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Jan 23, 2011 blog

he is not here

Image from showing of He is not here at Roehampton University on 10 January 2011.

Choreography: Bagryana Popov Performance: Simon Ellis

Bagryana and I are currently in Sofia where the work will première tomorrow (Monday 24 January 2011). It has been more than 3 years since we started this project — some very early materials (shot in Macedonia) are here: http://skellis.net/untitled — and it seems to be such a rare thing to go into a performance with such a refined embodied understanding of the materials and their conception.

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