This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …
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 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 10, 2007
flyhatched
It was only three years ago but seems … one of those entanglings with a person that are outside of …
December 9, 2006
alpine bushfires
It’s all a bit like Guangzhou in summer really, a dirty jaundiced pall hanging over the city, the slight breeze …
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 …
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 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 …
March 23, 2005
going to zurich
I just found out today I’ll be going to Zurich in July for SiWiC – the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in …