It’s already over. We performed last night and today is Saturday, the residency finished. In-between now and Thursday morning, we …
December 5, 2011 – 10:07 pm
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 …
November 10, 2011 – 3:16 pm
danielschlusser.com
Some time in Vienna last year, Daniel Schlusser came to visit and we made some trial rehearsals with ropes and …
October 7, 2011 – 5:22 pm
Daniel Schlusser — Ophelia
In the graben between late night and early morning, while scrabbling small amendments for something of Daniel Schlusser’s I hope …
August 12, 2011 – 8:24 pm
Reading (Playing): Gabriele Klein, Gitta Barthel, Esther Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
Klein, Barthel, Wagner – Choreografischer Baukasten
July 31, 2011 – 12:06 pm
A day in Gent
A short pause for two days before the next project begins. Gala and I have been working together and in …
July 25, 2011 – 11:30 pm
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 …
April 19, 2011 – 5:06 pm
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 …
March 24, 2011 – 2:52 pm
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 …
February 23, 2011 – 6:51 pm
us alone tied
The day before the last performance, we arranged to spend some time on the stage working on some suspensions and …
February 18, 2011 – 2:51 pm
parsipress? pressifal?
More? More! Continuing on from when Castellucci was a criminal … Words and Pictures!. I was planning on making an …
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 25, 2010 – 9:32 am
sophiensäle wien
Blogging daily about Café Prückel I think I can say won’t be happening. Much busyness, running around, long days, inability …
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 …
June 1, 2010 – 7:52 am
fontographie
Early rising to Kreuzberg and after a time to wake Matthi up in Reichenbergerstr. Breakfast peanutbutter and coffee, talking across …
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 – 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 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. …
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, …
August 17, 2009 – 10:27 am
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
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 …
January 4, 2009 – 10:43 pm
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, …
August 31, 2008 – 7:34 am
rosa luxemburg platz
Wandering around the Volksbühne in the evening on the way to eat Burritos. A new bookshop discovered, much laziness, food …
August 29, 2008 – 5:47 am
revalerstr 99
This week a haze has descended on me, it is easier to stay in bed safe in the folds of …
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 …
May 13, 2008 – 12:57 pm
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 …
May 10, 2008 – 11:57 am
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 …
April 21, 2008 – 3:02 pm
pestilence day 14
Obviously today I am completely distracted and nervous and managed to do little except lie on the floor spontaneously falling …
April 19, 2008 – 2:10 pm
pestilence day 13
Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans, …
April 17, 2008 – 10:59 pm
pestilence day 12
Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva’s abjection, …
April 16, 2008 – 4:46 pm
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 …
April 7, 2008 – 8:33 pm
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 …
April 3, 2008 – 4:07 pm
pestilence day 1 & 2
There is a reason for not blogging day one of rehearsals and it has to do with being delightfully waylaid …
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 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 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, …
April 1, 2007 – 11:58 am
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 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 4, 2006 – 8:02 am
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 …
October 30, 2006 – 3:17 pm
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …