This is a very short reminder that Dasniya Sommer will in Brussels in July for her Yoga and Bondage, and …
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 …
May 1, 2011 – 11:44 am
temperance 16mm film
With all the adding of video and making newness on francesdath.info, I started looking at the footage of temperance again. …
April 25, 2011 – 6:55 pm
multilingual goat witch
I’ve been adding video to francesdath.info the past few days, and also felt a compulsion to make the site multilingual …
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 …
April 12, 2011 – 12:05 pm
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!
March 19, 2011 – 3:11 pm
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 – 5:08 pm
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 – 7:19 pm
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 – 6:51 pm
us alone tied
The day before the last performance, we arranged to spend some time on the stage working on some suspensions and …
February 18, 2011 – 2:51 pm
parsipress? pressifal?
More? More! Continuing on from when Castellucci was a criminal … Words and Pictures!. I was planning on making an …
February 7, 2011 – 2:17 pm
castellucci is a criminal
After the fourth performance, an emotionally tough night for us, we stand outside the stage door. A woman in beret, …
January 27, 2011 – 12:35 am
parsifotos
Once we got into the theatre to rehearse, I decided to not show all the photos, and wait until Parsifal …
January 23, 2011 – 8:50 pm
a day off and still in la monnaie
I am writing out of order. We thought to go to Gare du Midi markets around lunchtime, giving us a …
January 1, 2011 – 4:47 pm
miscellanea surrounding friday evening
Did I say we tried the second scene mostly naked with much whiteness? Comes off with soapy showering. That was …
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, …
October 10, 2010 – 1:36 pm
uferhallen – autumn
A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …
September 17, 2010 – 4:34 am
zwei jahre aufenthaltstitel
Not much writing here lately, being distracted with a couple of large design projects and miscellaneous other things (mostly involving …
August 25, 2010 – 1:33 am
hips hip knee knee
Somehow my hip has decided to fall apart. And my knee. Boring not to be able to dance, ride, yoga, …
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
August 9, 2010 – 2:30 am
opening … and so on
We opened. Friday. Yes, is now Monday and half-way through. Two shows a day in Café Prückel, and so I …
August 5, 2010 – 7:42 am
afterhours in café prückel
Late into last night under Café Prückel, something of a tech rehearsal then beer and waiting while the sound crew …
August 5, 2010 – 7:09 am
café prückel
We open tomorrow in Café Prückel… Café Prückel August 06, 15:00+19:00 August 08, 15:00+19:00 August 09, 15:00+19:00 August 10, 15:00+19:00 …
July 30, 2010 – 3:58 am
in café prückel again, above and below
Some pictures from yesterday, in-between writing some notes that may become my script. café prückel hans writing the drinking scene …
July 28, 2010 – 11:24 am
rehearsing in café prückel
Today in Café Prückel, in the cellar, in the theatre. Filming some of the performance and performing some of it …
July 26, 2010 – 1:29 pm
rehearsing in the schauspielhaus
A long day finally with everyone together working through what has been until now individual and separate. Also the arrival …
July 25, 2010 – 9:32 am
sophiensäle wien
Blogging daily about Café Prückel I think I can say won’t be happening. Much busyness, running around, long days, inability …
July 18, 2010 – 2:36 pm
arriving vienna
Again. Two years since I was last here, this time by plane and a placard with my name on it …
July 10, 2010 – 11:34 am
brussels parc forest and others…
Ten days in Brussels, it passes quickly. Tomorrow returning to my other home. I haven’t written much about being here, …
July 9, 2010 – 4:53 am
a website a video
She of the long red hair, Gabrielle Nankivell has her own website. Witch/Red was one of my favourite pieces in …
June 28, 2010 – 1:54 am
BER – BRU – BER – VIE
Not so much an open secret as something I haven’t got around to writing about here, I depart tomorrow for …
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 21, 2010 – 11:40 am
Shifting Daniel Jaber into WordPress
