I’m finally coming up through the fug of jet-lag this morning, and having promised myself not to return to old topics, am now, of course, immediately doing so. Something that has struck me over the last day and a bit of watching, thinking and talking, is how often the question of feeling has arisen, either as part of something a choreographer wanted a dancer to do or show (i.e. more of), or of something I wanted to see. [...]

I’m something of an interloper here, as my background is one in the theatre, rather than dance. That said, I’ve worked as a performer in dance contexts, and continue to do so, as well as watching a good deal of it – perhaps more even than works which might more recognizably be the province of a theatre studies academic. Historically, the two arts have not always been quite as bifurcated as they might like to think. The Natyasastra [...]

Of all the choreographers in the Artscross project, the longest gap between sessions I’ve been able to witness, has been with Yu Yen-Fang’s work. It was with a real sense of anticipation that I went into the studio yesterday morning. The group were arranged in three rough lines, making jerking, shoving movements, their bodies twisting [...]

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