TOURS IN DEVELOPMENT
Listed below are our range of touring projects currently in development. If you are a presenter and interested in further information on any of these exciting projects or companies, please contact us.
AURELIA THIERRÉE / VICTORIA THIERRÉE CHAPLIN (FRANCE) Murmurs
Set as a continuation to Aurelia’s Oratorio, Murmurs follows a woman on the run in an abandoned city.
We all become a part of the memories of walls, sooner or later. From their construction until their demolition, within their structure and as part of their ruins. They are silent (or not so silent) witnesses of our lives. They protect and hide us from the outside.
Abandoned cities that come to life. Rooms that exhale threads of information, stories of lives that once were. A woman on the run. It’s a puzzle that slowly pieces itself together…
BARROW STREET THEATRE (USA) Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl
The world’s greatest hour of existential clowning, about life, love, office politics and survival, culminating in an unforgettable, mind-blowing showdown between a ravenous natural world and the last humans on earth.
“Imagine The Office crossed with The Day of the Triffids, and then throw in the best array of taxidermy the British theatre has seen since it stopped staging plays featuring drawing rooms with stuffed animals over the fireplace, and you have something of the flavour of this wild two-hander from New York's Barrow Street theatre. It builds to an astonishing coup de théâtre that is well worth the price of a ticket alone”. The Guardian
BOLSHOI THEATRE (RUSSIA) & BALLET PRELJOCAJ (FRANCE) And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace
Angelin Preljocaj’s latest creation unites Subodh Gupta the famous Indian artist, Laurent Garnier, a major name in the world of techno music and Igor Chapurin, a rising star of Russian fashion. The choreographer explores the apocalypse, a Greek word that means “unveiling”, and appears to reveal what is hidden beneath our modern rituals. The troupe is made up of 21 dancers from the Ballet Preljocaj and the Bolshoi Theatre.
“Working within a poetic and impressionist vein, And then, one thousand years of peace relies on an assiduous but not irrational reading of the Apocalypse. One should thus refrain from looking for images or clichés that illustrate, directly or referentially, Saint John’s famous text.” Angelin Preljocaj
CIRCOLOMBIA (COLOMBIA) Urban
Featuring the best of the Colombian National circus school Circo Para Todos, Urban weaves through the poetry and violence of street life with a pounding live reggaeton soundtrack, raw contemporary aesthetic and volcanic force. A tale of confrontation and redemption, of gangs and individual freedom, of poetics and cruelty. A high octane performance infused with wild, but perfectly mastered acrobatics.
CIRKUS CIRKÖR (Sweden)
Undermän
Underman is the Swedish term for the base in pair acrobatics. The base, usually a man, is the one who lifts and supports, overshadowed by his partner's acrobatic skills.
(Under in Swedish also means wonder or miracle).
Undermän is the true story of three male pair acrobats who lost their partners, and consequently their careers and dreams as well. They have lived a life supporting, balancing, lifting and saving their cherished ones. But who is there to support an abandoned underman?
In a quest to regain their zest for life, they decide to create something completely new. Together with the well-worn musician Andreas, they throw themselves into a performance full of truths, hidden talents, male strength, kettlebell choreography, live music, failure, an austere sense of humour and an important story to tell. They break all the rules by letting the stronghold outshine the embellishment and making sensitivity as important as strength. With raw strength, fragility, defiance, melancholy, cockiness and a need for revenge they now take a big step into the limelight to meet audiences as well as themselves in a surprising performance that is sure to move you to the core.
Wear It Like A Crown
Wear it like a crown is the final part in Cirkus Cirkör's trilogy about the body. The first part, 99% unknown, took the audience on a journey inside the body among cells and neurons. Inside out follows the heart, and Wear it like a crown seeks order in the collisions between the left and right cerebral hemispheres.
On a revolving stage, the circus performers move through a world of illusions, shadow play, knife throwing, acrobatics, juggling and drama. Six odd characters, feeling like they are the loneliest on earth, wrestle with their own dilemmas. Every character has his or her own way of trying to reach the others, through ping pong balls and suction cups, among other things. In Wear it like a crown, the director and circus director Tilde Björfors continues to examine the big questions in life in relation to the world of circus. This show has been created in an attempt to understand the chaotic order of the right cerebral hemisphere.
The music is composed by Rebekka Karijord and the title Wear it like a crown is from a song on her album The noble art of letting go. In this tragicomic and absurd performance, Tilde Björfors explores chaos and order and the transformation of risks into opportunities. It is about choosing to wear our failures, fears and shortcomings like a crown. To polish it, and wear it with pride.
CONSTANZA MACRAS / DORKY PARK (GERMANY)
A company that integrates dancers, actors and musicians with performers that range from 4 years old to 72, combining text, live music, dance and video.
Megalopolis
Megacities are a paradigm for the spaces in which people live together without knowing one another. Megalopolis is not a specific but rather a metaphorical place – a promise and a curse.
Big In Bombay
“…Constanza refers to the violent pictures of a chaotic era we all wade through. She uses hysteria as a driving force for her spectacle…Big in Bombay does not stop twisting and turning…Defiant, even amused, she is targeting the Disney subculture and terrorism, subconsciously with a loving humanism.” Le Monde
LUC AMOROS THEATRE COMPANY (FRANCE) Blank Page (Page Blanche)
A spectacular performance piece accompanied by live music in which live paintings are created, destroyed and then recreated. Huge stretched canvases over large scaffolding are covered with pictures painted or carved – a collective fresco.
“Blank Page starts with music. Jerome Fohrer, the double-bass player, gives an A. In front of him seven actors start to sing before climbing onto the scaffolding for twenty minutes of “gestures, images and narrative to restore charm to the city”. A first layer of black paint is applied to the frames quickly turned round to become white, then black again, to illustrate a magnificent blank page on which a story forms to the rhythm beat out by Jerome Fohrer’s hands on the double bass and the enchanting voices of the singers.” Julien Delattre – Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace
A production for the general public in a large venue – indoor or out.
THANG LONG WATER PUPPET TROUPE OF HANOI (VIETNAM) Vietnamese Water Puppets
First performed a thousand years ago on the surface of ponds and paddy fields in Vietnam's Red River Delta, water puppetry (roi nuoc) is the lively creation of farmers who spent their days in flooded rice fields. Providing a glimpse of the cultural life and times of ancient Vietnam, puppets are maneouvred across the water's surface via a system of underwater poles, rods and strings, with the puppeteers standing chest deep in the water.