OLIVIA MILLARD #25. The Improvisors Podcast. (See Bio below)

Neil Thomas and Kevin Jeynes team up to interview Performance Improvisors from a wide range of approaches, disciplines and genres. Enjoy this invaluable expanding resource, an archive of performer histories and reflections. SUBSCRIBE to receive fortnightly podcasts.
OLIVIA MILLARD is a Senior Lecturer in Dance in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Olivia is a dancer and dance maker and her research is based in the generation of movement material by various means and for diverse situations. Olivia has extensively explored the use of “scores” in dance improvisation and applies that approach to solo work, group dance creation and performative site activation producing live and digital outputs.
Olivia has worked with the group About Now for the past ten years, co-creating work for several festivals and events and is also a lead researcher in the multidisciplinary AllPlay Dance program measuring benefits of dance and developing inclusive dance programs for children with disability.
Images: Olivia Millard by Isabella Capezio
The 'Low Line' facilitated by the LAST Collective. Coburg Station April 2022. MoreArt 2022: Evidence of Life, curated by Emily Cormack, Moreland City Council.