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hear me roar July 20, 2014 blog People are saying I don’t need anything but my own ability to earn a profit. I’m not connected to society. I don’t care how the road got built, I

creative behaviour July 6, 2014 blog I thought that art schools should just be places where you thought about creative behavior, whereas they thought an art school was a place where you

passing by July 3, 2014 blog I’m passing by the summer theatre at Hammersmith. I pause because I think I recognise one of the cast members. I’m immediately approached by an

becoming witch July 2, 2014 blog Charlie Ashwell is a London-based dance-artist who is currently developing a project in which she “traces and invokes the figure of the witch” and

responsibility and organisations June 24, 2014 blog I return to Melbourne pretty much each year to work on different projects and in the last 4 or 5 years in particular it’s clear that the scene is

all the things that we can do May 19, 2014 blog Part of the work I do as a dancer, choreographer and teacher involves running a Masters programme at the University of Roehampton that is called

dramaturgy and idiot-syncrasy May 11, 2014 blog What doesn’t play a role shouldn’t exist. What necessity requires does not need to exist. That’s what you call dramaturgy. Logic, morals or meaning

Untitled Project About Love April 25, 2014 practice

A project about mundane and extraordinary instances of old love, by Bagryana Popov, Shannon Bott and Simon Ellis. The two performers are moving in,

fighting the good fight at movement research and judson church April 7, 2014 blog Late last summer I read with some interest the open call for Movement Research at Judson Church. It seemed like an exciting opportunity to work

A Separation March 27, 2014 practice

If it crosses the line, if it goes too far, then it should do because it’s only by going too far that we know what the limits are. — William Drew

many words of dancing January 26, 2014 blog Last year I started collecting words to put in front of the word dancing (actually, I don’t know why I started collecting them, but this is what

Dancing Words January 26, 2014 practice

The many many words of dancing. This is an A2 sized poster, first released in 2014 and then updated in 2018. Some other information:

humbled January 20, 2014 blog

This is the text of an email I wrote in May 2007, a few weeks after completing the London marathon. I thought it might make an interesting blog post

criticism and listening January 6, 2014 blog I’ve been thinking about listening to criticism as a choreographer, and then I read this: The greatest compliment that was ever paid to me was when

chocolate December 31, 2013 blog This is a vaguely seasonal post that falls under the things part of On dance, art and things. Here is the opening paragraph of Harold McGee’s

ticking things over December 20, 2013 blog

I spend a lot of time talking to students and professional practitioners about the nature of practice, and the importance of finding a way to

letters to future students December 10, 2013 blog

I stole an idea recently from Brian Croxall who apparently stole it from Patrick Williams:

Szott, Gove and noticing things November 26, 2013 blog I like Randall Szott’s blog — Lebenskünstler — a lot. He writes provocatively and with a great deal of well-placed skepticism about the art world.

liberal education November 10, 2013 blog I read Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind in the late 1980s. My very close friends and I were in our early 20s, and together we found its

tiring of creativity October 6, 2013 blog Was starting to get a bit of creativity fatigue myself: Creativity is about the most worn-out, abused concept that used to mean something