Earlier in the week, I met Christian crépes at a Belgian café beside the Spree; a first hello since I returned …
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
November 27, 2010 – 11:37 am
Reading: James R. Brandon – Theatre in Southeast Asia
james r. brandon – theatre in southeast asia
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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
July 8, 2009 – 8:00 am
dasniyasommer.de
Because it’s… I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, …
June 28, 2009 – 4:36 am
I left my shoes on warm concrete and stood in the rain
Witch/Red was for me easily one of the best pieces of performance, theatre, dance I saw in all my time …
February 22, 2009 – 9:34 pm
on’s guro fairytales
Oh if only I could make art as good as this. One of those “uuhhh… why didn’t I think of …
February 6, 2009 – 11:35 pm
MA √ 15’ { idiosyncrasy } sin x = ly – fx2¯
The best show I didn’t see this year, oh… I have difficulty with seeing dance, and then occasionally something is …
January 22, 2009 – 4:19 am
a retrospective
Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …
November 10, 2008 – 12:17 am
finishing
This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …
October 19, 2008 – 10:21 pm
lucky trimmer
***DEUTSCH*** Liebe LUCKIES! Gerade als sich draußen alles abkühlt, wird es heiß im LUCKY TRIMMER Büro! Bereitet Euch vor auf …
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 …
June 28, 2008 – 3:25 pm
monadologie – cosmos magazine
The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …
April 1, 2008 – 11:14 am
Witch/Red
This is the month of Adelaide independent choreographers with five developments that I know of and maybe a couple of …
March 26, 2008 – 12:05 pm
the tighter you squeeze
Lina is in Adelaide, working on a development of a new performance, with a showing next Friday. Lucky I’m here …
March 19, 2008 – 6:09 pm
monadologie photos
I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …
February 14, 2008 – 3:32 pm
monadologie
Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. “In so far as the concatenation …
January 3, 2008 – 8:53 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … some more photos
Some more photos, this time from the dress run at Noarlunga, deep in the christian south. This theatre was one …
January 3, 2008 – 8:14 pm
all the people i can remember sleeping with … some photos
After them leaving Adelaide, then me leaving also, then arriving almost two months after the show, I finally got some …
October 31, 2007 – 11:35 am
whuhappnd?
ummm… Big silence, no? Well we have performed all over the acreage of metropolitan Adelaide (and I kept thinking if …
October 4, 2007 – 8:14 pm
ignition 7 – gender studies
Australian Dance Theatre presents Ignition 7 – Gender Studies Ignition returns to stages throughout metropolitan Adelaide during October for its …
July 3, 2007 – 1:27 pm
Housewives on Fire
A conversation before the show: girl-a, “wanna sit in the front row?”, girl-b, “nah I don’t wanna be that close …
June 29, 2007 – 3:28 pm
42a + downtown artspace = ✓
Alison Currie, who has managed to keep me laughing until face and stomach pain despite the absence of my baby, …
June 4, 2007 – 5:42 pm
choreolab
Alison Croggon said to me, “I like drinking with theatre types, and those whom I drink with are pretty cool …
May 21, 2007 – 8:28 pm
in the bones of children
In William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies dvd, he demonstrates the drawing of lines in space as an exersise in geometric analysis. …
May 6, 2007 – 9:19 pm
tense dave
Over the past couple of days I’ve been thinking and talking quite a bit about Chunky Move’s Tense Dave, a …
April 19, 2007 – 10:47 am
dance for obsessive-compulsives
Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …
April 18, 2007 – 3:23 pm
homeless dance co
In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the …
April 18, 2007 – 1:40 pm
forget me not
The past week I’ve been rehearsing with Ivan Thorley and a bunch of dancers for his film Forget me not …
April 14, 2007 – 7:38 pm
b-file
Falling asleep while passing time in a nearby bookstore while waiting for Michael to arrive in the distant north of …
April 11, 2007 – 7:35 pm
crush – late arriving photos
Certain craziness afoot in my world at the moment that I will neglect to elaborate on now, beyond suggesting airports …
April 6, 2007 – 2:42 pm
dr sketchy’s anti art school
The divine Gypsy Wood, straight from the Carnival of Unearthy Delights at the Adelaide Fringe is now back in the …
April 6, 2007 – 2:15 pm
b file at la mama
Another afternoon chat with Bonnie, this time while slurping orange juice and eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches on fresh, …
