A very busy period of activity has ended. The comedy course took up 6 weeks of Monday nights, but also a lot of rehearsal and writing an rewriting of material. It has been a success though. We all had our debut at ‘Up the Creek’ and all gave their best and there was laughing, and not just from our invited friends. The hula hooping not only added and extra dimension of opposition to joke telling, but gave birth to some material as well. I hope to do some open mic spots soon. I am excited about approaching performance in exsisting cultural systems and spaces.
The dust has settled on the stand-up course, but the marathon and jography training still carries on. I had to abandon any attempt at running on Saturday and read a book instead as my back hurt like blazes on Friday. But on Sunday my longest Fartlek session so far on hilly Streatham Common was great. Helped a lot by the spring sunshine, I must admit. Sticking at running whilst tired will help on the day and help me to be tenacious with things creative.
Today I am contemplating my 45 minute jog route with a view to some modification into a star shape. next time I will try this out.
I have the go ahead to organise a pilot residency for Epsom common this summer with a view to a full scale operation in 2013. This is great news and hopefully there will be a chance for an artist to do the same every year after that.
