NAC Podcasts

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Just Be Human
Nov 26, 2021 49:08
Anna Mehler Paperny talks to Jillian Horton about mental health care in Canada and her own observations - both as journalist and patient. Anna Mehler Paperny is a reporter and the...
Julie Taymor: Dancing for the Gods
Aug 24, 2021 56:08
Jillian speaks with directing supernova Julie Taymor about pushing theatricality in cinema and innovating cinematic language in the theatre. Also: playing with idiographs across scale, the poetry of transitions, gender...
Let’s talk…but who goes first?
Jun 11, 2021 1:00:34
Clara Hughes, a dual-season Olympian, is the only athlete in history to win multiple medals at both the summer and winter Olympic Games. She also knows what it’s like to...
Just where are you taking that history?
May 17, 2021 1:11:44
Student doctors are taught a formulaic way of “taking” patient histories and repeating their stories. Somewhere along the way, the essence of the person - and why they are seeking...
Robert Lepage
May 10, 2021 1:21:15
Jillian speaks with singular international theatre maker and Artistic Director of Quebec City’s Ex Machina, Robert Lepage, about stretching rehearsal schedules to make space for the “rendering farm”, creating the...
Beginning with the Truth with Dr. Alika Lafontaine
Apr 19, 2021 1:10:29
In this episode of the Arts, Medicine and #Life series Dr. Horton speaks with Dr. Alika Lafontaine about Indigenous healing and what we can all learn from it. The conversation...