This is a very short reminder that Dasniya Sommer will in Brussels in July for her Yoga and Bondage, and …
June 18, 2011 – 12:34 pm
200 years of Liszt and some pianos
There is a piano restorer in Uferhallen. Once a week or so the forecourt fills with many cars not from …
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 16, 2011 – 7:41 pm
Nein! Nein! Nicht die Wunde ist es.
I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …
May 12, 2011 – 8:16 pm
parsifal in film
I arrive in Brussels this morning, curiously with Anuschka sitting next to me the whole way. We stay up the …
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!
April 6, 2011 – 4:29 pm
reading: vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment: intellectuals and the legacy of the may fourth movement of 1919
vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment
April 6, 2011 – 4:26 pm
Reading: Paul Hockenos – Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic
paul hockenos – joschka fischer
March 26, 2011 – 10:28 am
something wicked this way comes
Yesterday, an arrival. Three years, eight months ago, I took a photo. I wrote also, “I have this strange compulsion …
March 24, 2011 – 2:52 pm
stuttgart calixto bieito parsifal (+ andrew)
It seems the nature of seeing a performance in another city also involves lengthy missed trains on the return for …
March 19, 2011 – 10:25 pm
die singende stadt — parsifal and calixto bieito
The last day screening, Dasniya and I climbed the stairs of Hackesche Höfe Kino for 90 more minutes of the …
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 25, 2011 – 12:08 am
Reading: Laurence Dreyfus: Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
Laurence Dreyfus: Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
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 26, 2010 – 10:54 am
parc forest winter
A dusk walk in the leafless forest. parc forest – 1 parc forest – 2 parc forest – 3 parc …
December 24, 2010 – 11:36 am
Reading: Howard Barker – Death, The One and the Art of Theatre
howard barker – death, the one and the art of theatre
December 21, 2010 – 3:54 am
Paul Emmanuel – Fleece Paintings
Paul Emmanuel, whom I met in Taipei ages ago, has an exhibition opening in a couple of weeks. Farms, sheep, …
December 18, 2010 – 4:07 am
Reading: Reza Negarestani – Cyclonopedia
reza negarestani – cyclonopedia
December 11, 2010 – 4:58 am
uferstrasse snow
It’s not the Gulf Stream collapsing. It’s not going to be the coldest winter in 1000 years. The North Atlantic …
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 27, 2010 – 11:40 am
Reading: Edward Allworth (ed.) – Central Asia – 120 Years of Russian Rule
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November 27, 2010 – 11:13 am
blacker…
China Miéville’s rejectamentalist manifesto has been one of my favourite daily-ish reads since I stumbled into it after wondering where …
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 20, 2010 – 1:28 am
Zwei Bäume weniger in Berlin nur Baustellen und Bagger und brave Bürger..
zwei bäume weniger – 1 zwei bäume weniger – 2 zwei bäume weniger – 3 zwei bäume weniger – 4 …
October 19, 2010 – 1:09 am
Uferstrasse Trees
A few months ago various people in Uferstrasse got together to save some trees that were to be felled in …
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 16, 2010 – 7:30 am
“Reading: … ” Book of the Year (Fiction): China Miéville – Kraken
china miéville – kraken
October 16, 2010 – 7:27 am
“Reading: … ” Book of the Year (Non-Fiction): Jonathan Safran Foer – Eating Animals
jonathan safran foer – eating animals
October 16, 2010 – 4:35 am
Reading… a 3rd anniversary
Regarding the two-score books of the last year, it is surprising which of the non-fiction – a term I use …
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 …
October 9, 2010 – 3:31 am
Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波
Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this …
October 4, 2010 – 5:07 am
Reading: Nazif Shahrani – The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan
nazif shahrani – the kirghiz and wakhi of afghanistan
October 4, 2010 – 5:02 am
Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
peter hopkins – foreign devils on the silk road
October 4, 2010 – 5:01 am
Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Trespassers on the Roof of the World
peter hopkins – trespassers on the roof of the world
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 …
September 12, 2010 – 1:23 am
(Some) Stuff I Read This Week
