Red shoes! High heels! As I write those words I know they will set your heart and mind racing with images and associations. Shoes, in many and various fairytales, denote transformation, and often signify the awakening of female sexuality, the burden of full-blown sexuality descending on the growing female body, and the escape from the […]
Tag Archives: Street arts
Big Daddy Meets His Match
August 27th, 2011 by Dorothy Max PriorIt was a chance remark from a friend that started me thinking. We were discussing the dilemma for contemporary ‘liberal’ parents in choosing whether to send children to private school or to throw them to the sharks of state education in the inner London boroughs, and this somehow moved on to a discussion about the number […]
Wayne McGregor, Random Dance, Pan Optikum, Scanner: Blink Margate
August 27th, 2011 by Sarah DaviesLike all the best firework displays, this highly visceral large-scale outdoor spectacle begins with a tangible fizz and culminates in a breathtaking finale. Plenty of sparkle is provided along the way courtesy of the fusion between Wayne McGregor and Random Dance’s slick choreography, Pan Optikum’s stunning pyrotechnic and projection work and Scanner’s atmospheric soundscapes. The […]
Shortlisted!
August 22nd, 2011 by Dorothy Max PriorSo, where was I? Ah yes, autumn in Edinburgh – although these past few days it’s been almost like summer. There are cricket whites on the Meadows, and hippies blowing giant bubbles – but there’s also a rustling in the trees, and the odd leaf or two falling just as a warning. On the edge […]
Stockton, Stockton!
August 7th, 2011 by Dorothy Max Prior‘If Stockton can’t come to Las Vegas, Las Vegas can come to Stockton!’ So says Johnny, star of Johnny’s Stuntshow, who’s revving up the Friday night crowd here in Market Square – the epicentre of the Stockton International Riverside Festival. Well, more than that: the epicentre of Stockton – apparently there’s been a market on this […]