January 2008
14 posts
2 tags
maybe (this dance will last) forever →
quodlibet:
a review by counter critic that brings back nightmares memories of too many dance works.
oh that made me laugh. what a satisfying review - almost makes me want to see the show! perhaps a little bit mean of counter critic… although i think if it was my show i’d find something enjoyable about the fact that the review was different at least!
1 tag
definitions
simon ellis has been writing a lot about improv lately and i’ve been joining in the discussion.
we had a chat the other day about the use of the word ‘score’, which gets bandied about a lot in perormance and performance making. there are people such as lisa nelson who have a very specific use of the term and speaks about her tuning score as such:
Tuning scores offer tools for...
2 tags
it's a dialogue
ah… you can integrate comments with a tumblelog. excellent. that was the one thing i was starting to feel uncomfortable with. i have enjoyed for some years now the use of blogs in creative and developmental processes - usually project based and always involving collaborative partners.
starting this tumblelog was a way of allowing that practice to have a place without a project base. ...
2 tags
“We will be paying artists directly.”
– Richard Jones on blog.last.fm referring to their latest change.
seems they’ve brokered deals with some major labels as well as royalty collection societies (in Australia that’d be APRA, although there’s no deal with them yet) to pay royalties for every time a song is played....
1 tag
focus now children, please
i am entirely under re-sourced for teaching teenagers.
but maybe that’s a good thing.
this week i’ve had mostly young girls in my class and a few days where we were joined by the dancers from Mirramu Dance Company. in the classes where the professional dancers were involved i was pleased to see the younger participants getting in there and not being at all intimidated. they also...
1 tag
i’ve been teaching a class in contact...
2 tags
ante-natal screening for dancers
as part of a research project i am undertaking i’ve been trawling through pubmed (and some other online databases) trying to find any interesting research into dance and well-being/health.
along my travels i came across an article that identifies specific gene polymorphisms associated with dancers.
i can just imagine the ballet world getting right into this. genetic screening at birth...
initialise
well, it really did only take 10 seconds to start a tumblr log
i was inspired by the simplicity of Matt Gough’s quodlibet
i imagine that there will be a mix of material on here. ranging from the medical (i’m into the second year of a medical degree) through the technological (i can’t help but play) to the physical (i still dance and make).