More Shibari with Dasniya, now in Kreuzberg. Much fun.
Jeden Mittwoch 20 -22 h Shibari Technik in Kreuzberg
An diesen Abenden werden …
February 4, 2010
anouk van dijk & falk richter – TRUST
The set is moody, gloomy, dark, chrome chairs and black leather sofa, matching seats, a stylist-industrial minimalist clutter extending back …
January 20, 2010
Hermann Heisig – THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP!
The second performance of Saturday night in Tanztage’s Festsaal, Hermann Heisig’s THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP! is superficially opposed to almost the …
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 …
January 12, 2010
Laura Kalauz + Martin Schick – Title
Possibly the most problematic of all the performances I’ve seen so far in Tanztage, Laura Kalauz’s and Martin Schick’s Title …
January 10, 2010
Jana Unmüßig – HAUS
I had planned to see only a couple of performances in Tanztage, I thought perhaps one a night over a …
January 10, 2010
Death by Glitter – Get a Leg Up
The third performance of Friday night, and barely making it in time while snacking on Thunfisch pizza on the tram …
January 9, 2010
An Kaler – Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
(An aside: Having managed to evade seeing dance for the most part last year, I thought I should take advantage …
January 2, 2010
2009 theater
Without taking the time to look, I’m not sure I’ve ever done an end-of-year best-of list for performances I’ve seen. …
December 2, 2009
seile
I bought some rope today. From Fesseltrieb in far east Sonnenallee, biking through a first biting day of winter, clear …
November 2, 2009
bondage basics
More from Dasniya, who shall be teaching a two day workshop in Shibari in November. Certainly one of the highlights …
October 25, 2009
orgy of tolerance
To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary.
My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the sublime …
October 10, 2009
antwerpen
A train to Antwerpen with no ticket despite my attempts to buy one. Thirty minutes in which I think upon …
October 8, 2009
Konstruierte Fantasien / The Construction of Fantasy
From Dasniya, and what I’ve been doing since March this year, being tied, suspended, flying, tying others, playing, something like …
October 8, 2009
SOIT – We Was Them
To start at the end. Or, an ending. Somewhere past an hour, Ivan and Harold (I think) sit on the …
October 7, 2009
i went to brussels … again
A week this time. To Flughaven Schönefeld, then to Bruxelles Airport, raining once more, grey from B to B. Here …
September 30, 2009
hilary
“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. …
September 21, 2009
soit – we was them
A good a reason as any to return to Bruxelles, or better than most. The delightful Hans, along with Anuschka, …
September 13, 2009
osada steve
A couple of days before I began my current day job, a Thursday evening, having done some fast coding, I …
August 29, 2009
som faves
Ivo says, ” you know I was very suspicious about its qualities and I will still be…”. Though not in …
August 28, 2009
night and trees
I saw my darling Ivo perform last night at Halle. Sublimely brilliant and I shall attempt to write something on …
August 24, 2009
i went to bruxelles… the weekend…
Ballet Friday, wandering the streets after and eating a lot. Mussels missed, but waffles, chocolate, pommes frites, beer, all yes. …
August 20, 2009
i went to bruxelles…
I was possessed by the desire to go to Brussels on Sunday last week, and in a fit of unusualness, …
August 17, 2009
Yoga im August
Yoga in August for Berlinerinnen, two hours every Sunday and I think you should go.
Liebe Augustinischen Yogis,
Für jene die …
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 …
August 8, 2009
häuslichkeit
I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …
July 8, 2009
dasniyasommer.de
Because it’s…
I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, not …
July 5, 2009
one… eins
A year ago.
A train from Frankfurt lulling me out of the delirium and endurance of 30 hours or more, I …
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!
TUMBLING CLASS AT …
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 21, 2009
ich habe eine kamera. es ist schwarz
panasonic lx3 black noir schwarz
miscellanea plus box and 8gb sdhc card
panasonic lx3 and lens cap
pasm! hotshoe! …
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 class for …
March 22, 2009
because i have been remiss…
I haven’t blogged much this month due to… oh I’m not sure, it just slips by sometimes and I think, …
February 25, 2009
double happiness
Two excellent things in the last couple of days I shall endeavour to celebrate. Perhaps with wine and peanut butter. …
February 6, 2009
MA √ 15’ { idiosyncrasy } sin x = ly – fx2¯
The best show I didn’t see this year, oh… I have difficulty with seeing dance, and then occasionally something is …
January 29, 2009
von berlin hbf nach freiburg… again
To Freiburg, wondering if there is a future for me here, in Germany or Berlin or… and passing through Spandau …
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 …
January 4, 2009
re.act.feminism – performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute
Still dark, before 6am, lying in bed, the clouded sky lighting the city and me already with coffee and reading, …
December 25, 2008
weihnacht…
… with Daniel, Gala and Jörges, and breathtaking Weihnacht decorations, much food, Wieners, drinking… more of the same today.
satan …
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 …
October 19, 2008
lucky trimmer
***DEUTSCH***
Liebe LUCKIES!
Gerade als sich draußen alles abkühlt, wird es heiß im LUCKY TRIMMER Büro!
