How to Play in Slow Time

Bonus episode — with the authors of How to Play in Slow Time

In this special bonus episode the authors of How to Play in Slow Time offer insight into their own creative practices and how these approaches have evolved in the wake of researching their book. They also reflect on the interviews in this podcast series, pointing to some of the unexpected convergences and resonances that have further opened out their understanding of creativity as a practice.

Emma Maye Gibson

In this episode performance artist Emma Maye Gibson also known as Betty Grumble speaks about the centrality of movement to her creative practice. She shows how communing with the natural world is at the heart of her artistic processes, inseparable from her life.

Rachel Roberts

In this episode performer, game designer and counsellor, Rachel Roberts, shares the importance of play to her theatre-making practice. She also explains how her counselling training helps her to create the critical distance audiences need to play joyfully, unrestrained, but also critically, in her games and performances.

Nitin Vengurlekar

In this episode we speak to performance maker, writer and teacher, Nitin Vengurlekar. Nitin recounts how the comedic forms and gestures he first discovered in his childhood are now expressed in his film and stage personas, which embody a sense of the terror and beauty of creative not knowing—the sense that you are always on the edge of discovering something new.

Riana Head-Toussaint

In this episode interdisciplinary artist Riana Head-Toussaint discusses her choreographic practice. Riana explains how her lived experiences of using a wheelchair for mobility has informed her approach to movement and collaboration. She also talks about paying attention to her surroundings and ‘making with’ her environment.