Yesterday’s performance went off OK. The rain that had been threatening held off, people came and then I got stuck into it. I managed to perform it without a written Pinyin script in front of me this time. That was a significant advance upon the last performance. I also made the actions more complicated and attempted to slow this side of the piece down so that each decision I made was more visible. I think it went some way towards achieving this but can go further still. The English translation was not so easy to follow because of the wind, accent and Google text so I should look at how much I want it to be followed. I suspect more is the answer to that question so I will have to work that side of the piece more.
I had invited people to make comments after and a few did, many more however simply wanted their photo taken beside me. That is a sort of comment I guess.
Later we went out and saw a Chinese hip hop act in a club. The young Chinese breakdancers spinning on the concrete floor to an appreciative crowd were well worth seeing.
