abjection archery photoshoot

Earlier in the week, I met Christian crépes at a Belgian café beside the Spree; a first hello since I returned …

process/unprocess days 1 & 2

Straight from seven days of yoga + shibari workshops into getting up early for class. Lucky it was only a …

process/unprocess

It was Michael Carter who I think coined the name, but I can’t find where. Last time I was in …

Reading: Howard Barker – Death, The One and the Art of Theatre

howard barker – death, the one and the art of theatre

Reading: James R. Brandon – Theatre in Southeast Asia

james r. brandon – theatre in southeast asia

london again

Dasniya received some photos of her and us at the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage a couple …

Christoph Schlingensief

christoph schlingensief

Reading: Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung

Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung

reading: jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook

jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook

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 …

afterhours in café prückel

Late into last night under Café Prückel, something of a tech rehearsal then beer and waiting while the sound crew …

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 …

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 …

rehearsing in café prückel

Today in Café Prückel, in the cellar, in the theatre. Filming some of the performance and performing some of it …

rehearsing in the schauspielhaus

A long day finally with everyone together working through what has been until now individual and separate. Also the arrival …

arriving vienna

Again. Two years since I was last here, this time by plane and a placard with my name on it …

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 …

shibari oskar helene heim

On the weekend, Dasniya and I travelled south-west to near Wannsee, Oskar Helene Heim, an old hospital now taken over …

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 …

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 …

FR ⊂ DY

Dasniya and I have been talking for some time about performing together, mostly between either ideas for works I’m thinking …

dasniya sommer dvd

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a project for Dasniya Sommer, for whom I did her …

reading: fiona mcgregor – strange museums

fiona mcgregor – strange museums

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Jana Unmüßig – HAUS

I had planned to see only a couple of performances in Tanztage, I thought perhaps one a night over a …

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 …

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 …

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. …

seile

I bought some rope today. From Fesseltrieb in far east Sonnenallee, biking through a first biting day of winter, clear …

orgy of tolerance

To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary. My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the …

SOIT – We Was Them

To start at the end. Or, an ending. Somewhere past an hour, Ivan and Harold (I think) sit on the …

soit – we was them

A good a reason as any to return to Bruxelles, or better than most. The delightful Hans, along with Anuschka, …

osada steve

A couple of days before I began my current day job, a Thursday evening, having done some fast coding, I …

som faves

Ivo says, ” you know I was very suspicious about its qualities and I will still be…”. Though not in …

merce

merce cunningham

dasniyasommer.de

Because it’s… I’m watching WordPress install under the tessellated layers of windows open. I can see command lines march upwards, …

Pina

pina bausch

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 …

SUNN O))) @ Volksbühne/Prater

SUNN O))) @ Volksbühne/Prater Berlin, Berlin Sunday, May 24 2009, 8:00 PM — ideologic MUSIKBÜHNE: SUNN O))) So. 24.05.2009, 20:00 …

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 …

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 …

a retrospective

Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …

finishing

This week I made a decision I’ve been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow …

deathline in berlin

Oh Miss K you were one of the first blogs I discovered and one of the first tranny blogs also, …

lucky trimmer

***DEUTSCH*** Liebe LUCKIES! Gerade als sich draußen alles abkühlt, wird es heiß im LUCKY TRIMMER Büro! Bereitet Euch vor auf …

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… …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

monadologie – cosmos magazine

The bubble-quote of my traipsing through a park in Sydney, the endless, vertiginous blackness crisp with infinitesimal points, and there …

Witch/Red

This is the month of Adelaide independent choreographers with five developments that I know of and maybe a couple of …

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 …

monadologie photos

I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I’ll make excuses elsewhere. I …

monadologie

Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. “In so far as the concatenation …

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 …

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 …

whuhappnd?

ummm… Big silence, no? Well we have performed all over the acreage of metropolitan Adelaide (and I kept thinking if …

ignition 7 – gender studies

Australian Dance Theatre presents Ignition 7 – Gender Studies Ignition returns to stages throughout metropolitan Adelaide during October for its …

late last night in fad bar’s toilet

Dance.

if you’re cute and you’re in the bar’s toilet …

More from Alison whose installation-performance if you’re cute and you’ve got good sneakers … in the toilets of FAD Bar …

if you’re cute and you’ve got good sneakers …

More from Alison who I think is compelled to be Adelaide’s independent dance scene, I mean all of it, she’s …

