Conversations with artists about storytelling

These interview/conversations with artists, about story & storytelling, are accidental podcasts. They're part of a Develop Your Creative Practise process I undertook in 2021-2022, funded by Arts Council England.As part of an exploration of Storytelling, I interviewed artists working across a range of disciplines, about how they work with story, their creative processes & ways of working.Each interviewee introduced me to the next person; creating a chain of conversations across the UK's artistic landscape; from directors & writers, to composters, designers & digital content creators.They're pretty much unedited & contain language, opinions or views that solely reflect the speaker.

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Conversations with artists about storytelling

Orit Azaz on working with story

December 07, 2022 • Karen P • Season 1 • Episode 2

I'm interviewing a range of UK artists & creatives about how they create & work with story for a professional development project, funded by Arts Council England's DYCP.

Orit Azaz is an artistic director, facilitator & creative thinker. Her experience combines devising & directing large scale performances & events; creating new contexts for collaborations between artists & communities; & facilitating creative enquiry & artform development.

Orit worked with Nofit State from 1997-2015, as director of the Stepping Stones trilogy & Artistic Director of large-scale outdoor work, including Parklife & Barricade. Other projects included Creative Director of Portrait of a Nation, as the culmination of Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture & artistic director of Something Good, for Birmingham Cathedral’s 300th anniversary in 2015. More recently, Orit was Artistic Director of the BRIDGE project for Imagineer in Coventry 2021, & is currently Artistic Director of Imagine Bamboo, exploring the possibilities of bamboo as a creative material.

This interview was recorded in March 2022, so some of the references may seem a little old. It's pretty much unedited & contain language, opinions or views that solely reflect the speaker.

Next up in this series: Nathan Curry, independent theatre director & Co-Artistic Director of Tangled Feet Theatre