From Sandon to Norwich, from Telephone boxes and chippies to all female performance with the titles ‘women, what are they all about/ or ladies, ladies, ladies and their ways…’
Yes, A true reflection of my practice and my collaborations I am in Hunt & Darton mode just like that, a mental quick shift and Im all things music.
We perform as part of Richard DeDominici’s music night at Norwich arts centre. An exciting little evening and a good chance to catch up with some reoccurring faces that we have found ourselves hanging at the bar with numerous times this year at similar events.
After spending the day completing the work and racing on down, we arrive a little silient towards each other and a little anxious.
I was about to perform again, in a performative way,it was stand up I mics, spoken and sung words with moves. It was in a bar, it was up front and live!
We deconstructed several songs from the the album ‘Women’; top 100 songs. Both singing and predominately saying the words the work remained pretty awkward but did attempt to look at what women actually sing about.
Ho do I manage to do this- often feeling like a multitude of artists in one, luckily it went down well and we got a few laughs.
We left conclusion we work to hard and need to at times make the work a little more commercial. What i mean by that is give them more I guess, something obvious at times, and its okay, in fact it helps with the more absurd bits.
We need to consider what we wear a little more. We dressed right down for this, but I think that backfired and actually the audience may have been more comfortable if we were in constume?
We though our next activity day could explore this.
