COL Assistant Producer Daniel Pitt on COL’s circus artist and choreographers mash-up, The Blender.
On some of the coldest days of the year, spending your time in an uninsulated warehouse in London’s Docklands may not be top of anyone’s list of the top things to do. Braving the treacherous conditions to travel to Woolwich’s Hangar Arts [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Contemporary circus'
The Blender
December 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Contemporary circus
Greener Grass: The Activate Promoters Exchange
November 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Contemporary circus, Cross Channel Circus Alliance
The more I see of the arts industry the more it appears as a dense rhizomic mat of projects and networks, layered and interwoven. The Activate Promoters Exchange at Poole was led by Activate, hosted by the Poole Lighthouse, embedded within the Carte Blanche season, part-funded by the European Commission’s INTERREG IV programme, and a [...]
Tags: activate·gandini juggling·gisele edwards·ilona jäntti·la brèche·lighthouse·mimbre·natalie reckert·paper cinema·rachel fox·sugar beast circus
Juggling Études
September 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Contemporary circus, Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe
Jugglers make difficult choices. For French company DeFracto, Guillaume Martinet and Minh Tam Kaplan, it’s a sequence set to Chopin’s Op. 10 No. 04: the two of them sat at a black table with a spread of white balls that they juggle, pass between each other and frantically rearrange into precise yet, to us, opaque [...]
Tags: Circuits Fermés·DeFracto·Guillaume Martinet·Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe·Minh Tam Kaplan
Waste Time
July 29th, 2010 · No Comments · City Circ, Contemporary circus
‘Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste… It is prosaic to throw a thing away; it is negative; it is a confession of indifference, that is, a confession of failure.’ G. K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
Tags: acrojou circus theatre·City Circ·stratford circus·waste time
