Storytelling
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Torgrim Mellum Stene: Time Weave #62
For this episode, performance storyteller Torgrim Mellum Stene takes center stage as we talk about two of his current performances that both revolve around myth, history and time.
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Saturnalia Special: Stretch your Head #61
Io Saturnalia! In celebration of the Roman holiday of role reversal, gift giving and letting go, we discuss the chained god's presence in myth, folklore and in the movie "The Fantastic Four: First Steps".
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Debs Newbold: The Tempest Retold – Revision is Rebellion #59
We are back after another hiatus! And this time we invite you to join us in a magical episode of Shakespearean trivia and artistic nerdgasms!
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Performance Special: Maui Trickster #57
Maui, the taboo-thrashing sun-subduing demigod of the Pacific islands, takes center stage in this episode, a force of erupting and disruptive nature that has been haunting podcast host and performance […]
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Jo Blake: Chthonic Wisdom in the Odyssey #55
"…set out again, with an oar on your shoulder, and travel to a contry where people have never heard of the sea…" Why do most modern retellings of the Odyssey often choose to leave out the actual ending? We look at the deep, dark, feminine underbelly of the greatest voyage of all time.
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Christmas Eve Special: Gifts from the Goat and the Underworld #52
Merry Christmas! In Scandinavia we open presents on Christmas Eve and tonight Torgrim and Mikael have brought one each. Inside we find two fairy tales – "The three billy goats Gruff“ from Norway and "Mother Holle“ from Germany. Join our fireside chat as we delve deep into these two stories, exploring possible hidden layers and meanings and seeing if there’s more than meets the eye.
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Listening #51
One year is no year. Two years is two years. Three years is a tradition. Celebrate the third anniversary with us in our podcasting cavern where we sit listening, waiting […]
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AI vs AI – with special guest Fredrik Høyer #49
Carl Gustav Jung, the mythopoetic mirror to Freud’s trauma-focused psychology, spoke of a concept he coined Active Imagination. An intuitive process of letting your own imagination unfold by drinking from the waters of the collective consciousness. In this conversation we juxtapose both this "AI“ and the more commonly known "AI“ aka Artificial Intelligence.
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Good and Evil #46
We kick off 2024 with a timely musing on the nature of Good and Evil. Does absolute Good and absolute Evil exist? We explore this question through the medium of a spread of Hollywood blockbuster movies.
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Zara Waldebäck: Animistic Storytelling #42
From the busyness of UK screen writer’s rooms to the stillness of the Swedish forests. From mastering the story to serving the story. From performance to ceremony. From ego-centred to eco-centred.