March 31, 2007 – 5:40 pm
sense
A lazy lunch with Bonnie Paskas, one of the dancers in Emily Fernandez’s Sense, on for one more night tonight …
March 27, 2007 – 6:42 pm
sense at 45 downstairs
Bonnie is back from Sydney, tired and exhilarated after the season of Glow, and as I walked through Faulkner Park …
March 24, 2007 – 12:51 am
grace
I feel old when I try to remember how many years ago it was I saw piglet in the garage …
March 22, 2007 – 9:19 pm
becky, jodi and john
Not that I’ve seen much dance this year but come December, this will still be one of the highlights of …
March 21, 2007 – 4:57 pm
glow in sydney
Chunky Move’s Glow, one of the performance of year in 2006 (that I managed to miss) is in Sydney opening …
March 15, 2007 – 8:15 pm
i want your dance
Last year Bare Bones came to Melbourne to work with Roz Warby. What was intriguing for me was not the …
March 12, 2007 – 12:43 pm
doing stuff to me
Though it lingers in the caches of myriad anonymous server farms, I’ve deleted half of francesdath.info for good. My first …
March 1, 2007 – 3:56 pm
secret service
John Jasperse has been in town the last couple of weeks, making a work with Becky Hilton and jodi Meinick, …
February 6, 2007 – 9:15 pm
pestilence – a crypto-history of the black plague
Amidst all this grant-writing that is seriously damaging my eyes – colours and objects are permanently dimmer and intangible after …
January 22, 2007 – 3:32 pm
the absinthe club & life-size
Two shows from two of my favourite people in Australia, both of whom I’ve had get naked in the name …
January 13, 2007 – 2:46 pm
live @ the soup kitchen – the next day
Gavin Clarke is something of a ummm … megalomaniac, performing in I think four of the ten works, curating the …
January 8, 2007 – 2:10 pm
live @ the soup kitchen
This Friday night, curated by Gavin Clarke and with choreographers including Adam Synott, Alison Currie and of course Gala Moody …
January 2, 2007 – 9:41 pm
it’s all about the money #2
He could have ditched the first paragraph, stopped right at the end of the second sentence, and just copy-pasted that …
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 28, 2006 – 6:15 pm
等待戈多 waiting for godot
I really need a category for performance, because sticking Samuel Beckett under ‘dance’ is just a bit weird, not withstanding …
November 27, 2006 – 3:27 pm
fuck.dog
Two dancer/choreographers, slightly past emerging and maturing into fine mid-career torpor met for coffee this morning in East St Kilda, …
November 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 …
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 1, 2006 – 9:20 am
feasting on flesh
Direct from hanging out with Dita von Teese at some Russian socialite’s party in New York, the delightful Gypsy Wood …
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 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 13, 2006 – 11:00 am
Hell Is Invisible … Heaven Is Her/e
One of the only tattoos I ever seriously considered getting was the Psychick Cross of the Temple ov Psychick Youth, …
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 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 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 27, 2006 – 4:13 pm
waiting for fat bird
One of the most enjoyable blogs to emerge from Guangdong Province, and one of my favourites for being an art-performance-archaeological-theoretical …
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 20, 2006 – 8:16 pm
Robin Fox at Footscray AV Social Club
I’ve been meaning to mention some of the things Emile is up to lately, but mostly whenever we get together, …
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, …
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 26, 2006 – 9:52 pm
Tragedia Endogonidia – Romeo Castellucci in Melbourne
Mostly I am remiss. Three weeks since I arrived in Melbourne, and only today did I finally hang out with …
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 …
June 23, 2006 – 7:26 pm
we intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems…
Before threw away a prosperous career as a writer and immanent tenure track in philosophy (post-modern, even) for the joy …
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 17, 2006 – 5:38 pm
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – uber_lingua
Everyone has gone. Emile is back in Melbourne now, and tomorrow is making Guangzhou sounds at St Jerome’s. Remember, each …
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 12, 2006 – 1:58 pm
what were they doing there?
Someone was telling me 佛山 Foshan, the Fo meant fire, like in Cantonese, but duh! it actually means Buddha. Anyway, …
April 11, 2006 – 2:07 pm
西门子艺术项目 – what art you doing here?
