Krähe Schnee Baum

The cold is waning, though perhaps remain a pair or more days when – at least in the nights – …

Archeypical Encounters in Shibari

A weekend of workshops – two days of only ropes from lunch until deep into the night. After the Saturday …

Reading: Annamarie Schwarzenbach – All the Roads are Open: The Afghan Journey (trans. Isabel Fargo Cole)

In the first winter of Berlin for me, my poverty and the hanging dread of unwanted return to Australia were …

after the self-suspension workshop

Hours of suspension, sun and blue sky and freezing outside, chai tea by the tureen, leek, potato, grünkern soup (with …

mmm … mits!

I thought perhaps there was a mistake, alas (or yay!) no; as I ate breakfast, it was warming up to …

self-suspension and finland

The last self-suspension workshop consumed all of Sunday and even before it began there was talk of another, so happiness …

yoga + shibari regular berlin classes for february

Sunday, Thomas’ last day in Berlin, and post-breakfast a soup was prepared. By 1 o’clock, up-and-down stairs was occurring, on …

Reading: Paul A. Van Dyke — The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845

Continuing my return to reading China, as with my focus on women in the history of China, so too is …

Christian & his Verdienstkreuz

One of the first freelance jobs I got in Berlin was salvaging a website for Christian Ender. Over the past …

SOIT/Hans Van den Broeck – Messiah Run

One of the best performances I saw last year, and that was only in development while in residence in Uferstudios …

Daniel Jaber – Reassessment

Daniel is performing! Presented as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre’s inSPACE:development Program, Reassessment examines concepts surrounding Self-Worth, perception and …

Thomas & Dasniya Shibari

The last time I saw Thomas, he had a mass of dreads. That was in Adelaide. Last week he arrived …

Yoga + Shibari in Berlin, January

Yoga and Shibari begins again this week in Teatris from this Wednesday evening. Also becoming a monthly regular is the …

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 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 …

Reading (nth Time): J.K Rowling — Harry Potter Series

Needing a short pause from the non-fiction I’d been reading lately, before I plunge into the one book I’ve taken …

Reading (2nd Time): Charles Stross — Rule 34

The first time I read Charles Stross’ Rule 34, I wasn’t writing about why I read certain books. So, taking …

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 …

Ophelia Opens

Rehearsals via Skype between Berlin and Melbourne as the sun rose in mid-summer. More talking and writing and videoing back …

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 …

Shibari/Bondage Workshop at Bains Connective, Brussels

Once more to Brussels, this time somewhere new. Dasniya and I have been working around the edges of a performance/installation …

danielschlusser.com

Some time in Vienna last year, Daniel Schlusser came to visit and we made some trial rehearsals with ropes and …

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 …

Dasniya Sommer Yoga & Shibari in Wedding, November + Brussels Project

Now there is a beautiful space to make yoga and shibari in once more, with kitchen, things to hang from, …

pre-rehearsals

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

“Reading: … ” Book of the Year 2011 (Fiction): China Mieville — Un Lun Dun

china miéville – un lun dun

Reading … a 4th anniversary

Another year of books. Not as many as last year; I took a pause for some time, unable to find …

Daniel Schlusser — Ophelia

In the graben between late night and early morning, while scrabbling small amendments for something of Daniel Schlusser’s I hope …

Occupy the World

Published on Sunday, October 2, 2011 by NYC General Assembly Declaration of the Occupation of New York City by NYC …

Shibari Kantine

The Kantine is on the ground floor, stretching from the street back some fifty meters in three distinct sections. First …

Reading: Julia Lovell – The Opium War

Canton. The idea is romantic, and unavoidably one of Orientalism. Still, I lived there on and off for a few …

Why am I reading?

