The cold is waning, though perhaps remain a pair or more days when – at least in the nights – …
February 13, 2012
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 …
February 6, 2012
mmm … mits!
I thought perhaps there was a mistake, alas (or yay!) no; as I ate breakfast, it was warming up to …
January 19, 2012
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 …
January 16, 2012
Christian & his Verdienstkreuz
One of the first freelance jobs I got in Berlin was salvaging a website for Christian Ender. Over the past …
January 12, 2012
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 …
January 12, 2012
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 …
December 13, 2011
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. …
December 5, 2011
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 …
November 27, 2011
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 …
November 27, 2011
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 …
November 26, 2011
Ivo’s Studio
Red sky in the morning, and a chaotic arrival to Brussels. Somehow I thought Chaussee de Mons ran parallel to …
November 10, 2011
danielschlusser.com
Some time in Vienna last year, Daniel Schlusser came to visit and we made some trial rehearsals with ropes and …
October 30, 2011
temperance at cinedans
On a whim in May, because it landed in my maiming lists inbox, I decided to send temperance to Cinedans, promptly …
October 19, 2011
“Reading: … ” Book of the Year 2011 (Fiction): China Mieville — Un Lun Dun
china miéville – un lun dun
October 19, 2011
Reading … a 4th anniversary
Another year of books. Not as many as last year; I took a pause for some time, unable to find …
October 7, 2011
Daniel Schlusser — Ophelia
In the graben between late night and early morning, while scrabbling small amendments for something of Daniel Schlusser’s I hope …
October 6, 2011
Occupy the World
Published on Sunday, October 2, 2011 by NYC General Assembly Declaration of the Occupation of New York City by NYC …
September 23, 2011
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 …
September 23, 2011
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 …
September 1, 2011
Madrid rehearsals day 4
Ballet first with Dasniya. In ropes. A pity no pictures of that. Something in the distraction of being tied up …
August 30, 2011
Madrid rehearsals day 2
From where I stay, it is a walk downhill across the south of the centre of Madrid, westwards to the …
August 30, 2011
madrid rehearsals day 1
Some photos from Monday – three each from my and Dasniya’s rehearsals after ballet in the morning with Michael… madrid …
August 30, 2011
Madrid
Already in Madrid three days since arriving Saturday morning and sliding across town on the Metro to walk into Dasniya’s …
August 26, 2011
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 …
August 13, 2011
abjection archery photoshoot
Earlier in the week, I met Christian crépes at a Belgian café beside the Spree; a first hello since I returned …
August 12, 2011
Reading (Playing): Gabriele Klein, Gitta Barthel, Esther Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
Klein, Barthel, Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
August 12, 2011
Reading: Robert Temple – The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
Robert Temple – The Genius of China
August 7, 2011
archery
Something I’ve been meaning to write about for some time. A while ago – in early June – I bought …
August 4, 2011
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 …
August 4, 2011
Reading: Rosemary A. Joyce – Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives
Rosemary A. Joyce – Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives
August 1, 2011
Places
Because I seem to spend so much time in Brussels, and also have lived in several cities which until now …
July 31, 2011
A day in Gent
A short pause for two days before the next project begins. Gala and I have been working together and in …
July 27, 2011
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 …
July 9, 2011
Hello Brussels
A very early train. Not as early as a plane. For some reason there was an absence of cheap flights …
July 6, 2011
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, …
June 18, 2011
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 …
May 20, 2011
Morning Yoga – Wedding, Berlin
For the coming months, I will be teaching a morning yoga class at nameless. Class will initially be on Tuesday …
May 16, 2011
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 …
May 16, 2011
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 …
May 12, 2011
parsifal in film
I arrive in Brussels this morning, curiously with Anuschka sitting next to me the whole way. We stay up the …
April 19, 2011
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 …
April 12, 2011
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!
April 6, 2011
reading: vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment: intellectuals and the legacy of the may fourth movement of 1919
vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment
April 6, 2011
Reading: Paul Hockenos – Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic
paul hockenos – joschka fischer
March 26, 2011
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 …
March 24, 2011
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 …
March 19, 2011
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 …
March 19, 2011
2011.touchandplay.org
This morning I launched the website for the 2011 Touch&Play Festival. Still a bit to do, and content is still …
March 8, 2011
goat snake witch dance theatre blackness
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 …
February 24, 2011
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 …
February 23, 2011
us alone tied
The day before the last performance, we arranged to spend some time on the stage working on some suspensions and …