The last self-suspension workshop consumed all of Sunday and even before it began there was talk of another, so happiness …
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Berlin, Dance, europe
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Airports, BDSM, Dasniya Sommer, Finland, Helsinki, Travel, Uferhallen, Wedding, Workshops
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January 27, 2012 – 11:28 pm
yoga + shibari regular berlin classes for february
Sunday, Thomas’ last day in Berlin, and post-breakfast a soup was prepared. By 1 o’clock, up-and-down stairs was occurring, on …
January 12, 2012 – 1:16 pm
Thomas & Dasniya Shibari
The last time I saw Thomas, he had a mass of dreads. That was in Adelaide. Last week he arrived …
January 2, 2012 – 7:00 pm
Yoga + Shibari in Berlin, January
Yoga and Shibari begins again this week in Teatris from this Wednesday evening. Also becoming a monthly regular is the …
December 13, 2011 – 7:10 pm
n+2 video at Yoga+Shibari
I shall watch it with eyes averted. Or, perhaps glimpse it every so often. Nonetheless, tomorrow night I won’t exit …
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Berlin, Brussels, Dance, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1, video
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Contemporary Dance, Dasniya Sommer, Improvisation, Installations, Performance Art, Performances, Rehearsals, Residencies, Wedding, Yoga
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December 7, 2011 – 9:34 pm
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 9
The last proper day of rehearsal, where we have the entire time to ourselves. Tomorrow we find our way through …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, music, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
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BDSM, Contemporary Dance, Dasniya Sommer, Experimental Music, Improvisation, Installations, Ligeti, Performance Art, Rehearsals, Residencies, Throbbing Gristle
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December 7, 2011 – 10:08 am
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 8
… which was yesterday and last night. A day of running through what we have up till now and making …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
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December 4, 2011 – 5:14 pm
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 at Bains Connective
On Friday, 9th December, Dasniya Sommer and I will be having a showing of the n+2 dimensional space for n>1, which …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
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Contemporary Dance, Dasniya Sommer, Installations, Performances, Rehearsals, Residencies, Theatre
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December 4, 2011 – 3:59 pm
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 5 & 6
Too fast go the days from Friday to Saturday and now the unexpected one day off. I go to the …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, guangzhou 广州 廣州, music, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
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BDSM, Choreography, Contemporary Dance, Dasniya Sommer, Performance Art, Rehearsals, Residencies, Theatre
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December 1, 2011 – 11:29 pm
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 4
It helps to remember that what is seen in a small studio with green dance floor, big windows, and other …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
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November 30, 2011 – 11:51 pm
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 3
Experiencing a little fatigue today – I haven’t done yoga for five days in a row since such a long …
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Asia, Brussels, Dance, europe, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
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November 29, 2011 – 9:57 pm
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 2
There is a kitchen, where we cook a late lunch or early dinner, eat baguette and drink tea or coffee, …
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Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe, music, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
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November 28, 2011 – 10:38 pm
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 1
We arrive at Bains around 11am. It’s a half hour easy walk from St Gilles Vorplein to beside the park in …
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Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe, music, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
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November 24, 2011 – 5:46 pm
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
Once more going west, we take the ungodly hour flight from Schönefeld to Brussels. Dasniya and I are having a …
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art, Asia, Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe, guangzhou 广州 廣州, music, the n+2 dimensional space for n>1
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November 24, 2011 – 12:30 pm
Ophelia Opens
Rehearsals via Skype between Berlin and Melbourne as the sun rose in mid-summer. More talking and writing and videoing back …
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australia, Berlin, europe, Melbourne
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Lily Paskas, Performances, Theatre
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November 10, 2011 – 3:38 pm
