We called in on the Used To Be Slime rehearsals last week, ostensibly to get a better idea of what the piece is about, but also, it turns out, to make ourselves feel worse about our general level of fitness/utter lack of acrobatic talent and/or flexibility (sorry Kelly, I’m dragging you down with me). But, we did learn some things about the piece, and also about ourselves, and life in general so, all in all, it was a good day. I can imagine you’re on the edge of your seat waiting for these philosophical nuggets, so I’ll get straight to it.

In no particular order:

(1) Sometimes seemingly small things can take huge amounts of preparation. The piece revolves around a group of ‘out-of-towners’ who have arrived in Glasgow with no concept of anything or anyone. Today’s rehearsal focused on the aliens’ first step out into the public. This was far more complicated than it sounds and managed to involve debate concerning performers’ natural tendency to work individually, the position of the ‘alien’ in society and the reclaiming of the word ‘inappropriate’ to mean something that is not appropriate, rather than something implicitly sexual.

(2) In the arts, seemingly small things always take a huge amount of preparation. See above, and times by a hundred. The finished product always encompasses so much more than you’d imagine.

(3) Light + space = a really, really nice place to work.

The Briggait: It's really nice.

Conflux's home, The Briggait: It's really nice.

(4) There’s something really cool about women playing trumpets.

(5) I cannot, and will never be able to, do this:

Or this:

Or any of these:

Rosie x

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