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and that is what you see us by March 8, 2018 practice

A performance installation by Natalia Barua, Katrina McPherson and Simon Ellis. We took photographs; a lot of photographs. We wanted to know what we

ambition February 16, 2018 blog

I used to be a member of The Place’s associate artist scheme called Work Place, and I see that my 2011 biography still exists on their site:

some things about dance February 1, 2018 In 2013 I started writing a series of short ideas about dance and choreography. I had the idea that perhaps I could put together a small book for

some things about dance February 1, 2018 practice

Some Things About Dance is a digital book. It is a collection of playful ideas or things about the art of dance. Each brief chapter is

writing January 21, 2018 blog I recently read a book by the New Zealand poet and academic Helen Sword called Stylish Academic Writing. It’s a thoughtful, considered and very well

advertising January 7, 2018 blog In the latest edition of Wired magazine computer philosopher Jaron Lanier writes of social media and the advertising business model of the

We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die November 27, 2017 practice A choreography of words for ten people by Shannon Bott and Simon Ellis. We started working together as dance-artists in 2003. The collaboration

we like lists November 17, 2017 blog Shannon Bott and I first started working together in 2003. We have had a long, fruitful and sporadic working relationship (see Inert and Recovery)

copy what we want November 12, 2017 blog If all people want to do is go and look at other people so that they can compare themselves to them and copy what they want — if that is the final,

efva lilja October 29, 2017 I first encountered the remarkable Swedish choreographer Efva Lilja through her books Dance, For Better For Worse (2004) and Words on Dance (2003).

sprawl October 8, 2017 blog Over the summer Melbourne choreographer and dancer Shaun McLeod and I had some time to prepare a scratch performance for the Dance and Somatic

andree October 1, 2017 blog Last Wednesday the esteemed dance anthropologist Andrée Grau died suddenly. She had an inquisitive, sharp and beautiful mind, was quick witted and

not for choreographic purposes September 11, 2017 blog In the summer I was working with Eva Recacha in the studio at The Place in London and one of the piano chairs had a sign on it: We all have objects

limitations September 11, 2017 blog The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own

not for choreographic purposes September 11, 2017 practice

We all have things or people in our lives that just shouldn’t — or won’t — be used for choreographic purposes. This is a set of stickers to mark

educational persuasion August 20, 2017 blog As a strategy for racial progress, educational persuasion has failed, because it has been predicated on the false construction of the race problem:

baldwin on america August 15, 2017 blog I Am Not Your Negro is a documentary by Raoul Peck about James Baldwin film about power, race, love, and a vision of America that is prescient and

privacy and eff August 13, 2017 blog I’ve written a little bit previously about privacy – here, here and here — and it’s safe to say a lot of my fun reading and learning seems to centre

ouspe resist being contained July 16, 2017 blog The University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand has decided to dump dance from the School of Physical Education:

obfuscation July 12, 2017 blog In the academic part of my professional life I spend a lot of time practising to write more clearly and directly. That is, to avoid unnecessary