Shibari/Bondage Workshop at Bains Connective, Brussels
Once more to Brussels, this time somewhere new. Dasniya and I have been working around the edges of a performance/installation …
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Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe
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BDSM, Bondage, Dasniya Sommer, Training, Workshops
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October 24, 2011 – 9:05 pm
Dasniya Sommer Yoga & Shibari in Wedding, November + Brussels Project
Now there is a beautiful space to make yoga and shibari in once more, with kitchen, things to hang from, …
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art, Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe
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October 22, 2011 – 1:43 pm
pre-rehearsals
Having taken some time to get this far, I spent the last couple of days extracting a couple of year’s …
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abjection, Berlin, Dance, europe
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Archery, Black Metal, Cantonese Opera, Contemporary Dance, Dance Theatre, Julia Kristeva, Philosophy, Photography, Rehearsals, Theatre, Writing
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September 29, 2011 – 1:02 pm
Shibari Kantine
The Kantine is on the ground floor, stretching from the street back some fifty meters in three distinct sections. First …
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architecture, Berlin, Dance, europe, Images
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Construction, Dasniya Sommer, Wedding, Yoga
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September 20, 2011 – 8:12 pm
dvd shibari origami
Some weeks ago, Dasniya and I were climbing with Rui. The sky blackened and we fled the short distance to …
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art, Berlin, Dance, video
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Dasniya Sommer, Design, DVD, Japan, Painting, Performances
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September 15, 2011 – 2:06 pm
yoga + shibari in teatris hallenprojekt
(A very quick post because I’m being whipped by the sigil of lucifer …) After wandering across Berlin for the …
September 4, 2011 – 9:53 pm
lucifer fallen
Gala left for Brussels yesterday; Dasniya for Berlin this evening. Me, tomorrow, and Michael to ballet in the morning. The …
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art, Dance, europe, Images
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Contemporary Dance, Dasniya Sommer, Gala Moody, Michael Carter, Parks, Rehearsals, Sculpture, Spain
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September 2, 2011 – 7:57 pm
Madrid rehearsals day 5 – casa de campo
Today was the last day of us together as the foursome rehearsing. Instead of going into the studio, we arose …
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Dance, europe, Images
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Bondage, Dasniya Sommer, Gala Moody, Michael Carter, Panasonic LX3, Parks, Photography, Spain, Trees
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August 31, 2011 – 9:59 pm
Madrid rehearsals day 3
Third day, the middle of the week, only two remaining and Friday already planned with Shibari in the park and …
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Dance, europe, Images
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Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Dance Theatre, Dasniya Sommer, Gala Moody, Improvisation, Michael Carter, Rehearsals, Spain
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August 26, 2011 – 4:02 pm
BER-MAD
Tomorrow early I am flying to Madrid. My first time there or in Spain, and yes, one of the reasons …
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Dance, europe, process/unprocess
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Ballet, Dasniya Sommer, Gala Moody, Michael Carter, Rehearsals, Spain, Workshops, Yoga
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August 9, 2011 – 12:19 pm
bondage japonés Madrid con Dasniya Sommer
Dasniya and I will be in Madrid later this month for some adventures with dance. Also there will be a …
July 31, 2011 – 4:44 pm
Ophelia Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Unusual for me to go from one project directly to another, let alone three in a row, but this weekend …
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australia, Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe, Melbourne
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Lily Paskas, Rehearsals, Skype, Theatre
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July 30, 2011 – 1:38 am
process/unprocess – last day
Yes, finish. Quick, no? Two weeks and it goes and everyone packs and leaves and within an hour no trace …
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Brussels, Dance, music, process/unprocess
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Gala Moody, Philosophy, Rehearsals, Showings, Wagner, Wittgenstein
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July 28, 2011 – 7:53 pm
process/unprocess — three legs
The macrobiotic lunches are what we wait for, first into the cafeteria. Also coffee. There is a so-so café around …
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Brussels, Dance, process/unprocess
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Gala Moody, Improvisation, Philosophy, Rehearsals, Wittgenstein
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July 23, 2011 – 2:39 pm
process/unprocess – first week remainder
