Six dancers from Crows Feet were involved in a performance at Te Papa in December. The piece entitled "The Monstrous Red Dress" was the work of Lauren Skogstad, and formed part of her studies in Spatial Design for Massey University.

We're working on our next show, whose name is still a mystery to me. But these are my notes on a little section of the Pastry Dance. I was finding it hard to remember because A. we keep changing it and B. my granny brain makes me a little slower to catch on.

I recently returned from a trip to the uk (June 09) and had the good fortune to see two excellent examples of older adults performing. This is now no longer becoming unusual but in the past 5 or 6 years seems to be a growing movement. The first example was a wonderful BBC programme in the Imagine series about a Sadlers Well's project and the second was  the Belgian Les Ballets C de la B showing how wonderful a dance company can be when its dancers are not uniform in size shape or age.

Way back in April Rachel wrote about our fun with kitchen percussion led by Andreas lepper. Since then we have expanded this theme to the elasticity of enormous dough-like lengths of material and rolling pins, sticky oven gloves and trays, and cupcakes galore. Even managed to stir in a bit of tango. Some interesting prop making for me in this mix. I do love the 'how' and the 'what if'.