May 13, 2008

just filling in

Gala is in Melbourne, so is quite a few of Adelaide people. See her show starting next week in the...

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 12, 2008

things…

I spent the early afternoon today pottering around on two things that while their minutia is like worms eating in...

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May 11, 2008

airports

Daniel stayed the night, after our witching hour last rehearsal, and it was past 3 before sleeping. Later, after I...

May 10, 2008

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 29, 2008

生日快乐!!! happy 4rd birthday supernaut

Oops … 我忘了… I forgot… My blog's 4th birthday was almost three weeks ago on the 7th of April. I...

April 21, 2008

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

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

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

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

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

pestilence day 1 & 2

There is a reason for not blogging day one of rehearsals and it has to do with being delightfully waylaid...

April 1, 2008

Witch/Red

This is the month of Adelaide independent choreographers with five developments that I know of and maybe a couple of...

March 29, 2008

swanhilda is a punk

Daniel is having showings of the development of his new work this weekend with some of Adelaide's most wild and...

March 26, 2008

the tighter you squeeze

Lina is in Adelaide, working on a development of a new performance, with a showing next Friday. Lucky I'm here...

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March 23, 2008

MEL-ADL … finish

Days of nothing over the weekend, seeing Bonnie for the last time in a while, breakfast at Mario's on Brunswick...

March 21, 2008

monadologie … last days and finish

The previous week has been on of quite small scale. I've been trying to learn everything I can on absorption...

March 19, 2008

monadologie photos

I do have much more to write about these last days at the centre, and I'll make excuses elsewhere. I...

March 3, 2008

monadologie day 46

For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing...

February 25, 2008

MEL-ADL … again … again … something like home …

A taxi driver from Punjab studying electronics with such a polite demeanor managed to persuade me that going all the...

February 20, 2008

monadologie day 40, 41 & 42

Oh, so close now and … mmm nervousness and so on. A peculiar week. I haven't been too intent on...

February 17, 2008

monadologie day 37 & 38 & 39

This is the running order of the work. Or … it describes certain possibilities that if I'm clever enough could...

February 14, 2008

monadologie

Frances would like to invite you to a showing of the development of monadologie. "In so far as the concatenation...

February 13, 2008

monadologie day 36

Feeling rather stunned after today. Bonnie and I worked out a couple of reiterative sequences that unfold from from the...

February 12, 2008

monadologie - self-referentiality

Just because I've continually forgotten to do this… I'm blogging the entire project and residency at Science is the New...

monadologie day 30 - 33, 34 & 35

So, has been an eventful week of much sleeplessness and then some sleep. And then some more sleeplessness. And now...

January 30, 2008

monadologie day 27

Just me alone … and Sunn 0))) … unjoy. I wasn't sure how useful me being in a studio on...

January 29, 2008

monadologie day 25 & 26

The twenty-fifth day being that wherein herd displays of nationalistic supremacy and mob imbecility occur across a country still insultingly...

January 27, 2008

more feeds and things … and blogrolls

A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs...

January 25, 2008

monadologie day 23 & 24

I'm losing track of what day is where… We spent a big day on Wednesday learning large amounts of material...

January 22, 2008

monadologie day (21 &) 22

Some hecticness, I'll write about yesterday and today properly-ish when I have time … or not. A little video. 45...

January 17, 2008

monadologie day 20

Thursday, the last day of our second week, though it feels like our first week as we were in the...

January 16, 2008

monadologie day 18 & 19

The learning of movement from video is exhausting me. I remember this from when I used to haha choreograph. Somehow...

January 14, 2008

monadologie day 16 & 17

Mostly I slept. I roused to see the Christian Marclay exhibition on at ACMI, and was utterly deliriously overjoyed and...

January 12, 2008

monadologie day 14 & 15

Thursday was so baking and heavy, like getting into the trunk of a car on a hot day and being...

January 9, 2008

monadologie day 12 & 13

I chose Camera B. The other one, Camera A seemed to be silently petulant around me. Together, they make up...

January 7, 2008

monadologie day 11

We played in the VR Lab today. The Astrophysics Centre has 3-D Stereoscopic projectors and twin cameras for filming also...

January 3, 2008

all the people i can remember sleeping with … some more photos

Some more photos, this time from the dress run at Noarlunga, deep in the christian south. This theatre was one...

all the people i can remember sleeping with … some photos

After them leaving Adelaide, then me leaving also, then arriving almost two months after the show, I finally got some...

to move freely

Approaching a return to Melbourne, back to airports on Saturday and to … see if I can make sense of...

December 31, 2007

Reading: Jin Xing - Shanghai Tango (A Memoir)

jin xing - shanghai tango (a memoir)

December 27, 2007

low brain activity

I think it was combination of red wine, sparkling shiraz, roast beetroot, kilos of cherries … Did I miss any...

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December 26, 2007

… and then that evening

I was genuinely about to go home for a long sleep so today I could do some work on my...

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later that evening … and the next day

Continuing on from Monday afternoon, I only made it as far as Gala's kitchen, where going out clothes were exchanged...

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December 24, 2007

adelaide

Sharing a plane with Leo, who is Tom's brother who is at Art School (say it with capitals) in Melbourne...

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December 21, 2007

monadologie - week 2

A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie's sister coming into the...

December 14, 2007

monadologie days 4 & 5

I've been reading Leibniz's 1714 text Monadologie again. It's sometimes like a vortex, or … how things turn and spiral...

December 12, 2007

monadologie days 1, 2, & 3

I am at Swinburne. I have an office. It's half way to the first floor (or second if you're counting...

December 8, 2007

a small break and things…

No internet for more than a week is something, especially in a week as frantic as this, and lack of...

December 7, 2007

pestilence

This morning, sleeping not yoga-ing, a little message from Alison in Adelaide, "Dear frances … i am pleased to hav...

November 29, 2007

AIR

While I'm about to embark on my residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and getting quite giddy...

November 28, 2007

ADL-MEL

I'm off to Melbourne on Monday for a three month residency at the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics through ANAT, making...

November 17, 2007

reading: terry pratchett…

terry pratchett - mort terry pratchett - the colour of magic terry pratchett - equal rites terry pratchett...

October 31, 2007

whuhappnd?

ummm… Big silence, no? Well we have performed all over the acreage of metropolitan Adelaide (and I kept thinking if...

October 23, 2007

a room in melbourne

I'm in Melbourne from mid-November till mid-March and need a cheap-ish room somewhere to plonk my suitcase and sleep. I'd...

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October 11, 2007

1010011010 the number of the beast

Having realised I could count up to 1024, in binary no less, using just my fingers and thumbs, it's surprising...

October 10, 2007

mediocrity

Due to the content of my Ignition 7 - Gender Studies performance, all the people i can remember sleeping with...

October 6, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 15 & 16 & this week

Libby said, "You're panicking. Deal with it". I said, "Oh I need to write that down", it would go well...

October 4, 2007

ignition 7 – gender studies

Australian Dance Theatre presents Ignition 7 – Gender Studies Ignition returns to stages throughout metropolitan Adelaide during October for its...

September 27, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 14

Xuan said to me, over lunch, "I never dream I'm an …", makes little creeping tendril extraterrestrial fingers, "alien...

September 26, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 13

So after last rehearsal, I was variously meant to watch all the video on Friday, but too busy with Melbourne...

September 20, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 11 & 12

It was Throbbing Gristle.