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 …

42a + downtown artspace = ✓

Alison Currie, who has managed to keep me laughing until face and stomach pain despite the absence of my baby, …

choreolab

Alison Croggon said to me, “I like drinking with theatre types, and those whom I drink with are pretty cool …

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. …

tense dave

Over the past couple of days I’ve been thinking and talking quite a bit about Chunky Move’s Tense Dave, a …

sunn0)))-joy

One big sadness at leaving Melbourne is missing Sunn0))) and boris vibrating organs and viscera at the Hi-Fi Bar on …

dance for obsessive-compulsives

Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for …

homeless dance co

In-between rehearsing, last night I drifted up to the 4th floor of Asialink for drinks and hanging out with the …

forget me not

The past week I’ve been rehearsing with Ivan Thorley and a bunch of dancers for his film Forget me not …

b-file

Falling asleep while passing time in a nearby bookstore while waiting for Michael to arrive in the distant north of …

crush – late arriving photos

Certain craziness afoot in my world at the moment that I will neglect to elaborate on now, beyond suggesting airports …

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 …

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, …

sense

A lazy lunch with Bonnie Paskas, one of the dancers in Emily Fernandez’s Sense, on for one more night tonight …

sense at 45 downstairs

Bonnie is back from Sydney, tired and exhilarated after the season of Glow, and as I walked through Faulkner Park …

grace

I feel old when I try to remember how many years ago it was I saw piglet in the garage …

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 …

glow in sydney

Chunky Move’s Glow, one of the performance of year in 2006 (that I managed to miss) is in Sydney opening …

i want your dance

Last year Bare Bones came to Melbourne to work with Roz Warby. What was intriguing for me was not the …

sarah’s party & shelf life

It actually opened last night so a very belated toitoitoi!!! to dancers Sarah, Jay, Alison, Sascha and to choreographers Gala …

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 …

secret service

John Jasperse has been in town the last couple of weeks, making a work with Becky Hilton and jodi Meinick, …

sunn 0))) destroy asia … with Boris!!!!!

I screamed. sunn 0))) upcoming axtions!!! sunn 0))) will be doing our first shows of 2007 overseas. Below are the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

live @ the soup kitchen

This Friday night, curated by Gavin Clarke and with choreographers including Adam Synott, Alison Currie and of course Gala Moody …

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 …

100 Dessus Dessous

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

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 …

fuck.dog

Two dancer/choreographers, slightly past emerging and maturing into fine mid-career torpor met for coffee this morning in East St Kilda, …

sunn0))) and children killers

Feeling a little grim yesterday, I went shopping for what I hoped would be something cheerful, like a Bathory or …

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 …

feasting on flesh

Direct from hanging out with Dita von Teese at some Russian socialite’s party in New York, the delightful Gypsy Wood …

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 …

crush – some time later

All over the place, disappointment in me for not blogging every day about crush like I have done with every …

leaving adelaide

Another 5am trip to the airport and now I am back in Melbourne after almost a month in Adelaide choreographing …

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, …

silence

I’ve been living in the theatre the last week, out in Golden Grove Arts Centre, somewhere I think in North-East …

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 …

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 …

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 …

adt – held

Last night I finally got to see one of the several dance companies in Australia I’ve not yet seen. Either …

insanity…

These four days until Sunday night I have pretty much no time to do important stuff like eat chocolate and …

temperance – Théodicée

In The System of the World, demented Jesuit fanatic Édouard de Gex is meditating on Satanists, and to paraphrase says …

temperance

The last couple of days have been intensely busy, usually to the degree that dinner doesn’t happen, and even climbing …

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 …

special mention

Luke George is inadvertently responsible for something I’m going to start on supernaut in the coming weeks. In the interim, …

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 …

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, …

kreator melbourne rrraaagghhhh!!!!

Kreator! Melbourne! This Thursday (and Wednesday) at Hi-Fi Bar! All nations hail the end of peace New dawn inception of …

Jesuit Novice in Ossegg

A couple of nights ago, I experienced one of those profound moments in life when I realised someone I knew, …

crush

It’s been over two years and still we haven’t me. We have been in many of the same cities, Guangzhou, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

extermination – soundscape movement fest

Darling Alexis, whom I met in Vienna in 2003 at DanceWEB has been busy in the past few days being …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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. …

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 …

岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD

We are performing 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD at Park19 next Sunday night. I’ll be trying to blog about it every day …

