DAY FOUR THE DANCE PROFESSOR AND THE WHISTLING ARTIST

Began with missed alarm clock and a dash through the rain. Everyone in Japan has an umbrella except us.
Workshop down in the exhibition space.Professor Nakajima, choreographs a dance piece involving Izumi Noguchi, a "eurythmics dancer" performing with cameras attached to her arms and legs. We set up a webstream of the rehearsal on Active Ingredients ` Make TV ` and webcast about 15 minutes of dance. It looked very good.
When we came to webcast the actual performance for some reason the webcast stops after 3 seconds. Which is a shame. We are really testing this system for the first time so we expect problems. Messages are winging their way to Nottingham at this very moment.
Lunchtime -A meeting is convene around the childrens workshop to be delivered on Saturday. In their absence it is decided that for the children Johnny will dress up as Little John and Michael as Robin Hood. They are not happy. (Emma will be Friar Tuck)
Afternoon. Big meeting about our show at Superdeluxe on Tuesday night. 14 Acts in three hours. Performances, collaborations, videos, music and webcasts. Phew -quite a night. We rustle it into shape in a bi-lingual meeting. The real problem about these meetings is that the jokes never get translated - so one half of the meeting laughs whilst the other looks glum-then vice versa.
Another sushi reception tonight -for a visiting Korean artist. As the party draws to a close the visiting artist suddenly launches into a whistling rendition of what I can only imagine is a popular Korean song. To universal acclaim he finishes off whistling an electrifying version of Danny Boy.
Home to write this damn blog.