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 10, 2008
finishing
This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …
December 7, 2007
pestilence
This morning, sleeping not yoga-ing, a little message from Alison in Adelaide, “Dear frances … i am pleased to hav …
June 25, 2007
häxan
Friday teaching improvisation at ADT, and I decide the appropriate soundtrack is sunn0))), Gabrielle is there, and normally I have …
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 …
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 …
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 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. …
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 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 …
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 …