Bring Back I'm With Stupid

I have set up a facebook group and an online petition to the BBC to campaign to bring back "I'm With Stupid". If you would like to support this, please click on the link below to visit the petition and sign up.

"This Chair Is Not Me" Film

Andy Taylor Smith has nearly finished the film he is making about a part of my life and has created a poster to go with it. I hope you like it! To see a larger version of the poster, click on the image below.

FORUM

Just a reminder that my Dance Forum and my Communication Forum are open to new members. Why not come on over and join in the discussion or start a new thread of your own?

I look forward to chatting with you there.

Happy New Year

Can I take this opportunity to wish all of my friends a very

Happy New Year!

Happy Christmas!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my friends and readers a

Very Happy Christmas!

from
Santa Alan

Ho! Ho! Ho!

1Voice Weekend (Update)

The 1Voice weekend was, once again, a huge success and it was so good to meet up with many old friends and to get to know some of the new families and children coming through.
My thanks to all who were involved in the organisation and running of the weekend for making this such an enjoyable and valuable event.

1Voice Weekend

This weekend (Friday 13th - Sunday 15th November) sees me join 1Voice in Blackpool. I am looking forward to renewing a lot of old friendships and making some new ones.
It's hard to believe that this is the TENTH anniversary of the Blackpool weekends! Congratulations to Katie, Tamsin and all those committee members and volunteers who have worked so hard over the years to enable this event to happen and to be such a valuable success.

Cosmic Celebrations Part 2

As promised, Part 2 of Cosmic Celebrations is now available for viewing.

Cosmic Celebrations

In 2000/2001, with funding from a Millennium Award, I put together a full stage production of a dance performance called "Cosmic Celebrations". Working with a group of friends, I choreographed the whole performance, wrote the music, booked the theatre, even planned the lighting scheme. The performance took place at Pacific Road Theatre, Birkenhead on 20th April 2001.
Below are parts 1 and 3 of the show. Part 2 will follow shortly.

Films

Two posts in one day!
As mentioned in my previous post, I am involved in the making of no less than three short films at the moment.

1. I have been working with the Callup Group in Liverpool to produce a promotional DVD, showing the sterling work which they do as a mutual support group.
2. A filmmaker called Andy Taylor Smith is making a cinema "short" about a pivotal moment in my life. This is nearing completion now.
3. Thanks to an Arts Council award, I have been working on a short dance film based on two dancers. I am dancing with Laura Haughey and have been very fortunate to have Bill Hopkinson as dramaturg. I plan to show the film at film festivals next year and, eventually, to put it up on YouTube.

Colourscape Merton and Clapham Common

August and September have been absolutely manic - so much so that I haven't had chance to post anything on here!
I am involved in the making of three short films but will talk about those in a separate post. This post is about my latest work with Colourscape/Eye Music.
16/17/18th September I was again working with David Stevens, this time at St Ann's School in Morden, South London, creating music and movement with some of the lovely children there and culminating in a fabulous performance on the Friday.
On the Saturday, the weather was absolutely brilliant and I again danced with Michèle Lainé in Colourscape on Clapham Common, both in my chair and also some floor work. We were joined for one dance by Mr Silver and a number of people commented on how terrific that was.
Photos will follow shortly.

Colourscape, Sutton (Cont.)

I have now put together a slide show of some of the photos of me dancing with Michèle (Be sure to turn up your speakers!) :

Colourscape, Sutton

June and July were absolutely manic, with trips to Ulverston, Preston, Barnsley, Wakefield, Rotherham, Devon and Sutton! I guess the greatest thrill for me was dancing in Colourscape at Sutton with Michèle Lainé, a brilliant acrobat and performer. You can view a slideshow of our work by visiting my website at Mouse on the Move - What's New. .

Relaunch of Forum

First of all, an apology! I have been so busy this year that it has been difficult to make time to update this blog. I will try harder - honest!

Now to the reason for this post. Sadly, earlier this year, the Forum I was hosting on Dance and Communication issues was invaded by a bunch of idiots ( I could use another word, but I won't!), leaving inappropriate postings, pictures and website links. This left me with no option other than to delete all posts and purge the membership list.

I have now put into place a number of security measures. All memberships now have to be approved by me. Registration only takes a couple of minutes.

If you have any interest in starting or joining in discussions on Dance or Communication issues, do come on over and join me - it will be lonely without you! The link is Alan's Forum .

ISAAC Story Writing Competition (Continued)

It was a tremendous thrill to attend the Story Reading Reception at Downing Street recently and to receive my certificate as the UK adult winner. It was brilliant, too, to renew many old acquaintances.
Huge thanks to Liz Moulam and Patrick Poon from Communication Matters, who had worked so hard to make sure the evening was such a huge success.