Bereitet Euch vor auf unser nächstes Abenteuer…
15. …
October 3, 2008
walking in graefe-kiez
Still I am thinking of my walk to ballet each morning and how oh perhaps tomorrow or next week I …
September 24, 2008
kreuzberg 10967
I have moved. A home. For a while, my own room, a bed, unpacked suitcases, books on top of a …
September 17, 2008
surfacing…
The last week was spent mostly writing applications for residencies. Four of them due yesterday and feeling a little worn …
September 4, 2008
köpenickenstr wagenburg
I’ll try and remember where I began. It was last night. Was I searching for something for someone? Was I …
August 26, 2008
kreuzberg… s036
Looking for… turned around exiting the u-bahn, dampness and grey Berlin wears comfortably. Some cities resent their weather, others, Guangzhou …
August 22, 2008
hadlichstraße… a cigarette dancing factory
I often muse on how dance takes me into peculiar, old, strange, uninhabited, alien places. Old cities are amassed with …
August 19, 2008
someone arrives…
rosenthaler platz sunday night
u-bahn rosenthaler platz
gauloises…
still life… beer, smoking, sugar, ashtray
someone arrives… daniel
August 10, 2008
von freiburg nach berlin…
Thick carpets of tall brown grass and wild flowers, tiny floating like halos above on gentle seductive hills. I wanted …
August 6, 2008
schwarzwald
Only a bit of it, really. From Annaplatz out and left to the end of the street, past the Turkish …
August 4, 2008
von zürich hbf nach freiburg im breisgau
The train stopped in Basel. For quite some time. Moved several meters, stopped again. Moved a little less, stopped. A …
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 30, 2008
von wien westbahnhof nach zürich hbf
Some books I read small pieces of in my room in Vienna. Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, a …
July 28, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 12)
Sleepy all day, getting up late, nearly lunchtime, slobbing around all afternoon then too quickly i’m almost late and so… …
July 27, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 11)
We opened.
We went to Burgtheater to our tables in front of Casablanca playing and ate potatoes and pasta. And some …
July 26, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 10)
I’ve been meaning to say something about my apartment, I mean to say, where I’m staying. The woman who let …
July 25, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 9)
I saw Jan Fabre’s Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day. It was unmemorable. Earlier I ate organic crunchy peanut butter and …
July 24, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)
Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …
July 23, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 7)
I think a stop to yoga soon, or maybe exchange for snoozing or lying on the floor pretending to warm …
July 22, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 6)
This being the day of my birth… uh… day, AND!!! my second in Vienna. Excellent!!
(AND!!! not getting around to writing …
July 21, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 5) (and sunday also)
umm… Supermodels. Catwalks. Shopping lists. Hate. Ambivalence. Whispering. Not whispering loudly enough. Microphones. Costume changes. Love. Happiness. Drugs. Music. This …
July 18, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 4)
So perhaps I admit I’m going to blog about this most days…
Somehow I found myself doing yoga at WUK in …
July 17, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 3)
Today I ate dates and fresh peaches for lunch. And a banana. And had dinner at Der Wiener Deewan, mmm …
July 16, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 2)
I ate prunes today. I went to find coffee, and found myself with chocolate croissant and mélange in a dainty …
July 15, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 1)
I am here.
Oh back in WUK. Last time at DanceWEB, I lived around the corner with some scores of others. …
July 14, 2008
von berlin hbf nach wien sued
Early rising, 9 hours from Berlin to Vienna, through Czechoslovakia, I’ve never been there before. Now I’ve seen several train …
July 11, 2008
s-/u-bahn,m-bus/tram
Up… down… up… down… walking, thinking, sitting on the s- or u-bahn, watching the world letting my thoughts drift, Berlin, …
July 7, 2008
the remainder of the weekend
I don’t understand what I’m looking at. This afternoon, again in Rosenthalerplatz, I decided to walk much of the way …
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 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 17, 2008
vienna…
I’m going to Vienna.
eeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
I got an email this afternoon saying I’ve been accepted for the Choreographers’ Venture with Hans van …
May 13, 2008
pestilence days 15-17
I’ve been editing DVDs this week, first all the people i can remember sleeping with…, then monadologie, and in 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 am …
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 get …
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 making …
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
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 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 planning …
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 of …
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
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 Black …
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 another …
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 my …
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 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 from …
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 seconds …
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 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 31, 2007
Reading: Jin Xing – Shanghai Tango (A Memoir)
jin xing – shanghai tango (a memoir)
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 other …
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 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 …
December 8, 2007
a small break and things…
No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of …
December 7, 2007
pestilence
This morning, sleeping not yoga-ing, a little message from Alison in Adelaide, “Dear frances … i am pleased to hav …
November 29, 2007
AIR
While I’m about to embark on my residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and getting quite giddy …
November 28, 2007
ADL-MEL
I’m off to Melbourne on Monday for a three month residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics through ANAT, making …
November 17, 2007
reading: terry pratchett…
terry pratchett – mort
terry pratchett – the colour of magic
terry pratchett – equal rites
terry pratchett – …
October 31, 2007
whuhappnd?
ummm…
Big silence, no?
