The coffee is made thus: In a small bowl two teaspoons or so of sugar for every cup is added. …
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 …
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 …
October 25, 2010
einstürzende neubauten 30
Between U- and S-Bahn returning home, Dy said, “Why don’t you write about this? After all, it’s a performance and …
February 4, 2010
anouk van dijk & falk richter – TRUST
The set is moody, gloomy, dark, chrome chairs and black leather sofa, matching seats, a stylist-industrial minimalist clutter extending back …
January 20, 2010
Hermann Heisig – THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP!
The second performance of Saturday night in Tanztage’s Festsaal, Hermann Heisig’s THEMSELVES ALREADY HOP! is superficially opposed to almost the …
January 10, 2010
Jana Unmüßig – HAUS
I had planned to see only a couple of performances in Tanztage, I thought perhaps one a night over a …
January 10, 2010
Death by Glitter – Get a Leg Up
The third performance of Friday night, and barely making it in time while snacking on Thunfisch pizza on the tram …
January 9, 2010
An Kaler – Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
(An aside: Having managed to evade seeing dance for the most part last year, I thought I should take advantage …
January 2, 2010
2009 theater
Without taking the time to look, I’m not sure I’ve ever done an end-of-year best-of list for performances I’ve seen. …
October 25, 2009
orgy of tolerance
To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary. My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the …
October 8, 2009
SOIT – We Was Them
To start at the end. Or, an ending. Somewhere past an hour, Ivan and Harold (I think) sit on the …
August 29, 2009
som faves
Ivo says, ” you know I was very suspicious about its qualities and I will still be…”. Though not in …
January 4, 2009
re.act.feminism – performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute
Still dark, before 6am, lying in bed, the clouded sky lighting the city and me already with coffee and reading, …
July 13, 2007
42a
How to write about someone I have spent much of the last couple of months hanging out with, eating too …
July 3, 2007
Housewives on Fire
A conversation before the show: girl-a, “wanna sit in the front row?”, girl-b, “nah I don’t wanna be that close …
May 21, 2007
in the bones of children
In William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies dvd, he demonstrates the drawing of lines in space as an exersise in geometric analysis. …
May 6, 2007
tense dave
Over the past couple of days I’ve been thinking and talking quite a bit about Chunky Move’s Tense Dave, a …
April 14, 2007
b-file
Falling asleep while passing time in a nearby bookstore while waiting for Michael to arrive in the distant north of …
April 5, 2007
sometimes i paint …
Emile took me along to see an exhibition of Peter Saville while we were in Zürich. I’m really surprised at …
March 31, 2007
sense
A lazy lunch with Bonnie Paskas, one of the dancers in Emily Fernandez’s Sense, on for one more night tonight …
March 24, 2007
grace
I feel old when I try to remember how many years ago it was I saw piglet in the garage …
March 22, 2007
three new categories
Finally I have added some new categories that have been eating at me like some rapacious tropical parasite. It a …
March 22, 2007
becky, jodi and john
Not that I’ve seen much dance this year but come December, this will still be one of the highlights of …
March 18, 2007
the end of dance writing
Around the time I was thinking about i want your dance, I stumbled across this excellent article on ImPulsTanz by …
January 28, 2007
what calliope did…
There is a stack of books next to my bed in Adelaide, mostly instilling disappointment in the novel as a …
January 21, 2007
the symbolism of cultural rape
Even though it came out a while ago, and I read it by accident when flipping through the pages of …
January 13, 2007
live @ the soup kitchen – the next day
Gavin Clarke is something of a ummm … megalomaniac, performing in I think four of the ten works, curating the …
September 19, 2006
she’s my man
I started the day with the Scissor Sisters new album, Ta-Dah, and it’s everything I said about the first album. …
April 12, 2006
what were they doing there?
Someone was telling me 佛山 Foshan, the Fo meant fire, like in Cantonese, but duh! it actually means Buddha. Anyway, …
October 9, 2005
fuga utopia – the twin peaks of tanztheatre
I’ve seen one of the best shows in years tonight, and I’m not just saying that because Anna Tenta is …
October 2, 2005
intellectual property for the people
I’ve been reading about two books a week, and have amassed a large-ish pile during my time in Zürich. I’ve …
September 12, 2005
eurotrash: sie sind da draussen
My first trip to the world of live dance in Zürich was seeing Christina Gehrig Binder &Anne Lorenz’s Sie Sind …
August 29, 2005
dirty undead weeekend
In-between inexplicable torrents of rain and general foulness passing for summer in Vevey, Compagnie Nomades have been performing Le Bal …
June 15, 2005
splash life
Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised …
May 24, 2005
folding fiction
Besides an impulse cinema trip to see Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith (which seemed to leave lots of …
May 8, 2005
they’re dead! … everyone’s dead…
Last night was the end of the 第二届广东现代舞周2nd Guangzhou Contemporary Dance Festival, and I know I’ve been pretty harsh on …
May 7, 2005
contemporary dance must die
A triple bill. Three times the fun. The 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival is almost over, and Thursday night it was …
April 30, 2005
when art goes bad
Last night was not quite the beginning of the week of dance at the 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival, but was …
April 16, 2005
no longer a line split through time
I’m going to have to rave about how good China Miéville is. Not only is he fantastically good looking in …
December 7, 2004
Co4 … so what?
Along with some of the gang from 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studo I spent the afternoon at 大趨勢畫廊 Main Trend Gallery …
August 29, 2004
balletlab – fiction
I went and saw Phillip Adams’ BalletLab season of Fiction last night, two works by Phillip and Becky Hilton at …