One of the best performances I saw last year, and that was only in development while in residence in Uferstudios …
January 12, 2012 – 11:11 pm
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 – 1:18 pm
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 10, 2011 – 11:35 pm
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 10 & 11
It’s already over. We performed last night and today is Saturday, the residency finished. In-between now and Thursday morning, we …
December 5, 2011 – 10:07 pm
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 …
October 26, 2011 – 10:42 am
Ozco cuts Leigh Warren & Dancers Funding
I just heard from Daniel Jaber that the Australia Council for the Arts have cut Leigh Warren and Dancers triennial funding. Having …
September 1, 2011 – 10:11 pm
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 – 8:22 am
Madrid
Already in Madrid three days since arriving Saturday morning and sliding across town on the Metro to walk into Dasniya’s …
August 13, 2011 – 11:10 pm
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 – 8:24 pm
Reading (Playing): Gabriele Klein, Gitta Barthel, Esther Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
Klein, Barthel, Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
August 12, 2011 – 8:13 pm
Reading: John Cage – Silence: Lectures and Writings
John Cage – Silence: Lectures and Writings
August 7, 2011 – 7:59 pm
archery
Something I’ve been meaning to write about for some time. A while ago – in early June – I bought …
July 27, 2011 – 7:22 pm
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 25, 2011 – 11:30 pm
process/unprocess week 2 day 1
I am humming. Gala stands over me. She is reading the Aftersong from Beyond Good and Evil. We look at …
May 20, 2011 – 12:40 am
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 – 9:57 pm
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 …
April 19, 2011 – 5:06 pm
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 …
December 3, 2010 – 7:45 am
Burka Bondage
The past couple of months Dasniya has been rehearsing with Helena Waldmann, in a piece she helped with last year …
November 16, 2010 – 5:35 am
Daniel Jaber in Kuala Lumpur
Daniel has been on an AsiaLink Performing Arts Residency in Malaysia for the last some months. Snakes? Yes! He has …
October 16, 2010 – 8:01 am
uferhallen at night
Apparently the fire department will come and take me down if I attempt to climb the chimney in Uferhallen. Well, …
August 22, 2010 – 11:39 am
Reading: Liane Simmel – Tanzmedizin in der Praxis: Anatomie, Prävention, Trainingstipps
Liane Simmel – Tanzmedizin in der Praxis
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
April 29, 2010 – 5:48 am
an attempt to fail….in berlin
So I leaver Berlin for the other city I love beginning with B, and Tony Rizzi decides to come to …
April 17, 2010 – 2:34 am
customised flowplayer in wordpress
Last year while working on dasniyasommer.de and dealing with presenting video in an attractive way with much backend flexibility, I …
March 15, 2010 – 2:07 am
enough from daniel
Something to celebrate because I lost all track of time. Adelaide’s Fringe Festival is over, which I’ve only ever experience …
January 20, 2010 – 6:42 am
too far again, not far enough…
Daniel is performing in the Adelaide Fringe this year. I think it will be rather good. Some photos to enjoy …
January 10, 2010 – 9:22 am
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 – 7:25 am
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 – 9:50 am
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 – 11:16 am
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 8, 2009 – 4:39 am
SOIT – We Was Them
To start at the end. Or, an ending. Somewhere past an hour, Ivan and Harold (I think) sit on the …
October 7, 2009 – 9:32 am
i went to brussels … again
A week this time. To Flughaven Schönefeld, then to Bruxelles Airport, raining once more, grey from B to B. Here …
August 24, 2009 – 12:09 pm
i went to bruxelles… the weekend…
Ballet Friday, wandering the streets after and eating a lot. Mussels missed, but waffles, chocolate, pommes frites, beer, all yes. …
August 20, 2009 – 11:00 am
i went to bruxelles…
I was possessed by the desire to go to Brussels on Sunday last week, and in a fit of unusualness, …
