest new music ensembles on the scene today” by Gramophone magazine, BF engages an eclectic mix of the most bold and impassioned players in Atlanta, ushering the contemporary music experience from the strict formality of the concert hall into the fresh air of artistic expression and experimentation. BF has partnered with internationally acclaimed ensembles, dance groups...
Kate Smith
Event Date: November 14th, 2024
is a vocal artist, composer and workshop leader passionate about creating music and facilitating collective music-making for voices and bodies in motion. As a composer, Kate works at the intersection of voice, movement, and improvisation, existing in both realms of live theatre and recorded sound. In October 2023, she released her debut EP, Songs from the Body, a series of compositions for voice and electronics, paired with immersive live performances involving 12 singers, movement and synth, including for Yolk Collective (London), Isodea Festival (Barreiro), Voz Unbound (Lisbon) and Songs from the Body (London). She has been commissioned to write sound pieces for Whitechapel Gallery and Fundação Eugenio de Almeida, and her music can be found in the documentary The Hypocrite (2024). An accomplished improviser, Kate has released...
Jeff Arnal
Event Date: December 5th, 2024
is an American percussionist and the Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Executive Director in Asheville, NC. He has been active as an artist, curator, and community organizer since the 1990s. In 2002, he co-founded Improvised and Otherwise, an interdisciplinary festival for emerging artists in Brooklyn, NY. He has performed in a wide variety of concerts and festivals, including a series of duo concerts with Charles Gayle in 2002, a trio concert at the Vision Festival with John Dierker and Gordon Beeferman in 2008, and his percussion duo with Michael Evans, performed live on WFMU radio and at the Issue Project Room in 2009. His collaborations with choreographers have been produced at PS 122, Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, The Chocolate Factory, and Judson Church. Arnal's music can be...
Nuno Veiga
Event Date: January 16th, 2025
Nuno Veiga, born in Viseu, Portugal is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher whose practice includes sound art, acting, theater direction, video art, installations, teaching, and arts facilitation. Veiga has been working in professional arts contexts since 2001 and graduated in Theater Studies from the University of Évora in Portugal in 2006. Moving to London in 2011, Veiga continued to work as an actor, audiovisual designer, and arts facilitator, collaborating with various companies and institutions, including Rambert Dance Company’s The Playground, Soho Theater, Knot Theory, Hide Tide, Spare Tire, Battersea Arts Center, Rare Salt and Edinburgh International Festival. As an arts facilitator, Veiga worked with community groups including at-risk youth, the elderly, and people with learning difficulties. As an Associate Artist at Spare Tire, Veiga developed...
Alexia Jones
Event Date: February 27th, 2025
Alexia Jones celebrates 28 years in long term recovery as the founder and Executive Director of R2ISE Inc. a nonprofit RCO (Recovery Community Organization) in Atlanta Georgia, holds a BFA in Dance from Florida State University, and an MBA from Phoenix University. She is a certified addiction empowerment specialist (CARES) and certified peer specialist (CPS) trainer of trainers for trauma informed care and a certified drum circle facilitator. She is passionate about her work with those in recovery from mental health challenges and/or drug addiction, by utilizing the arts and providing a safe place through R2ISE so that wellness can be maintained. She has performed nationally and internationally and choreographed at the university and professional level. Alexia is a movement engineer committed to helping others walk in recovery...
Kevin O’Connor, Brooke Chrisjohn-Oneida & Montana Summers
Event Date: March 27th, 2025
Montana is from the Oneida First Nation of the Thames. Montana began training in the exploration of Indigenous and contemporary dance when he was accepted into the Indigenous Dance Residency (2015) and Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s Summer Intensive (2016). Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director, Santee Smith, brought Montana onto projects including The Mush Hole (2016-2020), I Lost My Talk with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (2016) and for the Grand Act of Theatre, Continuance: Yonkwa’nikonhrakontàhkwen–Our Consciousness Continues Unchanged (2020), and The Honouring. Additionally, Montana previously acted for Backyard Theatre’s one-time new production called The Other Side of the River (2019). Montana continues to work on his abilities in the performing arts with other small projects from Kaha:wi Dance...
Sean Nguyen-Hilton, Nicole Johnson & Jimmy Joyner
Event Date: April 10th, 2025
Fly on a Wall is an Atlanta based arts platform that supports and creates innovative performance. Fly on a Wall aims to provide opportunity, space and resources for artists to create work that responds to, reimagines, and activates the ever-evolving moment within our community. Fly on a Wall values:
-Artmaking that celebrates multiple perspectives, and navigates new boundaries.