Daniel Jaber is the second choreographer and dancer I’ve done a website for. Coming from Dasniya Sommer, I was intent …
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 …
February 4, 2010 – 2:15 pm
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 – 2:47 pm
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 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 12, 2010 – 6:11 am
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 …
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. …
December 2, 2009 – 3:31 pm
seile
I bought some rope today. From Fesseltrieb in far east Sonnenallee, biking through a first biting day of winter, clear …
November 2, 2009 – 2:53 pm
bondage basics
More from Dasniya, who shall be teaching a two day workshop in Shibari in November. Certainly one of the highlights …
October 25, 2009 – 7:05 am
orgy of tolerance
To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary. My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the …
October 10, 2009 – 2:45 am
antwerpen
A train to Antwerpen with no ticket despite my attempts to buy one. Thirty minutes in which I think upon …
October 8, 2009 – 3:20 pm
Konstruierte Fantasien / The Construction of Fantasy
From Dasniya, and what I’ve been doing since March this year, being tied, suspended, flying, tying others, playing, something like …
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 …
September 30, 2009 – 2:20 pm
hilary
“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. Nothing, …
September 21, 2009 – 9:24 am
soit – we was them
A good a reason as any to return to Bruxelles, or better than most. The delightful Hans, along with Anuschka, …
September 13, 2009 – 9:27 am
osada steve
A couple of days before I began my current day job, a Thursday evening, having done some fast coding, I …
August 29, 2009 – 11:52 am
som faves
Ivo says, ” you know I was very suspicious about its qualities and I will still be…”. Though not in …
August 28, 2009 – 12:57 pm
night and trees
I saw my darling Ivo perform last night at Halle. Sublimely brilliant and I shall attempt to write something on …
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 – 10:33 am
Yoga im August
Yoga in August for Berlinerinnen, two hours every Sunday and I think you should go. Liebe Augustinischen Yogis, Für jene …
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 …
August 8, 2009 – 11:48 am
häuslichkeit
I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …
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 …
July 28, 2008 – 7:43 pm
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 12)
Sleepy all day, getting up late, nearly lunchtime, slobbing around all afternoon then too quickly i’m almost late and so… …
July 27, 2008 – 9:27 pm
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 11)
We opened. We went to Burgtheater to our tables in front of Casablanca playing and ate potatoes and pasta. And …
July 26, 2008 – 8:21 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 10)
I’ve been meaning to say something about my apartment, I mean to say, where I’m staying. The woman who let …
July 25, 2008 – 4:52 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 9)
I saw Jan Fabre’s Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day. It was unmemorable. Earlier I ate organic crunchy peanut butter and …
July 24, 2008 – 7:05 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)
Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …
July 23, 2008 – 5:36 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 7)
I think a stop to yoga soon, or maybe exchange for snoozing or lying on the floor pretending to warm …
July 22, 2008 – 4:03 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 6)
This being the day of my birth… uh… day, AND!!! my second in Vienna. Excellent!! (AND!!! not getting around to …
July 21, 2008 – 4:37 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 5) (and sunday also)
umm… Supermodels. Catwalks. Shopping lists. Hate. Ambivalence. Whispering. Not whispering loudly enough. Microphones. Costume changes. Love. Happiness. Drugs. Music. This …
July 18, 2008 – 6:30 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 4)
So perhaps I admit I’m going to blog about this most days… Somehow I found myself doing yoga at WUK …
July 17, 2008 – 5:44 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 3)
