The Human Creature at Night: Butoh Performance Videos
Butoh performance videos, created in the solitary nights of lockdown days. Exploring what it means to be human. … Continue readingThe Human Creature at Night: Butoh Performance Videos
Butoh performance videos, created in the solitary nights of lockdown days. Exploring what it means to be human. … Continue readingThe Human Creature at Night: Butoh Performance Videos
Worlds, words, here and there “When I smashed my knee, and had to lie around,” he said, “I decided there was no use living without delight.” After a silence she said, in a dry tone, “Bliss?” “No. Bliss is a form of VU. No, I … Continue readingSpaceships, Sperm Whales and Explorations of the Dark
Butoh dance performance videos created in the backyard of a lockdown: the human creature tries to find its place outdoors. … Continue readingThe Human Creature Outdoors: Butoh Performance Videos
Oceane goes to Finland In Tibor Fischer’s Voyage to the End of the Room, Oceane, who lives alone in London, tells us that she’s taking a trip to Finland. She goes down the stairs of her apartment to the living room, and there is Finland. … Continue readingTravel, Travellers, Inside, Outsiders and Fainting Canaries
Small stories and their irrelevant goals Most fairy tales/folk tales are little stories. They usually deal in singles. One girl, one prince, one horse, one moon. Love, suffering, growth, separation, togetherness. When they deal in threes, you know that two will fail, be killed, or … Continue readingTo Sacrifice or Not To Sacrifice? Cinderellas, Bluebeards and Survivors
Marvel-apoca-unpoca-stutter-lypse The most recent version of the apocalypse that seeped into public consciousness was Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War. Instead of saving the world (sorry, universe) before it ended, the Avengers had to wait a whole sequel to re-pocalyp/unpocalyp (or just repopulate) the universe. Keep in … Continue readingMarvel, Ragnarok and Other Stories of the Apocalypse
I can’t find a single review of Jeanette Winterson’s Frankisstein that isn’t roaring applause. The same goes for Frozen, the Disney-Snow Queen of some years ago, which has now arrived at its sequel. It’s because both ‘ tick all the right boxes,’ as they claim. … Continue readingFrozen, Frankisstein and the Cold, Cold Heart
The circus you read about as a child The one full of laughing, lovable characters, their biggest crime a little ‘untidiness,’ their caravans so colourful, their lives so pleasantly (not threateningly) exciting. The questions you ask yourself Where do they go to the toilet? How … Continue readingTravels with the Serbian Circus
A voluntary captivity, for an unknown purpose I don’t know if you’ve ever been captive – it’s not the same as being imprisoned. It’s not the clarity of a locked door. You can be held captive by invisible things – a custom, a habit, an … Continue readingThe Killer Whale’s Guide to Captivity
An encounter I dreamt that I decided to visit school. The place where I studied as a child was a wonderful oasis of stone buildings, long pathways and drives, misty banyan trees and field after field for hockey, throwball, basketball – named by game. Fertile … Continue readingDreaming with the Devil