It’s already over. We performed last night and today is Saturday, the residency finished. In-between now and Thursday morning, we …
the n+2 dimensional space for n>1 — day 7
The first day returning after (most of) one day off, and ten hours rotating between studio and kitchen with a …
danielschlusser.com
Some time in Vienna last year, Daniel Schlusser came to visit and we made some trial rehearsals with ropes and …
Daniel Schlusser — Ophelia
In the graben between late night and early morning, while scrabbling small amendments for something of Daniel Schlusser’s I hope …
Reading (Playing): Gabriele Klein, Gitta Barthel, Esther Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
Klein, Barthel, Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
A day in Gent
A short pause for two days before the next project begins. Gala and I have been working together and in …
process/unprocess week 2 day 1
I am humming. Gala stands over me. She is reading the Aftersong from Beyond Good and Evil. We look at …
TWO SHOWS: Nearby Buffalo and memory/such mich
From Anuschka von Oppen, who will be in Berlin shortly for a piece I (think I) saw some of in …
stuttgart calixto bieito parsifal (+ andrew)
It seems the nature of seeing a performance in another city also involves lengthy missed trains on the return for …
us alone tied
The day before the last performance, we arranged to spend some time on the stage working on some suspensions and …
parsipress? pressifal?
More? More! Continuing on from when Castellucci was a criminal … Words and Pictures!. I was planning on making an …
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
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 …
sophiensäle wien
Blogging daily about Café Prückel I think I can say won’t be happening. Much busyness, running around, long days, inability …
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 …
fontographie
Early rising to Kreuzberg and after a time to wake Matthi up in Reichenbergerstr. Breakfast peanutbutter and coffee, talking across …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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, …
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
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 …
re.act.feminism – performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute
Still dark, before 6am, lying in bed, the clouded sky lighting the city and me already with coffee and reading, …
rosa luxemburg platz
Wandering around the Volksbühne in the evening on the way to eat Burritos. A new bookshop discovered, much laziness, food …
revalerstr 99
This week a haze has descended on me, it is easier to stay in bed safe in the folds of …
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 …
pestilence days 15-17
I’ve been editing DVDs this week, first all the people i can remember sleeping with…, then monadologie, and in the …
pestilence last days
If I’m looking for acceptable, believable excuses, then lack of internet at home, necessary for late-night bed blogging, and an …
pestilence day 14
Obviously today I am completely distracted and nervous and managed to do little except lie on the floor spontaneously falling …
pestilence day 13
Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans, …
pestilence day 12
Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva’s abjection, …
pestilence days 5-11
Night rehearsals. I’ve been slack at blogging this project. It’s taken me an awful lot of methodical, patient, slogging to …
pestilence day 3 & 4
Friday and Monday and the weekend at the library. I’ve been struggling somewhat with this piece, possibly because I’ve been …
pestilence day 1 & 2
There is a reason for not blogging day one of rehearsals and it has to do with being delightfully waylaid …
tense dave
Over the past couple of days I’ve been thinking and talking quite a bit about Chunky Move’s Tense Dave, a …
b-file
Falling asleep while passing time in a nearby bookstore while waiting for Michael to arrive in the distant north of …
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, …
sunday morning avoiding-work blogging
More stuff I’ve read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone’s taste is …
grace
I feel old when I try to remember how many years ago it was I saw piglet in the garage …
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 …
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 …
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 …
sunn0))) and children killers
Feeling a little grim yesterday, I went shopping for what I hoped would be something cheerful, like a Bathory or …
la mama – does anyone take ozco seriously anymore?
A few days ago, I was talking with someone about a certain hack from the Herald Sun, whose name evades …
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
insanity…
These four days until Sunday night I have pretty much no time to do important stuff like eat chocolate and …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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. …
body presentations
The Goethe-Institut‘s mailing list has an excellent article on the state of dance and performance in Germany, looking at a …
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, …