August 17, 2009 – 10:27 am
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
July 8, 2009 – 8:00 am
dasniyasommer.de
Because it’s… I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, …
July 5, 2009 – 10:08 pm
one… eins
A year ago. A train from Frankfurt lulling me out of the delirium and endurance of 30 hours or more, …
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 28, 2009 – 4:36 am
I left my shoes on warm concrete and stood in the rain
Witch/Red was for me easily one of the best pieces of performance, theatre, dance I saw in all my time …
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 6, 2009 – 11:35 pm
MA √ 15’ { idiosyncrasy } sin x = ly – fx2¯
The best show I didn’t see this year, oh… I have difficulty with seeing dance, and then occasionally something is …
January 29, 2009 – 1:26 am
von berlin hbf nach freiburg… again
To Freiburg, wondering if there is a future for me here, in Germany or Berlin or… and passing through Spandau …
January 22, 2009 – 4:19 am
a retrospective
Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …
January 4, 2009 – 10:43 pm
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, …
November 10, 2008 – 12:17 am
finishing
This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …
October 19, 2008 – 10:21 pm
lucky trimmer
***DEUTSCH*** Liebe LUCKIES! Gerade als sich draußen alles abkühlt, wird es heiß im LUCKY TRIMMER Büro! Bereitet Euch vor auf …
September 17, 2008 – 1:46 am
surfacing…
The last week was spent mostly writing applications for residencies. Four of them due yesterday and feeling a little worn …
July 7, 2008 – 6:05 am
the remainder of the weekend
I don’t understand what I’m looking at. This afternoon, again in Rosenthalerplatz, I decided to walk much of the way …
July 6, 2008 – 1:54 am
ADL-SYD-FRA-BER
Adelaide to Sydney, upgraded to business class due to length of leg, and three seats to myself, the opportune westerly …
July 1, 2008 – 12:49 pm
my life
Packed. Waiting for the shipping company. Everything I have, in storage for most of four years, and now to return. …
June 17, 2008 – 5:38 pm
vienna…
I’m going to Vienna. eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I got an email this afternoon saying I’ve been accepted for the Choreographers’ Venture with …
May 13, 2008 – 12:57 pm
pestilence days 15-17
I’ve been editing DVDs this week, first all the people i can remember sleeping with…, then monadologie, and in the …
May 12, 2008 – 1:59 pm
things…
I spent the early afternoon today pottering around on two things that while their minutia is like worms eating in …
May 11, 2008 – 12:53 pm
airports
Daniel stayed the night, after our witching hour last rehearsal, and it was past 3 before sleeping. Later, after I …
May 10, 2008 – 11:57 am
pestilence last days
If I’m looking for acceptable, believable excuses, then lack of internet at home, necessary for late-night bed blogging, and an …
April 21, 2008 – 3:02 pm
pestilence day 14
Obviously today I am completely distracted and nervous and managed to do little except lie on the floor spontaneously falling …
April 19, 2008 – 2:10 pm
pestilence day 13
Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans, …
April 17, 2008 – 10:59 pm
pestilence day 12
Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva’s abjection, …
April 16, 2008 – 4:46 pm
pestilence days 5-11
Night rehearsals. I’ve been slack at blogging this project. It’s taken me an awful lot of methodical, patient, slogging to …
April 7, 2008 – 8:33 pm
pestilence day 3 & 4
Friday and Monday and the weekend at the library. I’ve been struggling somewhat with this piece, possibly because I’ve been …
April 3, 2008 – 4:07 pm
pestilence day 1 & 2
There is a reason for not blogging day one of rehearsals and it has to do with being delightfully waylaid …
April 1, 2008 – 11:14 am
Witch/Red
This is the month of Adelaide independent choreographers with five developments that I know of and maybe a couple of …
March 29, 2008 – 8:47 am
swanhilda is a punk
Daniel is having showings of the development of his new work this weekend with some of Adelaide’s most wild and …
March 26, 2008 – 12:05 pm
the tighter you squeeze
Lina is in Adelaide, working on a development of a new performance, with a showing next Friday. Lucky I’m here …