-Supporting artists that shape and reflect their environment and culture.
-The commitment to artistic process.
-Work that invokes possibility, explores form, challenges thought, and expands feeling.
Fly On A Wall (FOAW) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing artists in metropolitan Atlanta with a platform for continued growth, innovative performance, and artistic expression. Founded in 2014, the...
Maya Ciarocchi
Event Date: May 15th, 2025
is a Canadian American artist whose work excavates vanished and inaccessible histories, themes embedded in her Ashkenazi ancestry and Queer identity. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and she has been awarded residencies from the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MacDowell, Millay Arts, and UCross. She has received grants and awards from the Bronx Council on the Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Franklin Furnace Fund, Jerome Foundation, Map Fund, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Puffin Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding. In addition to her studio practice, Ciarrocchi has...
2023-2024 Season
Nadya Zeitlin
Event Date: September 21st, 2023
Since relocating to Atlanta in 2013, Nadya Zeitlin has presented solo works and curated multidisciplinary shows. Influenced by her training in movement, theatre, design, and art therapy, she founded Bautanzt Here in 2020, a site-specific dance theatre. The company has performed works commissioned by 7 Stages Theatre, ELEVATE Atlanta Festival, and more, at locations like Piedmont Park and Colony Square Plaza. In 2022, she completed performances inspired by Atlanta Central Library, funded by an Arts & Entertainment Atlanta grant, and was a guest artist at Emory Dance Program. Nadya has participated in various residencies and programs and facilitates Atlanta's first Site-Specific Dance Hub. Her works have been featured in numerous festivals and venues, and she has performed with gloATL, Beacon Dance, and others.
Nat Chylinska and Katarzyna Pastuszak
Event Date: October 19th, 2023
Natalia Chylińska's work spans body/movement, text, sound, and visual material and explores the body/environment continuum, influenced by posthumanism, queer theory, and ecology. Recent projects include “Anatomies” (2022, Festival of Naked Forms), “Pol(s)ka in Japan” (2022), choreographic walks, and site-specific performances for Open House Gdańsk. Katarzyna Pastuszak is a dancer, choreographer, artistic director of Amareya Theatre & Guests, an Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk and a member of Between.Pomiędzy Research Group. Their work, supported by various scholarships, explores body politics, storytelling, and choreography. Recent projects include the dance film “Home” (2020), performances in Japan/Europe, and “Anatomies” at the 2023 International Theatre Olympics in Budapest.
Kevin O'Conner
Event Date: November 9th, 2023
is a multidisciplinary artist of Gaelic and Sicilian heritage, whose work is rooted in community-engaged arts, somatics, ecology, and queer activism. He works as a choreographer, dancer, teacher, improviser, circus artist, writer, film producer, and installation artist between London, Ontario, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His artistic practice involves improvisation, ritual, imagination, and collective score-making to envision emergent worlds. Kevin is part of the decade-long artistic collective "Sweet Labour Arts," collaborating across settler and Oneida Nation worlds in London, Ontario. Over the past 15 years, he has worked with NAKA Dance in Oakland, Skywatchers in the Bay Area, Oncogrrrls feminist art collective in Spain, and Anandam in Toronto. He also collaborated with Inuit hunter and designer Paulette Metuq on a project in Nunavut.
Anne Archer Dennington
Event Date: December 7th, 2023
is the founding executive director and leader of Flux Projects. With experience across commercial, government, and nonprofit art sectors, she has previously led three organizations. Under her leadership, Flux Projects has connected the community through innovative public art, making it accessible to diverse audiences and transforming public spaces in Atlanta. Notable projects include Nick Cave's Up Right (2015), a Grant Park project (2018), a sound art event at Ponce City Market (2019), Charmaine Minniefield's praise house installation (2020-2021), and Bandaloop's FIELD (2021). Dennington has been producing public art since 2004, starting with Atlanta Celebrates Photography. She has served on numerous boards and committees, including Mayor Shirley Franklin’s Public Art Advisory Committee, Midtown Alliance’s Street Activation & Public Art Committee, the MPAC Board and more.
Casagrande-Giorgini
Event Date: January 11th, 2024
The artistic duo casagrande // giorgini was born in 2019 founded by Marco Casagrande and Nicolò Giorgini.
