The Outdoor Arts Ideas Summit 2018

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3 IDEAS SUMMIT All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre Ticking of the Clock 2. Bureau of Silly Ideas United Nations Board Of Significant Inspiration 3. Cikada Circus Cikada 4. Circus Geeks To Be The Best Too 5. Dizzy O Dare Phileas Fogg and the Dodo 6. Dora Frankel Figures in a Floating Landscape 7. Emcann Taking Flight 8. ERRO Grupo Jogo Da Guerra - Game Of War 9. Etta Ermini Dance Theatre Glam 10. Fuel Chandini 11. Full Tilt Aerial Substratum 12. Glass House Dance Time Machine Disco 13. Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates The Black Victorians 14. JKart Public Art Instrument 15. Jon Hicks Kickmouse 16. Kadam Asian Dance & Music Ltd The Rose and the Bulbul 17. Lost in Translation Circus D'Emblée 18. Madame Zucchini The Hot Political Potato Gameshow 19. MBD Stories of the Empire 20. MHz Scenography Pull Up sessions (working title) 21. Mischief La-Bas Her story 22. Modo Circus with Purpose Confusion of Tongues 23. Mufti Games One Kid and Their Dog 24. Nearly There yet The Flying Bazazi Brothers 25. Oceanallover Diapason 26. Pif-Paf Theatre TOAST 27. Place to Wonder Dream a Little Dream 28. Puppets with Guts Gnomus 29. Ruxandra Cantir & Sarah Rose Graber The Dirty Laundry Campaign 30. Safetycatch Theatre Doctor! Doctor!! 31. Saffy Setohy Light Field 32. Siolta Collective Seeds 33. Splatch Arts Y Mor 34. Strong Lady Productions Power 35. The Doing Group A Home For Nessie 36. The Fabularium Ltd There Be Monsters! 37. Turas Theatre Collective Remnants 38. Ukemi Ltd The Greatest Park Never Built 39. Upswing Catch Me 40. Whalley Range All Stars The Best of All Possible Worlds 41. Woven Circus Collective Resonances 42. Ziggy Slingsby Forest Bathing

4 1. All or Nothing Dance Theatre Ticking of the Clock The show: Ticking of the Clock is an ambitious outdoor large scale participatory performance project culminating in an aerial crane show. Bringing professional performers and a community cast together to tell the story of our central character in a race against time. Set against the backdrop of her lifecycle and the memories it provokes, time is the universal theme weaved through the show. The audience will be on three sides with the crane at the top while freestanding aerial sets sit linearly down from the crane, representing different points in the female protaganists life. Sound to Sea / Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan Performers will move in and around the sets with the story being played out in the air, on the sets and on the ground. The crane will be used to bring the story high up into the air with the professional performers swooping down towards the audience. The design of the show is influenced by the inner working of clocks, the cogs and wheels, pendulums and pulleys, clock faces. The sets will be circular - featuring swings, aerial hoops, pulley systems where performers can pull and effect each other and ladders for climbing up and over. Drawing on AoNâ s broad experience of working with communities to create performances, large scale outdoor work and compelling storytelling, Ticking of the Clock will be a truly spectacular, outdoor performance accessible to all, led by a Scottish Creative Team with unrivalled collective experience across large scale participatory theatre, dance & aerial events, intimate theatre, high profile ceremonies, crane shows and site specific work. The team: Director: Jennifer Paterson; Associate Director: Brigid McCarthy; Designer: Becky Minto; Composer: Jim Sutherland; Lighting Designer: Kate Bonney; Creative Rigger: Imogen Michel; Production Manager: Fiona Fraser; Performers: Itxaso Moreno, Freya Jeffs, Beverely Grant, Chrissie Ardill, Marie Williamson, Vince Virr, Tony Mills; Artistic Advisor: Mark Murphy; Production/ H&S Advisor: Dan Adams Type of show: large scale Audience: wide appeal - we will be working with local people to create our participatory performance People on the road: 15 + local community cast Estimated cost per day: K10 Genre: aerial / dance Shows per day/duration: 2 x 1 hour Artist/company: All or Nothing are Scotland's leading aerial dance company creating, performing, teaching and pioneering aerial arts in Scotland since Our work ranges from small scale theatre to large scale outdoor spectacle. We created aerial magic amongst the trees for Enchanted Forest, danced down buildings for Edinburgh s Hogmanay Street Party, and flew from the Tyne Bridge as part of Freedom on the Tyne began spinning to the tunes of the Grit Orchestra for Celtic Connections spectacular Bothy Culture and Beyond. Jennifer Patterson Studio G17, Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh EH6 8RG jen@aerialdance.co.uk

