Hannah Buckley's Blog
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Last night I was rather excited. Because today was our first day back after the christmas holidays. The christmas period left me sugar high (or low...) and feeling a little disconnected from my body. The desire to move again was...
Published Monday, 5 January, 2009 at 04:07 -
Reading article19's feature 'Live on the Internet?' I could have kicked myself. I am on the media arts and dance uk mailing list, and I received an email about Misnomer's live web broadcast at the Joyce Theatre. It was on...
Published Tuesday, 30 December, 2008 at 07:59 -
Two days ago I went for a run and it absolutely killed me. I felt so bad, worse than I normally feel. What really did me in though was when a spritely fifty year old sprinted past me and my...
Published Sunday, 28 December, 2008 at 01:17 -
I only landed in Manchester yesterday, and already my time in NYC seems distant. I hate how that happens. I was hoping to have some exciting tales to tell you but unfortunately my plans to help out at Trisha Brown's...
Published Monday, 22 December, 2008 at 11:52 -
well, its that time already - christmas holidays. The term is over and what it a term it was. I have never in my whole dance school career counted down to the holidays like i did this term. Thats not...
Published Monday, 8 December, 2008 at 06:19 -
For my 'ideas in arts' presentation I decided to look at the representation of masculinity withing DV8 and I have just been doing some research. I was reading on article and something really stood out to me, and I wanted...
Published Saturday, 29 November, 2008 at 01:05 -
A while back I was having a conversation with Peter Dunlevey, osteopath supreme and physical awareness lecturer at NSCD, about the opening of the olympic games and its awe inspiring choreography. I didn't see it myself but Pete was telling...
Published Saturday, 22 November, 2008 at 06:41 -
Just wanted to share something I was pondering the other day. Not long before we broke up for the summer our ballet teacher showed us some foot exercise with the theraband (thin, wide rubber band used to give resistance for...
Published Thursday, 20 November, 2008 at 05:47 -
We have choreography assessments at the end of the month and this means that we dance in each others. Its starting to get hetic and complicated to arrange rehearsal times. It goes something like this can you do a rehearsal...
Published Wednesday, 12 November, 2008 at 08:41 -
I was watching dance videos on on YouTube (I'm sorry Neil (it's ok, don't make a habit of it though! ;o) Ed!)) and I searched an American choreographer, called Rennie Harris, and his company Puremovement. I was lucky to enough...
Published Thursday, 6 November, 2008 at 08:27 -
Through out life as a dance student you will at some point come up of against the topic of marking creative work - how should it be marked? how CAN it be marked? Its a matter of taste..its a matter...
Published Saturday, 1 November, 2008 at 09:45 -
I was trying to write something for this week, and normally ideas come quite easily to me..... this week nothing. Its the first time thats ever happened. I was gonna waffle on about the fact that its half term..already?? still...
Published Sunday, 26 October, 2008 at 11:31 -
I didn't quite know how to begin this blog but then I remembered the topic in hand....truth. So I'm going to tell it how it is. I was working on a phrase for movement studies, as were a few other...
Published Thursday, 16 October, 2008 at 09:07 -
Today we went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, as part of our 'ideas in art' module. There was a an exhibition of Isamu Noguchi's work, who to quote the Parks brochure was; 'one of the greatest artists of the 20th...
Published Wednesday, 8 October, 2008 at 08:09 -
On thing I've learnt through my dance training, and through my friends who are already well established in the dance world, is that you can't wait for opportunities. You got to make them. As in with this blog. I had...
Published Wednesday, 8 October, 2008 at 07:52 -
I know that the reason for article19 giving me this little corner of their cyber world was to give the wonderous readers an insight into the life of a dance student, and I am aware that recently I have been...
Published Saturday, 4 October, 2008 at 02:51 -
Monday and tuesday was a change from the usual, the timetable was put on hold for a trip to London for a Steve Reich evening with Rosas dance company, at Sadler's Wells. The trip was pretty exhausting I must say,...
Published Wednesday, 1 October, 2008 at 09:05 -
Today we had a very enjoyable, and informative, film showing session with Darshan Sing Buller. I never knew he'd made such a varied array of film. And I was inspired to share my badly shot, badly edited (when I have...
