last dinner in Shenzhen

last dinner in shenzhen

Pete

Rocky’s pics show montage

show montage

Pete

packing up

and suddenly it’s over. yang qian’s pics of packing up.

packing up 3
packing up 2
packing up 1
packing up 3
packing up 5
packing up 6

performance, dec 28, 2007

pictures from friday afternoon prep and evening show.

prep scene
jochem prep
day photo
group exercize 2
kang kang stocking mask
tian weixu and rao xiaojun
milou and fish head
wheel prep
bird eyes
yq head
miranda prep
show 1
evening audience 1
show 2
wheel
night lighting
show 4
show 3
audience participation

christmas feasting

december 24, the group rested. that night, everyone gathered for christmas eve feasting. peter made dessert–chocolate mousse and apple upside down cake. we drank and ate and laughed and talked and made very, very merry.

peter cook
wenzi and mary ann
miaomiao laughing
ruud and peter
group toast
lolipops
peter and miranda
kangkang and gu jinpeng
more toasting
christmas tree
christmas lasst

sunday morning tryout

tryout conundrum. satisfaction: we did better. awareness: this is not yet a performance. will it become good enough in a week?

today’s series: danger, do not enter

2 do not enter
3 moving bamboo
5 fish head
6 group
7 xue qi and zhang yang
8 eugene
9 zuozuo
10 tap
11 tap
12 tap
13 tap
18 swarm
19 swarming
21 audience
23 end of show
24 audience
25 ruud eye

dress rehearsal, 22 dec 2007

when the bamboo moves, it fills the space beautifully, elegantly, delicately even. the all too primative nuts and bolts that hold the forms together give way to line, vertical against the sky. in that moment, something pure reveals itself to be already present.

bamboo 2
ruud
bamboo
sleeping peter
sleeping zuozuo
pre-show
pre-show 3
pre-show 2
fisherman
peter
miranda and arlet
kang kang
jochem
yang qian portrait
song jie directing
zhang yang
wenzi costumed
pete
performance 4
performance 5
feet
core audience 2
business
core audience

rehearsal

businessmen arrive
setting up shop
working
selling
getting ready detail
audience
performing 2
getting ready 2
pete sound
still getting ready
directing 1
directing 2
milou directing
panarama

fishing

Sometimes photography is like fishing. I like to hang my camera down at arms length and click without looking in the direction of the lens. At the end of the day I’ll haul in the net and see what I’ve caught. This was one of those moments from the field. Eugene, Milou and Yang Qian.

Posted by Peter J Charlton

Yum

Set up the sound system for the first time yesterday and things are working to plan. Although my midi controller mysteriously stopped functioning, so it’s back to mouse control.

Just had time to jump in a taxi and go evening shopping down town. I bought 7 pairs of stretchy 1 size fits all underwear and a Chairman Mao solar powered keyring which flashes his illustrious face on and off forever.

The underwear all turned out to be just too small, and Mao takes some time to get going after being kept in my trouser pocket ( where- yes you guessed it - it’s dark ) .  Oh well, how about some snakes, bugs and penises?

Yum.

Posted by Peter J Charlton

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