Well we have performed all over the acreage of metropolitan Adelaide (and I kept thinking if I was …
October 23, 2007
a room in melbourne
I’m in Melbourne from mid-November till mid-March and need a cheap-ish room somewhere to plonk my suitcase and sleep. I’d …
October 11, 2007
1010011010 the number of the beast
Having realised I could count up to 1024, in binary no less, using just my fingers and thumbs, it’s surprising …
October 10, 2007
mediocrity
Due to the content of my Ignition 7 – Gender Studies performance, all the people i can remember sleeping with…, …
October 6, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 15 & 16 & this week
Libby said, “You’re panicking. Deal with it”. I said, “Oh I need to write that down”, it would go well …
October 4, 2007
ignition 7 – gender studies
Australian Dance Theatre presents
Ignition 7 – Gender Studies
Ignition returns to stages throughout metropolitan Adelaide during October for its seventh season. …
September 27, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 14
Xuan said to me, over lunch, “I never dream I’m an …”, makes little creeping tendril extraterrestrial fingers, “alien …”, …
September 26, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 13
So after last rehearsal, I was variously meant to watch all the video on Friday, but too busy with Melbourne …
September 20, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 11 & 12
It was Throbbing Gristle. Though I need to go into town and try and find a record shop in this …
September 15, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 9 & 10
Oh lazy huh? And today feeling awful, possibly from lack of sleep and I really hope not from Ebola. Anyway …
September 9, 2007
all about jin xing
Whenever I’d be hanging out with some group of artists or dancers, sitting around the remnants of dinner and drinking …
September 9, 2007
some pictures i took with my phone
My iPod seems to be dead, and somehow I keep managing to resuscitate my laptop despite in/out errors and loads …
September 7, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 8
I couldn’t really justify rape fantasies or liking being strangled through Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, and I did do an …
September 2, 2007
sandrine’s birthday
I was determined to get quite trashed last night and by 10pm, Tara was asking me if I was ready …
September 2, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 7
After my opening up during the last rehearsal, today’s three-hour endurance spectacle, resting on many pages of preparatory notes and …
August 30, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 6
Talking talking talking. I was really not so prepared for this rehearsal, but it turned into a bit of a …
August 27, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 5
So when I leave writing about stuff for a few days, things get … blurry. The last few days have …
August 23, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 4
A visit to the giant porn supermarket next to ACarts yesterday, to search for any book I could find on …
August 16, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 3
Yesterday was long, at times something to be endured, frightening when it came to rehearsing and going to places of …
August 14, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 2
Second rehearsal is sometimes like second night blues when you’re performing, despite spending much of the weekend preparing, reading Judith …
August 9, 2007
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 1
Late afternoon into twilight, playing in the dark our first rehearsal, Paea, Xuan, Tara and Daniel together in one small …
August 8, 2007
danceminute
I used to be fairly prompt in getting enthusiastic here about new blogs, adding them to the spiraling list to …
August 8, 2007
ignition – all the people i can remember sleeping with …
A morning back at ADT, really for the first time in about a month, and I forgot how astounding they …
July 21, 2007
happy birthday
Or week as it mostly became, an impromptu holiday from dance, much shopping, a haircut and dye from the amazing …
July 16, 2007
we were thinking about each other
I returned to Judith Butler last week, beginning a rereading of Gender Trouble and placing Undoing Gender on order at …
July 14, 2007
42a a cameraphone recollection
A recollection of 42a from my phone, somewhat disordered.
real wallpaper and floating pixel flowers
subterranean leds
televised hundreds and …
July 13, 2007
42a
How to write about someone I have spent much of the last couple of months hanging out with, eating too …
July 10, 2007
flyhatched
It was only three years ago but seems … one of those entanglings with a person that are outside of …
July 3, 2007
Housewives on Fire
A conversation before the show: girl-a, “wanna sit in the front row?”, girl-b, “nah I don’t wanna be that close …
June 29, 2007
42a + downtown artspace = ✓
Alison Currie, who has managed to keep me laughing until face and stomach pain despite the absence of my baby, …
June 20, 2007
dance dance dance to the radio
Somehow I’ve found myself devoid of blogging the last couple of months. I suppose that’s what a third birthday does …
June 18, 2007
more neurotic twitching
This Sunday I’m having another workshop doing more of the improvisation stuff I started a couple of weeks ago. Since …
June 14, 2007
yes, i know …
I do feel remiss at not blogging. Really. Every day I think, “Oh get it together!”. But after three years …
June 4, 2007
choreolab
Alison Croggon said to me, “I like drinking with theatre types, and those whom I drink with are pretty cool …
May 30, 2007
“If the rest of us did that it would be a neurotic twitch.”
This Sunday I’m running a workshop based on what I’ve picked up from doing stuff with some dancers from Frankfurt …
May 21, 2007
in the bones of children
In William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies dvd, he demonstrates the drawing of lines in space as an exersise in geometric analysis. …
May 17, 2007
what am i doing?
A friend whom I hadn’t seen for ages – another dancer of course – was offering to teach me some …
May 6, 2007
tense dave
Over the past couple of days I’ve been thinking and talking quite a bit about Chunky Move’s Tense Dave, a …
May 6, 2007
the life of 金星 jin xing
Conversations on contemporary art in China that swung around to dance invariably brought mention of Shanghai choreographer and dancer Jin …
April 28, 2007
arrive lah!
Rong Yi in Guangzhou said to me on the first day I arrived, during weeks of monsoonal deluge that it …
April 25, 2007
adelaide again again
The last week or so I’ve been a bit distracted by what was an unexpected and very timely offer to …
April 19, 2007
dance for obsessive-compulsives
Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …
April 18, 2007
homeless dance co
In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the …
April 18, 2007
forget me not
The past week I’ve been rehearsing with Ivan Thorley and a bunch of dancers for his film Forget me not …
April 14, 2007
b-file
Falling asleep while passing time in a nearby bookstore while waiting for Michael to arrive in the distant north of …
April 11, 2007
crush – late arriving photos
Certain craziness afoot in my world at the moment that I will neglect to elaborate on now, beyond suggesting airports …
April 6, 2007
dr sketchy’s anti art school
The divine Gypsy Wood, straight from the Carnival of Unearthy Delights at the Adelaide Fringe is now back in the …
April 6, 2007
b file at la mama
Another afternoon chat with Bonnie, this time while slurping orange juice and eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches on fresh, …
April 6, 2007
friday atheist re-blogging
Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was …
March 31, 2007
sense
A lazy lunch with Bonnie Paskas, one of the dancers in Emily Fernandez’s Sense, on for one more night tonight …
March 28, 2007
Protected: pain, tranny crap and the insipid miasma of self-indulgence
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
March 27, 2007
sense at 45 downstairs
Bonnie is back from Sydney, tired and exhilarated after the season of Glow, and as I walked through Faulkner Park …
March 24, 2007
grace
I feel old when I try to remember how many years ago it was I saw piglet in the garage …
March 22, 2007
becky, jodi and john
Not that I’ve seen much dance this year but come December, this will still be one of the highlights of …
March 21, 2007
glow in sydney
Chunky Move’s Glow, one of the performance of year in 2006 (that I managed to miss) is in Sydney opening …
March 21, 2007
anna in space
My darling Anna, whom I first met at DanceWEB in Vienna 2003 and spent a few weeks post-inferno enjoying the …
March 18, 2007
the end of dance writing
Around the time I was thinking about i want your dance, I stumbled across this excellent article on ImPulsTanz by …
March 15, 2007
i want your dance
Last year Bare Bones came to Melbourne to work with Roz Warby. What was intriguing for me was not the …
March 14, 2007
soft sculpt adelaide
It’s Adelaide Fringe time, so Gypsy Wood is sitting in the Garden of Unearthly Delights, and every dancer in town …
March 12, 2007
doing stuff to me
Though it lingers in the caches of myriad anonymous server farms, I’ve deleted half of francesdath.info for good. My first …
March 11, 2007
lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now …
March 8, 2007
… and death
Emile sent me possibly the most perfect condolences card after I told him about Jean Baudrillard dying yesterday. It made …
March 5, 2007
everything that has been said before about dance
Lining the walls of Chunky Move’s foyer are vast placards of performances, and above the sofas, those shows are the …
March 1, 2007
secret service
John Jasperse has been in town the last couple of weeks, making a work with Becky Hilton and jodi Meinick, …
February 27, 2007
gala goes to danceweb
I’m not sure if I should blab this everywhere, but I found out yesterday my dear friend and regular partner …
February 6, 2007
pestilence – a crypto-history of the black plague
Amidst all this grant-writing that is seriously damaging my eyes – colours and objects are permanently dimmer and intangible after …
February 4, 2007
waah! pain! eye sting lah!
