Dancing Ledge

Dancing Ledge: Journals vol. 1

Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Literary Biography & Memoir, Film, TV & Radio, Screen & Performing Arts, Film, TV & Radio Biographies | Paperback Published on: 03/03/2022
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Synopsis

'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis in back rooms.'

In 1984 at the age of 40, the polymath film-maker Derek Jarman began to write his journals. In the first of these diaries, Dancing Ledge, we see his origins as a young artist, written with Jarman's distinctive immediacy, curiosity, and candour. Behind-the-scenes of his first controversial films and stage designs, at glamorous launch parties with friends like David Hockney, Ossie Clarke and Patrick Proktor, to the trials of securing funding, Dancing Ledge is a coming-of-age memoir for all fledgling artists.

Dancing Ledge also chronicles a unique time in British history, capturing gay nightlife from the end of the war to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781784877682
  • Number of pages: 208
  • Weight: 170g
  • Dimensions: 199 x 130 x 13 mm