To celebrate the start of a new year Abi and I dressed in our recently acquired vintage Tuxedo tailcoats. “Are you conductors today?” asked the staff at Maisie Munro. Perfect, yes we are! We brought a beautiful picture book called the Conductor by Laëticia Devernay and our session was inspired by the illustrations of trees and birds in this story.
We brought the lovely wooden xylophone with us to work on a cheeky raccoon theme for the show and even experimented with some tailcoat magic tricks.
This week we have been writing a script for the show. It will be a play without words but we are recording the moments, collecting our ideas and crafting a narrative. It is a tricky business- sorting through the possibilities. We were relieved to realise how much work we have done already; the discoveries we have made over the past three months, the flashes of inspiration and spontaneous compositions all seemed to conspire together to form the outline of a piece that we are both excited about.
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