In this episode of DANCE CINEMA we speak to dancer and filmmaker Sarah Pini. Sarah talks about her phenomenological approach and auto-ethnographic analysis of the experience of cancer. Her dance film ABISSO acts as a visual metaphor of Sarah’s inner landscape during her medical journey.

In this podcast, Sarah talks about:
The subject of ‘Healing’
The concept of ‘Other’: the merging of ‘two bodies’
The symbolic metaphors Sarah employed for ‘ABISSO’
The importance of ‘Location’
Her current PhD research on the notion of: 'Presence in performance’

ABISSO will be screened on https://www.dancecinema.org/ from 1 June to 1 July 2019. To view ABISSO and for the full transcript of this interview head to https://www.dancecinema.org/abisso.html
Recorded in Sydney, Australia on 23 May 2019.

Interview by Melissa Ramos
DANCE CINEMA jingle designed by @trevorbrownmusic
For more information:
https://www.dancecinema.org/

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