Published Saturday, 27 September, 2008 at 12:59 -
When I started writing this blog I only told a few close friends at college. My reasoning for doing this was because I would 'rather people find it themselves than look for it.' Last week a couple of people started...
Published Thursday, 25 September, 2008 at 01:49 -
Today I hung out with my Hungarian friend and we were talking about dance. She used to do ballroom, and has only seen 'contemporary' dance a couple of times. But she said to me 'it seems in contemporary dance it...
Published Sunday, 21 September, 2008 at 10:10 -
The first week is over - and I feel like a month has gone by already. I think this is due to the fact of getting used to the long days. I always have this feeling after holidays, because so...
Published Saturday, 20 September, 2008 at 07:23 -
So tomorrow is the first day back. Second year. I'm not really nervous - I know what to expect. I'm just wondering how my body is going to be feeling, if anything will of changed over the summer. I feel...
Published Sunday, 14 September, 2008 at 06:01 -
On sunday I was sitting in a gondola on the Grand Canal in Venice. (The gondolier was the father of my friend - one of NSCD's international students) It was the Historical Regatta and the buildings were licked gold buy...
Published Tuesday, 9 September, 2008 at 10:42 -
Last thursday I went to see Trisha Brown Dance Company perform a retrospect of her work, as part of the international 'Tanz in August' dance festival here in Berlin. The pieces performed included Accumulation (1971), Geometry of Quiet (2002), Spanish...
Published Tuesday, 2 September, 2008 at 10:00 -
Today I was at a showing of videos to celebrate twenty years of the Berlin international dance festival 'Tanz in August'. The general public had the opportunity to vote for their favourite works from the past twenty years and they...
Published Sunday, 24 August, 2008 at 07:46 -
Last wednesday I did class at the school I used to go to here. Whenever I'm in Berlin I try to go back, they have some really great teachers. One, a Miss Jessy Tuddeman is very important to me. I...
Published Monday, 18 August, 2008 at 10:19 -
I read Article19's feature 'hero vs zero', and totally agree about the photographers. But lets not forget camera men (I guess I should say camera peoples..but whatever, you know what i mean..someone with a video camera). Last night, before the...
Published Saturday, 16 August, 2008 at 01:31 -
Tanz in August (dance in august) is (roughly) a month long international dance festival here in Berlin. Last night Akram Khan's work Bahok opened the festival. I didn't go to the performance, but I did go to the party after....
Published Saturday, 16 August, 2008 at 10:35 -
I played beach volleyball for the first time in my life last week. I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. And this week I also played badminton and football. This was in fact with the five year old...
Published Sunday, 10 August, 2008 at 07:14 -
When I am here in Berlin I train/work with a company called Grupo Oito, under the artistic direction of Ricardo de Paula (when in England I do what I can to be present in the group). For the past week...
Published Friday, 8 August, 2008 at 09:04 -
First of all I must apologise for breaking one of the blogging rules...it has definately been over a week since my last blog. I put this down to a change of routine and being here in Berlin, without Keith (thats...
Published Monday, 4 August, 2008 at 01:22 -
Rudi Cole, a a former foundation student with me at NSCD, and now a talented second year student (don't tell him I said that) likes to mess around with cameras in his spare time. So I thought it'd be nice...
Published Monday, 21 July, 2008 at 11:36 -
A while back I was randomly selected to take part in a discussion about the entry process into Northern, organised by the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. It comprises of eight schools and devises policies intended to maintain a standard...
Published Thursday, 17 July, 2008 at 01:43 -
we're all going on a summer holiday...
On wednesday was Verve's (NSCD's postgraduate company) last performance of their full show which has been touring internationally. They performed in the Riley Theatre, which is NSCD magical theatre. It was fully sold out. I haven't seen them perform yet....
Published Friday, 11 July, 2008 at 03:55 -
I'm a little disappointed. Last night there was a showing of the short films made by third years as one of their assignments. There were four of us watching. Three first years and a second year. Ok. So it was...
Published Saturday, 5 July, 2008 at 11:12 -
We're back in the bubble for two more weeks. Odd you might think. I did, why have a holiday for a week then come back for only two weeks until the summer holidays? Well, technically the holiday wasn't a holiday...
