Daniel is performing! Presented as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE:development Program, Reassessment examines concepts surrounding Self-Worth, perception and …
November 10, 2011
danielschlusser.com
Some time in Vienna last year, Daniel Schlusser came to visit and we made some trial rehearsals with ropes and …
October 26, 2011
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 …
October 7, 2011
Daniel Schlusser — Ophelia
In the graben between late night and early morning, while scrabbling small amendments for something of Daniel Schlusser’s I hope …
August 1, 2011
Places
Because I seem to spend so much time in Brussels, and also have lived in several cities which until now …
May 1, 2011
temperance 16mm film
With all the adding of video and making newness on francesdath.info, I started looking at the footage of temperance again. …
April 12, 2011
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!
March 26, 2011
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 …
March 8, 2011
goat snake witch dance theatre blackness
The last couple of days I’ve been working on a side-project, cleaning up my dance/performance/choreography website, francesdath.info. I decided a …
November 16, 2010
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 …
July 9, 2010
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 …
April 29, 2010
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 …
April 24, 2010
bike
Once upon a time I had a beautiful bike. She was stolen. I cried. I came to Berlin. Trudel lent …
April 21, 2010
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 …
March 15, 2010
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 …
January 20, 2010
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 …
October 4, 2009
i have a futon
The last time I saw my futon was, I think, early last year when I temporarily removed from storage all …
September 30, 2009
hilary
“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. Nothing, …
August 17, 2009
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
July 4, 2009
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! …
June 28, 2009
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 …
June 18, 2009
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 …
April 6, 2009
blog stuff
I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …
January 22, 2009
a retrospective
Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …
November 30, 2008
reading: wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
November 19, 2008
transgender day of remembrance
For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …
November 10, 2008
finishing
This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …
August 1, 2008
books… forgotten… found
I left many things when I departed from Zürich. And Guangzhou, and Taipei, and… Things come together again. All my …
July 7, 2008
Juedisches Museum Berlin
I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today. juedisches museum berlin – 1 juedisches museum berlin – 2 juedisches museum …
July 6, 2008
ADL-SYD-FRA-BER
Adelaide to Sydney, upgraded to business class due to length of leg, and three seats to myself, the opportune westerly …
July 1, 2008
my life
Packed. Waiting for the shipping company. Everything I have, in storage for most of four years, and now to return. …
June 28, 2008
monadologie – cosmos magazine
The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …
June 25, 2008
emile. blog. eurodisney.
Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz emile zile – eurodisney.biz
June 23, 2008
42a at EAF
Last year at Downtown, 42a was the most memorable show for me in Adelaide. Then Alison got Triennial funding and …
June 13, 2008
jan dunning
When the Liberals won the elections in 2004, my only consolation was that shortly after I departed for a few …
June 8, 2008
blog…
A notably slow Sunday, cleaning, washing dishes, reading The Subject of Gender that I am already certain will be on …
June 5, 2008
Reading: Julian Burnside – Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice
julian burnside – watching brief
May 27, 2008
buzkashi, self-portrait & laptop
When I was a student, I would trundle up to Melbourne Uni and on weekends and holidays hole up the …
May 12, 2008
things…
I spent the early afternoon today pottering around on two things that while their minutia is like worms eating in …
May 11, 2008
airports
Daniel stayed the night, after our witching hour last rehearsal, and it was past 3 before sleeping. Later, after I …
May 10, 2008
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 …
April 29, 2008
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 …
April 21, 2008
pestilence day 14
Obviously today I am completely distracted and nervous and managed to do little except lie on the floor spontaneously falling …
April 19, 2008
pestilence day 13
Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans, …
April 17, 2008
pestilence day 12
Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva’s abjection, …
April 16, 2008
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 …
April 8, 2008
ftp blah…
I have no idea why none of my FTP applications are able to run LIST -a while using Internode’s wireless …
April 7, 2008
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 …
April 3, 2008
pestilence day 1 & 2
There is a reason for not blogging day one of rehearsals and it has to do with being delightfully waylaid …
April 1, 2008
sid eats mouse
Daniel fed Sid on Friday. I’ve never seen Sid eat before, it was quite beautiful. Also, Sid is ready to …
April 1, 2008
Witch/Red
This is the month of Adelaide independent choreographers with five developments that I know of and maybe a couple of …
March 29, 2008
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 …
March 26, 2008
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 …
March 23, 2008
MEL-ADL … finish
Days of nothing over the weekend, seeing Bonnie for the last time in a while, breakfast at Mario’s on Brunswick …
March 22, 2008
reading: business cards – the art of saying hello
business cards – the art of saying hello
March 21, 2008
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 …
March 19, 2008
monadologie photos
I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …
March 3, 2008
monadologie day 46
For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing …
February 25, 2008
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 …
February 20, 2008
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 …
February 17, 2008
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 …
February 14, 2008
monadologie
Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. “In so far as the concatenation …
February 13, 2008
monadologie day 36
Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the …
February 12, 2008
sorry
“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their …
February 12, 2008
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 …
February 12, 2008
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 …
February 1, 2008
monadologie day 28 & 29
This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was …
January 30, 2008
monadologie day 27
Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn’t sure how useful me being in a studio on …
January 29, 2008
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 …
January 28, 2008
drowning
I would swim underwater until my breath was nearly exhausted and then float, a calm, prickly and weightless silence and …
January 27, 2008
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 …
January 25, 2008
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 …
January 23, 2008
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 …
January 22, 2008
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 …
January 17, 2008
monadologie day 20
Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the …
January 16, 2008
monadologie day 18 & 19
The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow …
January 14, 2008
monadologie day 16 & 17
Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and …
January 13, 2008
reading: lois may – transgenders and intersexuals – everything you ever wanted to know but couldn’t think of the question
lois may – transgenders and intersexuals
January 13, 2008
frances without laptop
Avoiding bringing home my laptop means time for fun things like staring at walls, lying in bed, rolling over, looking …
January 12, 2008
monadologie day 14 & 15
Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being …
January 9, 2008
monadologie day 12 & 13
I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up …
January 7, 2008
monadologie day 11
We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also …
January 3, 2008
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 …
January 3, 2008
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 …
January 3, 2008
to move freely
Approaching a return to Melbourne, back to airports on Saturday and to … see if I can make sense of …
December 27, 2007
low brain activity
I think it was combination of red wine, sparkling shiraz, roast beetroot, kilos of cherries … Did I miss any …
December 26, 2007
… and then that evening
I was genuinely about to go home for a long sleep so today I could do some work on my …
December 26, 2007
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 …
December 24, 2007
adelaide
Sharing a plane with Leo, who is Tom’s brother who is at Art School (say it with capitals) in Melbourne, …
December 23, 2007
MEL-ADL … again
A couple of nights staying with my wonderful friend Bonnie, eating pancakes, drinking tea, long chats into the night … …
December 21, 2007
monadologie – week 2
A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie’s sister coming into the …
December 14, 2007
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 …
December 12, 2007
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 …