Common threads

Communication is central to everything we do. Its as fundamental as breathing. The universe communicates via light and sound, humans communicate via our voices, feelings and senses, pulses and currents are tracking backwards and forwards constantly carrying messages.

As we are all part of a whole, we are all significant in the rhythm of life. The Big Flag 2012 is going to bring this together in a dynamic and so far untried way in Bexhill. Local sports clubs, dance organisations and students will create a performance based on rhythm, repetition, communication and signalling by choreographing  moves taken directly from each discipline for example footballers might do keepy uppies, rowers might repeat a rowing motion, cricketers might catch or bowl, gymnasts might cartwheel, karate or tai chi pupils might find a position and hold it. All these activities need practise, skill, determination, stamina and patience to achieve excellence and to progress. The great thing is most people do all this naturally because they enjoy what they are doing so much the end result keeps them motivated and as sociable beings we need to feel part of something, to belong.

In bringing these components all together with rhythm and percussion in music the Big Flag 2012 will show the similarities between very different sports and activities from fishing to trampolining and the common threads running through life communicating and linking our every move.

The art is to find and show the threads.