Today I ate dates and fresh peaches for lunch. And a banana. And had dinner at Der Wiener Deewan, mmm …
July 16, 2008 – 6:05 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 2)
I ate prunes today. I went to find coffee, and found myself with chocolate croissant and mélange in a dainty …
July 15, 2008 – 4:20 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 1)
I am here. Oh back in WUK. Last time at DanceWEB, I lived around the corner with some scores of …
July 14, 2008 – 5:30 am
von berlin hbf nach wien sued
Early rising, 9 hours from Berlin to Vienna, through Czechoslovakia, I’ve never been there before. Now I’ve seen several train …
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 …
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 …
September 9, 2007 – 1:18 am
some pictures i took with my phone
My iPod seems to be dead, and somehow I keep managing to resuscitate my laptop despite in/out errors and loads …
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 …
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 …
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 …
December 20, 2006 – 9:01 am
shift the blame darl…
So many photos to choose from and really only one it could be. Happy birthday Gala, you totally rock my …
December 13, 2006 – 12:44 pm
summer ballet in melbourne
Lately I’ve been dragging my sorry bones across to the ballet barre, something I haven’t done with any regularity since …
December 1, 2006 – 3:24 pm
more on the Small Arts Sector Research Project
A couple of days ago I wrote about the new Small Arts Sector Research Project the Arts Industry Australia (Victoria) …
November 28, 2006 – 7:00 pm
Small Arts Sector Research Project
For all the independent artists around in Melbourne this Friday, the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) has announced this meeting. Please …
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 …
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 30, 2006 – 3:17 pm
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
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 …
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 21, 2006 – 12:38 pm
cyanoacrylate – a dancer’s friend
Like pretty much every dancer I have ever known, in various forms I get split toes. Lately it’s been a …
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 …
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 7, 2006 – 9:26 pm
insanity…
These four days until Sunday night I have pretty much no time to do important stuff like eat chocolate and …
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 25, 2006 – 5:21 pm
special mention
Luke George is inadvertently responsible for something I’m going to start on supernaut in the coming weeks. In the interim, …
August 24, 2006 – 12:16 pm
gypsy wood: ‘most vain’ for class of 2000
Gypsy danced for me in extermination all of two years ago, and has been begging me for a DVD of …
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 6, 2006 – 3:28 pm
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 …
July 28, 2006 – 2:46 pm
创意广州十三行 creative canton
It was slightly unnerving, to be lying there above the swollen and turbulent Pearl River, undercutting the empty, but for …
July 27, 2006 – 2:38 pm
岭南启示录 apocalypse prd – eazy-z in g-town
Along with glad tidings of impending theatrical malfeasance from Emile yesterday, he also had a small package of love for …
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 14, 2006 – 6:29 pm
we are the robot ballet army
Where the drowning tide first flows in the eventual robotic obliteration of humanity seems to be in the most visceral …
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 …
June 29, 2006 – 2:17 am
again again flying …
Tomorrow I’m leaving Guangzhou again. This time flying from the new Baiyun Airport directly to Melbourne, the end of the …
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 22, 2006 – 11:08 am
extermination – soundscape movement fest
Darling Alexis, whom I met in Vienna in 2003 at DanceWEB has been busy in the past few days being …
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 …
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. …
May 7, 2006 – 2:54 am
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – 春宫图 spring palace lust
