Our time in NY has ended, but The part of our project that begins in the UK now begins. Mary sand i both have quite a few UK magazine comissions that we are chasing up. part of our ats council england funding was contingent on benefi to the public, this not only meant that we trained new writers, or writers new to live art, over in NY whilst performa was on, but that we disseminated the work, and our activityt once back in the UK. We have so far lined up 2 x UK workshops in collaboration with goldsmiths University and Queen Mary. And have provisional commissions from Dance Theatre Journal, Art Monthly, Realtime magazine and Total Theatre. Its a lot of work, chasing and pushing, but hopefully will be worth it when the writing comes out and everyone reads more about this performance work. Maybe someone will be inspired to write about performance, go to see it, or even make it!. I uppose the hope is is that someone copmes along with a big bunch of money so that we can run something similar in the UK!
Universities work to a different deadline than the rest of the workld, often taking weeks just to answer one email. and magazines, well. they are totally off the planet -either they are really busy with a 5 minute deadline in which they have to sandwhich 1000 words in 5, and hence to busy to talk to you. or they arent in the office-swanning around and seeing art because, well, they have just inished their deadline. there really doesnt seem to be a good time to catch editorial staff, let alone solidify plans for a peice of writing..anyway. we plough on. will keep you updated as and when the commissions come and and we do our UK workshops.
RLxx