Today is a day off, my first in two weeks, so I am sitting on a train, north of Antwerpen …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, music, process/unprocess, words
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Comedy, Contemporary Dance, Gala Moody, Philosophy, Rehearsals, Wagner, Wittgenstein
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July 19, 2011 – 8:35 pm
process/unprocess days 1 & 2
Straight from seven days of yoga + shibari workshops into getting up early for class. Lucky it was only a …
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Brussels, Dance, Images, process/unprocess
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July 19, 2011 – 7:54 pm
Brussels yoga + shibari last four days & photoshoot
The absence of writing since Wednesday should indicate how involved the workshop was. Yes, finished, on to more rope things. …
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Asia, Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe, Images
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July 14, 2011 – 12:49 am
Brussels yoga + shibari third day
Teaching yoga for the first time in quite some while. It’s very different from doing, which is almost automatic, the …
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Berlin, Brussels, culture, Dance, europe, Images
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BDSM, Dasniya Sommer, Feminism, Panasonic LX3, Philosophy, Photography, Training, Workshops, Yoga
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July 12, 2011 – 10:12 pm
brussels yoga + shibari first days
Two days already passed. We are back in the beautiful loft studio in Charleroi/Danses La Raffinerie, arriving early yesterday to …
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Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe, guangzhou 广州 廣州
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July 3, 2011 – 3:42 pm
process/unprocess
It was Michael Carter who I think coined the name, but I can’t find where. Last time I was in …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, process/unprocess
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Bondage, Comedy, Contemporary Dance, Dasniya Sommer, Gala Moody, Performance, Philosophy, Rehearsals, Wittgenstein, Yoga
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June 22, 2011 – 6:00 pm
Reminder: Yoga and Shibari Workshops – Belgium, July
This is a very short reminder that Dasniya Sommer will in Brussels in July for her Yoga and Bondage, and …
June 16, 2011 – 1:11 am
drilling foundations at night
Riding home from Yoga+Bondage with Dasniya, around 1am the city still, especially along my favourite to-and-from Kreuzberg route. From Oranienplatz …
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architecture, Berlin, bike, Dance, Images
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architecture, Berlin, bike, Dance, Dasniya Sommer, Images, Museums, Night, Rivers, Urban Development, Yoga
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May 29, 2011 – 9:28 pm
first y+b nameless
Most of the days since I returned from Brussels have been occupied with doings at nameless. Scraping, vacuuming (it survived), …
May 22, 2011 – 10:14 pm
a body – gala moody at the volksroom
The coffee is made thus: In a small bowl two teaspoons or so of sugar for every cup is added. …
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Adelaide, australia, Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, Parsifal, reviews
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May 19, 2011 – 3:34 pm
knoten-unknoten
Last night I stumbled upon knots and suspensions in the most unlikely of places (a bit like how after having …
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Berlin, Dance, europe, science
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Berlin, Dance, Dasniya Sommer, europe, Philosophy, science, William Forsythe
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May 10, 2011 – 10:54 am
dasniya sommer spring / summer yoga + shibari programme
Some workshops and classes from Dasniya in the coming months: On Wednesday evenings in Kreuzberg, the Yoga and Bondage class …
May 9, 2011 – 9:04 pm
(renamed as) mm ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf)
The last few days, Dasniya, Hartmut and myself had been in another Fabrik, with another mobile gantry. More dust and …
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architecture, Berlin, Dance, europe, music
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May 2, 2011 – 5:49 pm
mein lesbisches auge 10
Some weeks ago, I was called upon to get an image ready for print with a half-hour, mid-night deadline; the …
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art, Berlin, Brussels, culture, europe, Images, Parsifal, words
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art, Berlin, culture, Dasniya Sommer, europe, Gala Moody, Images, London, Panasonic LX3, Photography, words
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May 1, 2011 – 5:25 pm
Yoga and Shibari Workshops – July – Brussels
Returning to Brussels, in July Dasniya Sommer will be teaching two Yoga+Bondage workshops at Charleroi Danses – La Raffinerie. The …
May 1, 2011 – 4:43 pm
bvg ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf) … again
A couple of weeks ago, the delightful Nicole from La Monnaie came to visit. We sat outside Café Pförtner in …
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Berlin, Dance, video
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Berlin, Dance, Dasniya Sommer, Performances, video, Wedding
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April 28, 2011 – 7:29 pm
Yoga&Shibari 27.4.
