It may sound banal, but the most important thing, both in film and in the theatre, is the human being – the study of human beings. What you want above all, whether you are doing film or theatre, is to … Continue reading
This is part of a response to the showing we did in January at Roehampton Dance: I saw many things, but this is what most impressed me: your shared male physicality, your distinct physical difference, your vulnerability in pushing your … Continue reading
Many times I am asked the obvious yet pertinent question about the title of my longest book (the present one excepted): “So who or what is tickling the ticklish subject?” The answer, of course, is: the object – however, which … Continue reading
We Two Boys Together Clinging WE two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going—North and South excursions making, Power enjoying—elbows stretching—fingers clutching, Arm’d and fearless—eating, drinking, sleeping, loving, No law less than ourselves … Continue reading
It’s great being a man. — Tricksome http://www.tricksome.com/?p=1217
… we do not think of ourselves as capable of empathy with the performers of atrocious acts and we do think of ourselves as understanding acts where all we have is a warm empathetic feeling. We mis-distribute our estimates of … Continue reading
The responsibility of the artist is to hide beauty — John Cage
Lin, Tim, Greg, and I, along with Hijikata’s ghost, began to work collaboratively in 1986. Whatever importance this event may hold seems to me now to lie in the word and. Who we were, when we met, how we proceeded, … Continue reading