Today we started our process of R&D for the show and I'm really excited already about what we're generating. I say we - I mostly just sit there in awe of the three performers who manage to perform the most amazing physical feats with such grace and poise. I think it is helpful though to have me there as an outside eye, as Shreya the choreographer, is also performing. But I feel exhausted and I'm not the one leaping and lunging and lifting and all the rest, so god knows how they're all feeling! They're working so hard to genuinely respond to the interview material which we have playing on a loop (so after a while we all got a bit mad hearing the same clips) and it's amazing the detail and the beauty of what's being created, though probably by the time it's in front of an audience the scientific content won't be so transparent. We shall have to see how much people read into the visual and gestural language at the showing next week. Can't wait to carry on again tomorrow though - and start playing with our lovely copper pots - and even early bits of costume (what a luxury). And from Sunday we're in Circus Space so we can begin to explore the silks and translate more of the very specific gestural Indian classical dance vocabulary onto the aerial equipment. I have this idea of turning a red silk (which for us represents the arsenic contaminated well water) into a wedding sari and the protagonist of the piece Asha performing a wedding dance while it still being attached to the ceiling. Let's see whether it works...