Podcasts
The Dash Arts podcast takes on big issues through an artistic lens. Hear artists, filmmakers, musicians, theatre makers and more explore the challenges facing society today, and follow the journey towards Dash Arts own productions.
In each episode Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton hosts conversations delving into ideas that expand our own understanding of the world and context of our productions, and continue to shape the cultural landscape worldwide.
“In many ways, I owe everything to the band.”
It’s been over 25 years since two students ran into each other on a street corner in Oxford and decided to set up a band. Oi Va Voi, rooted in Jewish and Eastern European musical traditions, would eventually reach hundreds and thousands of people across the world.
In this second episode on the journey towards our production, The Reckoning, we hear from journalist and author, Peter Pomerantsev who co-founded The Reckoning Project and who first shared with Dash the hundreds of witness testimonies from survivors of the Russian war in Ukraine.
Marie and Josephine chat outside a pub in South London after a week of development and rehearsals at the NTS - intercut with clips from the rehearsal room and questions from the audience
This year Dash Arts is developing a new theatre production, The Reckoning; based on personal accounts of survivors of the Russian war in Ukraine from the vast testimony archive shared by The Reckoning Project, who has been gathering testimony from survivors of detentions, torture and shelling. Journalists are working with lawyers and analysts to collect these stories that can be submitted as evidence in court.
As 2024 arrives we look back on a year of new beginnings for Dash Arts. Join Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Dash’s Podcast Producer Marie Horner as they explore what we’ve learnt and what we haven’t learnt…yet.
“Take a deep breath in, now think about the future you want” Heidi in Cornwall.
What do you want to change? What do you want politicians to understand?
Join us on the road as we travel the length and breadth of England to hear what people want to change. In communities across Cornwall, Yorkshire, Norfolk, the North West, South East and the Midlands, we’re supporting people to write and deliver speeches on what difference they want to see.
How might the stories of a Jewish man, writing in Russian, based in Odesa 100 years ago help us understand what’s happening in Ukraine today? Join Dash Arts’ Artistic Director Josephine Burton at the very start of an exploration into bringing to the stage the life and work of Isaac Babel.
In our latest podcast episode, Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Podcast Producer Marie Horner look back on how Dash Arts brought together a cast of actors, activists and journalists to stage 'Crimea 5am' in January 2023.
Welcome to Albion. A world with a legendary past, fallen present and hope-filled future. Our Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Podcast Producer Rachael Head discover the myths of Albion and what it means to be English today.
Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Rachael Head look back at 2022 and discuss Dash Arts future.
Dash Arts podcasts with young people from Newham who are part of Community Links. The discussions revolves around Dido’s Bar, it’s themes and how it relates with their lives.
Listen to hear how the Writer and Director of Dido’s Bar tackled telling the story of a refugee and how music has been weaved into the fabric of the performance.
Listen to explore how storytelling can reclaim lost stories in myth and how we’re rebalancing the gender dynamics in our next production, Dido's Bar.
In this episode, we explore three epic poems and their relevance today. Delve into how these tales compel us today, and the oral storytelling traditions that shape their impact.
In the final episode of our Protest Songs mini-series, we discuss the history and ongoing significance of the Italian protest song ‘Bella Ciao’.
In the third and final episode of Making Middlemarch, the cast and crew reflect on their experience of The Great Middlemarch Mystery.
The second episode of Making Middlemarch brings you conversations straight from the rehearsal room.
Discover how the idea of The Great Middlemarch Mystery was conceived and why the source text’s author, George Eliot, continues to enchant us today.
In the first episode of our Protest Songs series, we explore the history of 'The Internationale' and how it continues to inspire social change.
In this podcast episode, the three artists involved and its director reflect on this climactic performance, and the emotional and creative journey it took to get there.
Hear about how director Josephine Burton, playwright Hattie Naylor and composer Marouf Majidi crossed paths and came to collaborate on this project.
This podcast episode reveals the story of the making of the show, its vision and the creative journey we have experienced as we explore how to commemorate atrocity through the medium of performance.
Discover the myth of Aeneas and its significance in society today. Delve into the inspirations behind the production itself, its origin story and its theatrical vision.
Our investigation into what happens to identity during moments of great national change brings our attention to Brexit and its impact on our own national identities in the UK. What does Europe mean today? What do we want from Europe, post-Brexit?
In this third episode of The Identity Series, we investigate the collapse of Yugoslavia and subsequent wars that ripped across the former country.
In this second episode of The Identity Series, we delve into the fraught and complex topic of empire.
In this first episode of The Identity Series, we explore the meaning and power of identity through the fascinating case of Polish-Lithuanian Nobel Prize-winning writer Czesław Miłosz.
In this episode recorded from our online Dash Café in May, we return to the iconic 2009 Estonian documentary Disco and Atomic War and the topic of borders, propaganda and censorship.