writing workflow May 6, 2013 blog I write a lot and for many different purposes: research reports and presentations, blog posts, grant applications, academic articles, responses to thinking is dangerous April 28, 2013 blog Image taken at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago excitement of the new April 28, 2013 blog In March 2012 I presented my adaptation of Deborah Hay’s I Think Not at Napier St in Melbourne. It was an invited audience, for the most part bubble April 22, 2013 blog Sarah Crompton has written an opinion piece in The Telegraph about The Place Prize. She suggests that dance can’t “gain a foothold in the wider material translations April 17, 2013 blog Images from Material Translations exhibition at Art Institute Chicago, featuring five Japanese fashion designers — Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, Junya 100 day project April 16, 2013 blog Back in January I watched this TEDx talk by Emma Rogan about 100-day projects (such a pleasure to hear her kiwi accent) based on the teaching work contradiction April 10, 2013 blog Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. – Walt Whitman, [Song of Myself]1 A professor of difference and change April 5, 2013 blog Melbourne-based choreographer-director Bagryana Popova and I joke that we only ever make one work (for the record, mine is about death and memory, physical fractals — a response March 15, 2013 blog This isn’t a review, it’s more a response to a performance called Physical Fractals I saw a couple of days ago. I first heard of Chaos Theory some the time it takes trailer March 15, 2013 blog The Time It Takes: A new work directed and produced by Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes. http://vimeo.com/61454437 The film was shot last summer letter to Mårten Spångberg March 12, 2013 blog Dear Mårten I like your rants on Spangbergianism. They keep me on my toes, and this is a good thing for a dancer. Yours sincerely, Simon. PS. In observation March 4, 2013 blog I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I collected links about practising February 24, 2013 blog I’ve been writing quite a bit recently about practice as part of some preparation for a seminar I’m giving in Wolverhampton and Roehampton in March. decision making and slipperiness February 21, 2013 blog I’ve been writing a book chapter with Colin Poole these last few weeks (or is that months) and this is a bit that was edited out. I practice good fucking design advice February 16, 2013 blog Constantly fucking challenge yourself. – goodfuckingdesignadvice.com/#adviceID=158 pursuing interest November 29, 2012 blog In the ‘teacher’ part of my professional life, I spend a lot of time working and talking with students about the nature of assessment in zyx November 25, 2012 blog ZYX is an iPhone app by JODI: http://jodi.org Specifically, we noticed the user interface of your app is not intuitive and could not be navigated. the perfect dance critic August 8, 2012 blog I’ve been meaning to reblog Miguel Gutierrez’s “perfect critic” for quite some time. Thanks to Atlanta Eke and friends (via facebook) for the heads on imagination August 6, 2012 blog Earlier this year I was asked to write a short essay for Dancehouse’s (Melbourne) ‘magazine’ based on the theme of “What’s coming?”. Then, last contradictory ideas July 14, 2012 blog Don’t take yourself too seriously, and take yourself as seriously as death itself. Don’t worry. Worry your ass off. Have ironclad confidence, but Next page