Ballerina beautiful

There is a performance venue in Ipswich called Dance East which has one of the most enchanting pieces of art I've seen in a while. It captures the delicacy, beauty and strength of dance and dazzles with colour and texture.

The light stretches from floor to ceiling and is constructed using real ballerina tutus sourced in Russia.

Dreamlike, inspired and completely functional in its simplicity, the sight of this piece on the town's waterfront made the rainy Suffolk day dissolve and my imagination come alive. Then, passing a newsagent's on the way home I saw this:

And this:

Both my stories, my face was a smug little picture all the way home.