Possibly the most problematic of all the performances I’ve seen so far in Tanztage, Laura Kalauz’s and Martin Schick’s Title …
August 4, 2008 – 9:06 pm
von zürich hbf nach freiburg im breisgau
The train stopped in Basel. For quite some time. Moved several meters, stopped again. Moved a little less, stopped. A …
July 30, 2008 – 5:56 pm
von wien westbahnhof nach zürich hbf
Some books I read small pieces of in my room in Vienna. Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, a …
June 17, 2008 – 5:38 pm
vienna…
I’m going to Vienna. eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I got an email this afternoon saying I’ve been accepted for the Choreographers’ Venture with …
September 26, 2006 – 7:37 pm
they are not my dreams
After coughing myself into sleep deprivation over the previous couple of weeks, it was a blessing when dreams returned last …
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 …
January 4, 2006 – 5:58 pm
siwic 2006
If you’ve been reading this blog for more than six months, you’ll know in June last year I did the …
November 28, 2005 – 3:55 am
z-town to g-town
The flight wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be, though getting screwed at Hong Kong airport for a …
November 25, 2005 – 1:34 am
life
It’s been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to …
November 22, 2005 – 4:57 am
hell – video corruption
I’ve fallen out of the mood to blog at the moment. It coincided with finishing hell, and so finishing my …
November 19, 2005 – 8:23 pm
splat …
Fat snotty lumps of snow pushed down the river from the breeze as it coiled over the hills above Zürich, …
November 18, 2005 – 5:57 pm
straight outta z-town
Two months ago, by an odd set of circumstances, I schlepped out to the Zürich Flughaven to pick up video …
November 16, 2005 – 6:20 am
hell – the detritus
There’s always something of a blah period for me after I’ve finished a performance, but it’s most pronounced when the …
November 15, 2005 – 4:09 am
hell day (11) 12 – brot wine beer kasse kabab
It’s over. Saturday night was a breeze, no second night wierdness, and Sunday just went. It’s getting stranger and stranger …
November 12, 2005 – 8:26 pm
hell day 10 – rockin the kanton-z-town
Premiere, opening night, make-up, hair, bikinis, an almost proper warm-up (a couple of pliés and running through the Botticelli section), …
November 11, 2005 – 8:00 pm
hell day 9 – contaminated drug supply
Which is the name of one of Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s tracks, all 1 minute of it, so it’s a veritable Wagner-length …
November 10, 2005 – 5:31 pm
hell day 8 – make some fucking noise
Some choreographers like to drill a piece into the ground once it’s finished, rehearsing it until it’s like whipping a …
November 9, 2005 – 8:40 pm
hell day (6) 7 – something something something
I got my haircut today, and went shoe shopping … um … then we rehearsed. Actually we wanted to get …
November 6, 2005 – 2:33 am
hell day 4 + 5 – no sleep till baden
Which is where Emile is about now, doing his first VJ gig in Europe/Deutschland on this trip, and was what …
November 3, 2005 – 9:36 pm
hell day 3 – reanimating the dead
I’d had this idea the reanimating of corpses would be good, but it’s become the best thing I’ve done all …
November 2, 2005 – 10:01 am
hell day 2 – rosemary you suck
Our necks are a bit sore, but the early highlight of the day was getting Emile’s satanic reverse gore-wrist metal …
November 2, 2005 – 2:08 am
hell day 1 – you are entering a world of pain
Agoraphobic nosebleed, Slayer, Sunn, Bolt Thrower, lots of strangling each other, grim dead reaper head-banging, and then some dancey-dance… then …
October 31, 2005 – 3:42 am
cornhoolio … mit brot
Cornelia is blogging. I’m in trouble… all flog … all the time … debbie – mercy45
October 29, 2005 – 1:09 am
more of the same … mit brot
This is a special post for my two favourite readers, who I can no longer say anything to because I’ve …
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 25, 2005 – 5:54 pm
i blog for … ummm … stuff …
Losing seriously in a game of charades last night when I displayed my absolute out-of-date-ness by failing to guess ‘computer+writer=blog’, …
October 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 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 – 3:30 am
slow boat to psychedelia
Writing abusive diatribes against a certain cretinous moron from a respectable Zürich newspaper who has built a reputation on vandalising …
October 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 7, 2005 – 3:56 am
i can’t feel my cock …
Champagne Bikini girls in Letraset Tattoos on non-stop video. Which is pretty much what last night was all about, part …
October 5, 2005 – 2:22 am
mercy 45 – she’s got legs
Last week before we destroyed several thousand Swiss francs of Christa de Carouge’s clothes, Emile thought it’d be fun to …
October 1, 2005 – 11:23 am
dance like you’re drinking beer … or something
This is more of an exercise in embarrassment plus occasional gloating than a real post. Firstly there was the birthday …
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 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 2, 2005 – 5:05 am
uli sigg – the man behind the flying fetus
In keeping with my new news policy, I only write about things that happened more than two weeks ago, which …
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 26, 2005 – 3:54 am
on a fast train
I’m going to Vevey for the weekend to see the aussies in Compagnie Nomades perform «Le bal des vampires». Plenty …
August 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 20, 2005 – 3:25 am
holy flying fetuses batman
Speaking of 萧昱 Xiao Yu and his penchant for the kind of art which would see him in the skanky …
August 19, 2005 – 5:26 am
slim pickings at supernaut
Yeah, I know four days of posting in half a month constitutes a new zenith in blogging atrophy for me. …
August 5, 2005 – 3:51 am
the truth about zürich
Currently have a crap internet connection – dial-up in fact. I feel like I have died and been reincarnated in …
July 27, 2005 – 7:06 pm
siwic – provokant und ausdrucksstark
For the media whores who like to see their own name in the press again and again and again, or …
July 24, 2005 – 8:12 pm
the hills are alive with the sound of wheezing
The best way to climb hills in Switzerland is by drinking coffee and eating pain au chocolate until late morning, …
July 20, 2005 – 7:27 pm
siwic – are we famous yet?
