Stars of BABALON
On the celestial theophanies of BABALON and the poietics of flesh.
Dark dance
On butô, antinomian dance, and the radical reappraisal of the body after Nietzsche.
Coelum et terrenum corpus
A conversation with JD Kelley on my ritual performance Visitation, and the process of its creation.
Transgressing angels, entangled bodies
On the enmeshing of earthly and celestial bodies, from the transgressing angels of 1 Enoch to the potential futures of the body.
The witches’ dance
Tracing the haunted kinaesthetic and psychic territories of the sabbat through a history of disorderly movement, unruly bodies and heterodox spiritual expression.
Mantic visions
On the role of visionary states in my choreographic process. Visionary states of consciousness are embodied states.
The flower of sex
On the sexed and sexual mysteries at the heart of the magical and creative process.
Where the daimon dwells
The liminality of performer and performance space, and their relationship in presencing the invisible reality – the other, sacred or daimonic.
Demonic voices
The ecstatic female mystic sought communion with the divine; the witch was her infernal mirror, willing congress with the devil; between these the demoniac stands ambiguously.
Dynamics of the occulted body
I am a dancer; my body is the material for my art, and movement is my practice, the medium of dance. Movement arises mysteriously, at the very source of life and before even a self forms …
The mirror of sacrifice
On cultivating the occult anatomy through dance, and the relation of poietic language and the imaginal to movement and spirit work.