5 2. Bureau Of Silly Ideas United Nations Board of Significant Inspiration The show: The United Nations Board of Significant Inspiration (UNBOSI), has been monitoring, harvesting and distributing inspiration since We became public facing in 2016, working with cultural, heritage, community and commercial partners to develop a cross-platform narrative that develops new audiences. UNBOSI utilises play with marbles as a resource, engaging across cultures and generations to create accessible installations. Its scalability allows us to work with financial and physical constraints. At its greatest a narrative is developed within a community over extended periods of time, building relationships that work towards celebratory happenings at large scale. Small Scale- Marble Inspiration, Nidus, Incluator (M.I.N.I.) A watchable curio with our scientific team performing research activities with audiences. 3m x 3m space. Medium Scale- The Inspiration Station, our touring public engagement unit, that introduces audiences to inspiration and provides an opportunity for them to be part of the experiment. 10m x 6m space. Large Scale- The Garden of Curious A MUSE ments, an interactive, participatory scientific (theatrical) journey through inspiration that culminates with audiences having unleashed the inspiration in their locality. Large outdoor sites/gardens. Workshops- Marble Experience Exposure Machines (M.E.E.M), STEAM workshops that focus on supporting community groups and members of the public to make their own MEEM s (Marble Runs). UNBOSI is part of Bureau Of Silly Ideas (BOSI) monitoring development programme, which yields tangible results, embedding monitoring systems within narrative delivery. The team: Artistic Director- Roger Hartley, Producer- Caggy Kerlogue, Associate Director- Paschale Straiton Type of show: small to large scale Audience: wide appeal, fully accessible - developed with the ambition of engaging hard to reach audiences People on the road: 3 25 Estimated cost per day: 750 2,000 Genre: installation/walkabout/street theatre/site specific Shows per day/duration: 5 hours continuous/10 min 1hr audience engagement Artist/company: Bureau Of Silly Ideas (BOSI) are creators of inspired madness and controlled chaos in the public realm. Creators of engaging installations devised shows and surprising interventions. BOSI s combination of mad-hat machines and expansive narratives allow audiences to interrogate the everyday through silliness, the work engages people in a conversation that extends beyond the absurd, impacting genuine change. Over the past 15 years BOSI have worked with a range of partners across heritage, the arts, public realm and community organisations. BOSI has a track record of working with partners to secure funding and develop work that has potential for income generation. Roger Hartley Arch 18, Valentia Place, Brixton, London SW9 8PJ roger@bureauofsillyideas.com,

6 3. Cikada Circus Cikada The show: Cikada is a presentation of two acrobats who blur the lines between human and nature. It is an acrobatic and poetic reflection of the balance between the organic, the structured and the human. The ideas explored are around absurd insect habits and the contrast to this of the relationship between two present human bodies. There is a graceful, pedestrian quality about the piece which draws in the audience in a relatable manner, whilst mixing movement and dance with pure strength and dynamic power. The acrobatic language between the duo is of finesse and honesty. A fun, thoughtful and humorous display of rich imagery and dynamic riveting movement. With high level, graceful acrobatics, the duo create a world between the harmonious and the absurd. Past audience members have emphasised the beauty of the relationship between the performers, and how the two characters contrast yet complement each other. With moments of hilarity, moments of ferocity and moments of sensitivity, the show is a rendition of everyday life, mixed with absurd insect habits and scurrying movements. Nominated for the Judges Choice Award, Best Duo, Dublin Fringe Festival A pleasure for the entire family, for an audience of all ages. The team: Creators and Performers: Ali Stanger and Henrik Gard Type of show: small scale Audience: family/festival/outdoor People on the road: 2 Estimated cost per day: 900 Genre: circus/dance/street theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x 30mins Artist/company: An acrobatic duo based in Ireland / England, Alison Stanger and Henrik Gard formed their company Cikada Circus in April Recent work includes performing their duo show Cikada at Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 and Waterford Spraoi Ali Stranger 90 Chapel Hill, Braintree, CM7 3QZ hello@cikadacircus.com

