Oh dear I haven’t been keeping up with surfing the virtual zeitgeist recently. Or that is to say I have been tweeting and working away on a beta version of lozkaye.com , but neglecting the blog. Maybe in one of my favourite workshop phrases, ‘your silence lends you dignity’.
Actually that is mostly why the Isle hasn’t been so full of noises- I have been focussing on teaching rather than creating work recently. I don’t like to blog about the workshop side of things, I don’t think it’s very fair. Although I will say this much, I have had a great time at the residencies at the Conway Centre in Wales this year. Great staff and students, and most inspiring. It looks as if I am to become an Associate Artist there. Watch this space for develpments.
The next show is calling though. It is the retour of Horse + Bamboo’s show ‘Little Leap Forward’, which I wrote music for in 2009. This had a very successful run in ‘09, opening at the Royal Exchange Studio Manchester, gaining a 4 star review by Lyn Gardner in the Guardian. Like a number of Horse + Bamboo shows it is based on a life story, but unusually it follows the structure of an existing book of the same name. And the protaganist, noted Chinese flute player Guo Yue, is still alive. Yue provided some of his extraordinary bamboo flute playing for the sound track, and recording with him has to be one of the best days in my musical life…
‘Little Leap Forward’ opens again in May at the Dukes Theatre and Lancaster, and tours the UK. We want to make a few changes for the sake of clarity and focus, so I’ll let you in to the process of that as we go.
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