Too fast go the days from Friday to Saturday and now the unexpected one day off. I go to the …
August 22, 2010 – 11:38 am
Reading: Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung
Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung
August 10, 2010 – 1:30 am
reading: jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
July 4, 2009 – 9:07 pm
Daniel Jaber, Class at Marameo. July 6 – 17!
EXCELLENT!!! (which reminds me, I never saw the sequel) And I’ll miss this sequel also. Poo. Fliegen, fliegen, fliegen… splat! …
June 18, 2009 – 1:31 am
Daniel Jaber, Tumbling at Marameo! June 22-26
Not that I shall be doing it, which sucks… Excellent fun!!! (more details on the flier…) Daniel Jaber – Tumbling …
February 25, 2009 – 9:18 pm
double happiness
Two excellent things in the last couple of days I shall endeavour to celebrate. Perhaps with wine and peanut butter. …
June 28, 2008 – 3:25 pm
monadologie – cosmos magazine
The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …
June 23, 2008 – 1:47 pm
42a at EAF
Last year at Downtown, 42a was the most memorable show for me in Adelaide. Then Alison got Triennial funding and …
March 21, 2008 – 5:37 pm
monadologie … last days and finish
The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I’ve been trying to learn everything I can on absorption …
March 19, 2008 – 6:09 pm
monadologie photos
I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …
March 3, 2008 – 5:05 pm
monadologie day 46
For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing …
February 20, 2008 – 4:31 pm
monadologie day 40, 41 & 42
Oh, so close now and … mmm nervousness and so on. A peculiar week. I haven’t been too intent on …
February 17, 2008 – 7:20 pm
monadologie day 37 & 38 & 39
This is the running order of the work. Or … it describes certain possibilities that if I’m clever enough could …
February 14, 2008 – 3:32 pm
monadologie
Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. “In so far as the concatenation …
February 13, 2008 – 3:12 pm
monadologie day 36
Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the …
February 12, 2008 – 1:28 pm
monadologie – self-referentiality
Just because I’ve continually forgotten to do this… I’m blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New …
February 12, 2008 – 1:12 pm
monadologie day 30 – 33, 34 & 35
So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness. And now …
February 1, 2008 – 2:55 pm
monadologie day 28 & 29
This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was …
January 30, 2008 – 5:43 pm
monadologie day 27
Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn’t sure how useful me being in a studio on …
January 29, 2008 – 3:54 pm
monadologie day 25 & 26
The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly …
January 25, 2008 – 12:09 pm
monadologie day 23 & 24
I’m losing track of what day is where… We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material …
January 22, 2008 – 4:32 pm
monadologie day (21 &) 22
Some hecticness, I’ll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not. A little video. 45 …
January 17, 2008 – 3:20 pm
monadologie day 20
Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the …
January 16, 2008 – 6:17 pm
monadologie day 18 & 19
The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow …
January 14, 2008 – 2:43 pm
monadologie day 16 & 17
Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and …
January 12, 2008 – 11:38 am
monadologie day 14 & 15
Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being …
January 9, 2008 – 5:10 pm
monadologie day 12 & 13
I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up …
January 7, 2008 – 4:09 pm
monadologie day 11
We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also …
January 3, 2008 – 8:53 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … some more photos
Some more photos, this time from the dress run at Noarlunga, deep in the christian south. This theatre was one …
January 3, 2008 – 8:14 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … some photos
After them leaving Adelaide, then me leaving also, then arriving almost two months after the show, I finally got some …
December 21, 2007 – 1:45 pm
monadologie – week 2
A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie’s sister coming into the …
December 14, 2007 – 4:42 pm
monadologie days 4 & 5
I’ve been reading Leibniz’s 1714 text Monadologie again. It’s sometimes like a vortex, or … how things turn and spiral …
December 12, 2007 – 3:45 pm
monadologie days 1, 2, & 3
I am at Swinburne. I have an office. It’s half way to the first floor (or second if you’re counting …
December 12, 2007 – 8:57 am
monadologie – a start
I’m now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I’ll be for much of summer working …
December 7, 2007 – 2:15 pm
pestilence
This morning, sleeping not yoga-ing, a little message from Alison in Adelaide, “Dear frances … i am pleased to hav …
October 31, 2007 – 11:35 am
whuhappnd?