There were some people with cameras and others asking questions and taking notes who weren’t considering charging us with several …
July 18, 2005 – 7:36 am
siwic day 16 – how to win friends and influence people
After a most refreshing dawn swim by mostly naked, mostly quite trashed dancers in a river with a moderately swift …
July 17, 2005 – 7:28 am
siwic day 15 – sun exclusive: nigel charnock pashed me
It’s Monday now, and really I haven’t been home since Saturday morning, which is maybe not indicative of an average …
July 16, 2005 – 7:01 am
siwic day 14 – hope i die because of it
Yes, I am hungover. What is more important than any performance is what you do after, which usually involves stripping …
July 15, 2005 – 7:14 am
siwic day 13 – sex inspires wanking in choreography
So we ran the dog last night. Maybe should have taken it outside and introduced it to a shotgun. The …
July 14, 2005 – 7:42 am
siwic day 12 – “once i was afraid”
Martin said this was the last day. There are no more tasks, no more games of torture to play at …
July 13, 2005 – 7:40 am
siwic day 11 – all the people i can remember sleeping with and the drugs i took
It’s the last full day of tasks. Tomorrow we start trying to resuscitate one and an half weeks of self-indulgent …
July 12, 2005 – 7:55 am
siwic day 10 – you can sleep when you’re dead
I’m not gonna say much about Saturday night now that various :cough: choreographers from SiWiC – who shall remain unnamed …
July 10, 2005 – 3:51 am
siwic day 9 – ow it stingsss…
We’ve been working nine days straight, it’s been a scream, lots of dancing, lots of fun stuff, lots of excellent …
July 9, 2005 – 3:27 am
siwic day 8 – happy birthday martin
That’s right. Boy wonder, debonaire fashion styliste, over-acheiver, and too fucking young. Martin turned 27 today, so naturally I had …
July 8, 2005 – 3:01 am
siwic day 7 – war of the worlds
After yesterday’s frustrating ‘work with someone else’ circus which underlined what a megalomaniac attention-seeker I am, today was hours of …
July 7, 2005 – 4:49 pm
siwic day 6 – frostbite
This was a day I didn’t enjoy. A task that sucked, having to work with another choreographer, many additional requirements …
July 6, 2005 – 7:44 am
siwic day 5 – lesbian vampires on smack
I had this idea I wanted to recreate the rape scene from Irreversible. Then I watched it. It’s not often …
July 5, 2005 – 6:05 am
siwic day 4 – killing dancers is fun
It started for real today. No more lazy 11am rolling into the studio feeling kinda lazy, no early finishes, and …
July 4, 2005 – 4:41 am
siwic day 3 – quantum physics & synchronised swimming
Another late start today, and not much in the way of dancing, only a 3 hour lecture on Quantum Physics …
July 3, 2005 – 5:34 am
siwic day 2 – 6 little choreographers
There is something very civilised about starting class at 11am. Even if it is a Saturday, it’s lazy, depraved in …
July 2, 2005 – 6:29 am
siwic day 1 – arriving in zurich & art sluts
For the next three weeks, I am in Zurich at SiWiC – the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in Choreographie. I’m not …
July 2, 2005 – 1:16 am
holiday in vevey
The past week has been mostly spent lying on the beach beside Lake Geneva, eating, sleeping, and doing as little …
June 28, 2005 – 2:05 am
slumming it in vevey
The most skanky flight I have ever had in my life was on the weekend, Hong Kong to Bangkok, to …
March 23, 2005 – 3:02 pm
going to zurich
I just found out today I’ll be going to Zurich in July for SiWiC – the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in …
February 11, 2005 – 4:46 pm
tremplin
Tor Chiu, formerly of Australia, one of the now hundreds of dancers who at one time swung a leg for …