ARTS DIARY
THE SPIRIT IN THE DUST
Kino-Teatr, St Leonards, 20 February, 7.30pm
Original dance/music performance featuring Japanese Butoh-influenced dancer Yumino Seki, with music from Afrit Nebula and images by Mark French. Seki is a UK-based Japanese dancer, teacher, performer and therapist. This is a triumphant return after the premiere back in September. The inspiration is a quote from Albert Einstein: “Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” Seki dances the role of a world spirit. Moving images are projected onto a translucent kinetic screen to provide a multi-dimensional setting.
FAIRPORT CONVENTION
Chequer Mead Theatre, East Grinstead, 20 February, 7.30pm
Connaught Theatre, Worthing, 21 February, 7.30pm
Bit off the beaten track for Hastings residents, but there will no doubt be many fans here of the legendary folk-rock band, still going strong as ever. Expect some long-established Fairport favourites as well as surprises from old and new albums. Founder members Dave Pegg and Simon Nicol have now been almost sixty years on the road.
TOY STORY
Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings, 2 February, 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Toy Story, astonishingly made almost thirty years ago, was the first full-length completely computer-animated film and the first from Pixar. It’s currently on its fifth sequel, and has been preserved forever in the American Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. Tom Hanks voices Woody, and Tim Allen Buzz Lightyear. Like all the best junior fiction, this film contains enough wry adult humour to entertain parents and children alike. Not to be missed.
STOP MAKING SENSE
Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings, 2 February, 7.30pm-10.30pm, with Post-Punk Disco.
Classic film by the biggest talking head of them all, David Byrne, complete with massive jacket and ego. Jonathan Demme’s legendary concert film follows the band for four days in 1983, and includes Burning Down the House and Psycho Killer. Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa better to run-run-run-run-run-run-away, but please don’t: it’s another cult classic, preserved for pioneering use of digital techniques, and that suit (inspired by Japanese Noh Theatre) definitely won’t come again.
TREVOR WATTS ETERNAL TRIANGLE
Kino-teatr, St Leonards, Friday 26 January, 7.30 p.m.
Trevor Watts has had a long-standing improvising duo with pianist Veryan Weston and another very different duo with percussionist Jamie Harris, based on rhythmic and melodic ideas. They were wildly appreciated at the Sao Paolo Jazz Festival in Brazil some years ago and also in the Dominican Republic. Eternal Triangle is made up from those two duos.
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