ummm… Big silence, no? Well we have performed all over the acreage of metropolitan Adelaide (and I kept thinking if …
October 6, 2007 – 6:44 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 15 & 16 & this week
Libby said, “You’re panicking. Deal with it”. I said, “Oh I need to write that down”, it would go well …
October 5, 2007 – 8:23 pm
bacon dog
I was raving a delirious morning, cold clammy sweat all through class, not quite feverish but something unpleasant going on …
September 27, 2007 – 5:44 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 14
Xuan said to me, over lunch, “I never dream I’m an …”, makes little creeping tendril extraterrestrial fingers, “alien …”, …
September 26, 2007 – 12:17 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 13
So after last rehearsal, I was variously meant to watch all the video on Friday, but too busy with Melbourne …
September 20, 2007 – 1:55 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 11 & 12
It was Throbbing Gristle. Though I need to go into town and try and find a record shop in this …
September 15, 2007 – 5:54 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 9 & 10
Oh lazy huh? And today feeling awful, possibly from lack of sleep and I really hope not from Ebola. Anyway …
September 7, 2007 – 2:49 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 8
I couldn’t really justify rape fantasies or liking being strangled through Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, and I did do an …
September 2, 2007 – 8:19 pm
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 30, 2007 – 11:54 am
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 6
Talking talking talking. I was really not so prepared for this rehearsal, but it turned into a bit of a …
August 27, 2007 – 4:17 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 5
So when I leave writing about stuff for a few days, things get … blurry. The last few days have …
August 23, 2007 – 4:32 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 4
A visit to the giant porn supermarket next to ACarts yesterday, to search for any book I could find on …
August 20, 2007 – 1:26 pm
science is the new black metal
I was sitting at Cibo around lunchtime, getting ready to visit some sex shops around Hindley St looking for instruction …
August 16, 2007 – 12:31 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 3
Yesterday was long, at times something to be endured, frightening when it came to rehearsing and going to places of …
August 14, 2007 – 11:36 am
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 2
Second rehearsal is sometimes like second night blues when you’re performing, despite spending much of the weekend preparing, reading Judith …
August 9, 2007 – 10:29 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 1
Late afternoon into twilight, playing in the dark our first rehearsal, Paea, Xuan, Tara and Daniel together in one small …
August 8, 2007 – 4:24 pm
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 14, 2007 – 11:34 am
42a a cameraphone recollection
A recollection of 42a from my phone, somewhat disordered. real wallpaper and floating pixel flowers subterranean leds televised hundreds and …
July 13, 2007 – 1:13 pm
42a
How to write about someone I have spent much of the last couple of months hanging out with, eating too …
July 3, 2007 – 1:27 pm
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 …
June 18, 2007 – 2:55 pm
more neurotic twitching
This Sunday I’m having another workshop doing more of the improvisation stuff I started a couple of weeks ago. Since …
May 30, 2007 – 8:40 pm
“If the rest of us did that it would be a neurotic twitch.”
This Sunday I’m running a workshop based on what I’ve picked up from doing stuff with some dancers from Frankfurt …
May 11, 2007 – 9:38 am
monadologie – science is the new black metal
A few months ago I got really excited by the Stereo satellites 3-D photographs and videos of the sun, there’s …
March 21, 2007 – 4:28 pm
anna in space
My darling Anna, whom I first met at DanceWEB in Vienna 2003 and spent a few weeks post-inferno enjoying the …
March 1, 2007 – 3:56 pm
secret service
John Jasperse has been in town the last couple of weeks, making a work with Becky Hilton and jodi Meinick, …
February 15, 2007 – 4:46 pm
leibniz, monadologie, choreographing and thinking too much
I’ve taken to walking back through Faulkner Park, between the Domain and, I guess you could say, Prahran, though the …
February 4, 2007 – 8:41 pm
waah! pain! eye sting lah!