March 23, 2008 – 5:55 pm
MEL-ADL … finish
Days of nothing over the weekend, seeing Bonnie for the last time in a while, breakfast at Mario’s on Brunswick …
February 25, 2008 – 10:16 am
MEL-ADL … again … again … something like home …
A taxi driver from Punjab studying electronics with such a polite demeanor managed to persuade me that going all the …
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 …
January 3, 2008 – 1:21 pm
to move freely
Approaching a return to Melbourne, back to airports on Saturday and to … see if I can make sense of …
December 31, 2007 – 10:58 am
Reading: Jin Xing – Shanghai Tango (A Memoir)
jin xing – shanghai tango (a memoir)
December 27, 2007 – 5:16 pm
low brain activity
I think it was combination of red wine, sparkling shiraz, roast beetroot, kilos of cherries … Did I miss any …
December 26, 2007 – 8:31 am
… and then that evening
I was genuinely about to go home for a long sleep so today I could do some work on my …
December 26, 2007 – 8:22 am
later that evening … and the next day
Continuing on from Monday afternoon, I only made it as far as Gala’s kitchen, where going out clothes were exchanged …
December 24, 2007 – 2:16 pm
adelaide
Sharing a plane with Leo, who is Tom’s brother who is at Art School (say it with capitals) in Melbourne, …
December 23, 2007 – 10:12 am
MEL-ADL … again
A couple of nights staying with my wonderful friend Bonnie, eating pancakes, drinking tea, long chats into the night … …
December 8, 2007 – 10:54 am
a small break and things…
No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of …
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 …
November 28, 2007 – 1:27 pm
ADL-MEL
I’m off to Melbourne on Monday for a three month residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics through ANAT, making …
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 10, 2007 – 4:30 pm
mediocrity
Due to the content of my Ignition 7 – Gender Studies performance, all the people i can remember sleeping with…, …
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 …
October 4, 2007 – 8:14 pm
ignition 7 – gender studies
Australian Dance Theatre presents Ignition 7 – Gender Studies Ignition returns to stages throughout metropolitan Adelaide during October for its …
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 9, 2007 – 1:12 pm
all about jin xing
Whenever I’d be hanging out with some group of artists or dancers, sitting around the remnants of dinner and drinking …
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 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 – 6:10 pm
danceminute
I used to be fairly prompt in getting enthusiastic here about new blogs, adding them to the spiraling list to …
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 16, 2007 – 2:52 pm
we were thinking about each other
I returned to Judith Butler last week, beginning a rereading of Gender Trouble and placing Undoing Gender on order at …
July 10, 2007 – 6:43 pm
flyhatched
It was only three years ago but seems … one of those entanglings with a person that are outside of …
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 29, 2007 – 3:28 pm
42a + downtown artspace = ✓
Alison Currie, who has managed to keep me laughing until face and stomach pain despite the absence of my baby, …
June 20, 2007 – 9:45 pm
dance dance dance to the radio
Somehow I’ve found myself devoid of blogging the last couple of months. I suppose that’s what a third birthday does …
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 …
June 4, 2007 – 5:42 pm
choreolab
Alison Croggon said to me, “I like drinking with theatre types, and those whom I drink with are pretty cool …
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 17, 2007 – 3:08 pm
what am i doing?
A friend whom I hadn’t seen for ages – another dancer of course – was offering to teach me some …
May 6, 2007 – 9:19 pm
tense dave
Over the past couple of days I’ve been thinking and talking quite a bit about Chunky Move’s Tense Dave, a …
May 6, 2007 – 12:10 pm
the life of 金星 jin xing
Conversations on contemporary art in China that swung around to dance invariably brought mention of Shanghai choreographer and dancer Jin …
April 28, 2007 – 11:42 am
arrive lah!
Rong Yi in Guangzhou said to me on the first day I arrived, during weeks of monsoonal deluge that it …
April 25, 2007 – 12:10 pm
adelaide again again
The last week or so I’ve been a bit distracted by what was an unexpected and very timely offer to …
April 19, 2007 – 10:47 am
dance for obsessive-compulsives
Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …
April 18, 2007 – 3:23 pm
homeless dance co
In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the …
April 11, 2007 – 7:35 pm
crush – late arriving photos
Certain craziness afoot in my world at the moment that I will neglect to elaborate on now, beyond suggesting airports …
March 31, 2007 – 5:40 pm
sense
A lazy lunch with Bonnie Paskas, one of the dancers in Emily Fernandez’s Sense, on for one more night tonight …
March 27, 2007 – 6:42 pm
sense at 45 downstairs
Bonnie is back from Sydney, tired and exhilarated after the season of Glow, and as I walked through Faulkner Park …
March 22, 2007 – 9:19 pm
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 21, 2007 – 4:57 pm
glow in sydney
Chunky Move’s Glow, one of the performance of year in 2006 (that I managed to miss) is in Sydney opening …
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 18, 2007 – 10:13 pm
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 …
March 15, 2007 – 8:15 pm
i want your dance
Last year Bare Bones came to Melbourne to work with Roz Warby. What was intriguing for me was not the …
March 14, 2007 – 2:54 pm
soft sculpt adelaide
It’s Adelaide Fringe time, so Gypsy Wood is sitting in the Garden of Unearthly Delights, and every dancer in town …
March 12, 2007 – 12:43 pm
doing stuff to me
Though it lingers in the caches of myriad anonymous server farms, I’ve deleted half of francesdath.info for good. My first …
March 11, 2007 – 5:31 pm
lazy sunday cooking eating blogging …
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now …
March 5, 2007 – 4:23 pm
everything that has been said before about dance
Lining the walls of Chunky Move’s foyer are vast placards of performances, and above the sofas, those shows are 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 27, 2007 – 2:24 pm
gala goes to danceweb
I’m not sure if I should blab this everywhere, but I found out yesterday my dear friend and regular partner …
February 6, 2007 – 9:15 pm
pestilence – a crypto-history of the black plague
Amidst all this grant-writing that is seriously damaging my eyes – colours and objects are permanently dimmer and intangible after …
January 29, 2007 – 9:12 pm
another adelaide arrival/departure
As when I arrived in Adelaide, so too was it grey and occasionally seeped in a fine mist for Bonnie, …
January 28, 2007 – 8:05 pm
adelaide stuff
I’m sorry!!! I know we were only just talking in the kitchen a few hours ago and you really, really, …
January 22, 2007 – 3:32 pm
the absinthe club & life-size
Two shows from two of my favourite people in Australia, both of whom I’ve had get naked in the name …
January 21, 2007 – 3:52 pm
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 20, 2007 – 2:25 pm
just dance the shit out of it
It’s something of a renaissance of dance recently, with the quite brilliant So You Think You Can Dance on Sundays, …
January 13, 2007 – 2:46 pm
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 …
January 8, 2007 – 2:10 pm
live @ the soup kitchen
This Friday night, curated by Gavin Clarke and with choreographers including Adam Synott, Alison Currie and of course Gala Moody …
December 21, 2006 – 11:12 am
100 Dessus Dessous
A couple of days ago I spat a blizzard of burning pitch in the direction of various Melbourne journalists and …
November 27, 2006 – 3:27 pm
fuck.dog
Two dancer/choreographers, slightly past emerging and maturing into fine mid-career torpor met for coffee this morning in East St Kilda, …
November 14, 2006 – 3:04 pm
the r, thank you, golden duet
A couple of days ago I caught up with my dear strange friend Ivo Dimchev, who was one of the …