For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …
September 11, 2010 – 8:50 am
müggelsee by boat and foot
Today rising somewhat early and then via S-Bahn (und zwei abgefickte neo-faschisten), Ostkreuz, S-Bahn again to Friedrichshagen, a town outside …
September 7, 2010 – 12:18 am
Reading: China Miéville – The City & the City
chine miéville – the city & the city
September 5, 2010 – 4:24 am
germany is (slightly) embarrassing itself
Reading signandsight’s From the Feuilletons this week… it’s been dead in my feed for some time, but returned with excellent …
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 12, 2010 – 9:39 am
Werner Bab
One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …
August 10, 2010 – 1:30 am
reading: jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
August 9, 2010 – 2:49 am
reading: jonathan safran foer – eating animals
jonathan safran foer – eating animals
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 …
August 2, 2010 – 12:02 pm
lainzer tiergarten
I took off away from the city yesterday, as I’d been planning since before I arrived, remembering wandering in the …
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 18, 2010 – 11:58 am
Reading: Charles Stross – The Fuller Memorandum
charles stross – the fuller memorandum
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 …
July 8, 2010 – 5:31 am
on science and ethics
Many of you who read my blog or know me personally know I am a bit of a lush for …
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 …
June 17, 2010 – 3:57 pm
reading: charles stross – the revolution business
charles stross – the revolution business
June 16, 2010 – 3:56 pm
reading: charles stross – the merchants’ war
charles stross – the merchants’ war
June 8, 2010 – 1:16 am
late spring painting of leaves for arrival of summer
He carries a large white bucket and three different brushes, two delicate tied on to poles, one short and fat. …
June 3, 2010 – 1:18 am
there is a chimney on the other side…
… but not so much sun this spring. A view from my window in Wedding, over the BVG workshops, now …
May 30, 2010 – 1:41 pm
reading: charles stross – the clan corporate
charles stross – the clan corporate
May 26, 2010 – 1:37 pm
reading: charles stross – the hidden family
charles stross – the hidden family
May 18, 2010 – 4:10 am
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem
May 16, 2010 – 4:04 am
reading: charles stross – the family trade
reading: charles stross – the family trade
May 11, 2010 – 12:54 pm
bechdel’s law
A couple of days ago I was reading Thus Spake Zuska, one of the many science blogs I consume most …
May 9, 2010 – 11:08 am
reading: juan cole – engaging the muslim world
juan cole – engaging the muslim world
May 9, 2010 – 5:13 am
art sunday
Some rather nice art has fallen my way recently, falling around something that might become abjection. Of course it induces …
May 6, 2010 – 7:37 am
brussels train
A week in Brussels. Much reading, three new books, two finished. Much cooking also, Hans, Aunschka, Paea whom I’ve not …
May 3, 2010 – 2:45 pm
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
May 1, 2010 – 10:09 am
reading: charles stross – saturn’s children
charles stross – saturn’s children
May 1, 2010 – 3:37 am
I am a Muslim
Coming to Berlin caused my attention to drift to a small part of my life I know little about, and …
April 19, 2010 – 12:23 pm
ick bin sechs jahre alt (und na logo habe ich vergessen)
Ja, naturlich, immer ein weniger mehr und immer bisschen spät. Habe Ich heute mit Katrin geplaudert, und dann mir ging …
April 9, 2010 – 1:50 pm
london – a proof
Why are you photographing busses in Picadilly Circus? To prove I was here. … and that I was a tourist. …
April 7, 2010 – 3:56 am
absence
Not much blogging the last months and I feel shame. Though I have excuses. Firstly, the intermittent trackpad/keyboard freezing problem …
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 …
March 15, 2010 – 12:38 am
reading: iain m. banks – consider phlebas (second time)
iain m. banks – consider phlebas
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 7, 2010 – 10:33 am
Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor
January 7, 2010 – 10:30 am
Reading: Iris Chang – The Rape of Nanking
iris chang – the rape of nanking
January 5, 2010 – 12:49 pm
i’d dance on your grave but i’ll piss on it instead
It’s not often I’m taken with glee to read of the death of someone. During the years I’ve blogged, many …
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 22, 2009 – 2:21 am
solstice
Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. Darkness …
November 3, 2009 – 12:58 pm
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
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 11, 2009 – 1:43 pm
Ath
An adventure yesterday, south-west of Bruxelles for around 30 minutes. A train with Gala, past a town called Silly. No, …
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 – 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 …
October 4, 2009 – 2:50 am
i have a futon
The last time I saw my futon was, I think, early last year when I temporarily removed from storage all …
September 26, 2009 – 9:50 am
reading: j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
j.g. ballard – empire of the sun
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 5, 2009 – 2:55 am
leaving the brauerei
For the last nine months, I’ve been living in a beautiful, isolated small apartment, by virtue of being on a …
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 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 5, 2009 – 1:53 pm
a chronology of burnt-out corpses
Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …
July 19, 2009 – 4:18 am
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
June 16, 2009 – 3:48 am
Reading: Alexandra Richie – Faust’s Metropolis – A History of Berlin
alexandra richie – faust’s metropolis
May 27, 2009 – 1:10 am
Reading: Barry Cunliffe – Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000
europe between the oceans – barry cunliffe
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 …
May 14, 2008 – 11:59 am
Reading: R.H.C. Davis – A History of Medieval Europe
a history of medieval europe
June 25, 2007 – 4:22 pm
häxan
Friday teaching improvisation at ADT, and I decide the appropriate soundtrack is sunn0))), Gabrielle is there, and normally I have …
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 …
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 …
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 16, 2006 – 9:36 pm
sunn0))) and children killers
Feeling a little grim yesterday, I went shopping for what I hoped would be something cheerful, like a Bathory or …
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 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 …
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… …
January 31, 2006 – 2:23 pm
nam june paik
A couple of years ago, my film-maker pirate friend Paul showed me a nth-copy video of the most trippy dance …
January 4, 2006 – 5:58 pm
siwic 2006
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than six months, you’ll know in June last year I did the …
November 18, 2005 – 5:57 pm
straight outta z-town
Two months ago, by an odd set of circumstances, I schlepped out to the Zürich Flughaven to pick up video …
October 26, 2005 – 5:25 pm
dana euro-trash
mmm … eurovision … it celebrated 50 years of costume and aural genius on the weekend, and some crap foursome …
October 25, 2005 – 5:54 pm
i blog for … ummm … stuff …
Losing seriously in a game of charades last night when I displayed my absolute out-of-date-ness by failing to guess ‘computer+writer=blog’, …
October 12, 2005 – 3:30 am
slow boat to psychedelia
Writing abusive diatribes against a certain cretinous moron from a respectable Zürich newspaper who has built a reputation on vandalising …
October 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 – 1:44 am
architecture for dictators
Periodically Domus deals with architecture in Asia that goes beyond the mind-numbing childishness of Shanghai=good!!! and manages to make the …
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 1, 2005 – 5:42 am
sadomania
One of my all-time favourite directors, and I say this with utter seriousness, because people usually laugh at me when …
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 19, 2005 – 5:26 am
slim pickings at supernaut
Yeah, I know four days of posting in half a month constitutes a new zenith in blogging atrophy for me. …
August 14, 2005 – 9:46 pm
eurodisney.cn
Emile thinks he’s being pretty bloody clever. EURODISNEY.CN. Oh ha ha. I told him to expect a visit from scabrous …
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 29, 2005 – 7:49 pm
ImPulsTanz – la vie viennoise
SiWiC may be over except in our sentimental imaginations, but DanceWEB and ImPulsTanz (gotta love this central European blizzard of …
July 27, 2005 – 7:06 pm
siwic – provokant und ausdrucksstark
For the media whores who like to see their own name in the press again and again and again, or …
July 20, 2005 – 7:27 pm
siwic – are we famous yet?
