A queer feminist anthropologist exploring the realities of culture, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Asia
Yesterday I had one of those crappy crystalline moments when I realised I not only did not have my keys with me, but I'd left my Oyster card at home too. I managed to get to Angel for an evening of dance - albeit spending more money than is usually required - where I treated [...]
Today is Ascension Day (40 days after Easter), which is a public holiday throughout the rest of Europe but not in the UK. I know this because work has been put on hold by many clients I work with today, who have a nice 4-5 day weekend while we continue the normal routine. Re-reading the [...]
The ephemeral world of Pilobolus: Shadowland in London In Shadowland, Pilobolus create a vast and varied imaginative landscape, through which we follow a young girl on the brink of growing up. On a rare visit to London, this American dance theatre group stunned audiences at the Peacock Theatre on their opening nights earlier this week. [...]
Everything in Charlotte Vincent's Motherland seems deliberately challenging, to the point it is almost stubbornly confrontational. Women of the World: Vincent Dance Theatre's Motherland Aggressively sexual, full-frontally experimental and self-consciously provocative, Vincent Dance Theatre’s Motherland dirtied the stage at the Southbank Centre on 9th March 2014 as part of the WOW (Women of the World) [...]
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