In May 1994, Aggiss won a commissioning award from the Bonnie Bird choreography fund.
Aggiss and Cowie used this to create Hi Jinx (1995), a dance lecture performance about Heidi Dzinkowska, an invented choreographer, inspired by Hilde Holger.

The show comprised Aggiss's live 'reconstructions' and black and white films of dances, in which Lea Anderson played Heidi.
Aggiss also read from Dzinkowska's memoir, A Life in Dance ('known as every dancer's bible'), sharing Dzinkowska's 'dance commandments', some of them direct quotations from Hilde Holger
1.
Thou shalt not improvise.
Keep your improvising for the bathroom.

2.
Thou shalt never run around the stage in circles for no apparent reason.
Nobody wishes to see that.

 
3.
Look your audience in the eye.
Dancers who only look at themselves have something to hide.


4.
Thou shalt not wear leotards made from green artificial fibres.


5.
On no account hurt or damage your dancers with the thrash and crash techniques.


6.
Say what you have to say and then stop.
If you have nothing to say don’t even start.

in 2001, Aggiss performed the piece at an academic symposium on the legacy of Tanztheater at the University of Surrey.
Philip Beaven, in his report on the symposium, confessed, 'It took me a while to realise that this was a beautifully fabricated parody of our desire to create icons from the past (complete with original film clips from 1904!)'
In May 1994, Aggiss won a commissioning award from the Bonnie Bird choreography fund. Aggiss and Cowie used this to create Hi Jinx (1995), a dance lecture performance about Heidi Dzinkowska, an invented choreographer, inspired by Hilde Holger.
The show comprised Aggiss's live 'reconstructions' and black and white films of dances, in which Lea Anderson played Heidi. Aggiss also read from Dzinkowska's memoir, A Life in Dance ('known as every dancer's bible'), sharing Dzinkowska's 'dance commandments', some of them direct quotations from Hilde Holger
1. Thou shalt not improvise. Keep your improvising for the bathroom.
2. Thou shalt never run around the stage in circles for no apparent reason. Nobody wishes to see that.
 
3. Look your audience in the eye. Dancers who only look at themselves have something to hide.

4. Thou shalt not wear leotards made from green artificial fibres.

5. On no account hurt or damage your dancers with the thrash and crash techniques.

6. Say what you have to say and then stop. If you have nothing to say don’t even start.
in 2001, Aggiss performed the piece at an academic symposium on the legacy of Tanztheater at the University of Surrey. Philip Beaven, in his report on the symposium, confessed, 'It took me a while to realise that this was a beautifully fabricated parody of our desire to create icons from the past (complete with original film clips from 1904!)'
Liz Aggiss