Wednesday has become a long day for me. Cycling to and from training in the morning, with the two hours …
April 5, 2011 – 8:30 pm
‘Yoga und Shibari’ – April/ Mai / Juni – Berlin
From Dasniya Sommer, our adventures in the coming months, a return of Yoga + Shibari classes, as well as some …
March 26, 2011 – 10:53 am
bvg ∫-1x dt/dv ≥ ⨍(dy:fr:hf)
(Which is harder to write when you can’t plop in some mathematical notation.) There’s a lot happening at Uferhallen lately. …
March 8, 2011 – 3:14 pm
after the weekend of ropes
Jochen has a beautiful workshop in Ohlauerstr, near the Görlitzer Park, an old and vast Fabrik dressed in olive green …
February 24, 2011 – 2:34 am
Yoga & Shibari Workshop in March
From Dasniya Sommer: YOGA & SHIBARI WORKSHOP/ OPERATIC ROPES Liebe Leute, am ersten Märzwochenende (5./6.) unterrichten wir einen 2 tägigen …
February 18, 2011 – 2:56 am
the tying before parsifal unties
I saw the first Act. Well, parts of it I’d not seem before, while loitering side-stage from shortly after Nietzsche …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal
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Dance, Dasniya Sommer, europe, Gala Moody, Images, music, Opera, Panasonic LX3, Performances, Photography, Romeo Castellucci, Wagner
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February 16, 2011 – 11:18 pm
third to last (+ workshop) (+ special treat)
I ask Andrew what happens if you can’t sing? Do you act it while someone sings from the side, or …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Parsifal
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February 10, 2011 – 11:00 pm
parsifal suspended
Today was our second workshop, this time being attentive to suspension. After the last one, word got around of our …
February 7, 2011 – 12:34 pm
half-way
Last night, the fifth performance and half-way through the season of Parsifal, was pretty much what we hoped for. I …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal
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February 5, 2011 – 6:13 pm
parsi5000
Just after midday today, I took my 5000th photo with my Panasonic LX3. It’s not especially good, blurry, mid-action, looking …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, Parsifal
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February 2, 2011 – 9:13 pm
third and some thoughts on revulsion
(I wasn’t so happy with what I wrote here last night, so I’m splitting this up and hopefully will write …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal, Politics
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BDSM, Dance, Dasniya Sommer, europe, Feminism, Gala Moody, Images, music, Opera, Performances, Philosophy, Politics, Romeo Castellucci, Theory
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January 30, 2011 – 11:10 pm
opening & second night
Now is the difficult part. Rehearsals are easy. Turn up in the morning or when the call is, newness and …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, music, Parsifal
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January 27, 2011 – 12:26 am
last before
I see so little. The first act is warming up, putting on ropes. The only part I really see is …
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January 23, 2011 – 9:40 pm
all together now (including pauses)
Oh! There are a lot of people here. I wasn’t expecting that! Not just an obvious number of friends and …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal
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January 21, 2011 – 10:40 pm
third before last
I have not so much to say today, even being aware what i wrote yesterday is somewhat cryptic; I lost …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, music, Parsifal
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January 21, 2011 – 12:51 am
1882, chin of nietzsche, invisible orchestra, double basses clamour to escape
Which is the title to the only image I will show today. As we come closer and I spend more …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, history, Images, music, Parsifal
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January 18, 2011 – 8:25 pm
parsifal la monnaie shibari
Either it is lack of sleep, or I am on the precipice of whatever has waylaid many of the cast …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, music, Parsifal
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Bondage, Dance, Dasniya Sommer, europe, Gala Moody, Japan, music, Orchestra, Rehearsals, Wagner, Workshops
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January 16, 2011 – 4:34 pm
that’s what parsifal said…
Getting stuck in Ghent at 1am after missing the last train from Brugge, talking in the kitchen till 330am and …
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Adelaide, Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal
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ADT, Belgium, Dance, Dasniya Sommer, europe, Gala Moody, Images, music, Opera, Rehearsals, Romeo Castellucci, Tara, Wagner
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January 15, 2011 – 12:52 am
orchestra-ing and opera-ing (and black metal-ing)
The evening cafeteria meal was unique in being quite utterly tasteless. I had to ask Gala to try the dried …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal
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January 14, 2011 – 2:11 am
la monnaie
Strange I have no category for pain. Two days after feeling so comfortable hanging for half an hour, I find …
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January 13, 2011 – 12:58 am
bo shibari
Today was working with Gala mostly. It’s almost 1am and I am a little bleary-eyed and wondering if dinner, shower, …
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Asia, Dance, europe, Images, Parsifal
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Asia, Dance, Dasniya Sommer, europe, Gala Moody, Images, Japan, Rehearsals, Romeo Castellucci, Theatre, Wagner
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January 12, 2011 – 12:31 am
Wahnsinn… Oh! – Wut… Ach! Jammer!