7 4. Circus Geeks To Be the Best Too The show: To Be The Best Too is a performance inspired by Anthony Gatto and how by the age of 10, he became The World s Greatest Juggler. Told by Arron Sparks and Owen Reynolds (certainly not the world s greatest jugglers) through storytelling, parody, some fancy footwork and, of course, juggling. The show mixes new technique, abstract imagery, narrative, classic circus rituals and a sense of humour to explore how storytelling can underpin a juggling show. The team: Arron Sparks, Owen Reynolds. Director Lee Lyford. Juggling Choreographer Tony Pezzo. Producer Sarah Grey. Type of show: medium scale Audience: children/family People on the road: 2 Estimated cost per day: 1,500 Genre: circus/narrative theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x 30 mins Artist/company: Set up in 2013 by founder Arron Sparks, Circus Geeks aims to explore and share new ideas with circus. We are interested and engaged with the past, present & future of circus and curious to see where our art form is headed. Arron Sparks 54 Woodford Street, Glasgow, G41 3HN arron_sparks@icloud.com

8 5. Dizzy O Dare Phileas Fogg and the Dodo The show: Dizzy O Dare (DOD) will create a new outdoor theatre show for younger years, combining puppets, Segways, theatre and clowning. The show will be aimed specifically for younger years, something DOD have not done before, always trying to play to a wider demographic. The story will follow Phileas Fogg s latest adventure where he finds a Dodo egg in a far off distant land. Fogg brings the Dodo egg back to London, it hatches and Fogg raises the Dodo chick with help from the audience. We see the Dodo grow from chick to enormous bird which can be ridden. The dodo becomes a media sensation, ridiculed for being different, but the Dodo wins the heart of the nation in the end. DOD have already started planning for the show and in preparation have produced Phileas Fogg: Day 79 and The Dodo Rider, as walkabout acts. The Dodo Rider is a large cuddly roaming Dodo puppet with Victorian rider, who interacts with public at events and Phileas Fogg: Day 79 features two hot air balloons on Segways which Fogg and Passepartout use to float effortlessly through crowds and interact. Both are beautifully realised and have made huge impacts wherever they have been performed. These walkabout acts were created with the aim to then combine them into the new show- Phileas Fogg and the Dodo. For this project DOD will create a chick Dodo puppet that hatches from a large egg, which grows into our existing Dodo. Artist/company will work with performers to devise a textured and playful 2 hander show with a focus on appeal for younger years, keeping narrative simple and fun, playing with interaction, and using spectacular visuals suitable for the outdoors. Type of show: medium scale Audience: children/family People on the road: 3-4 Estimated cost per day: 1500 Genre: street theatre/narrative theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x 30 mins Artist/company: Dizzy O'Dare are a circus, street arts and theatre company who tour internationally and have a reputation as an intelligent, driven, imaginative and playful company who create high quality work able to engage all audiences. Their last three pieces (Baba Yaga s House, Phileas Fogg: Day 79 and The Dodo Rider) were created in close succession focusing on highly visual, interactive, quality walkabout using modern technology and inspiration from classic literature. Alana Jones Sea Monkey, Port Werburgh, Vicarage Lane, Hoo, ME3 9TW dizzy@dizzyodare.com

