September 2, 2007

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 7

After my opening up during the last rehearsal, today's three-hour endurance spectacle, resting on many pages of preparatory notes and...

July 10, 2007

flyhatched

It was only three years ago but seems … one of those entanglings with a person that are outside of...

December 9, 2006

alpine bushfires

It's all a bit like Guangzhou in summer really, a dirty jaundiced pall hanging over the city, the slight breeze...

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January 4, 2006

siwic 2006

If you've been reading this blog for more than six months, you'll know in June last year I did the...

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July 27, 2005

siwic - provokant und ausdrucksstark

For the media whores who like to see their own name in the press again and again and again, or...

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July 20, 2005

siwic - are we famous yet?

There were some people with cameras and others asking questions and taking notes who weren't considering charging us with several...

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July 18, 2005

siwic day 16 - how to win friends and influence people

After a most refreshing dawn swim by mostly naked, mostly quite trashed dancers in a river with a moderately swift...

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July 17, 2005

siwic day 15 - sun exclusive: nigel charnock pashed me

It's Monday now, and really I haven't been home since Saturday morning, which is maybe not indicative of an average...

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July 16, 2005

siwic day 14 - hope i die because of it

Yes, I am hungover. What is more important than any performance is what you do after, which usually involves stripping...

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July 15, 2005

siwic day 13 - sex inspires wanking in choreography

So we ran the dog last night. Maybe should have taken it outside and introduced it to a shotgun. The...

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July 14, 2005

siwic day 12 - "once i was afraid"

Martin said this was the last day. There are no more tasks, no more games of torture to play at...

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July 13, 2005

siwic day 11 - all the people i can remember sleeping with and the drugs i took

It's the last full day of tasks. Tomorrow we start trying to resuscitate one and an half weeks of self-indulgent...

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July 12, 2005

siwic day 10 - you can sleep when you're dead

I'm not gonna say much about Saturday night now that various :cough: choreographers from SiWiC - who shall remain unnamed...

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July 10, 2005

siwic day 9 - ow it stingsss...

We've been working nine days straight, it's been a scream, lots of dancing, lots of fun stuff, lots of excellent...

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July 9, 2005

siwic day 8 - happy birthday martin

That's right. Boy wonder, debonaire fashion styliste, over-acheiver, and too fucking young. Martin turned 27 today, so naturally I had...

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July 8, 2005

siwic day 7 - war of the worlds

After yesterday's frustrating 'work with someone else' circus which underlined what a megalomaniac attention-seeker I am, today was hours of...

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July 7, 2005

siwic day 6 - frostbite

This was a day I didn't enjoy. A task that sucked, having to work with another choreographer, many additional requirements...

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July 6, 2005

siwic day 5 - lesbian vampires on smack

I had this idea I wanted to recreate the rape scene from Irreversible. Then I watched it. It's not often...

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July 5, 2005

siwic day 4 - killing dancers is fun

It started for real today. No more lazy 11am rolling into the studio feeling kinda lazy, no early finishes, and...

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July 4, 2005

siwic day 3 - quantum physics & synchronised swimming

Another late start today, and not much in the way of dancing, only a 3 hour lecture on Quantum Physics...

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July 3, 2005

siwic day 2 - 6 little choreographers

There is something very civilised about starting class at 11am. Even if it is a Saturday, it's lazy, depraved in...

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July 2, 2005

siwic day 1 - arriving in zurich & art sluts

For the next three weeks, I am in Zurich at SiWiC - the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in Choreographie. I'm not...

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March 23, 2005

going to zurich

I just found out today I'll be going to Zurich in July for SiWiC - the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in...

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