The Centre’s visual and conceptual identity are drawn from William Kentridge’s practice and in particular his methodological approach to generating new large scale performance work. Visually the identity is based on his Blue Rubrics, a series Kentridge began after receiving a gift of pure lapis lazuli gouache from Afghanistan. In his words, ‘They are called Blue Rubrics, but a rubric really should be red – a rubric was the printed or illuminated red text in a liturgical manuscript, in which the black ink would have been the text of the liturgy and the red would have been instructions on how to pray. So they are footnotes to a thought, the edges of the thought. In my case they are unsolved riddles, phrases which hover at the edge of making sense…WHO NEEDS WORDS (the whispering in the leaves)…. these are fragments of sentences which sit in a drawer of phrases used in other work over the years, which get taken out and sorted through on occasions.’