9 6. Dora Frankel Figures in a Floating Landscape Photo: Andrew Hastings The show: Figures in a Floating landscape is the 2 nd part of a trilogy and the 3 rd collaboration with composer Peter Coyte who creates work in theatre, film, dance and installation. It is an immersive sound, music, dance performance with up to 5 dancers and 2 musicians. Inspired by primarily 3 places in Kent, Reculver Castle, Margate and Folkestone, and referencing the later improvisatory sketches created by the radical landscape painter JMW Turner on his travels, it contextualises them in light of environmental change and damage, taking the audience on a 25 minute journey from pastoral to post- industrial. The structure is a series of scenes or evocations connected by walks and sequences. Text is voiced by a female actor The Artist giving a clear frame to the dance and we are in conversation with a well-known TV/stage actor. Layered costumes will evoke both Turner s time and today and are gender nonspecific. The dance language is physical and emotive and the music using found sounds and conventional instruments is contemporary and accessible. The performance is site responsive. The R&D at Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable in February 2018 reached 333 people of all ages. Our first Turner inspired project was The Unfolding Sky: Turner in the North Great show. It was a beautiful evening and the show went down really well. I thought it was a particularly good piece of work, so well done! Kevin Wallace N.Tyneside Arts Development Officer Wonderful - I could have watched it all again Audience member Tynemouth Priory The team: Choreographer, composer, one musician, two dancers, one dancer/dramaturg Type of show: medium scale Audience: family, art lovers, music lovers, tourists, cultural walkers, festivals People on the road: 6 9 Estimated cost per day: 1700 Genre: dance/music Shows per day/duration: 2 x 25 mins Artist/company: Founding Artistic Director Fertile Ground, I am a choreographer, movement director, educator and mentor now working independently developing Figures in a Floating Landscape with established composer Peter Coyte and dance film Touch the Beast, a gender fluid Gothic romance. Trained at Rambert School and as a Dance Notator my career has taken me from Rambert Dance Company to the States and Scandinavia, where I spent many years creating and performing in theatre and dance. I designed and led the dance programmes at Angered Gymnasium, Gothenburg before relocating to Newcastle and founding first Dora Frankel Dance and then Fertile Ground. Dora Frankel 12 Ebor Street, Newcastle NE65DL frankeldora@gmail.com

10 7. Emccan Caribbean Carnival Tour The show: Emccan (East Midlands Caribbean Carnival Arts Network) will bring a selection of Caribbean Carnival Costumes to present a carousel. The performance will be uplifting and have a massive impact on the audience. It will include high quality carnival costumes up to 15 feet in height (Notting Hill style), some of which have also featured in Notting Hill. A Carnival King or Queen to open your event, accompanied by Caribbean Carnival troupe members. Dance troupe performances bringing high energy Caribbean Carnival spirit with dancers in carnival costume. Music can be played on the main stage or we can bring our own portable speaker and/or live drummers. We can perform on concrete, stage or grass. A whole parade we would bring costumes and troupes from around the East Midlands, including live and recorded music. We can bring a mini parade (e.g. Stoke on Trent Carnival) or a section for your carnival parade (Wellingborough Carnival). Opening Ceremony we can lead the opening ceremony for sporting events (Mini- Olympics Grantham for 1400 children) or perhaps to launch a week-long festival. Carnival in a Day schools workshop consists of Soca Dance, costume making /head-dresses, dressing up time, presentation of photos on tour and mini parade around the playground. We can offer Samba dance workshops /drumming, presentations / talks about the history of Carnival. We like to leave educational establishments and community settings with more than an artistic impression and uplifting carnival experience, raising awareness and understanding of where Caribbean Carnival has come from and why it is important to the community to keep carnival alive. Participants will learn about how Caribbean Carnivals from the East Midlands link back to the Windrush generation, abolition of slavery and will learn the meaning of the feathers, costumes, role of the carnival Queen, creative techniques used and steel pan origins. The team: Emccan staff, Board, Carnival organisers and volunteers. Type of show: small scale (local village festival or Christmas light switch on) to large scale (Leeds Carnival for their 50th anniversary) Audience: family, festival, culturally diverse People on the road: 5 80 Estimated cost per day: 1,000-6,000 Shows per day/duration: 3 x 20mins up to 2hrs Genre: carnival/ music/dance/processional Artist/company: Emccan is an umbrella organisation of four Caribbean Carnivals in the East Midlands. We organise Carnivals, a King and Queen costume competition, and a UK Tour of Caribbean Carnival arts. Emccan is funded by Arts Council England and has been touring for 3 years. We are now embarking on our 2019/2020 tour and welcome new partners to share the vibrant costumes and performances from the very best of our regional artists. Donna Fox Unit 9 Avenue A, Sneinton Market, Nottingham, NG1 1DT emccan.donna@aol.com emccan.org