I thought, as I rode away from St George’s, bag heavy with three new arrivals (two expected and one find of …

lucifer fallen

Gala left for Brussels yesterday; Dasniya for Berlin this evening. Me, tomorrow, and Michael to ballet in the morning. The …

Madrid rehearsals day 5 – casa de campo

Today was the last day of us together as the foursome rehearsing. Instead of going into the studio, we arose …

Madrid rehearsals day 4

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

Madrid rehearsals day 3

Third day, the middle of the week, only two remaining and Friday already planned with Shibari in the park and …

Madrid rehearsals day 2

From where I stay, it is a walk downhill across the south of the centre of Madrid, westwards to the …

madrid rehearsals day 1

Some photos from Monday – three each from my and Dasniya’s rehearsals after ballet in the morning with Michael… madrid …

Madrid

Already in Madrid three days since arriving Saturday morning and sliding across town on the Metro to walk into Dasniya’s …

BER-MAD

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

SOIT – Messiah Run!

Hans and SOIT have been in Berlin the last few days during Tanz I’m August, and working on Messiah Run! at the …

abjection archery photoshoot

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

Reading (Playing): Gabriele Klein, Gitta Barthel, Esther Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten

Klein, Barthel, Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten

bondage japonés Madrid con Dasniya Sommer

Dasniya and I will be in Madrid later this month for some adventures with dance. Also there will be a …

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 …

Reading: Rosemary A. Joyce – Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives

Rosemary A. Joyce – Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives

Places

Because I seem to spend so much time in Brussels, and also have lived in several cities which until now …

Ophelia Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Unusual for me to go from one project directly to another, let alone three in a row, but this weekend …

A day in Gent

A short pause for two days before the next project begins. Gala and I have been working together and in …

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 …

Reading: Charles Stross — Rule 34

charles stross – rule 34

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 …

Brussels yoga + shibari last four days & photoshoot

The absence of writing since Wednesday should indicate how involved the workshop was. Yes, finished, on to more rope things. …

Brussels yoga + shibari third day

Teaching yoga for the first time in quite some while. It’s very different from doing, which is almost automatic, the …

brussels yoga + shibari first days

Two days already passed. We are back in the beautiful loft studio in Charleroi/Danses La Raffinerie, arriving early yesterday to …

Hello Brussels

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

CAADX-105 … a story of riding a new bike

Late last year, I bought a bike. And wrote about it. And rode it also. But not so much. Firstly, …

process/unprocess

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

Reminder: Yoga and Shibari Workshops – Belgium, July

This is a very short reminder that Dasniya Sommer will in Brussels in July for her Yoga and Bondage, and …

200 years of Liszt and some pianos

There is a piano restorer in Uferhallen. Once a week or so the forecourt fills with many cars not from …

Reading: China Miéville – Embassytown

china miéville – embassytown

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. …

Morning Yoga – Wedding, Berlin

For the coming months, I will be teaching a morning yoga class at nameless. Class will initially be on Tuesday …

knoten-unknoten

Last night I stumbled upon knots and suspensions in the most unlikely of places (a bit like how after having …

Two Solos Brussels: Nearby Buffalo & A Body

A good reason to come to Brussels. This weekend Gala Moody and Anuschka Von Oppen are performing at Ivo Dimchev’s …

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 …

dasniya sommer spring / summer yoga + shibari programme

Some workshops and classes from Dasniya in the coming months: On Wednesday evenings in Kreuzberg, the Yoga and Bondage class …

(renamed as) mm ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf)

The last few days, Dasniya, Hartmut and myself had been in another Fabrik, with another mobile gantry. More dust and …

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 …

Yoga and Shibari Workshops – July – Brussels

Returning to Brussels, in July Dasniya Sommer will be teaching two Yoga+Bondage workshops at Charleroi Danses – La Raffinerie. The …

Yoga&Shibari 27.4.

Wednesday has become a long day for me. Cycling to and from training in the morning, with the two hours …

TWO SHOWS: Nearby Buffalo and memory/such mich

From Anuschka von Oppen, who will be in Berlin shortly for a piece I (think I) saw some of in …

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!

Reading: Paul Hockenos – Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic

paul hockenos – joschka fischer

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

2011.touchandplay.org

This morning I launched the website for the 2011 Touch&Play Festival. Still a bit to do, and content is still …

after the weekend of ropes

Jochen has a beautiful workshop in Ohlauerstr, near the Görlitzer Park, an old and vast Fabrik dressed in olive green …

ein blick über café prückel

The day after opening Parsifal, we went to Bar du Matin for breakfast, and of course who should be there …

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.

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