Gina+Whitfield

Hi

I'm Gina and I work in T & L at ACL in Sydney. This course is a combination of excitement and frustration at the moment as I have a Mac and it's not compatible with the photostory software we're using so I can't seem to get my blog posted. Damn!

I've spent so much time trying untangle the glitches and search for favourite videos on youtube that I haven't done much of the academic stuff yet either and it's been 30 years (nearly) since I read any Barthes or Foucault. I'll have to dredge the memory vaults.

If anyone is interested in dance - these are some of my all time picks. I used to work as a dancer in Egyptian cabaret in London so there are a couple of beautiful stars from Cairo in the 50's. and the bachata is what I'm having fun with now. Enjoy!

[] Australian indigenous Chooky Zorba [] Traditional baladi from Egypt - Mona Said

[] Sacred Monsters – Sylvie Guillem and Achram Khan

[] Jiri Kylian Sleepless pas de deux Nederland Dans Theatre [] Best bachata dancers en el mundo []

Naima Akif dancing Tamer Henna ( Henna Flower) in the 50’s I've been looking for fanfiction remixes of some of my favourite books and can't find much but I was thinking about Jean Rhys and Wide Sargasso Sea as nice disruptive example of an early remix of Jane Eyre. http://girlebooks.com/blog/book-reviews/wide-sargasso-sea-book-review/ i also really like Andrei Makine and Cormac McCarthy - I'll try there.

This is a link to a fanfiction remix of the Coen Brothers film of Cormack McCarthy's No Country for Old Men http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5174144/1/Indian_Summer ... all very exciting -can't really believe so much is going on out/in there.