Live drawings made at Mme Jo Jo’s, Soho during the 11 years or so it prospered as home to Keb Darge and Jimbo ‘Raw Deal’ Robins’ Deep Funk and Groove Sanctuary dance nights.
Drawn live on location at a weekend Jazz dance and Dance Workshop event at Royal Festival Hall, London, in July 2011. Charcoal and white pastel on Canson paper. 50cm x 64cm.
At that time, both Mme Jo Jo’s in Soho, and Southport Weekender, in it’s original location at Pontins-by-the-Sea, were both going strong. The dancers depicted in this sketch would typically ‘rock-up’ and ‘fling foot’ at both events.