RUMPUS - definitely the way parties should be

Happy Slap Boutique started what (we hope) will be a long and beautiful friendship with the wonderful people of RUMPUS on the 7th of April 2012. We ran a room 'The Illustrated Circus of Beasts' for RUMPUS Vol.9 Tomorrows Party Today, filling our space with the circus, live body painting and general mischief to the sounds of our wonderful Happy Slap DJ Ocelus.

www.rumpusparty.co.uk
www.soundcloud.com/ocelus

Kensington - We Are The Young

A music video I did in October 2011. I am the girl with the gun and the drugs and the lipstick and that.



Directed by Daniel Burdett. Production and makeup by Natasia Demetriou

www.kensingtonband.com www.thisisheavy.co.uk

Neglecting Chimney Weeps

It has been over a year since I have updated my blog... Within that time Horseplay Arts Club has come to an end, after a great year of theatrical partying. Projects such as Debunked, Lizzie&Phoebe and MANYROOTS theatre have been put on the back burner. I have moved house, found a new man, learnt to fire breathe and traveled to China - Where I picked up a horrific tropical infection, ended up in a dirty inner city hospital and for the first time in my life had days on end with only my squidgy brain as company. It was within this time that the last year really came into focus.. and my practice as it stands right now came into focus.

It's no secret that I love to party and up until a year ago all the performance I was doing in festivals, clubs and events was more of a side project, something more for fun than creative development. It was during an installation of mine called Rave in a Cave at Kendal Calling 2011 that I first realised just how passionate I was about this way of performance. A local man from Skipton slurred over his local ale that the installation had made him realise that "life isn't just black and white" and that he "felt open to new and exciting things". So I started directing, curating and performing full time at club nights, festivals, events and parties up and down the country, working freelance with existing organisations such as Project Exodus and the SOAS Union and with bands such as Slamboree. Around October 2011 I took on a leading role within Happy Slap Boutique - The company I have worked creatively with since 2010. It is under the fantastic collaborative of Happy Slap Boutique that I am trying to push the theatrical boundaries of festival and club performance. My desire is to stretch audiences expectations of what performance in this setting can be and can mean.

So now I have found my theatrical purpose (for the time being) I must not neglect Chimney Weeps. I must continue to document my practice. www.happyslapboutique.co.uk