Another session of Pulse Festival wondrousness at the Dance
House in Ipswich last night – first was Words into the Dark by Wendy Houston a
wonderful piece – finding a way forward – an expression of a person managing –
a person coping with a mass of information – creating language. Second was a
piece by Hetain Patel - American Boy – a mixture of
impressions and actions looking at popular American Culture it was at its best when
it mashed up these ideas and expressions of Americanness – Spiderman doing
impressions of Micheal Caine doing Kung Fu as Michael Jackson! There’s a double
bill on Saturday with world factory the shirt first and then Feel about your
body by the fabulous New Art Club I’m already looking forward to it – they are
always quite marvellous http://www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/shows/pulse14-feel-about-your-body/
. I had resisted the new version of Old Boy as the original needed nothing especially
not a remake. But it does have some extraordinary special effects in the form
of exploding heads mainly – but.......
Part of today’s teaching at Camberwell was a visit to The London
Centre for Book Arts http://londonbookarts.tumblr.com/
- a most excellent space deep in the hinterland of Hackney almost next to the
Olympic park. A great talk by Simon who in founder and runs the place, although
far too modest to say so himself he really is a force for good.
