My diverted train from London, via Oxford is offering me far too much time to gather my thoughts and my …
Thread Testing
So we recently completed our second set of test embroidery sessions for the sheldon tapestry: Now: I don’t want to …
LED Dresses
So I’ve finally been able to get our LED Dress Take 1 up and running. It was a very quick …
Impossible Robots
I’m part of a research project called Being There This is a fantastic example of what happens when choreography becomes …
Testing, Testing, 1,2,3
Learning on the job: I’m working on a fantastic project with Warwick’s Heritage and Cultural team, about reframing the Sheldon …
On the verge of Giving Up: Or Why I fell Silent
The sharp witted amongst you might notice a few incongruent elements to my blogs recently: One: I actually feel silent …
Things to be proud of
In November I went to Croatia in my capacity as one of the board members of the Museum of Broken …
Council for USA and Italy.
In October 2014 I was lucky enough to be invited to be one of the two UK delegates for Consiusa …
Post Apocalyptic Trees
In October I took part in a two day workshop with an incredibly group of makers, roboteers, scientists, climate change …
Gearing Up to Indonesia
So we’re off to Indonesia in September, and I’m slowly but surely trying to make sure we have 2 months …
Press Play: Wired Article and Guardian Articles.
The Playable City Award, Sprint and our project Press Play is gaining momentum! Wired Article here: Future Cities Article here; …
These are my shoes, these are my lights
So last week the wonderful Lee J Malcolm and I built our new sound and visual system. We were very …
Why collaborative working spaces are so important
Last week I joyfully extolled the virtues of the Pervasive Media Studio , and today it seemed about time to …
Giant Squids Sightings
The wonderful Tom Metcalfe wanted to test a workshop yesterday so I got to try out the very clever Little …
Kicking the Mic
So we’ve just had our second two-day R and D on Kicking the Mic: This is a project that fuses …
Standing Ovations and Rapid Prototyping
I’ve been silent this year so far- but not from getting to hibernate under a blanket. In fact- we’ve been …
2 more awards
Last week Phill Tew, Tom Mitchell and I had the opportunity to attend the Media Innovation Awards ceremony in Portsmouth. …
Book of the Month
Our first danceroom Spectroscopy show, Hidden Fields was featured in the new MIT publication by Peter Weibel. Peter’s the director …
Sound catching up with me
Found this the other day: A few months ago I was asked to speak at If Wet, the fantastic monthly …
Captured In Stone
This week I have been in rehearsals for my Rolling Stones project- it feels very strange being in the rehearsal …
Huffington Post and Guardian articles
So Dave writes very eloquently about the danceroom Spectroscopy project, the 5 day festival celelbrating all aspects of the project …
Article in Arts Professional
So danceroom Spectroscopy festival last week went very well- As well as choreographing the new show I ran two days …
Hidden Fields you can see!
Masses of exciting news this week- so I’ll keep the posts short and sweet: We’ve come out the other side …
Cooking up too many projects
So, I’ve been silent for far too long. There’s no excuse for that really- though I was blogging this spring …
What’s my style?
Someone asked me today about my choreography. What the style was. And I ended up explaining it like this: *It’s …
dancing on wet paving stones
I started writing this post a week ago- and it’s been such a full stretch I forgot to finish: Tomorrow …
Like a marble run, where the marble reaches the bell and it dings with the most dulcet tones….
Some problems you can unravel with sheer deep thinking: space, quiet, pen, paper and dogged determination. When that works the …
David Attenborough, don’t you know?
The opportunity to go on secondment to a large organisation is very curious: It’s like being a natural history presenter- …
Poly metres and poly rhythms
So, thanks to the wonderful crew behind the London Tap Jam I got to partake in two master classes by …
knuckling Down
There’s nothing like spending half the day being shown around a Category A high security prison and meeting the ‘Guv’ …
It’s a kind of magic (magic, magic)
That’s it. I’ve cracked it. Give me a megaphone: you know why I create art? And value art? And like …
Hidden Fields
I had a project email today, discussing a working title “Hidden Fields”. And I like it. I really like it- …
One thing at a time…
I’ve managed to do one thing on four occasions this week:and strangely I’m really pleased by this. You see: I’m …
It’s all in the eyes…
So I was in a great meeting this morning at the Tate, and as I was searching for a thought …
Round and Round the Mulberry Bush
What a weekend-after a year of working on the incredible danceRoom Spectroscopy project the rehearsal room was mine, and the …
Discovering the stones..
It’s a new adventure every day: I didn’t realise that I was being filmed, but here’s a very informal demo …
The creative habit
Twyla Tharp talks about the idea of developing your creative habit. She has boxes, and when she has an idea, …
Guerilla Dance Project new showreel for SxSW Interactive
We’re flying out to Austin in the morning to present at SxSW Interactive about our work with our new project …
Dancing through Quantum Physics
Hellion Trace will be taking their exploration of finding the dances in everyday life just one step further in 2012- …
Have you ever tried an art attack?
We did- for the private opening of the Panic Exhibition in London. Here’s the photo, and then the process:
An insight into our work:
A new photofilm by Mike Harwood- filmed in November 2010 for Rapture (the preview of Not Looking For Anyone).
Interview and article about our residency at the Pervasive Media Studio
Click on the image above for a new interview and article about our residency in Bristol.
Eye-Spy Premieres at the V & A Museum
Eye Spy premiered at the Victoria and Albert Museum at the March late night event. Over 5,600 people attended- we …