A Conversation with Alan Lucien yen, writer, director, choreographer, and artistic director of winter guests
b'In this special NAC Dance podcast, Cathy Levy (Executive Producer of Dance at Canada\\u2019s National Arts Centre), Nathalie Bonjour (Director of Performing Arts at Toronto\\u2019s Harbourfront Centre), and Jim Smith (Artistic and Executive Director of Vancouver\\u2019s DanceHouse) chat with Alan Lucien \\xd8yen, one of Norway\\u2019s most exciting multi-talented and in-demand artists, about his art and bringing Story, story, die to Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto in June 2022 as part of Nordic Bridges, a celebration of Nordic art, culture and ideas across Canada in 2022. Alan describes how the remounting of this work that speaks to our isolation and how we present ourselves depending on who we are with and the situation we are in, feels like a victory after the postponements and setbacks imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. He expresses gratitude for having been able to work in both theatre and dance; for the deeply moving experience of remounting Pina Bausch\\u2019s Sweet Mambo on Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; for a future filled with exciting projects; and to be given the freedom and agency to look at things differently at a moment in time when the world seems to be rotating backwards.'