When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous …
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, …
April 19, 2006 – 5:06 pm
zeroballet becomes francesdath …
… lack of punctuation persists. A couple of weeks ago, I lost zeroballet.info. I’ve had that domain since the dawn …
April 19, 2006 – 1:07 pm
dance.psd – corporeal archives
A couple of things from the world of dance that isn’t performed. One is an essay from The Chronicle Review, …
April 14, 2006 – 1:56 am
apocalypse guangzhou
Paul Emmanuel, Emile Zile and I are having a screening of a bunch of short films of ours on Sunday …
April 8, 2006 – 6:29 pm
a couple of anniversaries i forgot…
I’m really not one for anniversaries, and have even forgotten my birthday a couple of times, but feeling the need …
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… …
March 7, 2006 – 5:47 pm
dancing robot umbrellas = unemployed dancing humans
As if the slime mould robot wasn’t enough to convince both dancers and choreographers in the Contemporary Dance game that …
March 1, 2006 – 6:47 pm
a birthday for gabrielle
Today was saying goodbye to another one of the hell pirates. Gabrielle, who has been schlepping around northern New Zealand …
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 …
February 7, 2006 – 8:11 am
hell – some more photos from paul
More from the meat-locker of Paul Williams’ shoot of hell, and the video is coming soon too. the twelve days …
February 6, 2006 – 7:21 pm
hell – some photos from paul
Paul Williams, who shot the 16mm film of extermination came into watch the dress run and pre-show warm-up run of …
January 30, 2006 – 4:12 pm
hell – apocalypse then
Two days of hell. I can’t really say a lot about it right now, it was insane, mental, fucking terrifying …
January 27, 2006 – 9:46 am
hell day 13 – i found a friend …
Dance Works is nice and cool inside even when outside was something disgusting, so there was no way I was …
January 25, 2006 – 8:11 pm
hell day 12 – … i remember something …
It was just a process of running scenes today, some that hadn’t been let out of their boxes for at …
January 24, 2006 – 8:48 pm
hell day 11 – boticelli unmasked as doré
I had this suspicion all along when I was using these etchings of Dante’s Inferno that they weren’t the ones …
January 24, 2006 – 5:50 pm
everything you always wanted to know about hell …
… but were afraid to ask Jean Baudrillard. One of my enduringly favourite books, that I have somehow permanently connected …
January 21, 2006 – 1:20 pm
hell day 8,9,10 – screaming witch demons etc …
As much as I’ve wanted to write something every day about hell, wanted in some sense has become an obligation, …
January 19, 2006 – 7:43 pm
HELL … 773H
We have only one week to go on the Melbourne development of hell. I think I’ve made something fairly depraved …
January 16, 2006 – 6:48 pm
hell day 7 – shunga meets grindcore
After getting all teary-eyed watching Joe slip into exhaustion-induced halluncinations with a Boney M soundtrack in Touching the Void, it …
January 14, 2006 – 7:52 pm
hell day 6 – the twelve days of sodom
Actually most of my choreographing comes from when I am either insensate while falling asleep or trying to avoid waking …
January 10, 2006 – 10:37 pm
hell day 5 – 貍貓換太子 – Racoon for a Prince
ow. pain. bruise. bits of missing skin. Let’s glamourise the frailty of our bodies when the hit the floor. Digging …
January 9, 2006 – 8:06 pm
hell day 4 – Hell-O)))-Ween
In which after eight hours of throwing ourselves around and at the floor, groping each other, and watching the fake …
January 8, 2006 – 6:19 pm
dancing appliances and fat suits
I know that in the low latency of the internet a month is pretty much another age, but I’ve been …
January 7, 2006 – 9:15 pm
hell day 3 – vampiros lesbos … again
Maybe it’s not proper rehearsal form to spend most of the afternoon talking, but considering how much we have all …
January 5, 2006 – 8:14 pm
hell day 2 – absolutely freak out
We have sore necks. Some nice bruises, a bit of skin missing from the bony bits, and a few nicks …
January 4, 2006 – 7:38 pm
hell day 1 – south of heaven
I am back in hell again. One month of rehearsals started today and the group would make Captain Blood tremble. …
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 …
January 1, 2006 – 2:15 pm
jan fabre – history of tears
