Daniel Jaber – Reassessment

Daniel is performing! Presented as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE:development Program, Reassessment examines concepts surrounding Self-Worth, perception and …

Thomas & Dasniya Shibari

The last time I saw Thomas, he had a mass of dreads. That was in Adelaide. Last week he arrived …

Ophelia Opens

Rehearsals via Skype between Berlin and Melbourne as the sun rose in mid-summer. More talking and writing and videoing back …

danielschlusser.com

Some time in Vienna last year, Daniel Schlusser came to visit and we made some trial rehearsals with ropes and …

Ozco cuts Leigh Warren & Dancers Funding

I just heard from Daniel Jaber that the Australia Council for the Arts have cut Leigh Warren and Dancers triennial funding. Having …

Daniel Schlusser — Ophelia

In the graben between late night and early morning, while scrabbling small amendments for something of Daniel Schlusser’s I hope …

Places

Because I seem to spend so much time in Brussels, and also have lived in several cities which until now …

Ophelia Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Unusual for me to go from one project directly to another, let alone three in a row, but this weekend …

a body – gala moody at the volksroom

The coffee is made thus: In a small bowl two teaspoons or so of sugar for every cup is added. …

temperance 16mm film

With all the adding of video and making newness on francesdath.info, I started looking at the footage of temperance again. …

生日快乐!!! happy 7th birthday supernaut! (nochmal vergessen…)

aaa!!! I forgot again! every year! Trotzdem … Schokolade! Kuchen! Viel Spaß und Krawall machen! supernaut? yes!

something wicked this way comes

Yesterday, an arrival. Three years, eight months ago, I took a photo. I wrote also, “I have this strange compulsion …

Daniel Jaber in Kuala Lumpur

Daniel has been on an AsiaLink Performing Arts Residency in Malaysia for the last some months. Snakes? Yes! He has …

a website a video

She of the long red hair, Gabrielle Nankivell has her own website. Witch/Red was one of my favourite pieces in …

sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures

No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …

bike

Once upon a time I had a beautiful bike. She was stolen. I cried. I came to Berlin. Trudel lent …

Shifting Daniel Jaber into WordPress

Daniel Jaber is the second choreographer and dancer I’ve done a website for. Coming from Dasniya Sommer, I was intent …

reading: fiona mcgregor – strange museums

fiona mcgregor – strange museums

enough from daniel

Something to celebrate because I lost all track of time. Adelaide’s Fringe Festival is over, which I’ve only ever experience …

too far again, not far enough…

Daniel is performing in the Adelaide Fringe this year. I think it will be rather good. Some photos to enjoy …

i have a futon

The last time I saw my futon was, I think, early last year when I temporarily removed from storage all …

hilary

“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. Nothing, …

save the vca

It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …

Daniel Jaber, Class at Marameo. July 6 – 17!

EXCELLENT!!! (which reminds me, I never saw the sequel) And I’ll miss this sequel also. Poo. Fliegen, fliegen, fliegen… splat! …

I left my shoes on warm concrete and stood in the rain

Witch/Red was for me easily one of the best pieces of performance, theatre, dance I saw in all my time …

Daniel Jaber, Tumbling at Marameo! June 22-26

Not that I shall be doing it, which sucks… Excellent fun!!! (more details on the flier…) Daniel Jaber – Tumbling …

blog stuff

I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …

a retrospective

Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …

reading: wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin

wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin

transgender day of remembrance

For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …

finishing

This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …

books… forgotten… found

I left many things when I departed from Zürich. And Guangzhou, and Taipei, and… Things come together again. All my …

Juedisches Museum Berlin

I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today. juedisches museum berlin – 1 juedisches museum berlin – 2 juedisches museum …

ADL-SYD-FRA-BER

Adelaide to Sydney, upgraded to business class due to length of leg, and three seats to myself, the opportune westerly …

my life

Packed. Waiting for the shipping company. Everything I have, in storage for most of four years, and now to return. …

monadologie – cosmos magazine

The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …

emile. blog. eurodisney.

Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz emile zile – eurodisney.biz

42a at EAF

Last year at Downtown, 42a was the most memorable show for me in Adelaide. Then Alison got Triennial funding and …

jan dunning

When the Liberals won the elections in 2004, my only consolation was that shortly after I departed for a few …

blog…

A notably slow Sunday, cleaning, washing dishes, reading The Subject of Gender that I am already certain will be on …

buzkashi, self-portrait & laptop

When I was a student, I would trundle up to Melbourne Uni and on weekends and holidays hole up the …

just filling in

Gala is in Melbourne, so is quite a few of Adelaide people. See her show starting next week in the …

things…

I spent the early afternoon today pottering around on two things that while their minutia is like worms eating in …

airports

Daniel stayed the night, after our witching hour last rehearsal, and it was past 3 before sleeping. Later, after I …

pestilence last days

If I’m looking for acceptable, believable excuses, then lack of internet at home, necessary for late-night bed blogging, and an …

