Night rehearsals. I've been slack at blogging this project. It's taken me an awful lot of methodical, patient, slogging to...
susan mann - the talented women of the zhang family
Half a million people stuck in the Guangzhou Train Station, over 100 trains carrying thousands of people each stranded in...
This is not Guangzhou Train Station. This is Huanshi Xi Lu, quite far in front of the station. News from...
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs...
jin xing - shanghai tango (a memoir)
mmmm … mooncakes … green tea mooncake with one yolk hong kong elegant flavour
Whenever I'd be hanging out with some group of artists or dancers, sitting around the remnants of dinner and drinking...
My iPod seems to be dead, and somehow I keep managing to resuscitate my laptop despite in/out errors and loads...
Blowup was one of those films that changed how I look at cinema, and then how I imagined performance. Early...
John is responsible for much of my email. He only knows this now. But I read it all, after-all, I...
Conversations on contemporary art in China that swung around to dance invariably brought mention of Shanghai choreographer and dancer Jin...
More stuff I've read in the past two weeks for your amazement and occasional pleasure, though because everyone's taste is...
A late night swirling Pernod with Bonnie at Orange and an early trip to the shops for Sunday fruit, now...
Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I'm not going to blog about, but certainly has much...
Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning's blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary...
A couple of weeks ago, John Kennedy - also known as contemporary Chinese poetry translator Feng37 - thought that getting...
Yes, I am missing not being in Guangzhou, or joining hundreds of millions on the country's trains. So, from Mary...
Occasionally I stumble across an artist who manages to strip all the complexity from what is often a torturous endeavour...
What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the...
As when I arrived in Adelaide, so too was it grey and occasionally seeped in a fine mist for Bonnie...
Happy reading for me this afternoon from Mary Ann in Shenzhen, who writes one of the best blogs coming out...
Someone, obviously stupid, whom I haven't bothered to remember despite having a vague association in the Melbourne contemporary dance SCENE...
Maybe I should change my blog name to supernaut … i whore for science, I've been blogging so much about...
Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm...
I don't really want to be 'tranny activist' and have to get all political and fight-for-your-rights. Or perhaps more accurately...
Splendidly late blogging, but wtf. I've been meaning to drool here about Wang Qingsong's Dormitory, though equally any of his...
Lazy Saturday afternoon post-dragging myself out of bed and thinking of going climbing pretty soon, but first a random trawl...
Another list of completely unrelated stuff that circulated through my news feeds in the last couple of days and makes...
A truly disgusting start to yesterday was reading about climbers in Tibet on Cho Oyu watching the Chinese Army massacre...
I'm not sure how much I'll be blogging in the next week as things get mental with crush. In the...
I've been lucky enough to have had a couple of Mid-Autumn Festivals in Guangzhou, and yeah it's a bit late...
Lawrence Li at Global Noise Online has been blogging regularly about the upcoming China Power Station, "A major exhibition of...
Having dragged myself out of bed at the rather late hour of 1030 and still working my way through a...
One of my favourite means of getting around Guangzhou since I first got over my terror of speeding death under...
Reblogging again, this time combining a some of my disparate loves. Astronaut Shannon Lucid, like writer J. G. Ballard has...
Martha Graham. Evil despot of the Modern Dance universe. Shame she didn't die sooner. The ImpulsTanz Juice newsletter quotes her...
When I was in Hong Kong for a day in early May, as usual I went on my idea of...
There has been a large chemical leak in 天河区 Tian He District of Guangzhou, near 东圃石溪 Dongpushi Creek today. The...
Reading Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that...
A new book of contemporary art photographers from China: 3030: New Photography in China This fully illustrated survey of 30...
Read all about it on Free Hao Wu. China: Wu Hao released Filed under: About Hao Wu, News, Nina's blog...
Professor He Qinglian in Shanghai has a website, 何氏性别再赋整形美容网 offering sex-change information and surgery at the surgery department of the...
A friend was in town for a day, so I subjected him to my tour of Canton, walking from where...
During 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD, China didn't celebrate forty years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, and for various reasons...
The vast monsoon-saturated billboard, the only unbleached colour in two days of hard-sleeper train from Kunming to Guangzhou said, "Welcome...
Some photos of five days I spent wandering through Tiger Leaping Gorge, some from the high trail, others from when...
I'm going on holiday. For more than a week, maybe even two weeks... One place I've always wanted to visit...
Periodically, I write about stuff in China that has little at first glance to do with making dance and art...
There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking...
Everyone has gone. Emile is back in Melbourne now, and tomorrow is making Guangzhou sounds at St Jerome's. Remember, each...
Paul and Emile left last night after a fine dinner with everyone at 1920, the German café on 沿江路 Yanjiang...
Yesterday was one of those days I really wanted to not happen. It reminded me of a few other pre-show...
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...
We're doing a lot of just running sections now, accruing detail and coherency through repetition, but still to finish are...
Paul Emmanuel, who I have spent most of tonight making act like a stooge for Beelzebub has decided to remain...
It's mental week now, doing the costume shopping, organising lots of little things that sprout up like an Oxalis frenzy...
South-East Asia's biggest sex market that is, though I always expected Thailand, or Korea or Japan who have the first...
When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous...
We are performing 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD at Park19 next Sunday night. I'll be trying to blog about it every day...