November 13, 2006 – 6:16 pm
leaving adelaide again
One final morning class at Leigh Warren after a tumultuous previous night where I made the mistake of inadequate supplies …
October 23, 2006 – 7:00 pm
crush – some time later
All over the place, disappointment in me for not blogging every day about crush like I have done with every …
October 15, 2006 – 1:51 pm
leaving adelaide
Another 5am trip to the airport and now I am back in Melbourne after almost a month in Adelaide choreographing …
October 12, 2006 – 7:41 am
silence
I’ve been living in the theatre the last week, out in Golden Grove Arts Centre, somewhere I think in North-East …
October 1, 2006 – 9:01 pm
crush – shots against the wall
The first Friday of rehearsal, when we’d only been together for a couple of days we all had a bunch …
September 26, 2006 – 7:47 pm
crush – we have moved somewhere else
Today was our first day at the Wonderland Ballroom, a rococo art deco streamlined parquetry dancehall that is now the …
September 24, 2006 – 7:50 pm
crush – something about adelaide
We are rehearsing in a quite splendid Art Deco building, formerly a cinema now a black-box theatre somewhere on the …
September 22, 2006 – 5:46 pm
adt – held
Last night I finally got to see one of the several dance companies in Australia I’ve not yet seen. Either …
September 15, 2006 – 8:43 am
miscellaneous rubbish for a friday
Martha Graham. Evil despot of the Modern Dance universe. Shame she didn’t die sooner. The ImpulsTanz email hidden; JavaScript is …
July 14, 2006 – 7:09 pm
war and sport take centre stage
While having coffee with one choreographer who knows firsthand the House of Un-American Activities Commission blacklist trials that is Australian …
July 6, 2006 – 1:35 pm
a knife in the guts for danceworks
While I was wandering in my lederhosen across the alps of western Yunnan, Arts Victoria announced they would not be …
May 20, 2006 – 10:36 pm
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 …
April 23, 2006 – 8:15 pm
第三届广东现代舞周 3rd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival
Last year I was less than flattering about the dance I saw at the 第二届广东现代舞周 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, …
March 26, 2006 – 11:33 pm
金星 jin xing and shanghai dance festival
Something I’ve been meaning to write about for a bit, but I am lazy and prefer sleeping, is the 舞上海 …
March 9, 2006 – 5:19 pm
choreolab 2006
Things have been fairly mental the last week with everyone wanting applications for everything… I think I said that before… …
February 12, 2006 – 11:11 am
anna tenta & copernicus
Anna Tenta is back in Zürich for another performance at Tanzhaus Wasserwerk. She was working on this solo when I …
February 9, 2006 – 9:59 am
…NOW SWIM!
Jurij has been teaching some of the best classes I’ve done in Melbourne in years – not that I know …
February 9, 2006 – 9:31 am
PUBLIC=UN+PUBLIC
Jo Lloyd, who went to Japan to hang out with nibrol on an Asialink Performing Arts Residency last year is …
October 2, 2005 – 9:34 pm
scraping tai-gu off the wheel
It must be the time for old things to be revisited, and as always through whatever is going on around …
September 4, 2005 – 1:39 am
《迷狂之梦天》 journey of the unrestrained
For annyone in or near Guangzhou this weekend, the Guangdong Modern Dance Company is performing in the company Small Theatre …
August 5, 2005 – 3:51 am
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 30, 2005 – 8:31 pm
australian dance awards 2005
Vote for me!. Nah, vote for the only person to do anything meaningful in choreography in Australia in the last …
June 28, 2005 – 8:22 am
hell is coming
I’ve just been informed that the very nice Arts Victoria have once again decided throwing money at me to make …
June 6, 2005 – 3:31 pm
bitches rocks hard
It went so well. bitches rocked out. Even the florescent lights coming on half way through didn’t shake it. An …
June 4, 2005 – 2:00 pm
bitches in rehearsal