I’m in what I fondly refer to as grant-writing hell. Somehow out of desperation I’m in the middle of six …
January 29, 2007
another adelaide arrival/departure
As when I arrived in Adelaide, so too was it grey and occasionally seeped in a fine mist for Bonnie, …
January 28, 2007
adelaide stuff
I’m sorry!!! I know we were only just talking in the kitchen a few hours ago and you really, really, …
January 22, 2007
the absinthe club & life-size
Two shows from two of my favourite people in Australia, both of whom I’ve had get naked in the name …
January 21, 2007
the symbolism of cultural rape
Even though it came out a while ago, and I read it by accident when flipping through the pages of …
January 20, 2007
just dance the shit out of it
It’s something of a renaissance of dance recently, with the quite brilliant So You Think You Can Dance on Sundays, …
January 13, 2007
live @ the soup kitchen – the next day
Gavin Clarke is something of a ummm … megalomaniac, performing in I think four of the ten works, curating the …
January 8, 2007
live @ the soup kitchen
This Friday night, curated by Gavin Clarke and with choreographers including Adam Synott, Alison Currie and of course Gala Moody …
January 2, 2007
it’s all about the money #2
He could have ditched the first paragraph, stopped right at the end of the second sentence, and just copy-pasted that …
December 21, 2006
100 Dessus Dessous
A couple of days ago I spat a blizzard of burning pitch in the direction of various Melbourne journalists and …
December 20, 2006
shift the blame darl…
So many photos to choose from and really only one it could be. Happy birthday Gala, you totally rock my …
December 13, 2006
summer ballet in melbourne
Lately I’ve been dragging my sorry bones across to the ballet barre, something I haven’t done with any regularity since …
December 1, 2006
more on the Small Arts Sector Research Project
A couple of days ago I wrote about the new Small Arts Sector Research Project the Arts Industry Australia (Victoria) …
November 28, 2006
Small Arts Sector Research Project
For all the independent artists around in Melbourne this Friday, the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) has announced this meeting. Please …
November 28, 2006
等待戈多 waiting for godot
I really need a category for performance, because sticking Samuel Beckett under ‘dance’ is just a bit weird, not withstanding …
November 27, 2006
fuck.dog
Two dancer/choreographers, slightly past emerging and maturing into fine mid-career torpor met for coffee this morning in East St Kilda, …
November 14, 2006
the r, thank you, golden duet
A couple of days ago I caught up with my dear strange friend Ivo Dimchev, who was one of the …
November 13, 2006
leaving adelaide again
One final morning class at Leigh Warren after a tumultuous previous night where I made the mistake of inadequate supplies …
November 6, 2006
sisyphus was here
Far too many of these excuses for not blogging in the last couple of months, and here’s another one, as …
November 1, 2006
feasting on flesh
Direct from hanging out with Dita von Teese at some Russian socialite’s party in New York, the delightful Gypsy Wood …
October 30, 2006
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
October 28, 2006
new categories of choreography
I’ve been scratching around this evening making some new categories for here. The original and still intended idea is to …
October 23, 2006
crush – some time later
All over the place, disappointment in me for not blogging every day about crush like I have done with every …
October 21, 2006
cyanoacrylate – a dancer’s friend
Like pretty much every dancer I have ever known, in various forms I get split toes. Lately it’s been a …
October 15, 2006
leaving adelaide
Another 5am trip to the airport and now I am back in Melbourne after almost a month in Adelaide choreographing …
October 12, 2006
silence
I’ve been living in the theatre the last week, out in Golden Grove Arts Centre, somewhere I think in North-East …
October 1, 2006
crush – shots against the wall
The first Friday of rehearsal, when we’d only been together for a couple of days we all had a bunch …
September 29, 2006
torture is evil unless we’re doing it
It was a unique moment today, killing time between rehearsals and reading the latest issue of Dance Australia while dozing …
September 26, 2006
crush – we have moved somewhere else
Today was our first day at the Wonderland Ballroom, a rococo art deco streamlined parquetry dancehall that is now the …
September 24, 2006
crush – something about adelaide
We are rehearsing in a quite splendid Art Deco building, formerly a cinema now a black-box theatre somewhere on the …
September 22, 2006
adt – held
Last night I finally got to see one of the several dance companies in Australia I’ve not yet seen. Either …
September 15, 2006
miscellaneous rubbish for a friday
Martha Graham. Evil despot of the Modern Dance universe. Shame she didn’t die sooner. The ImpulsTanz Juice newsletter quotes her …
September 13, 2006
temperance – photos from rhys
Lucky that almost a gig of photos that Rhys took during the filming on Sunday turned up this morning, or …
September 11, 2006
temperance – 16mm anamorphic zeiss porn
Sunday was a smooth rush through six minutes of dancing bookended by a 7am stagger out of bed and a …
September 7, 2006
insanity…
These four days until Sunday night I have pretty much no time to do important stuff like eat chocolate and …
September 6, 2006
temperance – a stranger knocks at his door; fang decides to kill him
When I was using Life Forms as my main tool for choreography, one of the best things about it was …
September 3, 2006
temperance – monster curves
When I was a student at VCA, I somehow blagged a copy of William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies which was largely …
September 1, 2006
temperance – Théodicée
In The System of the World, demented Jesuit fanatic Édouard de Gex is meditating on Satanists, and to paraphrase says …
August 30, 2006
temperance
The last couple of days have been intensely busy, usually to the degree that dinner doesn’t happen, and even climbing …
August 27, 2006
waiting for fat bird
