Walking to school – father/spring blossom and Autumn leaves, snow blizzards, shadows in the sun, vit-c lozenge
Running, leapfrogging over gym ‘horse’
Playground Play - horses and houses with multiple corridors always in the same spot by the inner railings
Skipping Rope skipping
Dancing black cat – swinging long tail
Climbing frame - Spain – gouging skin out of hands by swinging on the bar – imaginary gymnast
Flying out of swing - Spain – uncle popping arm back into socket – I can’t understand them I don’t speak the language, my family are Catalans
Lagging behind dad - walking home from town
Heat the area of pain in my body – like a small animal
In the way of the hoover
Two fingers – jab and reveal Appendicitis
No flashing light or siren – too late in the evening – vomit all over
Mum - 2 am - trolly – dancing eyebrows above face mask – Black bag with tube – hard to breathe - Batman vision swirly 60’s eyes in the lift
Water and ice cubes
Bathtub – nailbrush – scrub harder
Art on the back in soap foam
Scum around the edges
Swing in the Park – very high, almost going over the top
Climbing – staircase bannister - up over – over and back down
Climbing wardrobe - flying/jumping off top onto mum and dad’s bed
Maypole – clog dancing – badminton – reaching – tapping - skipping
Yugoslav folk dance – candle dance, ht wax, chac chac – fast, steps, hopping, skipping
Library books on ballet – living room, holding the back of the dining chair - copying the positions
Dream of taking the ballet shoes on my feet in the dream back into waking life – awoke grasping my feet
It's a most unusual day - Feel like throwing my worries away - As an old native-born Californian would say
It's a most unusual day
Goose – in Mother Goose. Big flipper feet - of old carpet painted bright yellow. Pully at the back operating with left hand the beak – two pullys at the front (right and left hand) opening and closing the eyes
Running in flippers – funny – taking the last bow in spotlight
Running running running skipping skipping skipping jumping jumping jumping
Reaching reaching reaching
Sewing room – pins on floor - Stevie Wonder and Abba dance routines HEAD OVER HEELS
‘I had a very good friend’
Jacquie Pullen - Triplets to hill street blues
La Bouche – Oldham Library – The Oldham Rd, black and white photographic exhibition of boarded up shops and houses travelling from Oldham to Manchester
Jumping whilst kicking leg underneath and starfish hand on head
Mother not amused – pursed lips – hard lips
Paint – gymnasiums - Wildlife
Time out from school
Sheena Simon – Cunningham technique with Richard Alston, a piece that he didn’t choreograph much of
Dutiful Ducks – future teacher pre family
Work experience at 15 – standing in a circle with adults with learning difficulties – this was new