Around lunchtime while waiting for the dirt samples to arrive, when the humidity and heat was excerable, I was asked, …
June 1, 2005 – 4:45 pm
dance sucker dance
It’s the start of summer, so that means every town and its dog has a dance festival for the next …
May 31, 2005 – 9:58 pm
bitches part III
It’s production week, or whatever else it can be called, so I’m going to be vanishing into production week limbo …
May 29, 2005 – 5:02 pm
bitches part II
Bitches is a week off and I should really be getting the costumes today, but mainland China has this problem… …
May 26, 2005 – 7:17 pm
expressions at guangdong modern dance festival
The dance festival here has been over for a couple of weeks, and other things are happening across the town, …
May 24, 2005 – 6:49 pm
folding fiction
Besides an impulse cinema trip to see Star Wars – Revenge of the Sith (which seemed to leave lots of …
May 19, 2005 – 11:34 pm
stranger than fiction
Australia’s only true genius, Phillip Adams has been shacked up in Hong Kong, a mere spit from Guangzhou. He’s been …
May 18, 2005 – 4:22 pm
bitches
I started rehearsals on Monday for the reason why Australia China Council gave me money and why I’m able to …
May 8, 2005 – 8:20 pm
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 – 11:44 pm
contemporary dance must die
A triple bill. Three times the fun. The 2nd Guangzhou Dance Festival is almost over, and Thursday night it was …
February 22, 2005 – 4:48 pm
i to eye
Lia Hakari, 2003 DanceWEBber is performing her solo, i-to-eye at the Cyprus Dance Platform on the 5th March. i-to-eye
February 20, 2005 – 11:05 pm
香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards
The seventh annual 香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards were held on February 1st with performances by Hong Kong Dance Company …
February 20, 2005 – 10:56 pm
jo lloyd – high maintenance
From the best choreographer and dancer in Australia (I am biased and I accept bribes) Jo Lloyd has her lates …
January 19, 2005 – 6:09 pm
广东现代舞团 – Guangdong Modern Dance Company Performs
This weekend, the amazing 广东现代舞团 – Guangdong Modern Dance Company will present a season of new short works by the …
December 30, 2004 – 11:47 pm
shen wei at sydney opera house
The Sydney Festival opens in a couple of weeks, premiering Kate Champion’s Already Elsewhere and Shen Wei Dance Arts, the …
November 29, 2004 – 3:17 pm
that four-letter word…
And half a world away in glorious San Francisco, LEVYdance are about to start a season at ODC Theatre having …
November 29, 2004 – 3:07 pm
i want to dance better at parties
Gid is at it again. Not content with ballet for a contemporary democracy, now he wants to go sick outside …
October 11, 2004 – 6:20 pm
extermination review in realtime
Jonathan Marshall has reviewed extermination along with Phillip Adams’ and Becky Hilton’s Fiction and Non-Fiction in the October edition of …
October 4, 2004 – 6:40 pm
dancing until the sky clears up
The 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company is currently on tour in Europe, performing several dates in Nederlands and Belgium with …
September 25, 2004 – 7:17 pm
i-dance festival
Currently in the middle of their 25th anniversary celebrations, CCDC has also just been involved in the first independent dance …
September 23, 2004 – 10:05 pm
城市當代舞蹈團 ccdc – silver rain
城市當代舞蹈團CCDC in Hong Kong is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, and tonight is performing Silver Rain at the Hong Kong …
September 20, 2004 – 11:18 pm
extermination 4
Here are some of the almost 300 photographs from the filming of extermination, from ace of spades and goya – …
September 18, 2004 – 6:11 pm
雲門舞集 Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
雲門舞集 Cloud Gate Dance Theatre is about to open its autumn season in Taipei with new works by Wu Kuo-chu …
September 10, 2004 – 10:49 pm
金星 上海探戈 jin xing – shanghai tango
Shanghai choreographer and superstar 金星 Jin Xing’s dance performance 上海探戈 Shanghai Tango is being performed in Shanghai next weekend. The …
