新年快乐!— Hoping the trains run on time

It’s 春節! Time to eat Jiaozi and other yummy street food (mmm… luobogao!) and sit on a train for 24 …

Kirschblütenfest in den Asiatischen Gärten

Journeying far east to Erholungspark Marzhan and the Gärten der Welt for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Much apartment-stack architecture reminding …

some days in london … part one

Arriving late. Dasniya and I caught the ring S-Bahn to Flughaven Schönefeld certainly one of the most dreary airports belonging …

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 …

vienna…

I’m going to Vienna. eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I got an email this afternoon saying I’ve been accepted for the Choreographers’ Venture with …

just filling in

Gala is in Melbourne, so is quite a few of Adelaide people. See her show starting next week in the …

ikochi vs dreadcircus

Feast Festival is on in Adelaide and like, wow I have seen nothing… But I am not going to miss …

中秋节快乐!!!

mmmm … mooncakes … green tea mooncake with one yolk hong kong elegant flavour

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 …

100 Dessus Dessous

A couple of days ago I spat a blizzard of burning pitch in the direction of various Melbourne journalists and …

it’s all about the money

Slagging match of the week goes to Melbourne Festival vs. The Media, wherein Robin Usher tries to sound a rhetorical …

中秋节快乐

I’ve been lucky enough to have had a couple of Mid-Autumn Festivals in Guangzhou, and yeah it’s a bit late, …

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, …

transmediale 06 talking about china

In December last year, Martijn de Waal contacted me about as part of the Chinese Mediaculture project. It was a …

festival internacional danza

Martin said, “I am going crazy with my festival here. I attach the flyer. It is the best dance festival …

大山子 798 fringe arts festival

大山子or 798 Arts District in Beijing is holding its first Biennale to coincide with the Beijing Arts Festival. Wiki has …

this is my space and it’s highly embarrassing

Back in Vevey for a couple of days. Zurich was getting boring without anyone to cause trouble with. They all …

burp …

Heading back to Taipei tomorrow after a week of eating. Posting will occur like a Chinese fireworks inferno some time …

6 years of documentaries

Last month Taipei had the hype of 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival and the much less hyped 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International …

第三现场 – 第二届新年国际音乐节 live home 3

After a couple of months of silence and a website announcing the days of 第三现场 Live Home 3 were over, …

the white diamond

Werner Herzog’s new film opened the 台灣國際紀錄片雙年展 Taiwan International Documentary Festival on Saturday. Last night under clouds that threatened rain …

台北金馬影展 golden horse film fest awards

The best film award in the 台北金馬影展 Golden Horse Film Festival has gone to a mainland China film portraying life …

me at 新樂園藝術空間 sly art studio

Next Saturday at 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studo is the opening of the 2nd New Field Art Festival. Along with Thierry …

UBU and TRSIMF

One festival finishes, another begins. Last night was the final of three ear-splitting nights of some of the best rock …

硬地音樂展都會嘉年華 UBU 2004

Last night was the start of the UBU 2004 Music Festival, around the corner from the lawn party 華山創意文化園區 Huashan …

ned in taipei

Last night was the opening of the 2004 Australian Film Festival in Taipei down at the Leofoo Cineplex put together …

i hope someday you will join

The 迷笛现代音乐节 Midi Music Festival is on again in Beijing until today, which is probably the best festival in China …

i-dance festival

Currently in the middle of their 25th anniversary celebrations, CCDC has also just been involved in the first independent dance …

seni in singapore

SENI 2004, Singapore’s international visual arts festival opens at the end of the month, and will be a good excuse …

nude dancers = happy dead

The Straits Times has a piece on why the Hungry Ghost Festival in Taiwan is keeping the ghosts very happy …

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 …

comrades at trainspotting

This weekend at trainspotting in Beijing, there’s a mini-festival of queer films from China. If the sight of two men …

arabesque

Performing contemporary dance on the plains of Mongolia, with the audience coming to watch with their yurts, and slaughtering a …

sonar at schleswig-holstein musik festival

sonarsound is returing for the third consecutive year to the schleswig-holstein musik festival from July 16. The festival, which this …

korean queer culture festival

The 2004 Korea Queer Culture Festival was held in Seoul last month, along with the queer film festival, which received …

台北雙年展 Taipei Biennale

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum has announced that Amy Cheng Huei-hua (Taiwan) and Barbara M.R. Vanderlinden (Belgium) will be curating …

thailand new media arts festival 2004

In March this year Srinakarinwirot University, Bangkok hosted the Thailand New Media Arts Festival 2004, curated by Francis Wittenberger. Isabel …

广州声纳 sounding guangzhou

The 广东要是现代无团 Guangdong Modern Dance Company is host this weekend to Sounding Guangzhou, International Electronic Art Symposium. The symposium is …

Maggie Cheung Best Actress at Cannes

张曼玉 Maggie Cheung has won best actress award at Cannes for her role in French film Clean, directed by Olivier …

Unpopular Culture

Next Wave Festival 2004 opens in Melbourne tomorrow (with a big party at Federation Square) until the end of May, …

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 …

大山子艺术节 Dashanzi Yishu Jie – Dashanzi Art Festival at 798 Group Factories

Beijing is becoming the home of avant-garde art in China according to several newspapers which ran the article on 798 …

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 …

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