Dancing Ledge Av Derek Jarman

<p><b>'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.'</b><br><br>In 1984 at the age of 40, the polymath film-maker Derek Jarman began to write his journals. In the first of these diaries, <i>Dancing Ledge</i>, 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, <i>Dancing Ledge</i> is a coming-of-age memoir for all fledgling artists.<br><br><i>Dancing Ledge</i> also chronicles a unique time in British history, capturing gay nightlife from the end of the war to the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.</p>