One of the most enjoyable blogs to emerge from Guangdong Province, and one of my favourites for being an art-performance-archaeological-theoretical …
August 25, 2006
special mention
Luke George is inadvertently responsible for something I’m going to start on supernaut in the coming weeks. In the interim, …
August 24, 2006
gypsy wood: ‘most vain’ for class of 2000
Gypsy danced for me in extermination all of two years ago, and has been begging me for a DVD of …
August 10, 2006
more airports
I’m going to Adelaide for the weekend, as I mentioned a couple of days ago. Blogging is unlikely, and might …
August 9, 2006
Jesuit Novice in Ossegg
A couple of nights ago, I experienced one of those profound moments in life when I realised someone I knew, …
August 8, 2006
crush
It’s been over two years and still we haven’t me. We have been in many of the same cities, Guangzhou, …
August 6, 2006
less art more self-indulgence
It was about a year and a half ago when I considered the probability of an endless stretch of boringness …
August 4, 2006
on plagues and skin disorders
Reading Jean Baudrillard’s Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that …
July 28, 2006
创意广州十三行 creative canton
It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for …
July 27, 2006
岭南启示录 apocalypse prd – eazy-z in g-town
Along with glad tidings of impending theatrical malfeasance from Emile yesterday, he also had a small package of love for …
July 26, 2006
Tragedia Endogonidia – Romeo Castellucci in Melbourne
Mostly I am remiss. Three weeks since I arrived in Melbourne, and only today did I finally hang out with …
July 14, 2006
war and sport take centre stage
While having coffee with one choreographer who knows firsthand the House of Un-American Activities Commission blacklist trials that is Australian …
July 14, 2006
we are the robot ballet army
Where the drowning tide first flows in the eventual robotic obliteration of humanity seems to be in the most visceral …
July 6, 2006
a knife in the guts for danceworks
While I was wandering in my lederhosen across the alps of western Yunnan, Arts Victoria announced they would not be …
June 21, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – Apocalypse 1626.666
Besides spelling mistakes and irregular comprehension of names, the DVD of 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD is nearly finished, in fact tomorrow …
May 27, 2006
famous in haizhu
Following on from the attention 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD got in 周末画报 Modern Weekly, I spent the afternoon in Haizhu Park …
May 26, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – more of the same…
Still more stuff is turning up in the post-show blur across the internet. On the night of the dress rehearsal, …
May 22, 2006
extermination – soundscape movement fest
Darling Alexis, whom I met in Vienna in 2003 at DanceWEB has been busy in the past few days being …
May 20, 2006
hiding under the bed…
In an uncanny, though not unanticipated recurrence, I am slightly lost in a post-performance limbo that bears many similarities with …
May 16, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – byte-aftermath
Paul and Emile left last night after a fine dinner with everyone at 1920, the German café on 沿江路 Yanjiang …
May 14, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – typhoon chanchu
Yesterday was one of those days I really wanted to not happen. It reminded me of a few other pre-show …
May 11, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – smell of greasepaint
The last week has been a conscious block for me when it has come to choreographing the bikini-high-heel dance-a-thon/showgirl-on-nembutal-and-acid bit. …
May 10, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – costume drama
We’re doing a lot of just running sections now, accruing detail and coherency through repetition, but still to finish are …
May 9, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – don’t call this a remount
It’s mental week now, doing the costume shopping, organising lots of little things that sprout up like an Oxalis frenzy. …
May 7, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – 春宫图 spring palace lust
When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous …
May 3, 2006
粤剧 canton opera madness
A mad day of shopping for the performance, which now has a name: 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD. I’m not sure about …
April 23, 2006
第三届广东现代舞周 3rd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival
Last year I was less than flattering about the dance I saw at the 第二届广东现代舞周 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, …
April 19, 2006
zeroballet becomes francesdath …
… lack of punctuation persists.
A couple of weeks ago, I lost zeroballet.info. I’ve had that domain since the dawn of …
April 19, 2006
dance.psd – corporeal archives
A couple of things from the world of dance that isn’t performed. One is an essay from The Chronicle Review, …
April 15, 2006
zeroballet is dead
I was trying to send emails a couple of days ago, and found a big black hole where www.zeroballet.info had …
April 14, 2006
apocalypse guangzhou
Paul Emmanuel, Emile Zile and I are having a screening of a bunch of short films of ours on Sunday …
April 8, 2006
a couple of anniversaries i forgot…
I’m really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need …
March 31, 2006
A Crab on Uranus Means You’re Loved …
… Or, no talent is no longer enough.
Last night I discovered to my horror I’m alive 30 years too late …
March 30, 2006
more robots rendering contemporary dance irrelevant
Before I decided the future of contemporary dance lay in aberrant ethnochoreography, and ransacked Cantonese Opera for ideas, I spent …
March 26, 2006
金星 jin xing and shanghai dance festival
Something I’ve been meaning to write about for a bit, but I am lazy and prefer sleeping, is the 舞上海 …
March 24, 2006
the laziest site ever coded
My original and very first website, zeroballet has been hanging around since early 2002. Kinda embarrassing. It’s very complicated layers …
March 20, 2006
performance of the damned
There’s some weird Italy thing going on for me right now. Actually ever since I saw Fellini’s Satyricon when I …
March 17, 2006
eeeeeee!!! blog!!!!
I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou …
March 11, 2006
flying again
I’m flying to Hong Kong tomorrow, and then on to Guangzhou for a residency at Park19 until the end of …
March 9, 2006
choreolab 2006
Things have been fairly mental the last week with everyone wanting applications for everything… I think I said that before… …
March 7, 2006
dancing robot umbrellas = unemployed dancing humans
As if the slime mould robot wasn’t enough to convince both dancers and choreographers in the Contemporary Dance game that …
March 1, 2006
a birthday for gabrielle
Today was saying goodbye to another one of the hell pirates. Gabrielle, who has been schlepping around northern New Zealand …
February 15, 2006
freaked out light hating slime mould robot
I just thought, “wouldn’t it be cool to get a bunch of these slime mould robots that can’t handle the …
February 12, 2006
anna tenta & copernicus
Anna Tenta is back in Zürich for another performance at Tanzhaus Wasserwerk. She was working on this solo when I …
February 9, 2006
…NOW SWIM!
Jurij has been teaching some of the best classes I’ve done in Melbourne in years – not that I know …
February 9, 2006
PUBLIC=UN+PUBLIC
Jo Lloyd, who went to Japan to hang out with nibrol on an Asialink Performing Arts Residency last year is …
February 7, 2006
hell – some more photos from paul
More from the meat-locker of Paul Williams’ shoot of hell, and the video is coming soon too.
the twelve days …
February 6, 2006
hell – some photos from paul
Paul Williams, who shot the 16mm film of extermination came into watch the dress run and pre-show warm-up run of …
January 30, 2006
hell – apocalypse then
Two days of hell. I can’t really say a lot about it right now, it was insane, mental, fucking terrifying …
January 27, 2006
hell day 13 – i found a friend …
Dance Works is nice and cool inside even when outside was something disgusting, so there was no way I was …
January 25, 2006
hell day 12 – … i remember something …
It was just a process of running scenes today, some that hadn’t been let out of their boxes for at …
January 24, 2006
hell day 11 – boticelli unmasked as doré
I had this suspicion all along when I was using these etchings of Dante’s Inferno that they weren’t the ones …
January 24, 2006
everything you always wanted to know about hell …
… but were afraid to ask Jean Baudrillard.
One of my enduringly favourite books, that I have somehow permanently connected as …
January 21, 2006
hell day 8,9,10 – screaming witch demons etc …
As much as I’ve wanted to write something every day about hell, wanted in some sense has become an obligation, …
January 19, 2006
HELL … 773H
We have only one week to go on the Melbourne development of hell. I think I’ve made something fairly depraved …
January 16, 2006
hell day 7 – shunga meets grindcore
After getting all teary-eyed watching Joe slip into exhaustion-induced halluncinations with a Boney M soundtrack in Touching the Void, it …
January 14, 2006
hell day 6 – the twelve days of sodom
Actually most of my choreographing comes from when I am either insensate while falling asleep or trying to avoid waking …
January 10, 2006
hell day 5 – 貍貓換太子 – Racoon for a Prince
ow. pain. bruise. bits of missing skin. Let’s glamourise the frailty of our bodies when the hit the floor. Digging …
January 9, 2006
hell day 4 – Hell-O)))-Ween
In which after eight hours of throwing ourselves around and at the floor, groping each other, and watching the fake …
January 8, 2006
dancing appliances and fat suits
I know that in the low latency of the internet a month is pretty much another age, but I’ve been …
January 7, 2006
hell day 3 – vampiros lesbos … again
Maybe it’s not proper rehearsal form to spend most of the afternoon talking, but considering how much we have all …
January 5, 2006
hell day 2 – absolutely freak out
We have sore necks. Some nice bruises, a bit of skin missing from the bony bits, and a few nicks …
January 4, 2006
hell day 1 – south of heaven
I am back in hell again. One month of rehearsals started today and the group would make Captain Blood tremble. …
January 4, 2006
siwic 2006
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than six months, you’ll know in June last year I did the …
January 1, 2006
jan fabre – history of tears
Emile got into Melbourne with a present for me, the flier for Jan Fabre’s new Troubelyn production, History of Tears.
In …
January 1, 2006
錄影太奇 videotage blogging at MAG@V
錄影太奇 Videotage in Hong Kong I know better for 跳格 – JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the annual dance film/video festival that’s part …
November 25, 2005
life
It’s been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to …
November 22, 2005
hell – video corruption
I’ve fallen out of the mood to blog at the moment. It coincided with finishing hell, and so finishing my …
November 16, 2005
hell – the detritus
There’s always something of a blah period for me after I’ve finished a performance, but it’s most pronounced when the …
November 15, 2005
hell day (11) 12 – brot wine beer kasse kabab
It’s over. Saturday night was a breeze, no second night wierdness, and Sunday just went. It’s getting stranger and stranger …
November 12, 2005
hell day 10 – rockin the kanton-z-town
Premiere, opening night, make-up, hair, bikinis, an almost proper warm-up (a couple of pliés and running through the Botticelli section), …
November 11, 2005
hell day 9 – contaminated drug supply
Which is the name of one of Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s tracks, all 1 minute of it, so it’s a veritable Wagner-length …
November 10, 2005
hell day 8 – make some fucking noise
Some choreographers like to drill a piece into the ground once it’s finished, rehearsing it until it’s like whipping a …
November 9, 2005
hell day (6) 7 – something something something
I got my haircut today, and went shoe shopping … um … then we rehearsed. Actually we wanted to get …
November 8, 2005
performance art is the new painting
The New York Times has a large article on Performa 05, the visual art performance biennale in New York, going …
November 6, 2005
hell day 4 + 5 – no sleep till baden
Which is where Emile is about now, doing his first VJ gig in Europe/Deutschland on this trip, and was what …
November 3, 2005
hell day 3 – reanimating the dead
I’d had this idea the reanimating of corpses would be good, but it’s become the best thing I’ve done all …
November 2, 2005
hell day 2 – rosemary you suck
Our necks are a bit sore, but the early highlight of the day was getting Emile’s satanic reverse gore-wrist metal …
November 2, 2005
hell day 1 – you are entering a world of pain
Agoraphobic nosebleed, Slayer, Sunn, Bolt Thrower, lots of strangling each other, grim dead reaper head-banging, and then some dancey-dance… then …
November 1, 2005
176*144 – i took my time …
The project I started in Taiwan which didn’t go anywhere because Taipei didn’t have a 3G mobile phone network has …
October 28, 2005
human writes
Twice this week I’ve been asked to give wishes, the first a list of fifteen for a magazine, and the …
October 27, 2005
behind the scenes
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln is calling for entries of dance film documentaries for the 2006 Behind the Scenes Festival.