Cao Fei‘s performance/video/installation for the global Siemens Arts Programme in Foshan, What Are You Doing Here? opens today. There’s a …
April 7, 2006 – 1:17 pm
art art art … noise
In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour …
April 6, 2006 – 10:50 pm
cosplayers in hong kong
Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing …
April 2, 2006 – 10:38 pm
他们在这做什么? what are they doing here?
I’m off to Hong Kong tomorrow to pick up Paul and Emile, and I’m not sure when I’m coming back, …
March 31, 2006 – 9:40 pm
A Crab on Uranus Means You’re Loved …
… Or, no talent is no longer enough. Last night I discovered to my horror I’m alive 30 years too …
March 30, 2006 – 12:43 pm
more robots rendering contemporary dance irrelevant
Before I decided the future of contemporary dance lay in aberrant ethnochoreography, and ransacked Cantonese Opera for ideas, I spent …
March 20, 2006 – 8:30 pm
performance of the damned
There’s some weird Italy thing going on for me right now. Actually ever since I saw Fellini’s Satyricon when I …
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 …
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 – 9:31 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 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. …
December 14, 2005 – 6:52 pm
fast chicks and low cars
From one of my daily reads, we-make-money-not-art, comes my favourite combination of culture, fast cars and hot bikini chicks. Tell …
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 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 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 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 …
September 28, 2005 – 3:56 am
christa de carouge
She’s kinda like a Swiss Issey Miyaki, whose idea of a good time is schlepping around the scrappier parts of …
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 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 …
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 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 19, 2005 – 5:47 am
pig-fucking at the chenjiatuo art farm
There’s something I like about Wim Delvoye’s tattooed pigs, and also something I find craven and a transparent ploy for …
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 – 7:34 pm
beautiful boxer at singapore arts fest
Anyone who even heard of Beautiful Boxer knows what happens when a Muay Thai boxer decides wearing a dress is …
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 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 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 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 21, 2005 – 7:21 pm
kitty serendipity
Just in time for me to leave, Sayraphim Lothian, Ilona Nelson, Chris Nettleship, Robert Reid, Anna Schoo and Anniene Stockton …
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 10, 2005 – 6:18 pm
RE:Wanchai – Hong Kong International Artists’ Workshop
The 國際藝術家交流工作坊(香港) Hong Hong International Artists’ Workshop has invited 12 local and international artists to be in residence during April. …
March 18, 2005 – 9:07 pm
all about genesis
One evening in Taipei, drinking at some bar I met my evil twin. It’s not often I meet someone who …
March 15, 2005 – 10:34 am
roppongi kingyo – performance art at its finest
It’s not really dance or art, and it’s almost a month since I read this, but there’s something about the …
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 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 …
February 22, 2005 – 4:48 pm
i to eye
Lia Hakari, 2003 DanceWEBber is performing her solo, i-to-eye at the Cyprus Dance Platform on the 5th March. i-to-eye
February 20, 2005 – 11:05 pm
香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards
The seventh annual 香港舞蹈年獎 Hong Kong Dance Awards were held on February 1st with performances by Hong Kong Dance Company …
February 20, 2005 – 10:56 pm
jo lloyd – high maintenance
From the best choreographer and dancer in Australia (I am biased and I accept bribes) Jo Lloyd has her lates …
January 21, 2005 – 3:31 pm
aakzb – channel_a
The last couple of nights a big bunch of guys from Burkina Faso have been playing long into the evening …
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 26, 2004 – 6:49 pm
i am alive and you are dead
The 台北國際藝術村 Taipei Artist Village had a Christmas open studio yesterday, and I was determined to bitch-slap any Christmas cheer …
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 11, 2004 – 3:06 pm
paul emmanuel is psycho
Paul Emmanuel hooked up with his psychiatrist last night at 新樂園藝術空間 SLY Art Studio to eat some paint and answer …
December 8, 2004 – 5:34 pm
176*144 – performance art for 3G phones
My next project in Taipei is performance 3G mobile phones. With Big Brother in Australia getting on the bandwagon with …
December 5, 2004 – 1:49 pm
第二屆新樂園跨領域藝術節 SLY art 2nd new field art festival
The group exhibition I am part of at SLY Art Studio opened this evening, with much eating drinking and music …
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 27, 2004 – 1:46 pm
colin at the taipei artist village
Last night Colin, one of the Australians staying in the Taipei Artist Village played a concert in the main gallery. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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 …