November 10, 2008

finishing

This week I made a decision I've been thinking about on and off for years, and always delayed because somehow...

December 7, 2007

pestilence

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

April 19, 2007

dance for obsessive-compulsives

Emile is almost at the end of his winter of Rotterdam, that sent him to the Spielraum in Berlin for...

February 7, 2006

hell - some more photos from paul

More from the meat-locker of Paul Williams' shoot of hell, and the video is coming soon too. the twelve days...

February 6, 2006

hell - some photos from paul

Paul Williams, who shot the 16mm film of extermination came into watch the dress run and pre-show warm-up run of...

January 30, 2006

hell - apocalypse then

Two days of hell. I can't really say a lot about it right now, it was insane, mental, fucking terrifying...

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January 27, 2006

hell day 13 - i found a friend ...

Dance Works is nice and cool inside even when outside was something disgusting, so there was no way I was...

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January 25, 2006

hell day 12 - ... i remember something ...

It was just a process of running scenes today, some that hadn't been let out of their boxes for at...

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January 24, 2006

hell day 11 - boticelli unmasked as doré

I had this suspicion all along when I was using these etchings of Dante's Inferno that they weren't the ones...

everything you always wanted to know about hell ...

... but were afraid to ask Jean Baudrillard. One of my enduringly favourite books, that I have somehow permanently connected...

January 21, 2006

hell day 8,9,10 - screaming witch demons etc ...

As much as I've wanted to write something every day about hell, wanted in some sense has become an obligation...

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January 19, 2006

HELL ... 773H

We have only one week to go on the Melbourne development of hell. I think I've made something fairly depraved...

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January 16, 2006

hell day 7 - shunga meets grindcore

After getting all teary-eyed watching Joe slip into exhaustion-induced halluncinations with a Boney M soundtrack in Touching the Void, it...

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January 14, 2006

hell day 6 - the twelve days of sodom

Actually most of my choreographing comes from when I am either insensate while falling asleep or trying to avoid waking...

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January 10, 2006

hell day 5 - 貍貓換太子 - Racoon for a Prince

ow. pain. bruise. bits of missing skin. Let's glamourise the frailty of our bodies when the hit the floor. Digging...

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January 9, 2006

hell day 4 - Hell-O)))-Ween

In which after eight hours of throwing ourselves around and at the floor, groping each other, and watching the fake...

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January 7, 2006

hell day 3 - vampiros lesbos ... again

Maybe it's not proper rehearsal form to spend most of the afternoon talking, but considering how much we have all...

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January 5, 2006

hell day 2 - absolutely freak out

We have sore necks. Some nice bruises, a bit of skin missing from the bony bits, and a few nicks...

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January 4, 2006

hell day 1 - south of heaven

I am back in hell again. One month of rehearsals started today and the group would make Captain Blood tremble...

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November 22, 2005

hell - video corruption

I've fallen out of the mood to blog at the moment. It coincided with finishing hell, and so finishing my...

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November 16, 2005

hell - the detritus

There's always something of a blah period for me after I've finished a performance, but it's most pronounced when the...

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November 15, 2005

hell day (11) 12 - brot wine beer kasse kabab

It's over. Saturday night was a breeze, no second night wierdness, and Sunday just went. It's getting stranger and stranger...

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November 12, 2005

hell day 10 - rockin the kanton-z-town

Premiere, opening night, make-up, hair, bikinis, an almost proper warm-up (a couple of pliés and running through the Botticelli section...

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November 11, 2005

hell day 9 - contaminated drug supply

Which is the name of one of Agoraphobic Nosebleed's tracks, all 1 minute of it, so it's a veritable Wagner-length...

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November 10, 2005

hell day 8 - make some fucking noise

Some choreographers like to drill a piece into the ground once it's finished, rehearsing it until it's like whipping a...

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November 9, 2005

hell day (6) 7 - something something something

I got my haircut today, and went shoe shopping ... um ... then we rehearsed. Actually we wanted to get...

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November 6, 2005

hell day 4 + 5 - no sleep till baden

Which is where Emile is about now, doing his first VJ gig in Europe/Deutschland on this trip, and was what...

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November 3, 2005

hell day 3 - reanimating the dead

I'd had this idea the reanimating of corpses would be good, but it's become the best thing I've done all...

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November 2, 2005

hell day 2 - rosemary you suck

Our necks are a bit sore, but the early highlight of the day was getting Emile's satanic reverse gore-wrist metal...

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hell day 1 - you are entering a world of pain

Agoraphobic nosebleed, Slayer, Sunn, Bolt Thrower, lots of strangling each other, grim dead reaper head-banging, and then some dancey-dance... then...

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October 31, 2005

12min.max - hell

Continuing my playtime in Zürich, I forgot to mention Tanzhaus Wasserwerk offered me a place in 12min.max, which is on...

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June 28, 2005

hell is coming

I've just been informed that the very nice Arts Victoria have once again decided throwing money at me to make...

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