n+2 video at Yoga+Shibari

I shall watch it with eyes averted. Or, perhaps glimpse it every so often. Nonetheless, tomorrow night I won’t exit …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — beginning aftermath

… Where was I? Brussels. It took longer to get from Schönefeld airport to home than from Brussels to Berlin. …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 10 & 11

It’s already over. We performed last night and today is Saturday, the residency finished. In-between now and Thursday morning, we …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 9

The last proper day of rehearsal, where we have the entire time to ourselves. Tomorrow we find our way through …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 8

… which was yesterday and last night. A day of running through what we have up till now and making …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 7

The first day returning after (most of) one day off, and ten hours rotating between studio and kitchen with a …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 at Bains Connective

On Friday, 9th December, Dasniya Sommer and I will be having a showing of the n+2 dimensional space for n>1, which …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 5 & 6

Too fast go the days from Friday to Saturday and now the unexpected one day off. I go to the …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 4

It helps to remember that what is seen in a small studio with green dance floor, big windows, and other …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 3

Experiencing a little fatigue today – I haven’t done yoga for five days in a row since such a long …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 2

There is a kitchen, where we cook a late lunch or early dinner, eat baguette and drink tea or coffee, …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 1

We arrive at Bains around 11am. It’s a half hour easy walk from St Gilles Vorplein to beside the park in …

Ivo’s Studio

Red sky in the morning, and a chaotic arrival to Brussels. Somehow I thought Chaussee de Mons ran parallel to …

the n+2 dimensional space for n>1

Once more going west, we take the ungodly hour flight from Schönefeld to Brussels. Dasniya and I are having a …

abjection — night 4

Another night. One of the coldest recently. Still, I rehearse with windows open. There’s something intrinsically horrible for me about …

abjection — night 3

Friday night, until the last half hour, was either frustrating or glum. It’s a different thing to push oneself through …

abjection — night 2

A shorter night by one hour. Last week I found four hours almost too long, so decided for only three …

temperance at cinedans

On a whim in May, because it landed in my maiming lists inbox, I decided to send temperance to Cinedans, promptly …

abjection — night 1

Usually I say, “[name of work] — day 1“, but it’s reasonably fitting for abjection to say, “night 1“, being a …

pre-rehearsals

Having taken some time to get this far, I spent the last couple of days extracting a couple of year’s …

Madrid rehearsals day 4

Ballet first with Dasniya. In ropes. A pity no pictures of that. Something in the distraction of being tied up …

BER-MAD

Tomorrow early I am flying to Madrid. My first time there or in Spain, and yes, one of the reasons …

abjection archery photoshoot

Earlier in the week, I met Christian crépes at a Belgian café beside the Spree; a first hello since I returned …

archery

Something I’ve been meaning to write about for some time. A while ago – in early June – I bought …

It was quite a slow return

I slept much of the way, or rather failed to stave off falling awake. It must have been not pretty …

process/unprocess – last day

Yes, finish. Quick, no? Two weeks and it goes and everyone packs and leaves and within an hour no trace …

process/unprocess — three legs

The macrobiotic lunches are what we wait for, first into the cafeteria. Also coffee. There is a so-so café around …

process/unprocess showing at rosas

A short invitation to a showing of some sort this Friday: The last two weeks, Gala Moody and I have …

process/unprocess week 2 day 1

I am humming. Gala stands over me. She is reading the Aftersong from Beyond Good and Evil. We look at …

process/unprocess – first week remainder

Today is a day off, my first in two weeks, so I am sitting on a train, north of Antwerpen …

process/unprocess days 1 & 2

Straight from seven days of yoga + shibari workshops into getting up early for class. Lucky it was only a …

Hello Brussels

A very early train. Not as early as a plane. For some reason there was an absence of cheap flights …

process/unprocess

It was Michael Carter who I think coined the name, but I can’t find where. Last time I was in …

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. …

Nein! Nein! Nicht die Wunde ist es.

I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …

parsifal in film

I arrive in Brussels this morning, curiously with Anuschka sitting next to me the whole way. We stay up the …

mein lesbisches auge 10

Some weeks ago, I was called upon to get an image ready for print with a half-hour, mid-night deadline; the …

temperance 16mm film

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

‘Yoga und Shibari’ – April/ Mai / Juni – Berlin

From Dasniya Sommer, our adventures in the coming months, a return of Yoga + Shibari classes, as well as some …

stuttgart calixto bieito parsifal (+ andrew)

It seems the nature of seeing a performance in another city also involves lengthy missed trains on the return for …

die singende stadt — parsifal and calixto bieito

The last day screening, Dasniya and I climbed the stairs of Hackesche Höfe Kino for 90 more minutes of the …

us alone tied

The day before the last performance, we arranged to spend some time on the stage working on some suspensions and …

parsifal. end.

jardin 5 4 3 2 1 fin.

parsipress? pressifal?