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, …

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 …

art art art … noise

In a pathetic effort to make up for a few days of blaring silence, with 2am crawls to bed, hour …

cosplayers in hong kong

Two nights in Hong Kong, picking up Emile and Paul from the airport, playing tourist across Kowloon and Central, seeing …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

anna tenta & copernicus

Anna Tenta is back in Zürich for another performance at Tanzhaus Wasserwerk. She was working on this solo when I …

PUBLIC=UN+PUBLIC

Jo Lloyd, who went to Japan to hang out with nibrol on an Asialink Performing Arts Residency last year is …

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 …

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 …

hell – apocalypse then

Two days of hell. I can’t really say a lot about it right now, it was insane, mental, fucking terrifying …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

HELL … 773H

We have only one week to go on the Melbourne development of hell. I think I’ve made something fairly depraved …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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. …

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 …

12min.max – hell

Continuing my playtime in Zürich, I forgot to mention Tanzhaus Wasserwerk offered me a place in 12min.max, which is on …

human writes

Twice this week I’ve been asked to give wishes, the first a list of fifteen for a magazine, and the …

mercy 45 – the important bits

I was quite drunk. paul richard cornelia emile

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 …

mercy 45 – costume party

We got the costumes yesterday, Christa de Carouge long black dresses which show off plenty of everything, especially when stray …

how to make … stuff

It was just big words on a pink piece of paper, MOVE IT!, and I was too lazy to turn …

body presentations

The Goethe-Institut‘s mailing list has an excellent article on the state of dance and performance in Germany, looking at a …

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, …

origami

Phillip Adams of Ballelab, Australia’s only genius choreographer is presenting a development of origami on October 21st and 22nd at …

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 …

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 …

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 …

christa de carouge

She’s kinda like a Swiss Issey Miyaki, whose idea of a good time is schlepping around the scrappier parts of …

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 …

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 – …

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 …

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 …

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, …

hugo wolf projekt

Like I write about everyone from DanceWEB who tells me about their shows, so now I’m going to do the …

dirty undead weeekend

In-between inexplicable torrents of rain and general foulness passing for summer in Vevey, Compagnie Nomades have been performing Le Bal …

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 …

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 …

bitches in the press

Bitches got a couple of mentions in the press including one review, which I dunno if they said anything good, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

juicy flesh

DanceWEBber from 2003, Anna Stellar is performing from tomorrow in Klub Zak, Gdansk, Poland with Katarzyna Chmielewska in Juicy Flesh. …

SoUndScaPe PErformaNcE!

I was just thinking noone seemed to be doing anything and thought I’d had to write even more crap about …

kitty serendipity

Just in time for me to leave, Sayraphim Lothian, Ilona Nelson, Chris Nettleship, Robert Reid, Anna Schoo and Anniene Stockton …

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 …

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. …

all about genesis

One evening in Taipei, drinking at some bar I met my evil twin. It’s not often I meet someone who …

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 …

virtually richard3

Brisbane-based expressions dance company is about to head off to Guangzhou to join a bunch of other dance companies from …

HA-HA soul stretching exersises

Mad and beautiful genius Ivo Dimtchev has just taken out the Sofia choreography competition, winning two awards – the Jury …

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

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 …

jo lloyd – high maintenance

From the best choreographer and dancer in Australia (I am biased and I accept bribes) Jo Lloyd has her lates …

aakzb – channel_a

The last couple of nights a big bunch of guys from Burkina Faso have been playing long into the evening …

soundproof

Another former DanceWEB mobster Lia Haraki in Cyprus opens her performance Soundproof at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol next week. …

lili handel

Beautiful psychopath, darling madman and very good friend Ivo Dimtchev is at it again in the bowels of Sofia. His …

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 …

blush

Terrance Lewis was another one of the DanceWEB mob in Vienna last year, and based in Mumbai is one of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

passion no patience

Pei-jen Tsai, who I hung out with in Vienna last year, and missed by a few weeks at the Taipei …

that four-letter word…

And half a world away in glorious San Francisco, LEVYdance are about to start a season at ODC Theatre having …

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 …

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. …

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 …

balletlab – fiction

I went and saw Phillip Adams’ BalletLab season of Fiction last night, two works by Phillip and Becky Hilton at …

besen funds extermination

I just found out today that the Besen Family Foundation have funded in part my performance and 16mm film extermination …

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 …

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 – …

Ivo Dimtchev

Ivo is a god from Sophia, another one of the beautiful people I met at DanceWEB last year. Together we …

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