Their first work "CUM-LAEDERE" is selected by the "Residanza B-Side" action of "Movimento Danza" and debuts in the "Resid'And" review of the National Academy of Dance in Rome. Together they participate in the project "Dancescapes - in a Landscape" of the Associazione Danza Urbana, starting the search for their latest work "DOT". In 2022 this work is selected by “Alloggiando Art Fest”, “Centre for Choreographic development SE.S.TA” (Czech Republic) and by the tender “FLIC 25 – Spazio ai Giovani!”.
They are currently part of the CIMD's "Incubator for future * coreograf *" path.
Deanna Sirlin and Nuno Veiga
Event Date: February 29th, 2024
Deanna Sirlin, born in Brooklyn, holds an MFA from Queens College (CUNY). Her current solo exhibition is at 211 East 43rd, NYC. She has shown work at the 59th Biennale di Venezia and has exhibited in London, Évora, Antalya, and Worpsweder. Her work is in collections like the High Museum and Mark Rothko Centre. She has received grants from the Warhol Foundation and others and is currently Artist-in-Residence at Midtown Alliance and Emory University. Nuno Veiga, from Viseu, Portugal, is a multidisciplinary artist and teacher in sound art, acting, theater direction, video art, and installations. He graduated in Theater Studies from the University of Évora and has worked with directors in Portugal. Since 2011, he has collaborated with institutions like the Young Vic and Edinburgh International Festival in London. Veiga has worked as a sound artist for various media and released albums in Europe.
Wanda Eason, Hannah Hanshaw, Aida Kuettle, and Nakeya Palmer
Event Date: March 21st, 2024
This month we will feature the cast of Sue Schroeder's work a brief moment of alignment at The University of Central Arkansas.
We will talk with cast members Wanda Eason, Hannah Hanshaw, Aida Kuettle and Nakeya Palmer about the project.
Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor
Event Date: April 11th, 2024
Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor have been creating dance together since 2004, blending contemporary dance with performance art and physical theatre. Their work has earned national and international acclaim, with awards and presentations at festivals like Tanz Im August (Berlin), Montpellier Danse (France), and ADF (North Carolina). They curate the dance platform at Tmuna Theater in Tel Aviv and manage the IntimaDance festival. Niv Sheinfeld (1972) previously danced with Liat Dror & Nir Ben-Gal and has created works for Kibbutz Dance Company and Bat Sheva. He has received the Ministry of Culture's choreography award and the Rosenblum Award for performing arts. Oren Laor (1971) studied acting at Tel Aviv University and has worked with notable directors. He teaches performance and physical theatre techniques.
Jonathan Keats and Felipe Perez Santiago
Event Date: May 16th, 2024
Jonathon Keats, called a “poet of ideas” by The New Yorker and a “multimedia philosopher-prophet” by The Atlantic, is an artist and experimental philosopher. He has exhibited at LACMA, Stanford, and CERN, and authored six books, including You Belong to the Universe. Represented by Modernism Gallery, his monograph Thought Experiments was published by Hirmer Verlag.
Felipe Pérez Santiago is a renowned composer and conductor with awards like the Kronos Quartet prize and the Betty J. Meyers grant. He leads the Mal’Akh and Vórtice Ensembles, ONIX Ensemble, and the orchestra at Estudios Churubusco. His music has been performed in over 40 countries. Currently, he is an artist in residence at SETI Institute and directs "The Earthling Project," creating a sonic legacy for space.
2023-2024 Season
The 2023-2024 season included talks with Nadya Zeitlin, Katarzyna Pastuszak, Natalia Chylinska, Kevin O'Conner, Marco Casagrande, Nicolò Giorgini, Anne Archer Dennington, Deanna Sirlin, Nuno Veiga, Wanda Easton, Hannah Hanshaw, Aida Kuettle, Nakeya Palmer, Niv Sheinfeld, Oren Laor, Jonathan Keats, and Felipe Perez Santiago.
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2021-2022 Season
The 2021-2022 Season included talks with Christian Meyer, Kristin O'Neal and Julio Medina, Walter Apps, Iman Siferllah-Griffin and Laith Stevenson, Felipe Barral, Adam Larsen, Jennifer Scully-Thurston, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Snowflake Calvert, Julie B. Johnson & DeMarcus Suggs, the Teens Activate Faculty, and Douglas Rosenberg.
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