A queer feminist anthropologist exploring the realities of culture, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Asia
Five Movements, Three Repeats © Erin BaianoFinding Light (Choreography: Liang) PresentPast and Two x Two (Choreography: Maliphant) After the Rain and Five Movements, Three Repeats (Choreography: Wheeldon) Cultural collaboration at Sadler's Wells? Sadler’s Wells present these five original works as an evening of British-Chinese cultural collaboration, but while full of beautiful moments, the evening falls [...]
De Oscuro: Mac//Beth De Oscuro’s Mac//Beth is a dark and brooding piece of dance, brimming with stunning visual scenes, and well-placed in the intimate space of the Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre. Choreographer and Director, Judith Roberts’ piece opens in a filmic fashion: projections on the back wall set the scene and announce the [...]
When I graduated - with a first class degree I might add - I hadn't really pictured myself working in a big corporate office. But neither had I intended to work full-time at an empty pub, spend several weeks on jobseeker's allowance and attend a series of godawful interviews. But that's life - you take [...]
One thing I readily appreciated about living at home, is the food. I mean home cooked food, which is full of fresh vegetables and healthy grains. Most of all the expensive things that I couldn't afford as a student. I have been feeling a lot healthier for eating so well over the past six or seven [...]
When I began writing this blog I described myself as something akin to nomadic. I hadn't had stayed in a permanent "home" - rented or otherwise - for a matter of months. I was living on the bare minimum of belongings without many luxuries between early June and late August, reducing what I carried every [...]
Don't date a girl who reads"The girl who reads has spun out the account of her life, and it is bursting with meaning. She insists that her narratives are rich, her supporting cast colorful, and her typeface bold. She has dreamed, properly, of someone who is better than you are. She will accept nothing less [...]
“A new-found sense of balance and movement formulated out of inappropriate ideas and concepts is explored in the piece.” Choreographed/concept by: Ro Kyung Ae Four dancers, in casual clothing and trainers, did pretty much anything but what the average audience member might call dancing. They were lit by a square of light on a white [...]
This is an interview I did in July about the Beijing Student Forum 2013, which was published in the Chinese Times, in Chinese of course. 1. Why were you interested in the UK-China forum and Generation UK Campaign? I was interested in the UK-China Student Forum in May this year because I have a deep-seated [...]
When I set off from London on my way to the 2013 Student Forum in Beijing I didn’t know what to expect. I had a Chinese visa in my passport and a few pages of information about the itinerary of the week; it all seemed very formal and businesslike, and I wasn’t sure I even [...]
A multi-disciplinary piece using puppets, a projections, music and physical theatre. There were some really stunning and successful elements to the piece, it was a real shame not to understand the dialogue and storytelling which so clearly underpinned the production. What I gathered from the non-lingual aspects of things was a story about a mythical [...]
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