Emile got into Melbourne with a present for me, the flier for Jan Fabre’s new Troubelyn production, History of Tears. …
January 1, 2006 – 1:29 pm
錄影太奇 videotage blogging at MAG@V
錄影太奇 Videotage in Hong Kong I know better for 跳格 – JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the annual dance film/video festival that’s part …
November 25, 2005 – 1:34 am
life
It’s been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to …
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 …
October 29, 2005 – 1:09 am
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 – 5:08 pm
human writes
Twice this week I’ve been asked to give wishes, the first a list of fifteen for a magazine, and the …
October 27, 2005 – 5:24 pm
behind the scenes
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln is calling for entries of dance film documentaries for the 2006 Behind the Scenes Festival. The film …
October 27, 2005 – 3:36 pm
festival internacional danza
Martin said, “I am going crazy with my festival here. I attach the flyer. It is the best dance festival …
October 26, 2005 – 5:12 pm
跳格 – Jumping Frames 2006
JUMPING FRAMES@HKDF2006, the Hong Kong Dance Video Festival that is part of the Hong Kong Dance Festival is open for …
October 21, 2005 – 5:32 pm
mercy 45 – the important bits
I was quite drunk. paul richard cornelia emile
October 21, 2005 – 4:57 pm
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 – 5:43 pm
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 – 3:53 am
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 13, 2005 – 3:43 am
body presentations
The Goethe-Institut‘s mailing list has an excellent article on the state of dance and performance in Germany, looking at a …
October 13, 2005 – 3:20 am
russell page fellowship
The annual Russell Page Fellowship for professional dancers in Australia is open for applications. The Russell Page Fellowship was established …
October 12, 2005 – 3:56 am
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 – 3:02 am
origami
Phillip Adams of Ballelab, Australia’s only genius choreographer is presenting a development of origami on October 21st and 22nd at …
October 9, 2005 – 3:14 am
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 – 3:56 am
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 5, 2005 – 3:30 am
australia-china council funds me … again
Well, the title says it all. Here in autumnal Zürich I got an email this evening from the wonderful Australia-China …
October 5, 2005 – 2:22 am
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 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 …
October 2, 2005 – 9:16 pm
all of china at the kennedy centre
There’s a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre …
October 1, 2005 – 11:23 am
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 22, 2005 – 3:25 am
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 13, 2005 – 5:19 am
i m P A C T 05 – Tracing Translation – Symposium
PACT Zollverein have announced a call for participant for i m P A C T 05 – Tracing Translation – …
September 13, 2005 – 3:25 am
shock! surprise! ozco doesn’t fund me for the eleventh time!
Who’d a fucking thought? I mean the odds were seriously in my favour: 11 applications and 0, zero, zero success, …
September 12, 2005 – 12:12 am
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 – 6:50 pm
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 10, 2005 – 6:57 am
It’s Alive!!! quick! kill it with this blunt shovel!
Arts Victoria have pretty much kept me from going off and doing something more rewarding and of greater social worth, …
September 6, 2005 – 4:26 am
hugo wolf projekt
Like I write about everyone from DanceWEB who tells me about their shows, so now I’m going to do the …
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 29, 2005 – 8:24 am
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 – 3:54 am
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 – 5:54 pm
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 14, 2005 – 10:31 pm
zeroballet bitches extermination
After much pissing around, I thought it was time to dump some more narrow-band choking content on the dance side …
August 14, 2005 – 10:16 pm
privatising contemporary dance in guangzhou
There was a huge interview and article in the Weekend Standard last week on Willy Tsao and the 广东现代舞团 Guangdong …
