Fantastic French French theatrical troupe Royal DeLuxe brought their show The Sultan’s Elephant to London for four days in May. Beside the giant puppets we became as children; Miki caught the awe and the wonder in her pictures.
More fireworks from Groupe F at the Brighton Festival.
Hats off also to the imagination of Charlie Chaplin’s daughter Victoria Thierrée Chaplin and her daughter Aurélia, whose evening of theatrical fantasy at the Lyric Theatre is like Jean Genet staged by MC Escher to music by Michael Nyman. Again, awe and wonder.
Nottingham XP To Nottingham yesterday to meet XP coach Nancy van Schooenderwoert and talk to the local XP people. Here’s an MP3 interview with Nancy from Agile2005 last year.
Badly Guarded Girl The advantages of living in London — easy access to the arts — but how much advantage do we take? All too often, like living beside Hampstead Heath, the advantage remains untaken.
Happily, last autumn’s Copenhagen-inspired bicycling has survived the winter and is now taking me through Kings Cross several days a week, and rebuilding the fitness lost to motoring. Arriving in town yesterday evening after a day spent fiddling with tiny software changes I felt in need of a lift. Miki was finishing at her paper and jscampered down to Covent Garden, where I got bar-stool seats under the roof of the Royal Opera House to see La Fille mal gardée, a sort of Disney ballet. A sfizioso and a little fizzy as well.