Gala is in Melbourne, so is quite a few of Adelaide people. See her show starting next week in the...
I spent the early afternoon today pottering around on two things that while their minutia is like worms eating in...
Daniel stayed the night, after our witching hour last rehearsal, and it was past 3 before sleeping. Later, after I...
If I'm looking for acceptable, believable excuses, then lack of internet at home, necessary for late-night bed blogging, and an...
Oops … 我忘了… I forgot… My blog's 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April. I...
Obviously today I am completely distracted and nervous and managed to do little except lie on the floor spontaneously falling...
Friday, rehearsal 13, night and darkness. Daniel and I seem to work rather well when the building creaks and groans...
Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva's abjection...
Night rehearsals. I've been slack at blogging this project. It's taken me an awful lot of methodical, patient, slogging to...
I have no idea why none of my FTP applications are able to run LIST -a while using Internode's wireless...
Friday and Monday and the weekend at the library. I've been struggling somewhat with this piece, possibly because I've been...
There is a reason for not blogging day one of rehearsals and it has to do with being delightfully waylaid...
Daniel fed Sid on Friday. I've never seen Sid eat before, it was quite beautiful. Also, Sid is ready to...
This is the month of Adelaide independent choreographers with five developments that I know of and maybe a couple of...
Daniel is having showings of the development of his new work this weekend with some of Adelaide's most wild and...
Lina is in Adelaide, working on a development of a new performance, with a showing next Friday. Lucky I'm here...
Days of nothing over the weekend, seeing Bonnie for the last time in a while, breakfast at Mario's on Brunswick...
business cards - the art of saying hello
The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I've been trying to learn everything I can on absorption...
I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I'll make excuses elsewhere. I...
For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing...
A taxi driver from Punjab studying electronics with such a polite demeanor managed to persuade me that going all the...
Oh, so close now and … mmm nervousness and so on. A peculiar week. I haven't been too intent on...
This is the running order of the work. Or … it describes certain possibilities that if I'm clever enough could...
Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. "In so far as the concatenation...
Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the...
“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their...
Just because I've continually forgotten to do this… I'm blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New...
So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness. And now...
This week has mostly involved me being in the studio and not so much time at the Centre. It was...
Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn't sure how useful me being in a studio on...
The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly...
I would swim underwater until my breath was nearly exhausted and then float, a calm, prickly and weightless silence and...
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs...
I'm losing track of what day is where… We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material...
Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on...
Some hecticness, I'll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not. A little video. 45...
Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the...
The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow...
Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and...
lois may - transgenders and intersexuals
Avoiding bringing home my laptop means time for fun things like staring at walls, lying in bed, rolling over, looking...
Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being...
I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up...
We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also...
Some more photos, this time from the dress run at Noarlunga, deep in the christian south. This theatre was one...
After them leaving Adelaide, then me leaving also, then arriving almost two months after the show, I finally got some...
Approaching a return to Melbourne, back to airports on Saturday and to … see if I can make sense of...
I think it was combination of red wine, sparkling shiraz, roast beetroot, kilos of cherries … Did I miss any...
I was genuinely about to go home for a long sleep so today I could do some work on my...
Continuing on from Monday afternoon, I only made it as far as Gala's kitchen, where going out clothes were exchanged...
Sharing a plane with Leo, who is Tom's brother who is at Art School (say it with capitals) in Melbourne...
A couple of nights staying with my wonderful friend Bonnie, eating pancakes, drinking tea, long chats into the night...
A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie's sister coming into the...
I've been reading Leibniz's 1714 text Monadologie again. It's sometimes like a vortex, or … how things turn and spiral...
I am at Swinburne. I have an office. It's half way to the first floor (or second if you're counting...
I'm now in residence at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing where I'll be for much of summer working...
No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of...
This morning, sleeping not yoga-ing, a little message from Alison in Adelaide, "Dear frances … i am pleased to hav...
While I'm about to embark on my residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and getting quite giddy...
I'm off to Melbourne on Monday for a three month residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics through ANAT, making...
Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique...