I'm going to Vienna. eeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I got an email this afternoon saying I've been accepted for the Choreographers' Venture with...
Suffering from a paucity of new books the last two weeks, and packing mine all away in preparation for inevitable...
business cards - the art of saying hello
A friend whom I hadn't seen for ages - another dancer of course - was offering to teach me some...
Emile took me along to see an exhibition of Peter Saville while we were in Zürich. I'm really surprised at...
Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I'm not going to blog about, but certainly has much...
After coughing myself into sleep deprivation over the previous couple of weeks, it was a blessing when dreams returned last...
It was about a year and a half ago when I considered the probability of an endless stretch of boringness...
In an uncanny, though not unanticipated recurrence, I am slightly lost in a post-performance limbo that bears many similarities with...
Anna Tenta is back in Zürich for another performance at Tanzhaus Wasserwerk. She was working on this solo when I...
If you've been reading this blog for more than six months, you'll know in June last year I did the...
The flight wasn't as bad as I'd thought it would be, though getting screwed at Hong Kong airport for a...
It's been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to...
I'm travelling to Hong Kong early Friday morning so my abuse of bandwidth and the internet has slowed to a...
I've fallen out of the mood to blog at the moment. It coincided with finishing hell, and so finishing my...
Fat snotty lumps of snow pushed down the river from the breeze as it coiled over the hills above Zürich...
Acid Mothers Temple!!! Zubi Zuva X, Akaten, Ruins Alone, Zoffy, Shrinp Wark, Seikazoku!!! Welcome to Japan New Music Festival!!! Three...
Two months ago, by an odd set of circumstances, I schlepped out to the Zürich Flughaven to pick up video...
There's always something of a blah period for me after I've finished a performance, but it's most pronounced when the...
It's over. Saturday night was a breeze, no second night wierdness, and Sunday just went. It's getting stranger and stranger...
Premiere, opening night, make-up, hair, bikinis, an almost proper warm-up (a couple of pliés and running through the Botticelli section...
Which is the name of one of Agoraphobic Nosebleed's tracks, all 1 minute of it, so it's a veritable Wagner-length...
Some choreographers like to drill a piece into the ground once it's finished, rehearsing it until it's like whipping a...
I got my haircut today, and went shoe shopping ... um ... then we rehearsed. Actually we wanted to get...
Which is where Emile is about now, doing his first VJ gig in Europe/Deutschland on this trip, and was what...
I'd had this idea the reanimating of corpses would be good, but it's become the best thing I've done all...
Our necks are a bit sore, but the early highlight of the day was getting Emile's satanic reverse gore-wrist metal...
Agoraphobic nosebleed, Slayer, Sunn, Bolt Thrower, lots of strangling each other, grim dead reaper head-banging, and then some dancey-dance... then...
Continuing my playtime in Zürich, I forgot to mention Tanzhaus Wasserwerk offered me a place in 12min.max, which is on...
Cornelia is blogging. I'm in trouble... all flog ... all the time ... debbie - mercy45
This is a special post for my two favourite readers, who I can no longer say anything to because I've...
Losing seriously in a game of charades last night when I displayed my absolute out-of-date-ness by failing to guess 'computer+writer=blog...
We opened Mercy 45 on Wednesday after three months of having way too much fun, and filling the Vortragsaal (or...
We got the costumes yesterday, Christa de Carouge long black dresses which show off plenty of everything, especially when stray...
It was just big words on a pink piece of paper, MOVE IT!, and I was too lazy to turn...
It's all on next week, Mercy 45, the new performance by Denise Lampart Compagnie. Stücktitel: Mercy 45 Aufführungsdaten: Premiere: Mittwoch...
Writing abusive diatribes against a certain cretinous moron from a respectable Zürich newspaper who has built a reputation on vandalising...
I've seen one of the best shows in years tonight, and I'm not just saying that because Anna Tenta is...
Champagne Bikini girls in Letraset Tattoos on non-stop video. Which is pretty much what last night was all about, part...
There's nothing more to say. Acid Mothers Temple are the closest thing I've ever heard to sucking on a blotter-sheet...
Last week before we destroyed several thousand Swiss francs of Christa de Carouge's clothes, Emile thought it'd be fun to...
This is more of an exercise in embarrassment plus occasional gloating than a real post. Firstly there was the birthday...
She's kinda like a Swiss Issey Miyaki, whose idea of a good time is schlepping around the scrappier parts of...
Since I spend most of every day at Tanzhaus Wasswerwerk at the moment, and it's full of people rehearsing, I...
My first trip to the world of live dance in Zürich was seeing Christina Gehrig Binder &Anne Lorenz's Sie Sind...
Not a word said so far on life in Zürich, rehearsals with Cie. Denise Lampart, endless days in Tanzhaus, or...
In-between inexplicable torrents of rain and general foulness passing for summer in Vevey, Compagnie Nomades have been performing Le Bal...
I'm going to Vevey for the weekend to see the aussies in Compagnie Nomades perform «Le bal des vampires». Plenty...
There's an outpost of Little Australia in Vevey, beside the lake which is where I spent my first week in...
Speaking of 萧昱 Xiao Yu and his penchant for the kind of art which would see him in the skanky...
Currently have a crap internet connection - dial-up in fact. I feel like I have died and been reincarnated in...
For the media whores who like to see their own name in the press again and again and again, or...
The best way to climb hills in Switzerland is by drinking coffee and eating pain au chocolate until late morning...
Back in Vevey for a couple of days. Zurich was getting boring without anyone to cause trouble with. They all...
There were some people with cameras and others asking questions and taking notes who weren't considering charging us with several...
After a most refreshing dawn swim by mostly naked, mostly quite trashed dancers in a river with a moderately swift...
It's Monday now, and really I haven't been home since Saturday morning, which is maybe not indicative of an average...
Yes, I am hungover. What is more important than any performance is what you do after, which usually involves stripping...
So we ran the dog last night. Maybe should have taken it outside and introduced it to a shotgun. The...
Martin said this was the last day. There are no more tasks, no more games of torture to play at...
It's the last full day of tasks. Tomorrow we start trying to resuscitate one and an half weeks of self-indulgent...
I'm not gonna say much about Saturday night now that various :cough: choreographers from SiWiC - who shall remain unnamed...
We've been working nine days straight, it's been a scream, lots of dancing, lots of fun stuff, lots of excellent...
That's right. Boy wonder, debonaire fashion styliste, over-acheiver, and too fucking young. Martin turned 27 today, so naturally I had...
After yesterday's frustrating 'work with someone else' circus which underlined what a megalomaniac attention-seeker I am, today was hours of...
This was a day I didn't enjoy. A task that sucked, having to work with another choreographer, many additional requirements...
I had this idea I wanted to recreate the rape scene from Irreversible. Then I watched it. It's not often...
It started for real today. No more lazy 11am rolling into the studio feeling kinda lazy, no early finishes, and...
Another late start today, and not much in the way of dancing, only a 3 hour lecture on Quantum Physics...
There is something very civilised about starting class at 11am. Even if it is a Saturday, it's lazy, depraved in...
For the next three weeks, I am in Zurich at SiWiC - the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in Choreographie. I'm not...
The past week has been mostly spent lying on the beach beside Lake Geneva, eating, sleeping, and doing as little...
I just found out today I'll be going to Zurich in July for SiWiC - the Schweizerischer Internationaler Weiterbildungskurs in...
Tor Chiu, formerly of Australia, one of the now hundreds of dancers who at one time swung a leg for...
The Festival Local et régional de créations choréographiques 2004 is on at the moment at Théàtre de l'Usine in Geneva...