Fine Bone China: Frankfurt: Easter Weekend

Photograph: Bex Wade

Fine Bone China is a task-based, part-improvised, part-choreographed performance that explores how we try to hold things together even when everything is falling apart. Lucy and Martha question Englishness, social conventions and how we all often pretend that “Yes, everything’s fine” even when we are clearly drowning. The performance takes place within a surreal minimalist set and playfully leads the audience to contemplate the gap that exists between our Romantic ideals and the bare truths of reality.

We’ve found it. Once and for all we have caught it: the ingredients for the most perfect teatime moment. We want to present it to you, to re-construct it for you exactly, precisely and then hold onto it. We want to rest in a limbo of loveliness where there are no raised voices and we are wrapped in a blanket of sugar.

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Sunday, 4 April 2010

Frankfurt: Easter Weekend

Yesterday we went to a flea market beside the river. We saw pink blossom, German Sausage, painted eggs hanging in trees, rugs and rugs and rugs and fur coats and yellow blossom and china lambs. We bought a silver teapot to drop from a great height. We ate apfel strudel and drank erdinger. We saw a performer climb ladder mountains, converse with pina and wait for pictures in a blond wig.