Improvisation Might Be
Improvisation might be anti-capitalist. Otherwise some of us would have figured out how to make money from it by now.
On That Day, This Body, That Time
I smile. This is the exact kind of story that Sinatra gathers like a magnet drawing in loose filaments, stories of chance encounters and everyday people.
On The Ballad of Bouncing Back
What is so interesting to me is that, entirely unconsciously, we as a group of dancers invented a kind of ‘iambic quadmeter’ (four pairs of syllables with the first syllable of each pair stressed) which mimics the rhythms of dance phrases we have known all our lives
On Turning
There is something quintessentially balletic about the pirouette. It is a challenging, technical movement that looks pretty, at times impossible, and it does a lot of impressive things before ending exactly where it started.
On Agitato
In writing about Agitato, one risks being reduced to a thesaurus: bursts, erupts, explodes, spurs, spills… These are the radical shifts in tone and rhythm that characterise Lloyd’s choreography.
Adventures In Duration III
I had the accountability of being watched without the buzz of feeling their responses. I had the freedom of being alone without the torpor it can create.
On Large Language Models
This article is one from my viscera, a neo-Luddite manifesto, my scream into the void of complacency.
Three Alphabets for Dancing
Amiably animated, blithely berating, curiously cannoning
On Second Thought
Perhaps this blog can also function as an island of time, a small bastion among the rapids of rapidity, extending tenuous rope bridges to other foolhardy artists who wish to consider deeply.
Definitions: ‘Generative’
I often find myself using the word ‘generative’ to assess the worth of a particular dance performance, or a rehearsal activity. I have decided it is a concept worth examining.
Adventures In Duration II
The ongoing rigour of artistic practice may reach less urgent peaks of difficulty, yet I submit that it costs a great deal in the long term.
Adventures In Duration I
Duration, chance, and minimalism strike me as the most pervasive elements that artists pursue to extremes.