The film camera …
October 27, 2005
festival internacional danza
Martin said, “I am going crazy with my festival here. I attach the flyer. It is the best dance festival …
October 26, 2005
跳格 – Jumping Frames 2006
JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the Hong Kong Dance Video Festival that is part of the Hong Kong Dance Festival is open for …
October 25, 2005
i blog for … ummm … stuff …
Losing seriously in a game of charades last night when I displayed my absolute out-of-date-ness by failing to guess ‘computer+writer=blog’, …
October 21, 2005
mercy 45 – no sleep till hgkz
We opened Mercy 45 on Wednesday after three months of having way too much fun, and filling the Vortragsaal (or …
October 14, 2005
亞洲藝術文獻庫 – solo naked performance art
Three great articles are in the most recent 亞洲藝術文獻庫 Asia Art Archive email newsletter. The first is Solo Endurance Performance …
October 14, 2005
mercy 45 – costume party
We got the costumes yesterday, Christa de Carouge long black dresses which show off plenty of everything, especially when stray …
October 13, 2005
how to make … stuff
It was just big words on a pink piece of paper, MOVE IT!, and I was too lazy to turn …
October 13, 2005
body presentations
The Goethe-Institut’s mailing list has an excellent article on the state of dance and performance in Germany, looking at a …
October 13, 2005
russell page fellowship
The annual Russell Page Fellowship for professional dancers in Australia is open for applications.
The Russell Page Fellowship was established in …
October 12, 2005
mercy 45 – denise lampart compagnie
It’s all on next week, Mercy 45, the new performance by Denise Lampart Compagnie.
Stücktitel: Mercy 45
Aufführungsdaten: Premiere: Mittwoch, 19. Okt. …
October 12, 2005
slow boat to psychedelia
Writing abusive diatribes against a certain cretinous moron from a respectable Zürich newspaper who has built a reputation on vandalising …
October 12, 2005
origami
Phillip Adams of Ballelab, Australia’s only genius choreographer is presenting a development of origami on October 21st and 22nd at …
October 9, 2005
fuga utopia – the twin peaks of tanztheatre
I’ve seen one of the best shows in years tonight, and I’m not just saying that because Anna Tenta is …
October 7, 2005
i can’t feel my cock …
Champagne Bikini girls in Letraset Tattoos on non-stop video. Which is pretty much what last night was all about, part …
October 5, 2005
australia-china council funds me … again
Well, the title says it all. Here in autumnal Zürich I got an email this evening from the wonderful Australia-China …
October 5, 2005
mercy 45 – she’s got legs
Last week before we destroyed several thousand Swiss francs of Christa de Carouge’s clothes, Emile thought it’d be fun to …
October 2, 2005
scraping tai-gu off the wheel
It must be the time for old things to be revisited, and as always through whatever is going on around …
October 2, 2005
all of china at the kennedy centre
There’s a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre …
October 1, 2005
dance like you’re drinking beer … or something
This is more of an exercise in embarrassment plus occasional gloating than a real post. Firstly there was the birthday …
September 22, 2005
fuga utopia at tanzhaus
Since I spend most of every day at Tanzhaus Wasswerwerk at the moment, and it’s full of people rehearsing, I …
September 13, 2005
i m P A C T 05 – Tracing Translation – Symposium
PACT Zollverein have announced a call for participant for i m P A C T 05 – Tracing Translation – …
September 13, 2005
shock! surprise! ozco doesn’t fund me for the eleventh time!
Who’d a fucking thought? I mean the odds were seriously in my favour: 11 applications and 0, zero, zero success, …
September 12, 2005
eurotrash: sie sind da draussen
My first trip to the world of live dance in Zürich was seeing Christina Gehrig Binder &Anne Lorenz’s Sie Sind …
September 10, 2005
my life as anne sexton
Not a word said so far on life in Zürich, rehearsals with Cie. Denise Lampart, endless days in Tanzhaus, or …
September 10, 2005
It’s Alive!!! quick! kill it with this blunt shovel!
Arts Victoria have pretty much kept me from going off and doing something more rewarding and of greater social worth, …
September 6, 2005
hugo wolf projekt
Like I write about everyone from DanceWEB who tells me about their shows, so now I’m going to do the …
September 4, 2005
《迷狂之梦天》 journey of the unrestrained
For annyone in or near Guangzhou this weekend, the Guangdong Modern Dance Company is performing in the company Small Theatre …
August 29, 2005
dirty undead weeekend
In-between inexplicable torrents of rain and general foulness passing for summer in Vevey, Compagnie Nomades have been performing Le Bal …
August 26, 2005
on a fast train
I’m going to Vevey for the weekend to see the aussies in Compagnie Nomades perform «Le bal des vampires». Plenty …
August 21, 2005
le bal des vampyres
There’s an outpost of Little Australia in Vevey, beside the lake which is where I spent my first week in …
August 19, 2005
slim pickings at supernaut
Yeah, I know four days of posting in half a month constitutes a new zenith in blogging atrophy for me. …
August 14, 2005
zeroballet bitches extermination
After much pissing around, I thought it was time to dump some more narrow-band choking content on the dance side …
August 14, 2005
privatising contemporary dance in guangzhou
There was a huge interview and article in the Weekend Standard last week on Willy Tsao and the 广东现代舞团 Guangdong …
August 5, 2005
the truth about zürich
Currently have a crap internet connection – dial-up in fact. I feel like I have died and been reincarnated in …
July 30, 2005
australian dance awards 2005
Vote for me!. Nah, vote for the only person to do anything meaningful in choreography in Australia in the last …
July 29, 2005
ImPulsTanz – la vie viennoise
SiWiC may be over except in our sentimental imaginations, but DanceWEB and ImPulsTanz (gotta love this central European blizzard of …
July 27, 2005
siwic – provokant und ausdrucksstark
For the media whores who like to see their own name in the press again and again and again, or …
July 25, 2005
shadetreemechanic at the body festival
In all the rush to get on and do nothing, I forgot completely that my film, shadetreemechanic was screened on …
July 22, 2005
this is my space and it’s highly embarrassing
Back in Vevey for a couple of days. Zurich was getting boring without anyone to cause trouble with. They all …
July 20, 2005
siwic – are we famous yet?