September 8, 2004 – 12:15 am
cairo’s modern dance festival
Walid Aouni, the founder of Cairo Opera’s Modern Dance Theatre has just finished the fifth Festival of Modern Dance, which …
August 29, 2004 – 7:46 pm
balletlab – fiction
I went and saw Phillip Adams’ BalletLab season of Fiction last night, two works by Phillip and Becky Hilton at …
August 18, 2004 – 4:34 pm
extermination 3
Besides some beligerent contact with the Australian Family Association extermination didn’t get many inches in the dead-tree press. Hillary Crampton …
August 17, 2004 – 8:40 pm
extermination 2
For the last two weeks I’ve been locked in Dancehouse for extermination. We performed 8 shows over that time and …
August 1, 2004 – 1:54 pm
dance and music at sleepywood
Yesterday at Sleepywood Bar – 枕木酒吧in Guangzhou, dancers from the 广东现代舞团Guangdong Modern Dance Company and musicians from the Orchestra got …
July 31, 2004 – 9:42 pm
北京现代舞团 beijing modern dance company – 《逆光》- rear light
北京现代舞团 – beijing modern dance company, one of the three or four contemporary dance companies in mainland China is getting …
July 24, 2004 – 1:17 am
extermination
I’ve been rehearsing my new work for the last two weeks, extermination, which opens on August 5th at Dancehouse extermination …
July 18, 2004 – 5:51 pm
amanda in taiwan 2
Amanda Phillips is currently in Taiwan working with Cloudgate2 as the first Australian to be invited to the Young Choreographers …
June 30, 2004 – 5:33 pm
amanda in taiwan
Adelaide choreographer Amanda Phillips has just left for Taiwan, where she’ll be making a new work on Cloudgate2 for the …
June 29, 2004 – 8:05 pm
Antes Que Anocheza
Martin Inthamoussu is another of the gang I met in Vienna last year. He’s been doing stuff all over, from …
June 28, 2004 – 10:29 pm
shen wei and ADF
Shen Wei arrived in the US in 1995 from the Guangdong Modern Dance Company. Nine years later, he has his …
June 27, 2004 – 3:55 pm
jo lloyd – cherry picking
Jo Lloyd, superstar dancer around town, and number 1 choreographer to boot is having a workshop showing of her new …
June 22, 2004 – 12:49 pm
PACT Zollverein – impact 04
PACT Zollverein in Essen, Germany have just announced their programme for this year’s Impact symposium in November, this year two …
June 4, 2004 – 9:24 pm
Festival Local
The Festival Local et régional de créations choréographiques 2004 is on at the moment at Théàtre de l’Usine in Geneva. …
May 31, 2004 – 8:13 pm
广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company at Venice Biennale
The 广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company will be performing for the first time in Venice this month at la biennale …
May 22, 2004 – 9:34 pm
光環舞集舞蹈團 Taipei Dance Circle 20th Anniversary
Next week the 光環舞集舞蹈團 Guanghuan Wuji Wudao Tuan – Taipei Dance Circle will begin a retrospective of 20 years work …
May 17, 2004 – 1:10 pm
Dance Rebooted Conference
Deakin University in Melbourne is hosting the dance research conference Dance Rebooted – Initialising the Grid from July 01 – …
May 8, 2004 – 4:30 am
跳格 Tiaoge – Jumping Frames
跳格Tiaoge Jumping Frames, the Hong Kong Dance Video project between 城市當代舞蹈團 – chengshi dangdai wudao tuan CCDC and Videotage is …
April 28, 2004 – 7:15 pm
首届广东现代舞蹈周 1st Guangdong Contemporary Dance Festival
广州 Guangzhou is becoming the festival capital of China, and home to more dance per square meter than any other …
April 20, 2004 – 2:04 am
One Table N Chairs – the Five Senses of Chinese Opera
Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company are presenting their new work, One Table N Chairs – the Five Senses of …
April 17, 2004 – 7:58 pm
别 爱 人 bie ai ren – Photos
广东实验现代舞团 Guangdong Shiyan Xiandai Wu Tuan – Guangdong Modern Dance Company choreographer 龙云娜 Long Yunna has sent me photos of …
April 8, 2004 – 2:06 pm
别 爱 人 bie ai ren – 3 human basics
别爱人 bie ai ren is the new contemporary dance work by the internationally renowned Guangzhou-based Guangdong Modern Dance Company. Bie …