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 …
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 25, 2005 – 10:30 pm
shadetreemechanic at the body festival
In all the rush to get on and do nothing, I forgot completely that my film, shadetreemechanic was screened on …
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 …
July 2, 2005 – 1:16 am
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 – 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 22, 2005 – 8:51 pm
bitches in the press
Bitches got a couple of mentions in the press including one review, which I dunno if they said anything good, …
June 20, 2005 – 2:35 pm
ivo dimchev was here
Serial evil-doer, shaved-head-thug-number-3, blood-selling drag queen performance artist and opera librettist Ivo Dimchev has a web-site. About bloody time. ivo …
June 15, 2005 – 6:12 pm
splash life
Maybe it was last year, or very early this year, when we sat around the outside table at Sleepywood, mesmerised …
June 13, 2005 – 6:54 pm
burn-out
extermination the film was awesome. Expect video on my website sometime soon, and photos here even sooner. Went to Hong …
June 10, 2005 – 2:23 am
extermination at park19
Last year when extermination got performed, we also made a film. It’s been lurking, several rolls of 16mm, slowly going …
June 9, 2005 – 3:16 pm
stm at the body global
My first dance film, shadetreemechanic made by sea-dog Paul Williams and the divine Anna Smallwood and Joanne Collins is going …
June 8, 2005 – 2:34 pm
hot babes ice tea
Not that I wanna be advertising ice tea unless it’s fine Chinese 冰红茶 or 枕木‘s Long Island Ice Tea served …
June 8, 2005 – 1:04 pm
Nadine down the rabbit hole
Dominico used to keep the kitchen at DanceWEB happy by rolling fat blunts and cooking long into the night while …
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 – 11:37 pm
south of the border
I’m heading down to Hong Kong tomorrow for a bunch of stuff, but mainly to see Balletlab’s Phillip Adams’ new …
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 18, 2005 – 3:45 pm
the jerry bel show
Jerome Bel doing a talk-show at the Brussels Art Festival. What better way to spend an evening? The Jerry Bel …
May 11, 2005 – 8:48 pm
juicy flesh
DanceWEBber from 2003, Anna Stellar is performing from tomorrow in Klub Zak, Gdansk, Poland with Katarzyna Chmielewska in Juicy Flesh. …
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 …
May 7, 2005 – 8:36 pm
Yoga in Guangzhou
For residents of Guangzhou who really miss that yoga class you’d go to in the evening or on the weekend, …
May 7, 2005 – 3:24 pm
SoUndScaPe PErformaNcE!
I was just thinking noone seemed to be doing anything and thought I’d had to write even more crap about …
April 30, 2005 – 8:30 pm
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 28, 2005 – 4:35 pm
body movin’
The Boston Cyberarts Festival is the place to be this week and next. Even dance gets a look in, and …
April 27, 2005 – 5:02 pm
Stop Motion
I arrived back in perfect time for the start of the 第二届广东现代舞 – 2nd Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, two weeks …
April 21, 2005 – 6:50 pm
travelling again
I leave for Hong Kong and Guangzhou tomorrow for a couple of months making horrible art before heading over to …
April 19, 2005 – 8:03 pm
shadetreemechanic in The Body Global
I’ve had no internet the last few days, which is a bit like having my kidney removed, leaves me weak …
April 15, 2005 – 7:43 pm
cutting extermination
One of the things I came back to Australia for was the editing of the 16mm film of extermination from …
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 …
March 25, 2005 – 2:28 pm
chinese whispers in adelaide
Amanda Phillips and me are always in the same place, but never at the same time. She was in Zurich …
March 23, 2005 – 3:02 pm
going to zurich
I just found out today I’ll be going to Zurich in July for SiWiC – the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in …
March 14, 2005 – 5:55 pm
virtually richard3
Brisbane-based expressions dance company is about to head off to Guangzhou to join a bunch of other dance companies from …
March 14, 2005 – 5:23 pm
good girl killer
Lots of new work from the former DanceWEB mob this month. Gdansk-based Anna Steller had Good Girl Killer at Klub …
March 14, 2005 – 5:13 pm
Ladies First!
