The Circus Space Festival 2002
March - April 2002
The Circus Space Festival is now firmly established as a vital springboard for new performance. This year there are four brand new shows, two try-out cabarets and an end-of-project performance by degree students.
Last year The Circus Space and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation collaborated to establish an annual circus awards scheme in the UK to help new work to be created. It aims to celebrate emerging talent and reward ongoing artistic excellence. Thre of these shows (Movements towards a Symphony; Night and Day and 2 for tea - 1 for me) were created with the support of the new Jerwood Circus Awards.
We're also delighted to be premiering the Generating Company's second show, Gangstars, at the start of its UK tour.
Come along to see fresh and original productions. Take part too by providing valuable feedback - views (or reviews!) can be e-mailed to review@thecircusspace.co.uk We'll forward them to the artists, and post the most interesting on our website.
Charlie Holland
Programme DirectorFor map, local info and directions to The Circus Space see our contact page
BOX OFFICE 020 7729 9522
Visa/Mastercard/Debit cards accepted
Concessionary rates apply to U18 and (with proof of status) full-time students, disability benefit claimants, ES40 claimants, Shox Card holders, Paid up ACDC members. Free tickets for person accompanying wheelchair user.
Group Bookings - 1 free ticket in every 10.
Sat 9 March at 8pm
Sun 10th March at 8pm
£7 / £6 concs
Professionals, Undergraduates, Adult and Youth Class Members and visitors from Circomedia try out new acts, with a different line-up each night.
Movements towards a Symphony
Godiva Productions
Jerwood Circus Award Winner 2001
and
Night and Day
Produced and Conceived by company f/z
Jerwood Circus Award Winner 2001
Wed 20
to Sat 23 March 2002 at 8pm
£9/£6 concs. Show runs approx. 65 mins
Movements towards a Symphony: Produced by Godiva Productions
Jerwood Circus Award Winner 2001.
Image: Terry Cryer
From a stark, lone acrobat somersaulting in silence to a spiritual celebration of the physical using corde lisse - five short pieces in an uplifting, exuberant performance that places break-dancing alongside Led Zeppelin; ballet with hip hop.Choreographed by Gaynor Derbyshire
Performed by Dane Clarke, Joel Howard and Sophie Oldfield.
Night and Day
Jerwood Circus Award Winner 2001.
Image: Sissle Monore
Did you ever try avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear you'd fall through them? Or count all the people you knew before sleeping so they wouldn't die?The second in a trilogy of explorations into Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the comforts of repetition, Night and Day treads the line between habit and pathology.
f/z continue their enquiry into the uses of Circus in Visual Theatre with an alchemy of light, water, video animation and sound manipulation. Within this setting two extreme bodies explore their compulsion to repeat and their desire to silence the voices in their heads.
Choreographed by John-Paul Zaccarini
Directed by Flick Ferdinando
Performed by John-Paul Zaccarini and David Eriksson
Music by Peter Coyte
The Circus Space has also received funding from London Arts towards Night and Day.
Kicking the Moon presents:Max, Magali and Ashley in 2 for tea - 1 for me
Tickets:- £9/£6 conc. Family Ticket (2 adults and max of 3 children) for matinee performance only :£24 Box Office 0207 613 4141
Image: David Ash
Jerwood Circus Award Winner 2001
Have you ever… sucked a teabag? Woken up with a stranger in your house? Journeyed a space on sugar cubes? Added the sugar before the tea? Discover these rituals and time wasting devices in an Acrobatic, Juggling, Contortion story brewed with dance, music and rhythmic sound.
Devised by the company with Flick Ferdinando and Joyce Henderson Directed by Joyce Henderson
How do you make yours?
Performed by Ashley Carr, Magali Bancel, Max Haverkamp.
All three performers are recent graduates of the first ever BA(Hons) degree course in Circus which we run in association with the Central School of Speech and Drama. Show runs approx. 60 mins
FRI 5 - Sun 14 APRIL Fri 5, Mon 8 -Thurs 11 at: 7.30pm
Sat 6, Sat 13 at 3pm and 7.30pm
Sun 14 at 3pm only
Fri 12 at 7pm and 10pm
No performances on Sun 7th
Tickets: £12.50, £17.50 & £22.50 (all Concs. £12.50)
Groups of 10+ are £2.50 off top ticket rate
Box Office For Gangstars only: 020 7907 7038
A Generating Company production
Featuring the world's most innovative circus performers, this dazzling new spectacle from The Generating Company takes you into the somersaulting, tumbling aerial underworld of 1930's Gangsterland. When an unsuspecting man steps off a boat, he enters into a world of spinning gangsters and flying floosies.
Experience the thundering mob soaring above you and witness the ultimate aerial shoot out which will take your breath away. Suitable for all, Gangstars takes place around and above you in the spectacular setting of the towering heights of the Combustion Chamber. Gangstars builds on the success of The Generating Company's previous show 'Storm'.
Director Sean Kempton
Production Designer Mark Fisher
Costume Designer Vikie le Sache
Composer Akintayo Akinbode
Lighting Designer Jack Thompson
Associate Director Corinne Pierre
Gangstars is presented in association with The Circus Space and The Hutt Russell Organisation The Generating Company is supported by NESTA and ACE.