The Dancers

The exciting Bloomsbury festival on the weekend was their best yet. Contemporary dance, art, music, theatre, guided walks, food, books, discussions, microbes. Yes you could make your own microbe!
What a dilemma lots of movies in the film festival and all this going on.
It is not possible to be bored in London.

Dancing Fountain

Summertime the courtyard of Somerset House is covered with dancing jets of water. Coloured lights add to the fun in the evening.
In July a dance performance choreographed with the fountains is promised.

Korean Dancer

This weekend the place to be is at the Thames Festival. I started at the scoop (the amphitheatre next to city hall) and watched traditional Korean dancing, music and taekwondo.

As I wandered along the riverside I saw stalls, loads of different food, circus acts, free run, dance classes, clay pot making and firing in an actual fire on the bank of the Thames, the amazing fire garden outside the Tate Modern, and finished it all off with the feast on the bridge.

I thought last years festival was great but this year is even better.

No time to sit at the computer today I have to get back to today's festival offerings.

Don't forget that I will have a super duper competition coming up in a few days.

Swing in the Park

Swing, jive, bop, whatever it is, these couples were having a great time in Regents Park.

The sun is shining again in London yahoo!

Hokey Tokey

Also known as hokey cokey, hokey pokey, cokey cokey. A lot of effort went into finding a name for this dance, performed, as I understand it, by most English speaking nations around the world. Is that right? Do you know it? Do you have a version in your country?

Actually these red stocking legs are on a more serious outing than that of a frivolous dance. They are pikemen and musketeers. Not a single mickey mouse in sight, these guys form part of the honourable artillery company that dates back to the 1500's. They are to be found leading parades for royalty or heads of state or as on this day, the Lord mayor.
No hokey tokey here.

The Dancer

The statue of the young dancer faces the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

Created by Enzo Plazzotta. It is Ninette de Valois born in Ireland, but finally settled in England where she established the Royal ballet, the Birmingham ballet and the royal ballet school.