Hungarian choreographer and dancer Marta Ladjanszki is premiering her newest dance theatre piece, Ladies First! in Trafo (Budapest) on the …
March 2, 2005 – 12:13 pm
HA-HA soul stretching exersises
Mad and beautiful genius Ivo Dimtchev has just taken out the Sofia choreography competition, winning two awards – the Jury …
March 1, 2005 – 1:56 pm
compass for fools – jérôme meyer in nederlans and germany
Nederlans choreographer Jérôme Meyer is touring Compass for Fools across Nederlans and Germany during March. Compass for Fools is a …
March 1, 2005 – 10:58 am
Australia China Council funds me
Just when I was thinking of giving it all up, getting a nice easy job (say maybe a showgirl in …
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 …
February 20, 2005 – 10:46 pm
thinking in four dimensions
Professor Shirley Mckechnie one of the centres of the Melbourne and Australia dance scene, along with Robin Groves and Catherine …
February 13, 2005 – 8:22 pm
leaving taiwan
I’m leaving Taiwan tomorrow morning after 3 1/2 months here. It’s been very cool, I like this place alot, and …
February 12, 2005 – 2:14 pm
Rear Light – Beijing Dance at the Joyce
The 北京現代舞團 Beijing Modern Dance Company have been performing Read Light at the Joyce Theatre in New York. The Times …
February 11, 2005 – 5:01 pm
Sarah
More dance going down. This time the other side of the channel in sunny Amsterdam. Nicola Hepp is showing a …
February 11, 2005 – 4:49 pm
Transitions
In a week of shows by friends, another DanceWEBber is getting one up in London. Alicia Herraro Simon, former Kylie …
February 11, 2005 – 4:46 pm
tremplin
Tor Chiu, formerly of Australia, one of the now hundreds of dancers who at one time swung a leg for …
January 28, 2005 – 11:03 pm
going offline
It’s been three months since I walked into this studio at the Taipei Artist Village. It’s been my home for …
January 4, 2005 – 6:33 pm
soundproof
Another former DanceWEB mobster Lia Haraki in Cyprus opens her performance Soundproof at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol next week. …
January 3, 2005 – 4:10 pm
lili handel
Beautiful psychopath, darling madman and very good friend Ivo Dimtchev is at it again in the bowels of Sofia. His …
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 …
December 23, 2004 – 5:33 pm
blush
Terrance Lewis was another one of the DanceWEB mob in Vienna last year, and based in Mumbai is one of …
December 2, 2004 – 1:39 pm
passion no patience
Pei-jen Tsai, who I hung out with in Vienna last year, and missed by a few weeks at the Taipei …
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 …
November 12, 2004 – 7:09 pm
colonel jin xing
The Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club had a screening of Colonel Jin Xing – a unique destiny last night. Jin Xing, …
October 29, 2004 – 7:50 pm
down at the xinghai concert hall
Friday. My last day in Guangzhou. Two weeks of teaching dance at the Guangdong Modern Dance Company School, Yoga at …
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 – 12:35 am
nude dancers = happy dead
The Straits Times has a piece on why the Hungry Ghost Festival in Taiwan is keeping the ghosts very happy …
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 …
September 5, 2004 – 12:30 am
北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy 50th anniversary
The 北京舞蹈学院 Beijing Dance Academy will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary next week, which has attracted little attention, but if …
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 16, 2004 – 6:11 pm
besen funds extermination
I just found out today that the Besen Family Foundation have funded in part my performance and 16mm film extermination …
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 …
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 – 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 …
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 14, 2004 – 11:28 pm
Topologies of the Instant – n+n corsino
N+N Corsino are two French choreographers from Marseille. or one choreographer and one mathematician, who don’t make dance in theatres, …
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 …
May 2, 2004 – 10:48 pm
Pei Jen Tsai at 台北國際藝術村 Taipei Artist Village
Another one of the gang from DanceWEB has just finished her work at the 台北國際藝術村 Taipei Guoji Yishu Cun – …
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 22, 2004 – 10:19 pm
Ivo Dimtchev
Ivo is a god from Sophia, another one of the beautiful people I met at DanceWEB last year. Together we …
April 21, 2004 – 12:44 am
Dance Me Underground
In a day FULL of art, here’s something from the the crazy net-mobsters at rhizome: What do you get when …
April 20, 2004 – 11:38 pm
Jumping Frames
Jumping Frames is the collaboration between Hong kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company and videotage, aiming to bring together people from …
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 …
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 …
April 7, 2004 – 4:14 pm
nobody moves and nobody gets hurt
[edit] I don’t really like this entry, but the authenticist in me can’t bring myself to re-write it… The original …