I’m in what I fondly refer to as grant-writing hell. Somehow out of desperation I’m in the middle of six …
November 6, 2006 – 8:49 pm
sisyphus was here
Far too many of these excuses for not blogging in the last couple of months, and here’s another one, as …
October 28, 2006 – 6:08 pm
new categories of choreography
I’ve been scratching around this evening making some new categories for here. The original and still intended idea is to …
September 13, 2006 – 2:41 pm
temperance – photos from rhys
Lucky that almost a gig of photos that Rhys took during the filming on Sunday turned up this morning, or …
September 11, 2006 – 9:13 am
temperance – 16mm anamorphic zeiss porn
Sunday was a smooth rush through six minutes of dancing bookended by a 7am stagger out of bed and a …
September 6, 2006 – 7:24 pm
temperance – a stranger knocks at his door; fang decides to kill him
When I was using Life Forms as my main tool for choreography, one of the best things about it was …
September 3, 2006 – 4:02 pm
temperance – monster curves
When I was a student at VCA, I somehow blagged a copy of William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies which was largely …
September 1, 2006 – 4:13 pm
temperance – Théodicée
In The System of the World, demented Jesuit fanatic Édouard de Gex is meditating on Satanists, and to paraphrase says …
August 30, 2006 – 4:38 pm
temperance
The last couple of days have been intensely busy, usually to the degree that dinner doesn’t happen, and even climbing …
August 10, 2006 – 9:29 pm
more airports
I’m going to Adelaide for the weekend, as I mentioned a couple of days ago. Blogging is unlikely, and might …
August 9, 2006 – 6:07 pm
Jesuit Novice in Ossegg
A couple of nights ago, I experienced one of those profound moments in life when I realised someone I knew, …
August 8, 2006 – 8:02 pm
crush
It’s been over two years and still we haven’t me. We have been in many of the same cities, Guangzhou, …
August 4, 2006 – 8:54 pm
on plagues and skin disorders
Reading Jean Baudrillard‘s Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that …
June 21, 2006 – 10:07 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – Apocalypse 1626.666
Besides spelling mistakes and irregular comprehension of names, the DVD of 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD is nearly finished, in fact tomorrow …
May 26, 2006 – 10:07 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – more of the same…
Still more stuff is turning up in the post-show blur across the internet. On the night of the dress rehearsal, …
May 16, 2006 – 3:42 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – byte-aftermath
Paul and Emile left last night after a fine dinner with everyone at 1920, the German café on 沿江路 Yanjiang …
May 14, 2006 – 1:40 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – typhoon chanchu
Yesterday was one of those days I really wanted to not happen. It reminded me of a few other pre-show …
May 11, 2006 – 11:30 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – smell of greasepaint
The last week has been a conscious block for me when it has come to choreographing the bikini-high-heel dance-a-thon/showgirl-on-nembutal-and-acid bit. …
May 10, 2006 – 11:45 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – costume drama
We’re doing a lot of just running sections now, accruing detail and coherency through repetition, but still to finish are …
May 9, 2006 – 11:24 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – don’t call this a remount
It’s mental week now, doing the costume shopping, organising lots of little things that sprout up like an Oxalis frenzy. …
January 4, 2006 – 5:58 pm
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 22, 2005 – 4:57 am
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 16, 2005 – 6:20 am
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 – 4:09 am
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 – 8:26 pm
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 – 8:00 pm
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 – 5:31 pm
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 – 8:40 pm
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 – 2:33 am
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 – 9:36 pm
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 – 10:01 am
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 – 2:08 am
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 …
July 29, 2005 – 7:49 pm
ImPulsTanz – la vie viennoise
SiWiC may be over except in our sentimental imaginations, but DanceWEB and ImPulsTanz (gotta love this central European blizzard of …
July 27, 2005 – 7:06 pm
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 – 7:27 pm
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 – 7:36 am
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 – 7:28 am
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 – 7:01 am
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 – 7:14 am
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 – 7:42 am
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 – 7:40 am
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 – 7:55 am
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 – 3:51 am
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 – 3:27 am
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 – 3:01 am
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 – 4:49 pm
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 – 7:44 am
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 – 6:05 am
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 – 4:41 am
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 – 5:34 am
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 – 6:29 am
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 …
April 11, 2005 – 8:31 pm
2005 Asia Young Choreography Projects
The World Dance Alliance is currently seeking is currently seeking choreographers from across the Asian region for the annual choreographic …
June 11, 2004 – 1:41 am
Daniel Yeung – Metalove
Choreographer Daniel Yeung, creator of the giant projected arsehole in his 2002 work Play Boys is back again with a …
May 17, 2004 – 11:52 pm
Superposition corps – The Solitude of Gustave Whitehead
Austrian choreographer and performer Saskia Holbling is premiering her new work Superposition corps – The Solitude of Gustave Whitehead in …
April 20, 2004 – 11:11 pm
Marta Ladjanszki
Marta is a dancer and choreographer I met last year in Vienna at DanceWEB. On the final day after six …