Because I seem to spend so much time in Brussels, and also have lived in several cities which until now …
January 12, 2010
Laura Kalauz + Martin Schick – Title
Possibly the most problematic of all the performances I’ve seen so far in Tanztage, Laura Kalauz’s and Martin Schick’s Title …
February 7, 2009
biblio-smut
When I have my pirate castle I shall also have a library like this. I’m not sure which, maybe all …
November 19, 2008
transgender day of remembrance
For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …
August 4, 2008
von zürich hbf nach freiburg im breisgau
The train stopped in Basel. For quite some time. Moved several meters, stopped again. Moved a little less, stopped. A …
August 1, 2008
books… forgotten… found
I left many things when I departed from Zürich. And Guangzhou, and Taipei, and… Things come together again. All my …
July 30, 2008
von wien westbahnhof nach zürich hbf
Some books I read small pieces of in my room in Vienna. Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, a …
June 17, 2008
vienna…
I’m going to Vienna. eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I got an email this afternoon saying I’ve been accepted for the Choreographers’ Venture with …
June 8, 2008
Reading: again… some for the fifth time…
Suffering from a paucity of new books the last two weeks, and packing mine all away in preparation for inevitable …
March 22, 2008
reading: business cards – the art of saying hello
business cards – the art of saying hello
May 17, 2007
what am i doing?
A friend whom I hadn’t seen for ages – another dancer of course – was offering to teach me some …
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 3, 2007
saturday morning re-blogging
Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I’m not going to blog about, but certainly has much …
September 26, 2006
they are not my dreams
After coughing myself into sleep deprivation over the previous couple of weeks, it was a blessing when dreams returned last …
August 6, 2006
less art more self-indulgence
It was about a year and a half ago when I considered the probability of an endless stretch of boringness …
May 20, 2006
hiding under the bed…
In an uncanny, though not unanticipated recurrence, I am slightly lost in a post-performance limbo that bears many similarities with …
February 12, 2006
anna tenta & copernicus
Anna Tenta is back in Zürich for another performance at Tanzhaus Wasserwerk. She was working on this solo when I …
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 …
November 28, 2005
z-town to g-town
The flight wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be, though getting screwed at Hong Kong airport for a …
November 25, 2005
life
It’s been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to …
November 23, 2005
airport lounging
I’m travelling to Hong Kong early Friday morning so my abuse of bandwidth and the internet has slowed to a …
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 19, 2005
splat …
Fat snotty lumps of snow pushed down the river from the breeze as it coiled over the hills above Zürich, …
November 19, 2005
absolutely freak out
Acid Mothers Temple!!! Zubi Zuva X, Akaten, Ruins Alone, Zoffy, Shrinp Wark, Seikazoku!!! Welcome to Japan New Music Festival!!! Three …
November 18, 2005
straight outta z-town
Two months ago, by an odd set of circumstances, I schlepped out to the Zürich Flughaven to pick up video …
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 …
October 31, 2005
cornhoolio … mit brot
Cornelia is blogging. I’m in trouble… all flog … all the time … debbie – mercy45
October 29, 2005
more of the same … mit brot
This is a special post for my two favourite readers, who I can no longer say anything to because I’ve …
October 28, 2005
human writes
Twice this week I’ve been asked to give wishes, the first a list of fifteen for a magazine, and the …
October 25, 2005
i blog for … ummm … stuff …
Losing seriously in a game of charades last night when I displayed my absolute out-of-date-ness by failing to guess ‘computer+writer=blog’, …
October 21, 2005
mercy 45 – no sleep till hgkz
We opened Mercy 45 on Wednesday after three months of having way too much fun, and filling the Vortragsaal (or …
October 14, 2005
mercy 45 – costume party
We got the costumes yesterday, Christa de Carouge long black dresses which show off plenty of everything, especially when stray …
October 13, 2005
how to make … stuff
It was just big words on a pink piece of paper, MOVE IT!, and I was too lazy to turn …
October 12, 2005
mercy 45 – denise lampart compagnie
It’s all on next week, Mercy 45, the new performance by Denise Lampart Compagnie. Stücktitel: Mercy 45 Aufführungsdaten: Premiere: Mittwoch, …
October 12, 2005
slow boat to psychedelia
Writing abusive diatribes against a certain cretinous moron from a respectable Zürich newspaper who has built a reputation on vandalising …
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 7, 2005
i can’t feel my cock …
Champagne Bikini girls in Letraset Tattoos on non-stop video. Which is pretty much what last night was all about, part …
October 7, 2005
acid mothers temple in zurich
There’s nothing more to say. Acid Mothers Temple are the closest thing I’ve ever heard to sucking on a blotter-sheet …
October 5, 2005
mercy 45 – she’s got legs
Last week before we destroyed several thousand Swiss francs of Christa de Carouge’s clothes, Emile thought it’d be fun to …
October 1, 2005
dance like you’re drinking beer … or something
This is more of an exercise in embarrassment plus occasional gloating than a real post. Firstly there was the birthday …
September 28, 2005
christa de carouge
She’s kinda like a Swiss Issey Miyaki, whose idea of a good time is schlepping around the scrappier parts of …
September 22, 2005
fuga utopia at tanzhaus
Since I spend most of every day at Tanzhaus Wasswerwerk at the moment, and it’s full of people rehearsing, I …
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 …
September 10, 2005
my life as anne sexton
Not a word said so far on life in Zürich, rehearsals with Cie. Denise Lampart, endless days in Tanzhaus, or …
September 2, 2005
uli sigg – the man behind the flying fetus
In keeping with my new news policy, I only write about things that happened more than two weeks ago, which …
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 …
August 26, 2005
on a fast train
I’m going to Vevey for the weekend to see the aussies in Compagnie Nomades perform «Le bal des vampires». Plenty …
August 21, 2005
le bal des vampyres
There’s an outpost of Little Australia in Vevey, beside the lake which is where I spent my first week in …
August 20, 2005
holy flying fetuses batman
Speaking of 萧昱 Xiao Yu and his penchant for the kind of art which would see him in the skanky …
August 19, 2005
slim pickings at supernaut
Yeah, I know four days of posting in half a month constitutes a new zenith in blogging atrophy for me. …
August 5, 2005
the truth about zürich
Currently have a crap internet connection – dial-up in fact. I feel like I have died and been reincarnated in …
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 24, 2005
the hills are alive with the sound of wheezing
The best way to climb hills in Switzerland is by drinking coffee and eating pain au chocolate until late morning, …
July 22, 2005
this is my space and it’s highly embarrassing
Back in Vevey for a couple of days. Zurich was getting boring without anyone to cause trouble with. They all …
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 …
July 2, 2005
holiday in vevey
The past week has been mostly spent lying on the beach beside Lake Geneva, eating, sleeping, and doing as little …
June 28, 2005
slumming it in vevey
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …
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 …
February 11, 2005
tremplin
Tor Chiu, formerly of Australia, one of the now hundreds of dancers who at one time swung a leg for …
June 4, 2004
Festival Local
The Festival Local et régional de créations choréographiques 2004 is on at the moment at Théàtre de l’Usine in Geneva. …