There were some people with cameras and others asking questions and taking notes who weren’t considering charging us with several …
July 18, 2005 – 7:36 am
siwic day 16 – how to win friends and influence people
After a most refreshing dawn swim by mostly naked, mostly quite trashed dancers in a river with a moderately swift …
July 17, 2005 – 7:28 am
siwic day 15 – sun exclusive: nigel charnock pashed me
It’s Monday now, and really I haven’t been home since Saturday morning, which is maybe not indicative of an average …
July 16, 2005 – 7:01 am
siwic day 14 – hope i die because of it
Yes, I am hungover. What is more important than any performance is what you do after, which usually involves stripping …
July 15, 2005 – 7:14 am
siwic day 13 – sex inspires wanking in choreography
So we ran the dog last night. Maybe should have taken it outside and introduced it to a shotgun. The …
July 14, 2005 – 7:42 am
siwic day 12 – “once i was afraid”
Martin said this was the last day. There are no more tasks, no more games of torture to play at …
July 13, 2005 – 7:40 am
siwic day 11 – all the people i can remember sleeping with and the drugs i took
It’s the last full day of tasks. Tomorrow we start trying to resuscitate one and an half weeks of self-indulgent …
July 12, 2005 – 7:55 am
siwic day 10 – you can sleep when you’re dead
I’m not gonna say much about Saturday night now that various :cough: choreographers from SiWiC – who shall remain unnamed …
July 10, 2005 – 3:51 am
siwic day 9 – ow it stingsss…
We’ve been working nine days straight, it’s been a scream, lots of dancing, lots of fun stuff, lots of excellent …
July 9, 2005 – 3:27 am
siwic day 8 – happy birthday martin
That’s right. Boy wonder, debonaire fashion styliste, over-acheiver, and too fucking young. Martin turned 27 today, so naturally I had …
July 8, 2005 – 3:01 am
siwic day 7 – war of the worlds
After yesterday’s frustrating ‘work with someone else’ circus which underlined what a megalomaniac attention-seeker I am, today was hours of …
July 7, 2005 – 4:49 pm
siwic day 6 – frostbite
This was a day I didn’t enjoy. A task that sucked, having to work with another choreographer, many additional requirements …
July 6, 2005 – 7:44 am
siwic day 5 – lesbian vampires on smack
I had this idea I wanted to recreate the rape scene from Irreversible. Then I watched it. It’s not often …
July 5, 2005 – 6:05 am
siwic day 4 – killing dancers is fun
It started for real today. No more lazy 11am rolling into the studio feeling kinda lazy, no early finishes, and …
July 4, 2005 – 4:41 am
siwic day 3 – quantum physics & synchronised swimming
Another late start today, and not much in the way of dancing, only a 3 hour lecture on Quantum Physics …
July 3, 2005 – 5:34 am
siwic day 2 – 6 little choreographers
There is something very civilised about starting class at 11am. Even if it is a Saturday, it’s lazy, depraved in …
July 2, 2005 – 6:29 am
siwic day 1 – arriving in zurich & art sluts
For the next three weeks, I am in Zurich at SiWiC – the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in Choreographie. I’m not …
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 – 2:05 am
slumming it in vevey
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …
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 …
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 5, 2005 – 3:50 pm
Sonar 2005
When I was at a very impressionable age my downward spiral away from god and into the arms of hedonism …
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 14, 2005 – 11:18 pm
Art is fanaticism that demands diplomacy.
Back in the early 90s, Laibach stomped around in pseudo-facist uniforms, banged drums with fanatic zeal and blonde hair like …
April 2, 2005 – 4:34 pm
the age of the grotesque
Another day of reading magazines at The Wall in East St Kilda, and one of the best images of the …
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 – 5:23 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 – 1:40 pm
blast theory tokyo – can you see me now?
British augmented-reality performance artists Blast Theory were in Japan last week for six days ofCan You See Me Now? on …
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 – 11:15 pm
harisu at the berlin film festival
The Hong Kong Gay and Lesbian Film Festival came and went last month and I didn’t even notice. oops. But …
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 – 10:10 pm
cut-up #6
cut-up the art of living in a medialised landscape issue number 6 is online now. For those of you who …
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 …
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 …
July 19, 2004 – 10:35 pm
the heart is deceitful above all things
JT Leroy I started reading in Toronto early last year, somewhere between William Burroughs early novels, the bleakness of James …
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 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 …
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 4, 2004 – 12:38 am
Something about Miriam
In which a bunch of blokes vie for the attention of a beautiful woman and find they’ve seudced a transsexual, …
April 29, 2004 – 1:17 pm
ID Sniper debuts at China Police weapons fair
In June 2002, Jacob S. Boeskov, the CEO of Empire North, a young Danish Hi-Tech weapons company travelled to Beijing …
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 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 …