outside AiR
January 23, 2011
blog
Call for volunteer participants for a workshop and performance project: Mehmet Sander’s Uncomfort Zone. In his renowned ‘Manifesto on Dance’, Mehmet
he is not here
January 23, 2011
blog
Image from showing of He is not here at Roehampton University on 10 January 2011. Choreography: Bagryana Popov Performance: Simon Ellis Bagryana and
cicero
January 20, 2011
blog
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and
good old days
January 17, 2011
blog
Silence. These were in an email from my mother Gabrielle
My Name is Colin, and This is Simon
January 1, 2011
practice
In fragments of conversation, and in excerpts from their blog, choreographers Simon Ellis and Colin Poole talk about how their first collaborative
screendance symposium friday 4th february 2011
December 24, 2010
blog
movement 12
November 28, 2010
blog
I just love what the Movement 12 team is doing — thoughtful, current and adding wonderful richness to the independent dance/arts scene in Brighton
defaulting
November 7, 2010
blog
It’s about time humanists started telling scientists how to think again, as they seem to be defaulting to some quite old stereotypes – Timothy
Anamnesis (remembered)
November 1, 2010
practice
remembers, constructs and questions aspects of Anamnesis — a screendance project exploring memory and loss that I initiated
jonathan burrows mentioning christian wolff
October 8, 2010
blog
I had the pleasure of going to see Jonathan Burrows and Adrian Heathfield last Monday at Toynbee Studio as part of Performance Matters
rhythms of performance
October 6, 2010
blog
I am currently running (walking?) an MA level module called “Dance Practice as Research”. As part of the early stages of their research, I thought
dad
October 4, 2010
blog
My Dad (Ian Graham Ellis) and me — reckon it’s February 1995. He died in December that year. He’s looking cheeky, I’ve got a terrible haircut
an experiment
September 26, 2010
blog
The term ‘experience’ is crucial: for too long spectators have been equated with readers as decipherers of meaning. … The traditional task of
seam 2010
September 24, 2010
blog
From Critical Path: If you’re interested in the cutting edge connection between Dance performance and technology, then take a look at what’s
bechdel and scott pilgrum
September 21, 2010
blog
Guerrilla Semiotics on Scott Pilgrum: http://guerrillasemiotics.com/2010/09/scott-pilgrim-musings-on-misogyny/ Always insightful, always asking
beautiful
September 21, 2010
blog
How beautiful are these days? – Sam Baker
fine fine fine
September 21, 2010
blog
Thanks to Matthew Smith for this one …
reblog: Stephen Fry cutting into the Catholic Church (2009)
September 20, 2010
blog
reblog from: https://literarypiano.tumblr.com/post/1152857853/whilebird-stephen-fry-demolishes-the-catholic https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbvr0m
reaching beyond
September 16, 2010
blog
Henson and Mills represent very different sensibilities, yet what is most striking about these lectures is their common ground. Both strongly assert
crossing borders at siobhan davies dance
September 14, 2010
blog
Looks like a pretty impressive lineup this year … Edit: 21 July 2020: PDF no longer available
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