free distributed live performances
As I move around London I do free distributed live performances or you could just call it doing what I feel moved to do. Occasionally I communicate these on twitter
http://twitter.com/lottiechild∞
Today (like nearly everyday) as I walked under the railway bridge from my home (My home is located in an urban nature/reserve/derelict hole/building site/tuscan ruin) an old railway arch connects the magic zone with the rest of the world. People rarely venture there. Today and every day I sing as I walk under the arch, i sing whatever comes to me and I sing my heart out. Today was a song by Purcell called music for a while. And today two workers in hi vis clothes and two manager types entered the song space. They walked, stopped and then began to loiter toeing the weeds at the edge of the street to listen.
The warm breeze on waterloo bridge tonight and the groove rose up to fly me dancingly back home 19th nov from txt
Top of bus dance track dizee rascal 'some people think i'm bonkers but i just think i'm free' about 19th nov from txt
Dancing and funking down old street about 19th nov from txt
Grooving and dancing my heart out on the top of the 242 bus tourists stop and take photos, I see some one I know on the front of the bus behind mine about 19th nov from txt
Sharing my ear phones with two people on the train and dancing. about 19th nov from txt
Sliding down the hand rail at liverpool street station about 19th nov from txt
Swinging around the lamp posts in the alleyway widegate street about 19th nov from txt
At the bus stop three of us do a 25 min improvised jam on the phrase 'don't get run over by the bicycle' 1:06 AM Nov 11th from txt
Imogen and i bouncing on an abandoned mattress and riffing on carmina burana. 1:03 AM Nov 11th from txt
Bouncing up and down on abandoned mattress in the street 12:32 PM Oct 26th from txt
Hijacking the public address system at wimbledon train station to sing what the world needs now is love sweet love. 6:29 PM Oct 22nd from txt
When I walked onto the train platform at Wimbledon mainline station the guard was using the public address system. I asked if I could have a go on it he said 'sure here you go' and then he said 'if i let you have a go I'd loose my job' i said i would hate for him to loose his job and then he said 'oh here you go' and I sang 'what the world needs now is love sweet love, no not just for some but for everyone of us' I sang a couple of verses. When I finished the whole of Wimbledon train station at rush hour was still and silent. I felt a rush as though my body had caught fire and from the silence came applause, the station applauded and the trains came and went and it was all normal again.
A lesson in sliding down hand rails from a six year old boy 8:41 AM Oct 13th from txt
Sliding down the hand rail to the station then watching a girl do the same in the tube. 10:36 AM Sep 2nd from txt
Tinging every bicycle bell i walk past 3:55 PM Aug 27th from txt
Eating apples from a tree on sumner road peckham. 6:39 PM Aug 19th from txt
Trying to balance on a low railing with a box of fried chicken in my hand 10:09 AM Aug 19th from txt
Bare foot the city is different, we're more sensitive 2:42 PM Aug 11th from txt
A girl shows us how to massage your feet with the concrete studs at the street crossing. 2:42 PM Aug 11th from txt
Writing my name in wet cement 3:45 PM Jul 31st from txt
When i ride my bike with no hands i eek like i'm flying 1:49 PM Jul 31st from txt
Picking delicious ripe mulberries in the church yard in fulham some one comes to help me 2:39 PM Jul 30th from txt
Copying a small any who is playing with the accoustics as we walk under the railway bridge his dad joins in too 2:37 PM Jul 30th from txt
Giving the doorman in top hat and shades standing outside brown's hotel a hi 5 as i cycled past on my bike. 11:03 PM Jul 5th from txt
Perfect spot for traffic cone choir outside the town hall in manchester followed by barrier limbo. 4:59 PM Jun 30th from txt
Dancing wildly whilst riding a bike 6:46 PM Jun 15th from txt
Singing and dancing on the tube platform then on boarding the train and slow dancing with fellow passenger. 4:22 PM Jun 5th from txt
Using the accoustics of the scary bridge to enjoy singing to myself. 8:32 PM Jun 3rd from txt
Singing 'we are star dust we are golden' to the commuters in faringdon station. 8:54 AM Jun 1st from web
Doing Springbock leaps down my dirty derelict street. 8:30 PM Jun 3rd from txt
While waiting for a meeting at the bank taking a pink display balloon and Playing keepy uppy with fellow customers. 4:40 PM May 22nd from txt
climbing on scaffolding on an old building in centro velho Rio 11:05 PM Apr 24th from web
we find a massive cardboard box and carry it home 11:03 PM Apr 24th from web
following a seven year old girl jumping over a low wall, climbing a tree, buying popcorn, visiting the birds in the pet shop
i sing old bosa nova songs standing under the bridges in lapa while destroyed homeless people and dirty punks grin at me 1:51 AM Apr 16th from web
i ask this guy watching cars next to the arcos da lapa in rio to help me. i explain what i need him to do, he smiles a lot. 1:47 AM Apr 16th from web
walking the street shouting LOVE! LOVE AND LIBERTY! continually really loudly he kneels in front of me lifts me up i keep shouting 1:50 AM Apr 16th from web
huge 'sinister' figiera tree with roots growing from its branches calls to us we all swing and climb it exploring hidden nooks 2:12 PM Apr 12th from web
watching a group of homeless women walking together their tiny three of four year old child takes her top off and throws it into the air
ii put my hands on the floor my feet on the wall he stood in between my legs and we 'rebolar' to a deize trigrone baile funk track 6:01 PM Apr 10th from web
watching the wind making ripples on the surface of a puddle 8:57 PM Apr 2nd from web
Going out in to the streets during a blackout to see how it feels in the darkness. 12:40 AM Mar 23rd from txt
The park is full of cats i carry a tiny kitten a few hundred yards and give it to a woman standing by the road. 12:26 PM Mar 22nd from txt
Tonight we lift lila above our heads and carry her away now we climb and swing on scaffolding. 12:22 PM Mar 22nd from txt
Roaming with friends through the degraded area of saara rio. 12:19 PM Mar 22nd from txt
During the blackout walking the dark rio streets by the light of the full moon. Under cover of the night. 3:29 PM Mar 13th from txt
Learning the right way to walk from the girls at prazeres you let go relax and drop your hips as you go. 3:26 PM Mar 13th from txt
Ducking and diving weaving and slithering through the mass of semi naked sweaty bodies undulating their way down the streets of old rio ... 12:55 PM Feb 24th from txt
developing a softer way of being in my body, moving like butter through the sweaty carnival crowd 2:15 PM Feb 22nd from web
Did a tannoy hijack.... Sang the dub version of please stay behind the yellow line... Then tried to reverse pick pocket and old man with ... 7:50 AM Nov 11th, 2008 from txt
Hijacked some serious tanoy2day. Twice! 10:03 PM Oct 31st, 2008 from txt
Looking for ripe cherries on a tree off brick lane. 10:36 AM Sep 4th, 2008 from txt
playing skittles, but using pigeons as the pins 10:03 AM Sep 4th, 2008 from web
Heading to liverpool street station to practice floor diving. 1:41 PM Jul 20th, 2008 from txt
saw a cat and stroked it then lay down on the pavement in the sun 4:15 PM Dec 1st, 2007 from web
if you do this kind of thing and tell me about it maybe we'll be making little shifts in the ways we and other people experience the city. The buildings are the hardware the ways we behave are the software, instead of always trying to do what we're allowed and supposed to do what's stopping us from doing amazing , poetic, imaginative things?
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