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Category Archives: Dance
“The Weather” – exhibition at The Room/Poetry Reading/Cloud Performance for Kids
There is an exhibition in homage to Luke Howard ‘Namer of Clouds’ on his 250th anniversary at The Room, 33 Holcombe Road N17 9AS – 15 November 2022-14 December 2022. Also included – Sandie Macrae’s film “The Most Beautiful Shadow … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Performance Art, Poetry
Tagged Children's performance art, Clouds, Luke Howard, Luke Howard's anniversary, Namer of Clouds, The Room
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Odin at the Well
My friend, the artist Anthony McCall, gave me Thinking in Circles: an essay on ring composition by Mary Douglas. He observed that much of my work in performance art and in writing has had a circularity to its composition. His visit coincided … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Performance Art, Poetry
Tagged Odin, Physics and poetry, Quantum mechanics, relativity and myth
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I Love Russia!
I love Russia. Wonderful people, wonderful dancers, wonderful minds. I am sickened by Western hate-propaganda instigated by the mass media and by our corrupt leaders. I recall with huge fondness my one performance in Russia: Homage to the Horses of … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Performance Art, Politics
Tagged horses, Performance Art, Russia, the Manege Saint Petersburg
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Grey Suit Editions – List of Publications
New books in 2021 List of Publications 1 List of Publications 2 List of publications 3 (Miscellaneous) Our video catalogue from the nineties These links provide a tour of Grey Suit. The project began as a video magazine for performance … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Essays, FICTION, Grey Suit Editions, Poetry
Tagged Grey Suit Editions UK, Performance Art, poetry
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A Dance from the Tang Dynasty
I have just discovered the poetry of Tang Dynasty Dance Suggests clouds to me. Here is another extraordinary dance – if perhaps not so authentic. The Tang dynasty: 唐朝, or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled … Continue reading
Tights
xx Strong but skinny, or rather, skinny but strong, I practise till the cows come home Back in Berkshire. I’ve moved into town. Legs and butt start looking great in tights. x The days are mirrors, wall to wall, behind … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Poetry
Tagged AIDS, ballet, Dancers in Daylight, Fonteyn and Nureyev, Nureyev, Swan Lake
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Anthony Howell interviewed by Scott Thurston – Stride Magazine
Interview with Scott Thurston in Stride Magazine – Part 1 And here is Part 2 See also The Step is the Foot
Posted in Dance, Parkinsons, Performance Art, Poetry
Tagged Dance, dance steps and poetry, Performance Art, poetic metre
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Tango Valley
x SIGRID x In your wake, the air Will fill itself in; The air you imagine Is water, water x You may move to, Keeping abreast of it, Riding it with ease; Wading through x What surrounds you, The air … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Sigrid Van Tilbeurgh and Murat Erdemsel, Tango, Tango Valley, water movement
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Shiva and my ‘Songs of Realisation’
photo by Dilys Bidewell Many of my Indian readers (and others) may enjoy my most recent collection of poems – Songs of Realisation. These three long poems celebrate what is on the earth, what is below the earth and what … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Poetry
Tagged Epping, equilibrium, Hindu Mythology, India, poems by Anthony Howell, Shiva, Songs of Realisation
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