More? More! Continuing on from when Castellucci was a criminal … Words and Pictures!. I was planning on making an …

the tying before parsifal unties

I saw the first Act. Well, parts of it I’d not seem before, while loitering side-stage from shortly after Nietzsche …

third to last (+ workshop) (+ special treat)

I ask Andrew what happens if you can’t sing? Do you act it while someone sings from the side, or …

parsifal suspended

Today was our second workshop, this time being attentive to suspension. After the last one, word got around of our …

castellucci is a criminal

After the fourth performance, an emotionally tough night for us, we stand outside the stage door. A woman in beret, …

half-way

Last night, the fifth performance and half-way through the season of Parsifal, was pretty much what we hoped for. I …

parsi5000

Just after midday today, I took my 5000th photo with my Panasonic LX3. It’s not especially good, blurry, mid-action, looking …

third and some thoughts on revulsion

(I wasn’t so happy with what I wrote here last night, so I’m splitting this up and hopefully will write …

opening & second night

Now is the difficult part. Rehearsals are easy. Turn up in the morning or when the call is, newness and …

parsifotos

Once we got into the theatre to rehearse, I decided to not show all the photos, and wait until Parsifal …

last before

I see so little. The first act is warming up, putting on ropes. The only part I really see is …

Reading: Laurence Dreyfus: Wagner and the Erotic Impulse

Laurence Dreyfus: Wagner and the Erotic Impulse

all together now (including pauses)

Oh! There are a lot of people here. I wasn’t expecting that! Not just an obvious number of friends and …

a day off and still in la monnaie

I am writing out of order. We thought to go to Gare du Midi markets around lunchtime, giving us a …

third before last

I have not so much to say today, even being aware what i wrote yesterday is somewhat cryptic; I lost …

1882, chin of nietzsche, invisible orchestra, double basses clamour to escape

Which is the title to the only image I will show today. As we come closer and I spend more …

parsifal la monnaie shibari

Either it is lack of sleep, or I am on the precipice of whatever has waylaid many of the cast …

that’s what parsifal said…

Getting stuck in Ghent at 1am after missing the last train from Brugge, talking in the kitchen till 330am and …

orchestra-ing and opera-ing (and black metal-ing)

The evening cafeteria meal was unique in being quite utterly tasteless. I had to ask Gala to try the dried …

la monnaie

Strange I have no category for pain. Two days after feeling so comfortable hanging for half an hour, I find …

bo shibari

Today was working with Gala mostly. It’s almost 1am and I am a little bleary-eyed and wondering if dinner, shower, …

Wahnsinn… Oh! – Wut… Ach! Jammer!

(Mainly because supernaut has been discovered at Parsifal, so I can no longer entertain the fancy I’m writing for my …

friday parsifal

A late start for some of us today and not even a suspension for me, though I was all ready …

the second act

Already almost 1am and still long before I find sleep. Today was another long one, with a running of the …

wherin tomas suspends dasniya, later much stupidity from gala and frances

We went in on Monday, the others enjoying a day off, to work on some rope stuff. Dasniya wanted to …

miscellanea surrounding friday evening

Did I say we tried the second scene mostly naked with much whiteness? Comes off with soapy showering. That was …

break test

An interesting experiment. Amidst all the known security of carabiners, harnesses, spinners bearing 26kN stamps, and all the multitude of …

yesterday and today

We spent some hours yesterday using the empty rehearsal theatre to try some things. Two days of snoozing, eating, snoozing, …

parc forest winter

A dusk walk in the leafless forest. parc forest – 1 parc forest – 2 parc forest – 3 parc …

ein bühnenweinfestspiel, some books, a story

“A funny story.” (As I remember it from 9am, or, how black metal brings us all together.) “I said to …

some parsifal-ing

The rehearsal theatre is much bigger than most company’s performing theatres. Next door is another. Below others. A cafeteria on …

berlin to brussels … again …

Much packing, organising, turning off of fridge, plants watering, courier arriving, eating the remainders of the fridge. (and so on.) …

Parsifal

(Wherein I reveal what I’ve been biting my tongue about for months…) Dasniya said (perhaps in August), “The Opera in …

Burka Bondage

The past couple of months Dasniya has been rehearsing with Helena Waldmann, in a piece she helped with last year …

some sunday evening shibari attempts

No, I haven’t been writing here much lately (again). I took a week off and went to Brussels, staying with …

Reading: Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung

Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung

reading: jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook

jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook

BER – BRU – BER – VIE

Not so much an open secret as something I haven’t got around to writing about here, I depart tomorrow for …

Yoga & Shibari Brussels

Dasniya will be teaching Yoga and Bondage workshop in Brussels at the start of July. Excitement! Hello people! at the …

art sunday

Some rather nice art has fallen my way recently, falling around something that might become abjection. Of course it induces …

reading: fiona mcgregor – strange museums

fiona mcgregor – strange museums

rope techniques

More Shibari with Dasniya, now in Kreuzberg. Much fun. Jeden Mittwoch 20 -22 h Shibari Technik in Kreuzberg An diesen …

various things… some reading… a proper beginning

Daniel (no, not you, another one) says, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and so begins again. Reading, thinking, …

merce

merce cunningham

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! …

Pina

pina bausch

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 …

double happiness

Two excellent things in the last couple of days I shall endeavour to celebrate. Perhaps with wine and peanut butter. …

finishing

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

lucky trimmer

***DEUTSCH*** Liebe LUCKIES! Gerade als sich draußen alles abkühlt, wird es heiß im LUCKY TRIMMER Büro! Bereitet Euch vor auf …

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… …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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