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Bongo Balero
Bongo Balero are Nicky Andrews and Richard Durnford. They have spent the last 11 years perfecting their own unique style of circus and have toured their work in venues and festivals worldwide. The Penny and Bernie show is their popular cabaret act that features a seasoned husband and wife acrobatic double act who have performed their act many, many times over many years.
www.bongobolero.com |
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Cirque Bijou
A dynamic contemporary circus show called Crush
The show merges highly skilled aerial and acrobatic dance with incredible projections and mind blowing pyrotechnics. Starring Heir of Insanity and Cirque Bijou, with visual art from Kathy Hinde. The show is a story of love lost, found and imagined. It is a breath taking spectacular combining world class circus skills with state of the art technology.
www.cirquebijou.co.uk |
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Helen Finch
Helen’s work uses aerial rope fused with the grace & flow of dance. Using strong visual images we watch our soloist move on her rope, through these, on her journey.
She works as a soloist & is half of duo Cirq-U. An experienced aerialist she featured in the ensemble rope act that played the ‘Friedrichstadtpalast’, Berlin. As well as Corporate Galas, she has worked with companies including No Fit State, Giffords, Cirque Bijou and Bright FX. |
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Jon Hicks- Adult Prodigy
Performing since 2000, enthralling audiences with his artistic oddities. ICONS- upside down, revolving portraits of the iconically famous. Executed with speed, style, paint, dexterity, attitude and immaculate timing to music. Making its brushmark worldwide. |
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Layla Rosa
Layla Rosa is an aerialist, visual artist and founder member of the performance collective Shunt, she is showcasing an extract from her work in progress What if…?.
A performance installation that explores personal questions of a real and fantasized identity, veiling and being caught in between…a rock and a harem. The piece uses the moving image, aerial movement, video projection and audio installation to create stunning optical effects, atmospheres and theatrical illusion. |
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Levity
Is there an opposite of gravity? And if so, what effect would it have? In Levity we explore a time before the laws of physics had been fixed, a place where Gravity was the shadow of Levity.
“The Moth That God Made Blind” is a duet on two suspended ropes. Inspired by poetry of Sylvia Plath, along with Max Richter’s musical backgrounds, it features a fine balance of aerial acrobatics and elements of Corporeal Mime. |
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Matilda Leyser
Lifeline is part of the full length piece ‘Line, Point, Plane’. In Lifeline, a single rope hangs in space: a life unfolds along it from childhood through maturity to old age. Lifeline is a duet between a woman and a rope - the rope supports her, it is her literal lifeline as she grips onto it or is gripped by it, until she reaches its end - the point where the line of the life, the rope, runs out.
"Her performance is a revelation… … beautifully conceived and timed to perfection".
www.matildaleyser.co.uk |
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Miguel Manoz
This is an act about mystery, beauty and magic. Using text, magic and juggling Miguel will take you into a magic space where reality fades out with magic and imagination. |
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Natalie Reckert
Natalie Reckert is a compelling dancer and extraordinary handbalancer. Her recent piece ‘Zentralmassif’ explores the limits of a world of wonder around her equipment as she takes the audience on a journey through the realms of curiosity. |
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Ockham’s Razor
Ockham’s Razor was founded in 2004 and has created critically acclaimed work that explodes the boundaries between circus and theatre, inspiring audiences both nationally and internationally.
Their three pieces, Memento Mori, Every action… and Arc, will be available to tour as a full evening’s programme from spring 2007.
At Circus Futures they are presenting Every action…, a playful and arresting piece of aerial theatre about reliance and the bonds that form when people are thrown together. |
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Out of Frame - Tanya Scully and Helen Finch
Combining their experiences within circus, dance and film, Tanya Scully and Helen Finch collaborate on this new work on a specially designed aerial frame.
Two women, within the framework of their individual lives meet. Stepping towards the unknown, out of the boundaries of their familiar space. As the drama unfolds we see the risks they take in trusting each other as they seek a balance and equality in a place where their feet are no longer on the floor.
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Richard Durnford
This act is performed by Richard Durnford and has been directed by both himself and Nikki Andrews. It is a contemporary circus style act of strength and grace that builds to a daredevil handstand on the top of the pole- a heart in the mouth act!
Richard’s first solo act had features in work with No Fit State, Impact Artists, Cirque Bijou, and most recently as part of The Circus Space project Hotel. |
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Sebastien Valade
Former Mechanical engineer, Sebastien Valade has recently completed the training program of Circomedia ( Britain ’s Academy of Contemporary Circus and Physical Theatre), specialising in Physical Theatre (under the tuition of Bim Mason) and Equilibristic and Manipulation (Rod Laver).
"Interference" is a mesmerising combination of juggling, dance, movement and comedy choreographed to a specially designed soundtrack. Three balls, five clubs and a radio going mad leads the character to a side of his life he has never explored... |
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Steve Cousins
A multifaceted Street Arts practitioner and Entertainer, Steve is at home both on stage with an audience, and as a behind-the-scenes manager and producer.
Committed to bringing the best to an event through engaging public activities, participatory events and educational projects, he has been described as a showbiz alchemist.
www.stevecousins.net |
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Swings and Roundabouts
The breathtaking story of a woman on the brink of a breakdown brought back to life by a shoe shine man… A glamorous and spectacular cradle act that will make you believe in romance once again.
Swings and Roundabouts is the company created by Johan Bodin and Katarina Rosén. An inspirational mix of aerial acrobatics and physical theatre on a cradle suspended high above the ground. |
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Tanya Scully
Tanya has extensive experience of international performing, ranging from Circuses and Variete through to cutting edge aerial dance work for film. (Channel 4 Dance4film and Arte).
This piece takes you on a mesmerising journey, starting entwined at the top of the rope and eventually touching the ground.
Drawing from contemporary dance adding dramatic drops, sensual movement and effortless control, Tanya creates a world where it seems nothing else exists, a place to get lost in. |
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Tim Lenkiewicz
Minor Swing is the fruit of months of work searching for choreography and combinations. It is the result of personal research into the notion of the showman and a cabaret/ variety for today’s taste. With a little initial choreographic help from Briony Plant, and influences ranging from Sweden’s Cirkus Cirkor to the inimitable Francis Brun, Tim Lenkeiwicz has createda quirky and original act that is both traditional in its essence and modern in its style and execution.
Since December 2005, minor swing had been performed in various situations in theatre, tents and cabaret clubs around the UK.
www.timlenkiewicz.com |
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Zu Aerial Dance
Zu Aerial Dance are a fresh new company committed to pushing the boundaries of aerial theatre and combined arts practice. Supported by Arts Council England and The Brighton and Hove commission they present ‘Little Red Dress’, a striking duet with strong, abstract images. Little Red dress invites you to read what you see.
‘Second by second a species is evolving: from stalk eyed insect to cat-walking vixen’ . |
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