lindyloo

No time to write. Days are spent on buses and trains, or hiding in a glass pavillion, mainly listening to this song…

“This moment I have set myself to copy some verses out fair. I cannot proceed with any degree of content. I must write you a line or two and see if that will assist in dismissing you from my Mind for ever so short a time. Upon my Soul I can think of nothing else [...]

♥

Another 16-hour day of working/trying to write essays on the tube/making ridiculously fiddly things....another film I cannot wait to go and see (if I ever allow myself a few hours of free time...)

A mysterious and disturbing film that tells the story of the children and teenagers of a choir set in a small protestant village in northern Germany on the eve of World War I......?!
Yeah!

So 'Me and Orson Welles' is finally coming to the cinemas. Last year in April, my Lindy Hop dance group got asked to learn the foxtrott and a few other pre-lindy hop dances to appear in a dance scene with the Jules Holland Orchestra. It was shot at the beautiful Rivoli Ballroom and it was a thoroughly enjoyable day, I especially loved seeing everyone in 1930s gear. Most of the men even had their hair cut specifically for the scene ( 0:56 ). I doubt you will even see so much as the back of my head, as Claire Danes asked for me and my dance partner to be moved to the side of the room, because my dance partner's unfortunate height and bald head were distracting the picture. Nice.



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I cannot wait for this film to come out!! It looks beautiful...

Oh and did I mention that I have been a little bit in love with Ben Wishaw ever since I saw him in Perfume and Brideshead Revisited?

I took part in a little jumble sale at St Aloysius Social Club (where I used to go Lindy Hopping) with my friends Laura and Lauren today! It was a fun day, if a little manic and stressful as there were loads of people and my rail kept collapsing, but I made lots of money and left with an almost empty suitcase, hurrah! That's my food and travel paid for this week:).
The Ballet 'In the Spirit of Diaghilev' at the Sadlers Wells last night was breathtakingly beautiful and incredibly powerful. I especially enjoyed Wayne Mc Gregor's 'Dyad 1909' about Antarctica and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's 'Faun', which was an adaption of the Ballet Russes' original L'apres-midi d'un faune, a tale about sexual awakening (pretty scandalous in 1912), danced to music by Debussy. I think I fell a little bit in love with the main dancer James O'Hara and his extraordinary limberness and expressiveness (and his mob of bleached white hair...!).




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I think the only contemporary dance show I've seen so far that topped last night's was 'Amjad' by Lalala Human Steps, a modern adaption of the classical 'Swan Lake',  which I saw last year with my old flatmate Luke. I nearly cried when I saw it, it was that amazing (whilst Luke was finding it hard to keep his eyes open..!.)


I also discovered another very interesting artist, Rachel Kneebone, who designed the poster for 'In the Spirit of Diaghilev'. She is known for her intricately crafted and and highly detailed porcelain sculptures of strangely apocalyptic worlds inhabited by sensual hybrid contorted beings. Just how on earth does she make them??



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I went to Zoo Art Fair yesterday with a few people from my course. We thought it would be a friendlier, less intimidating and more manageable alternative to Frieze but it was very disappointing. Most of the work was either really bad or badly presented and the gallery stalls and the work in the exhibitions didn't really make use of the wonderfully crumbling victorian warehouse that it was held in. shame shame.
Went for a little gallery tour around Vyner street later on to make up for the disappointment where I discovered Mariele Neudecker's work. I will definitely find out more about her sculptures/installations as they seem to tie in with my work.


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I am off to the Sadler's Wells Theatre now to see  'In the spirit of Diaghilev', a tribute to the revolutionary art director and his ballet company  'Ballets Russes' (which had its 100th anniversary this year).Wayne McGregor and 3 other contemporary choreographers have all created a new piece and collaborated with various artists and designers, one of them being Hussein Chalayan, who created some of the costumes. Exciting!!