The Power of Movement Without Sound: Jan Martens’ Work

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We’re so conditioned to recognise actions and immediate reactions that we overlook embodied resistance and the strength that comes from quiet continuation. Those 40 minutes of silence are not gaps to be filled, but active space where different rules apply. Repetitions become ritual. Individual patterns accumulate into collective presence and action. The absence of sound – and our collective resistance – makes the movement itself louder. But does it work?

Alison Chaplin Career Retrospective: Life as a laboratory

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Shadows are structure, space is active. You can trace it back through the decades. That fundamental approach has become more complex, sought new perspectives, but never changed.

Exploring William Stok’s Transformative Leaf Art

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Stok is a thoughtful, conscious artist. These forms suggest something beyond leaves, even before you look at the words. Bodies, organs, systems… they’re really there.

Signal to Noise by Forced Entertainment; an excoriating commentary

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Signal to noise, an excoriating comment on our world today

Cucumber Sci-Fi

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Alien cucumbers, Trump, Spas and Golf.. Chat GPT, 4 prompts and about 10 minutes

Black Sabbath the Ballet – brief review

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Black Sabbath the Ballet, review and images with descriptions

Stand-Up Jim, but not as we know it

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I’ve started something new, an interactive wine-tasting-comedy-travelogue-performance event with photography.

12 crimes in which cat fur has been used as forensic evidence, a ChatGPT Procrastination

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A12 crimes in which cat fur has been used as forensic evidence. Fun, fluffy and furr-ensic? I’ll get my coat.

O Medea, Trajal Harrell

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I love Trajall Harrell’s work; how it makes me feel in the moment, the layering, level of detail, lyricism and patterning. I value it most for what it teaches me, which is why… Continue reading

Salsa & Bachata: From Zero to Hero in the Canary Islands

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This is how I learned to dance Salsa and Bachata in the Canary Islands. It was a 4-week-workshop in a stunning outdoor location by the waterfront.