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A better place

Friday, March 8, 2013

Thanks, Eric (and Leland), for creating a world that’s so much better and wilder than this one. On repeat until further notice.

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MATSUKAZE

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Yoshitoshi, Ariwara no Yukihira and the two brinewomen, Murasame and Matsukaze, 1886

Matsukaze is an opera by Toshio Hosokawa, directed and choreographed by Sasha Waltz. Originally it was a Japanese Noh play about two sisters, Matsukaze and Murasama (Wind in the Pines and Autumn Rain), being in love with the same man. After their death [...]

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Nevermind the New Year’s Resolutions – quitting smoking/drinking, eating healthier, traveling more or finding love –  go wild in Studio 54 way of celebrating New Year’s Eve, just like the old times, and dance like Fred Astaire!
‘I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, [...]

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Killin’ It

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

I seriously have the hardest time deciding which one is the better GLK mix – and I’ve listened to both of them back to back for what feels like more than a week straight now. Sorry, neighbors!

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Pilgrim Marketing Plan Rebuttal: Take Seven

Saturday, November 10, 2012

The hard sounding peoples, ain’t nothing can’t get between us
Dances received from the splash signals so to swim in
Magical places we get and with the shiny women
Win our idle pink girl, our bodies by wraith division
The moonlight and donnin’ cloud glistenin’ glazed, that we giftin
Every sound, we trying to mash and attention
We bung the latest [...]

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BA BA DE BOU

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Codex, the witty dance film by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé, is worth spending time on and analyzing every detail in the movements. The film is comprised of several fragments reminiscent of  Egyptian signs, sounds from the East and weird bodily gestures.
‘…the fantastic animals,the imaginary plants and the living vegetables…‘ are the inspirations of Decouflé.

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A FOOL FOR YOUR BELLY

Thursday, October 18, 2012

What is it with new acts at first remaining incognito these days? Jesus, Mike Milosh & Robin Hannibal, what about it? I’m HOOKED, so put your names on your website already!

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HUSTLE AND BUSTLE

Sunday, October 14, 2012

1920s… Years of Charleston and Flappers like movie star Louise Brooks; cabarets and Dada! After being overwhelmed by Mike Nelson’s work in the newly discovered abandoned cabaret theater from 1920s in Berlin’s Gartenstrasse, bumping into Thames and Hudson’s new publication Berlin in the 20s was a nice coincidence. The book is starting with a description [...]

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A RUSSIAN GATHERING

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Amazing song from the Berlin based Canadian musician, Chinawoman, whose voice leads to melancholia…

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Wednesday Vid

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The incredible Kahlil Joseph has blown our minds once (and so hard, so hard), no, twice (well: three times), and has now done it again.

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