Process Piece

Process Piece is not just a podcast, but a full-bodied creative project created and hosted by dance artist Ruby Josephine Smith. The idea behind this project is to explore the creative process more deeply through dialogue, studying the flow of conversation itself as a process while learning to ask better and more curious questions of artists. The podcast includes artists of all mediums, backgrounds, and from all over the world in order to discover both the amazing diversity of views on art-making, as well as what the common threads are between us creators.

Taylor Drury is a Canadian born dancer, choreographer, and sometimes line-drawing artist with WobbleWorks. She is currently a full time company member with the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. In this conversation we talk all about her path to becoming a dancer, which was full of the unexpected, as well as the period of doubting and questioning that often comes after graduation. We speak about conscious versus unconscious influences, the practice of improvisation and how it can be built into a full piece, and the life of being in a company as a dancer as opposed to working freelance. She also talks about her drawing practice, titled WobbleWorks, which is a series of one line drawings that she has expanded out into workshops and commissions.

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