The last and most recent performance we did was in summer 2007. We were invited to perform at the Portobello Film Festival as part of their street arts programme at Westbourne Studios in West London, close to Portobello Road. I was determined to make an exciting short documentary film out of the performance, so I took the opportunity to engage the BBC Film Network department. The BBC Multi-Platform Studio AV team supplied cameras and all the technical know-how as well as production and post-production skills. I produced and built the infrastructure to be able to position a DV film camera in a birds-eye position above the performance area with the help of a dedicated team of friends. As a performing capoeira group, we were about 20 strong and during the performance we used 2 huge canvases in a performance that lasted one and a half hours. You can view the resulting short film here: BBC Film Network In summer 2006 the group performed the project at three different festivals in and around the London area to large audiences. The first festival performance was in May 2006 at The Kingston Green Fair, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey (website: www.kingstongreenfair.org.uk). This performance was very much a dry run as this was our first fully public performance of the project. In previous sessions I had always employed people to use paint rollers to apply the paint to the performers' hands and feet, but this time I experimented with using troughs full of paint that the performers could just step into and move into the painting. However, I discovered this made the performance too haphazard, the performers too excited about covering each other in paint and the whole performance was less controlled. It ended up being a very messy performance and unforthunately we didn't come out with much of a painting. Our second performance was in July 2006 at Rhythms of the World Festival, a free festival in the streets of Hitchin, Hertfordshire (website: http://www.rotw.org.uk). For this festival we applied the paint directly onto the surface of the road. We did three seperate performances throughout the day, each lasting about 30-50 minutes each. We started with white paint in the first of our performances to lay a light foundation colour down and in the subsequent two performances we used two new colours each time. We were also selected to be interviewed by BBC counties radio about our performance. Aesthetically and functionally this was by far our best performance of the summer festivals and was really enjoyed by everyone involved. The last of our summer performances was definately the most high profile as we performed again in July 2006 at Sadler's Wells "Brasil Brasileiro" Carnival, Sadler's Wells, London (website: www.sadlerswells.com). This performance was commissioned by Sadler's Wells dance theatre as part of a big Brazilian carnival day to promote their "Brasil Brasileiro" show of July-August 2006. We performed in the park at the front of the theatre to huge crowds on a specially constructed canvas covered platform. Unfortunately just as we were about to start performing, it began to rain (the first rain for two months!) and although we continued with our performance, our painting was destroyed by the rain. However, despite the fact that it was pouring with rain, we still managed to maintain and entertain a crowd of around three hundred people. To see photographs of all of these performances see 'Documentation.'