Springboard Season - 8 April - 27 May 2003
CREATING
CIRCUS-
Springboard Season Launch Debate
Tues 8 April 2003 (NATIONAL CIRCUS DAY) 7.00pm, The Circus
Space, Coronet Street, London
Circus
remains a popular performing art, one that has evolved in many
ways since Philip Astley created the first circus, in London in
1768. National Circus Day, which falls at the beginning of our
Springboard season, celebrates circus in all its forms. The debate
focuses on how can we continue to create great circus.
Entrance
by Free Ticket only. Call 020 7729 9522 to reserve.
For
further information on National Circus Day see www.circusarts.org.uk
Weds
9- Fri 11 April 2003
Raw Beef by Hoax
Productions- £5,000 Jerwood
Circus Award Winner 2002
7.30pm
£ 9/£6 (concs) Box Office Details
Show runs approx 60mins
Hoax
Productions
Image:
Eric Richmond
…A
locked room where everything smells likesomething it isn’t
and where life starts again every three minutes, ...The audience
is trapped in a dangerous and exciting world where upside down
can be the right way up and disobeying the clock incurs the ultimate
punishment…
Raw Beef is a lightning-paced and visually exhilarating piece of clown-theatre
suitable for audiences over the age of 12.
Hoax
is a
new Bristol-based international company comprising of Ivan Marcos
(Spain), and Alistair Seed (Scotland)
On ‘Sketches
of the Underworld’ 2001:
“Absolutely brilliant…” Total Theatre Magazine.
“ Fantastical fable, expertly executed…” The Stage
Tues
15-Thurs 17 April 2003
Don't break my Balls and Quartet by
Gandini Juggling
7.30pm
£ 9/£6 (concs) Box Office Details
Show runs approx 90mins
Suitable for audiences of 12 upwards
Gandini
Juggling
Image:Andy
Baker
The
Gandinis, celebrating a decade of exuberant juggling, present a
double bill choreographed by long time collaborator Gill Clarke.
Don’t
break my Balls
A new duet directed by John Paul Zaccarini (Company F/Z). Company founders
Sean Gandini and Kati Yla-Hokkala put a mirror to their work/life relationship,
as lovers and juggling partners. Set to a series of romantic songs this
is the Gandinis most theatrical work.
Quartet
An unashamed celebration of group juggling. The current Gandini quartet
is a tightly knit precision machine. This piece takes colour as a
starting point for 40 minutes of joyous virtuosity.
“Juggling
will never seem the same again.” THE SCOTSMAN
Weds
23-Fri 25 April 2003 (Double Bill)
Out of Line & Trip-tic by
Gisele Edwards - £5,000 Jerwood
Circus Award Winner 2002 & mimbre
7.30pm
£9/£6 (concs) Box Office Details
Show runs approx 1 hr 40 mins
Gisele
Edwards
Image: Eric Richmond
Out
of Line LINE: n: 1.a continuous extent of
length without breadth. 2. a contour, an outline, a thing's shape; a
line of physical movement; melodic line. A continuity.
Two
lines dissect the bare space - one horizontal, one vertical. Out
of the darkness, a tiny figure in white appears, making her way
along the horizontal - a rigid tightwire - on a precarious journey
into the unknown.
Trailing
off her are the pages of her life works -childhood experiences,
shopping lists, accounts, love letters - always threatening to
pull her off balance. She encounters the vertical rope and a new
direction - up. As she plays with this line her paper clothes shred
and tear; she sings, pursuing a melodic line that melds with the
movement of the different lines she encounters on her journey.
Out of Line brings together a company of contemporary artists to
explore the fusion of lines of movement, lines of song, lines of
text to create an evocative and surprising piece of aerial theatre.
Suitable
for any age, although it is not specifically conceived as a children's
show.
Trip-tic (Preview
performances)
mimbre
Image:Eric Richmond
Three
towers stand alone inhabited by three lives. Secrets are laid bare,
relationships are altered forever.
mimbre
established themselves as a contemporary acrobatic company with
their critically acclaimed show “sprung”. In this new
show mimbre weave a narrative with subtle physical storytelling
and their inimitable style of dynamic acrobatics and choreography.
To create this new show mimbre have once again collaborated with
Flick Ferdinando (Company F/Z)
Suitable
for any age.
Performed
by: mimbre (Silvia Fratelli, Lina Johansson and Emma Norin)
Directed by: Flick Ferdinando
“A
new side to movement arts, quite unlike any other group we’ve
seen. The piece builds dance and acrobatics into a whole where neither
side is a token. They’re renowned among those who know – state-of-the-art
movement/theatre/dance!”
Bath Fringe Festival 2002
Box
Office
For further details regarding ticket availability and show information
please contact, our Box Office on 020 729 9522. (Opening times 10.30am-5.30pm
Mon-Fri, 10.30-1.30pm Sat)
Rebecca
Townsend from Giffords Circus