Published Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 at 08:13 -
Today I watched my nana have the wax sucked form her ears. My mother was working so couldn't take her to the hearing aid clinic. Yesterday I sat in a room with six under five year olds and made balloon...
Published Monday, 23 June, 2008 at 03:31 -
Last week was the culmination of the third years collabrotive arts project that meant everyday I got to see some live art. The project is pretty new to the curriculum, and was guided by Luis Lara Malcavaris, a choreographer, dancer...
Published Sunday, 15 June, 2008 at 07:44 -
On saturday night I started my English company knowledge catch up. I saw DV8's new work 'To Be Straight With You'. Another company I know about, and have seen on film, but never live. (It sounds like I haven't seen...
Published Monday, 9 June, 2008 at 08:45 -
Last night, while I was eating my tea, I watched the video of Hofesh Shechter's 'Uprising' on Article19. Of course, I know of Hofesh, when I was studying on the foundation course he choreographed the third year graduation piece. I...
Published Saturday, 7 June, 2008 at 05:02 -
Thursday was our choreography assessments. The task was to create a two to two and a half minute 'study' (can't really be defined as a 'piece' with that length of time), on 1-3 people. The subject matter was up to...
Published Sunday, 1 June, 2008 at 11:03 -
As a dance student I have on a numerous occasions been asked 'what do you all do all day?' People find it hard to comprehend what we 'do' - the common misconception being that a dance degree is a pretty...
Published Sunday, 25 May, 2008 at 03:09 -
For students at NSCD there is a great system that subsidies physiotherapy treatments, meaning we get very cheap treatment - a rarity, pyhsio is an expensive business. I went on saturday as I have been experiencing some stiffness in my...
Published Sunday, 18 May, 2008 at 10:01 -
Do you have to watch what you eat? Is there loads of pressure to be thin? Is everybody really skinny? All questions which people generally end up asking when they find out I train at a dance school. Dancers and...
Published Thursday, 15 May, 2008 at 10:29 -
I remember the first week I was on the foundation course I saw about three degree students crying in the changing room and, I'll be honest, I laughed a little (inwardly of course) because I found it a slightly Fame...
Published Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 at 06:44 -
Traveling alone on a long hall flight recently I got lucky and ended up with a plane buddy. In our chat he asked me what dancers are like. I thought for a second and answered weird. He looked a bit...
Published Saturday, 10 May, 2008 at 07:50 -
I realised another great thing about dance school (well, I've always enjoyed it but after a particularly good class today I made a mental note to 'blog it'). Its the live musicians. With each class there is either a drummer...
Published Thursday, 8 May, 2008 at 12:05 -
One of the best things about studying on the foundation course were the friends, and future collaborative partners, I made. Hels and Alex now studying at Laban. Jessamin studying at The Place, Issie here at NSCD and Franzi at Balance1...
Published Monday, 5 May, 2008 at 10:21 -
Yesterday there was an open day at college for prospective students. They get to take class, watch class, meet teachers etc. Myself and another student were asked to do the 'questions and answer' session. This is the second time I've...
Published Thursday, 1 May, 2008 at 05:07 -
The great thing about being at NSCD (and the other dance schools available) is the quality of teachers who share their knowledge with us. We are currently in the process of getting back technique grades. This is a cause of...
Published Tuesday, 29 April, 2008 at 11:08 -
Network network. And network some more.
I returned home to Manchester at the weekend and managed to catch the end of the 'Move08' movement on screen festival. Part of the festival was an 'industry brunch'. (A free event. Yes. I did say free.) The organizations Sound...
Published Monday, 28 April, 2008 at 10:56 -
I thought I should start with a quick introduction, and a bit of background to this blog. My name is Hannah Buckley and I am currently in the 1st year of my degree at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance,...
Published Monday, 28 April, 2008 at 10:17
Comments return to Article19, tell us what you think, about the stories, not commenting!
A reader pushes back after our pice on Rafael Bonachela firing dancers for effect!
Alan Yentob's show Imagine on the BBC is dripping way too much saliva over the subject and it's becoming unsanitary!
Susan Cunningham explores a new book about the life of Gerda Pytt Geddes the first European women to bring tai chi to the UK.
Dance Theatre Ireland and Now Dance from South Korea combine to make a superb double bill. Let's see if we can get these guys to the mainland soon eh!
