I just saw this post on Its Nice That, it's about Willi Dormer's latest performance of 'Bodies In Urban Spaces', in New York. So I thought I'd share my experience from when I was lucky enough to catch a performance in London last October.

I was on placement in London at the time, and was using a weekend as an opportunity to explore the city, whilst my boyfriend had come down to stay. We'd just got off the tube at London Bridge, and were on our way to walk down to the Design Museum. We didn't know the performance was taking place, and were more than a bit confused when we saw a man wedged behind a lamp post...

We then noticed there was a lot of press photographers and also police, and realised something interesting was happening.

We then followed the small crowd that was gathering around quite a long route around London, which took us around residential areas, public gardens and finally the steps outside the city hall. Because there are so many 'dancers' in the performance, there are several different installations happening simultaneously, so the press and public were frantically trying to view each one. It was quite an intense half an hour, and generated lots of buzz and excitement around the area. It was a great 'happening' and Dormer managed to create an experience that made those involved look at both the human body and their environment in a very different and quite surreal way.