26 November
Saturday night at The Riverside Studios. I’m here to watch Edits, choreographed by Lea Anderson for her all-male company the Featherstonehaughs, which she co-founded in 1989, 5 years after co-founding the all-female Cholmondelys. It is the last time the Featherstonehaughs will perform and no one can quite grasp or believe it.
The dance is fascinating and beautiful, I have drawn them rehearsing fragments of the dance but never watched a run. And the costumes… just gorgeous, designed by Oscar winning costume designer and long term collaborator of Lea, Sandy Powell.
The 6 Featherstonehaughs took their bows at the end of the show, as the audience clapped and cheered (and quite a few cried) 3 women walked on stage dressed in funerial black lace and began to dance a 1985 Cholmondely dance to Nina Simone’s My Baby Just Cares For Me, there were screams of joy, the co-founders and original dancers of The Cholmondeleys: Lea Anderson, Teresa Barker and Gaynor Coward were dancing together again.
Lea Anderson, Teresa Barker and Gaynor Coward
Goodbye Featherstonehaughs
The Royal Iris on Sunday evening, see my shadow (left) captured in the fog. This boat is moored next to the entrance to our studios on the River Thames 
My studio during the show. Top painting: Uprising/In Your Rooms, below: La La La Human Steps 
Between One Breath and The Next
Sketch books
students’ drawings 
Morning class led by Russell 
Rehearsal 
She sat in the front seat next to Paul Winter of 
My son Max spray-painting a wall at