There were some people with cameras and others asking questions and taking notes who weren’t considering charging us with several …
July 18, 2005
siwic day 16 – how to win friends and influence people
After a most refreshing dawn swim by mostly naked, mostly quite trashed dancers in a river with a moderately swift …
July 17, 2005
siwic day 15 – sun exclusive: nigel charnock pashed me
It’s Monday now, and really I haven’t been home since Saturday morning, which is maybe not indicative of an average …
July 16, 2005
siwic day 14 – hope i die because of it
Yes, I am hungover. What is more important than any performance is what you do after, which usually involves stripping …
July 15, 2005
siwic day 13 – sex inspires wanking in choreography
So we ran the dog last night. Maybe should have taken it outside and introduced it to a shotgun. The …
July 14, 2005
siwic day 12 – “once i was afraid”
Martin said this was the last day. There are no more tasks, no more games of torture to play at …
July 13, 2005
siwic day 11 – all the people i can remember sleeping with and the drugs i took
It’s the last full day of tasks. Tomorrow we start trying to resuscitate one and an half weeks of self-indulgent …
July 12, 2005
siwic day 10 – you can sleep when you’re dead
I’m not gonna say much about Saturday night now that various :cough: choreographers from SiWiC – who shall remain unnamed …
July 10, 2005
siwic day 9 – ow it stingsss…
We’ve been working nine days straight, it’s been a scream, lots of dancing, lots of fun stuff, lots of excellent …
July 9, 2005
siwic day 8 – happy birthday martin
That’s right. Boy wonder, debonaire fashion styliste, over-acheiver, and too fucking young. Martin turned 27 today, so naturally I had …
July 8, 2005
siwic day 7 – war of the worlds
After yesterday’s frustrating ‘work with someone else’ circus which underlined what a megalomaniac attention-seeker I am, today was hours of …
July 7, 2005
siwic day 6 – frostbite
This was a day I didn’t enjoy. A task that sucked, having to work with another choreographer, many additional requirements …
July 6, 2005
siwic day 5 – lesbian vampires on smack
I had this idea I wanted to recreate the rape scene from Irreversible. Then I watched it. It’s not often …
July 5, 2005
siwic day 4 – killing dancers is fun
It started for real today. No more lazy 11am rolling into the studio feeling kinda lazy, no early finishes, and …
July 4, 2005
siwic day 3 – quantum physics & synchronised swimming
Another late start today, and not much in the way of dancing, only a 3 hour lecture on Quantum Physics …
July 3, 2005
siwic day 2 – 6 little choreographers
There is something very civilised about starting class at 11am. Even if it is a Saturday, it’s lazy, depraved in …
July 2, 2005
siwic day 1 – arriving in zurich & art sluts
For the next three weeks, I am in Zurich at SiWiC – the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in Choreographie. I’m not …
July 2, 2005
holiday in vevey
The past week has been mostly spent lying on the beach beside Lake Geneva, eating, sleeping, and doing as little …
June 28, 2005
hell is coming
I’ve just been informed that the very nice Arts Victoria have once again decided throwing money at me to make …
June 28, 2005
slumming it in vevey
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …
June 22, 2005
bitches in the press
Bitches got a couple of mentions in the press including one review, which I dunno if they said anything good, …
June 20, 2005
ivo dimchev was here
Serial evil-doer, shaved-head-thug-number-3, blood-selling drag queen performance artist and opera librettist Ivo Dimchev has a web-site. About bloody time.
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June 15, 2005
splash life
Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised …
June 13, 2005
burn-out
extermination the film was awesome. Expect video on my website sometime soon, and photos here even sooner.
Went to Hong Kong …
June 10, 2005
extermination at park19
Last year when extermination got performed, we also made a film. It’s been lurking, several rolls of 16mm, slowly going …
June 9, 2005
stm at the body global
My first dance film, shadetreemechanic made by sea-dog Paul Williams and the divine Anna Smallwood and Joanne Collins is going …
June 8, 2005
hot babes ice tea
Not that I wanna be advertising ice tea unless it’s fine Chinese 冰红茶 or 枕木’s Long Island Ice Tea served …
June 8, 2005
Nadine down the rabbit hole
Dominico used to keep the kitchen at DanceWEB happy by rolling fat blunts and cooking long into the night while …
June 6, 2005
bitches rocks hard
It went so well. bitches rocked out. Even the florescent lights coming on half way through didn’t shake it.
An early-afternoon …
June 4, 2005
bitches in rehearsal
Around lunchtime while waiting for the dirt samples to arrive, when the humidity and heat was excerable, I was asked, …
June 1, 2005
dance sucker dance
It’s the start of summer, so that means every town and its dog has a dance festival for the next …
May 31, 2005
bitches part III
It’s production week, or whatever else it can be called, so I’m going to be vanishing into production week limbo …
May 29, 2005
bitches part II
Bitches is a week off and I should really be getting the costumes today, but mainland China has this problem… …