26th of May, Backstage in Vincennes, near Paris

pictures from stills of a video by flexrex

As a guest to TG and Enrique and the girlfriend( krypton?),I performed in an old factory in Vincennes. It was a last minute location due to an internal war at La Générale where the evening was planned. More groups were playing in what was a practice room when we entered it, and a kind of sauna when we left it for the last time. In fact, during one of the acts, when I was engaged in some talking and beerdrinking in the bar together with Flexrex, a girl in a lovely summers dress stormed in, bare feeted, leaned against the wall, and pushed her black underwear down her legs. It was soaked for more then one reason, judging from the smile on the boyfriend's face.

We never got back to the steaming room after we saw the grandson of Eric Satie conducting an orchestra of drums and guitars and one keyboard. He had a gesturist language of his own. The first minutes it looked like he was building up to something, like some ecstatic vulcanic dance. But he kept conducting right to the end. I thought smearing make up on his face with every gesture (nobody could see it, because he was with his back to the audience), then choose a moment where the orchestra would play for their own sake, like some mechanical puppets, to start an uncontrolled springfever dance, would be the perfect act, but no.

The real circus act came back stage where a little girl dressed in black did some acrobaticisms with two hoolahoops. Flexrex put them on video, one, two After it she turned our place next to the sauna door into a real backstage place. We talked about sinking ships and melting ice; we discussed geographical and scientific problems. We had some thougts on vertical hoolahooping, which she found enchanting, because she thought of hanging down from ropes by hand and feet, to be held by strong men. And of course we talked about linguistic problems caused by demographical determinism. We also recited some poems. And to keep it all nice and anonymous we never introduced ourselves to each other: alors fille au cercau, a la prochain fois, avec plus d'espace!