生日快乐!!! happy 4rd birthday supernaut

Oops … 我忘了… I forgot… My blog’s 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April. I …

pestilence day 14

Obviously today I am completely distracted and nervous and managed to do little except lie on the floor spontaneously falling …

pestilence day 13

Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans, …

pestilence day 12

Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva’s abjection, …

pestilence days 5-11

Night rehearsals. I’ve been slack at blogging this project. It’s taken me an awful lot of methodical, patient, slogging to …

ftp blah…

I have no idea why none of my FTP applications are able to run LIST -a while using Internode’s wireless …

pestilence day 3 & 4

Friday and Monday and the weekend at the library. I’ve been struggling somewhat with this piece, possibly because I’ve been …

Reading: Kate Holden – In My Skin

kay holden – in my skin

pestilence day 1 & 2

There is a reason for not blogging day one of rehearsals and it has to do with being delightfully waylaid …

sid eats mouse

Daniel fed Sid on Friday. I’ve never seen Sid eat before, it was quite beautiful. Also, Sid is ready to …

Witch/Red

This is the month of Adelaide independent choreographers with five developments that I know of and maybe a couple of …

swanhilda is a punk

Daniel is having showings of the development of his new work this weekend with some of Adelaide’s most wild and …

the tighter you squeeze

Lina is in Adelaide, working on a development of a new performance, with a showing next Friday. Lucky I’m here …

MEL-ADL … finish

Days of nothing over the weekend, seeing Bonnie for the last time in a while, breakfast at Mario’s on Brunswick …

reading: business cards – the art of saying hello

business cards – the art of saying hello

monadologie … last days and finish

The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I’ve been trying to learn everything I can on absorption …

monadologie photos

I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …

monadologie day 46

For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing …

MEL-ADL … again … again … something like home …

A taxi driver from Punjab studying electronics with such a polite demeanor managed to persuade me that going all the …

monadologie day 40, 41 & 42

Oh, so close now and … mmm nervousness and so on. A peculiar week. I haven’t been too intent on …

monadologie day 37 & 38 & 39

This is the running order of the work. Or … it describes certain possibilities that if I’m clever enough could …

monadologie

Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. “In so far as the concatenation …

monadologie day 36

Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the …

sorry

“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their …

monadologie – self-referentiality

Just because I’ve continually forgotten to do this… I’m blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New …

monadologie day 30 – 33, 34 & 35

So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness. And now …

monadologie day 28 & 29

This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was …

monadologie day 27

Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn’t sure how useful me being in a studio on …

monadologie day 25 & 26

The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly …

drowning

I would swim underwater until my breath was nearly exhausted and then float, a calm, prickly and weightless silence and …

more feeds and things … and blogrolls

A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs …

monadologie day 23 & 24

I’m losing track of what day is where… We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material …

Blog for Choice day

Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on …

monadologie day (21 &) 22

Some hecticness, I’ll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not. A little video. 45 …

monadologie day 20

Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the …

monadologie day 18 & 19

The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow …

monadologie day 16 & 17

Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and …

frances without laptop

Avoiding bringing home my laptop means time for fun things like staring at walls, lying in bed, rolling over, looking …

monadologie day 14 & 15

Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being …

monadologie day 12 & 13

I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up …

monadologie day 11

We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also …

all the people i can remember sleeping with … some more photos

Some more photos, this time from the dress run at Noarlunga, deep in the christian south. This theatre was one …

all the people i can remember sleeping with … some photos

After them leaving Adelaide, then me leaving also, then arriving almost two months after the show, I finally got some …

to move freely

Approaching a return to Melbourne, back to airports on Saturday and to … see if I can make sense of …

low brain activity

I think it was combination of red wine, sparkling shiraz, roast beetroot, kilos of cherries … Did I miss any …

… and then that evening

I was genuinely about to go home for a long sleep so today I could do some work on my …

later that evening … and the next day

Continuing on from Monday afternoon, I only made it as far as Gala’s kitchen, where going out clothes were exchanged …

adelaide

Sharing a plane with Leo, who is Tom’s brother who is at Art School (say it with capitals) in Melbourne, …

MEL-ADL … again

A couple of nights staying with my wonderful friend Bonnie, eating pancakes, drinking tea, long chats into the night … …

monadologie – week 2

A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie’s sister coming into the …

monadologie days 4 & 5

I’ve been reading Leibniz’s 1714 text Monadologie again. It’s sometimes like a vortex, or … how things turn and spiral …

monadologie days 1, 2, & 3

I am at Swinburne. I have an office. It’s half way to the first floor (or second if you’re counting …

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