hands that don’t want anything April 3, 2024 blog Back in 2009 I gave a presentation called Hands that don’t want anything at TaPRA at the University of Plymouth. It was about dancing with Kirstie singing and dancing March 25, 2024 blog Some David Byrne videos that brought me tremendous pleasure. Learning to dance: Singing David Bowie’s Heroes with Choir! Choir! Choir!: Byrne losing oneself February 27, 2024 blog I’m currently in the early stages of some research exploring improvisation and body awareness through the lens of nonduality. In the team I am given a price February 26, 2024 blog From Kate Raworth’s 2017 book Doughnut Economics: [Twentieth Century economic] theory overlooks the fact that some things may be put in jeopardy on remembering everything January 10, 2024 blog I like Ted Chiang’s writing a lot. Here’s a brief excerpt from his short story The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling. The premise of the story is Godin on ideas December 19, 2023 blog Here’s Seth Godin on where ideas come from. For some reason I didn’t write down where I found them but I suspect it was from his book The Song of three chairs December 5, 2023 blog I really like Sherry Turkle’s writing on the ways in which technology is changing (and has changed) our lives. In Reclaiming Conversations she growth November 19, 2023 blog I have finally got around to reading Kate Raworth’s 2017 book about economics called Doughnut Economics. I’m still close to the beginning but felt in christ October 26, 2023 blog I was watching a presentation about somatic dance practices recently with the auto CC feature turned on. The machine learning based closed captions Freelance Dance Artists’ Working Ecology September 10, 2023 blog My colleague Karen Wood at C-DaRE has been working with local freeland dance artists and has recently published a report available for download at he danced September 1, 2023 blog From the extraordinary Hopeland by Ian McDonald: Auberon Brightbourne strode onto the dance-floor. No hesitant, testing steps here. He must throw listening and pain August 24, 2023 blog listening opens that which pain has closed. – Jerry Colonna, Reboot (Chapter 1) Seems like listening is something I come back to on this blog. See Somatics unlimited July 15, 2023 practice On the pages of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices — and elsewhere in dance scholarship — artists, scholars, teachers and practitioners are body politics July 6, 2023 blog Here’s a videoed walk and conversation between Sunaura Taylor and Judith Butler. They talk about being bodies and I liked it a lot: I’m allergic to vernacular activities June 21, 2023 blog The Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich is best known for his book Tools for Conviviality (1973). Illich used the word ‘vernacular’ to name all the one sentence email tips May 21, 2023 blog This blog is about as far away from a productivity blog as you could imagine, but I really enjoyed Josh Spector’s list of one sentence email tips … scrutiny April 24, 2023 blog For Sebald everything is an uncanny memento mori: even a photograph is a device through which the dead scrutinise the living. I read this quote by ripeness March 26, 2023 blog I’m in the middle of supporting the development of Igor and Moreno’s new choreography Karrasekare. The work is at an intriguing stage some seven Dance after lockdown - living with paradox March 20, 2023 practice This writing explores the experiences of people in the UK’s contemporary dance sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.1 It draws on qualitative data mini essay March 17, 2023 blog This is to remind casual and regular readers of this blog that each month I send out a mini-essay to people who have subscribed to my mailing list.