(Mainly because supernaut has been discovered at Parsifal, so I can no longer entertain the fancy I’m writing for my …
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Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal
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January 8, 2011 – 1:21 am
friday parsifal
A late start for some of us today and not even a suspension for me, though I was all ready …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal
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January 7, 2011 – 11:42 am
the second act
Already almost 1am and still long before I find sleep. Today was another long one, with a running of the …
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Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal
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Dance, Daniel Jaber, Dasniya Sommer, europe, Gala Moody, Images, music, Opera, Panasonic LX3, Rehearsals, Romeo Castellucci, Snake, Theatre, Wagner
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January 5, 2011 – 4:17 pm
wherin tomas suspends dasniya, later much stupidity from gala and frances
We went in on Monday, the others enjoying a day off, to work on some rope stuff. Dasniya wanted to …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, Parsifal
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December 28, 2010 – 8:53 pm
break test
An interesting experiment. Amidst all the known security of carabiners, harnesses, spinners bearing 26kN stamps, and all the multitude of …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, Parsifal
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December 28, 2010 – 1:12 pm
yesterday and today
We spent some hours yesterday using the empty rehearsal theatre to try some things. Two days of snoozing, eating, snoozing, …
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December 24, 2010 – 10:28 am
ein bühnenweinfestspiel, some books, a story
“A funny story.” (As I remember it from 9am, or, how black metal brings us all together.) “I said to …
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December 23, 2010 – 1:11 pm
some parsifal-ing
The rehearsal theatre is much bigger than most company’s performing theatres. Next door is another. Below others. A cafeteria on …
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Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, music, Parsifal
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December 3, 2010 – 8:46 am
Parsifal
(Wherein I reveal what I’ve been biting my tongue about for months…) Dasniya said (perhaps in August), “The Opera in …
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Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe, Parsifal
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December 3, 2010 – 8:44 am
Shibari Technique December
While Dasniya is away on tour, I will be teaching the Tuesday evening Shibari Technique classes. The address is: “Buffet …
November 8, 2010 – 1:13 am
some sunday evening shibari attempts
No, I haven’t been writing here much lately (again). I took a week off and went to Brussels, staying with …
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Berlin, Brussels, Dance, europe, Images, Parsifal
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September 19, 2010 – 11:10 am
Dasniya Sommer Shibari Workshop October Berlin (+ Finland and other things…)
Dasniya will be teaching Yoga and Shibari / Rope Techniques workshop in Berlin Kreuzberg on October 1st-3rd. Also, the very …
September 11, 2010 – 9:26 am
london again
Dasniya received some photos of her and us at the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage a couple …
August 13, 2010 – 10:47 am
yoga + shibari brussels photos
Some photos from the workshop Dasniya taught in Brussels late-June/early-July. I’ve been meaning to put these up for a while, …
July 6, 2010 – 6:05 am
return to blog
The last week has been chaotic. I came to Brussels slightly early – on Tuesday, to help with Dasniya’s Yoga …
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June 3, 2010 – 2:08 am
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 …
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June 2, 2010 – 4:47 am
Yoga & Shibari Brussels
Dasniya will be teaching Yoga and Bondage workshop in Brussels at the start of July. Excitement! Hello people! at the …
April 13, 2010 – 1:58 pm
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 …
April 10, 2010 – 11:59 am
japanese bondage live drawing
Monday at the London Festival of Japanese Rope Bondage, something of a quieter day for all of us finished with …
April 9, 2010 – 1:46 pm
FR ⊂ DY
Dasniya and I have been talking for some time about performing together, mostly between either ideas for works I’m thinking …
April 7, 2010 – 4:45 am
dasniya sommer dvd
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a project for Dasniya Sommer, for whom I did her …
February 22, 2010 – 12:07 pm
rope techniques
More Shibari with Dasniya, now in Kreuzberg. Much fun. Jeden Mittwoch 20 -22 h Shibari Technik in Kreuzberg An diesen …