Boiling Point
Rehearse
Recommend friend for a project in the summer
Meet the directors of a dance company for project development
Rehearse
Meet about space opportunity
Go to film night
Rehearse
Rehearse late
Meet friends in pub for a meeting about dance statistics
Edit video for application
Find out about being awarded an amazing professional development opportunity
Rearrange previous commitments
Find out that someone has pulled out of moving house and you may lose the flat you are due to move into
Rearrange everything
Rehearse
Chisenhale members meeting
Don’t sleep
Rehearse
Spend break times searching for a new flatmate
Don’t have lunch
Keep smiling
Don’t panic
Cry into towel
Laugh hysterically as the ready meal spills from piping hot plastic over the sides of a too-small bowl
Sleep better but still not much
Rehearse
Post photo of Whitney Houston on Facebook
Food shop
Pack bags to stay at a very kind friend’s house
Agree to cover a shift in a pub
Rehearse
Try not to appear frazzled at flat viewing with new potential flatmates
Write Shrinking Violets blogpost
This blog was set up as part discussion and also as a way for Amanda and I to document and reflect on our experiences and questions.
We arose out of a desire for playful critical engagement with dance in the UK and to document our interests. A giant ‘Yes’ to noting down experiences.
A giant ‘No’ to letting thoughts become lost in the daily onslaught of rushing around and surviving freelancing, or London, or both.
I was schooled in Nairobi and Bangkok before spending the majority of my teens in England. As a family unit, we moved around incessantly. This peripatetic lifestyle which was not my choice, unwittingly prepared me as a freelance dancer. In some ways, I am grateful. In others, it has made me want to invest in securing my artistic practice because the rest of the world so often fluctuates.
On a bad day or rather a hectic week, fluctuations make artists fragile.
