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refuses to disappear June 26, 2016 blog For the body cannot be easily contained by the consumption imperative. It discovers its own sexual and political being and overflows autonomously in

extend their experience June 14, 2016 blog But it is the job of anybody who wishes to continue to write, particularly for the theatre, to extend their experience, not only to observe but

training mind and body June 12, 2016 blog One piece of advice: train your body to its limits. As far as you can go without injury. Train like a strong young athlete. But train your mind and

women will always be blamed for everything June 7, 2016 practice

is a 10 second film or vision that was created as part of Siobhan Davies and David Hinton’s project The

woman is fire bearing fire June 7, 2016 practice

is a 10 second film or vision that was created as part of Siobhan Davies and David Hinton’s project The Running Tongue

Our White Friend May 21, 2016 practice

is a performance project by Colin, Simon and I. It premièred at Independent Dance London on 21 May 2016. Tim Wise is an American

ted talks and creativity May 16, 2016 blog When he considered his creative friends as individuals, the literature of creativity began to seem even worse — more like a straight-up insult. Our

green shifting and success April 26, 2016 blog

There’s this phenomenon called green shifting which is a business or management term for the tendency to say things are fine when they are not. I

shannon and bassano April 18, 2016 blog I’ve had the tremendous pleasure of working with Australian artist Shannon Bott on and off since 2003. In May this year we are meeting in Bassano

provoke and disturb April 3, 2016 blog Reading the materials these days you’d know that art is about celebrating, bringing together, and affirming. You’d know that its about creative

Attitudes and Principles of Making April 1, 2016 practice

This is a list of principles — or perhaps attitudes — of choreographic practice and making. The list is not exhaustive, and indeed comprises many

big data March 21, 2016 blog A fascinating bit of writing about machines and our routine, non-routine, manual and cognitive jobs. Reminds me of the exquisite human-ness of

paradoxes for students February 2, 2016 blog I spent a couple of hours on a choreography with first year undergraduate dance students at Coventry University last week. Below are the notes I

our white friend copy January 24, 2016 blog Colin Poole and I have been working on a new performance project. It’s called Our White Friend. Here’s an initial blurb and link, and here’s the r&d

not knowing what we are looking for January 19, 2016 blog Humans see and hear what we expect to see and hear. Philosopher Alva Noë writes it like this: if I mention my hat, and then my scarf and then go on

word, academia and just writing January 2, 2016 blog a crucial stumbling block in reconfiguring the economics of scholarly communications for the digital age is Microsoft Word. Specifically, the fact

return to their skin December 28, 2015 blog On culturebot.org Lydia Mokdessi discusses Anneke Hansen‘s hymn: Part of it is an affirmative of the undeniably physical nature of existence. We

students December 18, 2015 blog I’ve been working and teaching at Roehampton Dance in Southwest London since September 2009. Today was my last day on the job. One of the great

Jealousy, Transmission and Recovery November 26, 2015 practice

is an article for Performance Research that reflects on the performance project Recovery in relation to

phd proposal November 10, 2015 blog In 1999 I applied to do a PhD at the University of Melbourne (through the Victorian College of the Arts). I was required to write a 100 word