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January 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.

Up next cicero The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and outside AiR Call for volunteer participants for a workshop and performance project: Mehmet Sander’s Uncomfort Zone. In his renowned ‘Manifesto on Dance’, Mehmet

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