brittle with relics December 17, 2022 blog I recently shared my film Children of the Soil with a friend who wrote back that “your film took me very directly to this”: To live in Wales is to the land in you October 26, 2022 blog Over the northern summer I read Paul Kingsnorth’s 2014 novel The Wake. It’s set during the Norman invasion of England in 1066 but the most striking Attention October 14, 2022 practice Everything in you will want to do the habitual thing, will want to pursue the story line. The story line is associated with certainty and comfort. Adam Phillips on attention October 9, 2022 blog My friend Paul Paschal sent me this brief quote from psychoanalyst Adam Phillips’ book Seeking Attention (p.96): Freud is suggesting that attention Lithium Dancing (in plain sight) September 10, 2022 practice In this article I explore screendance’s affair with social media, and the logics of production and consumption endemic to dancing for and with urgent time August 28, 2022 blog The times are urgent; let us slow down. – Báyò Akómoláfé, cited in Vita Sleigh (2022), ‘Relationships Between the Cracks: Making Oddkin’, Dark when we party we dance August 17, 2022 blog I’m still studying and practising Italian and sometimes this involves doing some writing. Here’s something very brief I wrote the other day (just Children of the Soil August 15, 2022 practice is a short film that emerged from a practice of falling slowly to the ground. It uses text and still and moving images in a an image is a call August 12, 2022 blog In February of 2020 I went to listen to Romeo Castellucci in conversation with Joe Kelleher at Roehampton University. I took some rather rough notes lost August 1, 2022 blog Not a recent drawing types of participation July 29, 2022 blog Back in December 2018 I went to a two-day Becky Hilton workshop at Independent Dance in London. We worked on so many different things (the entire Go in and in June 12, 2022 blog Be the space Between two cells, the vast, resounding silence in which spirit dwells. Be sugar dissolving on the tongue of life. Dive Agatha Yu GIFs June 1, 2022 blog Agatha Yu is a designer and human computer interaction specialist who works at Apple. She says that she “focuses on amplifying human senses.” She one of a crowd May 18, 2022 blog I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Force Majeure May 6, 2022 blog Last year I had the pleasure of working with the animator Magali Charrier on a short film called Force Majeure. It is built around a script that quality and quantity March 21, 2022 blog I repost a lot of material from kottke.org, as if Jason Kottke is some kind of personal (well, not really personal) internet filter. In his December accents and bravery March 15, 2022 blog Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery. – Amy Chua I really like this idea, and the quote itself is all over the internet. Force Majeure February 28, 2022 practice A film by Magali Charrier and Simon Ellis Voiceover: Joanne “Bob” Whalley Force Majeure is both documentary and animation. It draws on a series of suzannah February 24, 2022 blog In 2002 and 2003 I had the tremendous pleasure of working and dancing with Suzannah Edwards. I learned today that she died on 14 February 2022. She Dancing their unhappy freedoms February 10, 2022 practice A text written in collaboration with Paul Paschal that draws attention to the paradoxes and contradictions in the thinking-working-desiring-body of Next page