11 8. ERRO Gruppo Jogo Da Guerra Game Of War The show: Game of War, simultaneous with multiplication of perspectives, that takes place in three distinct places of the same street, besides going through its surroundings, is a work in three parts. With inspiration in the homonymous game of Alice Becker-Ho and Guy Debord, and the protests of May of 68 that this year turn 50 years, Game of War deals with our present time and of what we can do in the streets of this May of In the board game, Becker-Ho and Debord, the latter became known for his work The Society of the Spectacle, published the previous year in 1967, two teams make their plays without seeing each other, while an external observer possesses the vision of the game. It is from this disposition and dynamics that ERRO GRUPO proposes Game of War, a triptych, in the streets of the city. Three simultaneous actions are in progress, people must define in which of the three actions they will take part: in one of two occurring, opposite ends, on the street floor, free and with unlimited capacity of people, or in an interior place that, besides offering an overview of the street, also has greater convenience, exclusivity and intimacy, but that has limited vacancies and entry by donating a pound of non-perishable food, clothing or equivalent. Type of show: medium scale People on the road: 7 Genre: installation/street theatre/walkabout Shows per day/duration: 2 x 1hr Estimated cost per day: 3500 Artist/company: The group, through the construction of situations, searches the union of the artistic languages, the performer, the invasion of public space and the dilution of the art in daily life. With its situational praxis, ERRO intervenes with daily flows, the urban landscape and media, looking for other ways to live and to insert the city. Through the search for a bordering artistic language, ERRO searches the exploration of the urban space from its meanings, environments, architectures, speeches and the creation of possible situations and relations between the people who circulate in the streets. Bennaton holds a BA and an MA in Theater from UDESC. He is a researcher, performer, director and author and a member of ERRO Grupo, a street theater group and art collective focused on urban interventions. He has directed and written several plays which have a place in Brazilian s theater and urban art scene. He has performed in Brazil, South America, Europe and in the U.S.A. and has been awarded a series of national and state art prizes. Bennaton currently attends the third year of his doctorate program at UDESC, where he taught from 2009 to 2012 as an adjunct professor of Acting Techniques and Performance Studies. He has also taught workshops offered by ERRO in the urban space. His research dialogues with Augusto Boal s Invisible Theater proposals and techniques and also with the Situacionist s political and artistic possibilities. Pedro Dniz Plaça Vicenç Martorell, 4-4o., 2a., Barcelona pedrobennaton@errogrupo.com.br

12 9. Etta Ermini Dance Theatre Glam The show: The work Glam is a 30-minute dance theatre performance designed for outdoors and appealing to all audiences. Promoting equality, Glam is for five movement artist incorporating high quality contemporary dance with theatrical elements: character work, audience interaction, humour, circus elements and features of drag culture and voguing. Audiences are invited to come to the show in fancy dress/full drag to be part of the experience Image: Culinary Duel The work is a collaboration between Etta Ermini Dance Theatre and Van Huynh Dance Company, a cutting edge contemporary dance company based in the UK. We will examine gender fluidity and sexual orientation coinciding with 50 years of LGBT+ rights. In our soul train type of activities we will encourage the audience to take part in a parade celebrating freedom of expression through various elements like multiple layers of fancy costumes initially worn by the performers, which will be given to audience members to wear and to partake in the festivities. The parade will have more of a circular character than a linear one, where ideally everyone can participate and/or watch. Actors, acrobats and voguers will weave in and out of the audience and involve them in their performance to finally integrate them into the main parade. At several points a bigger choreographed performance will happen as a static element to change the pace and gather momentum for the traveling part of the parade. All movement material will be informed by the Glam culture in style and expression. We also plan to involve a caricaturist who will make sketches of audience members willing to pose. We have a number of partnerships in place, and space in kind from Centre 151 ( who will also help us to produce the work. We have an expression of interest from Andrew Loretto of the Hat Fair, as well as Bradford International Festival. Type of show: medium scale Audience: everyone People on the road: 7 Estimated cost per day: 3000 Genre: processional Shows per day/duration: 2 x 30 mins + working with a local school Artist/company: Founded in 2005 Etta Ermini Dance Theatre aims to explore and animate the human condition through cross art form, collaboration and storytelling. Etta Ermini Dance Theatre specialises in creating and touring outdoor productions. They have developed an established portfolio, touring in the international market and well recognised within the outdoor sector. Etta holds an MA in European Dance Theatre practice and is a visiting lecturer in dance. She is committed to creating engaging and accessible works with diverse appeal and interdisciplinary approaches. EETD has built strong relationships both in the UK and Europe and has performed in highly established festivals including Les Accroch Coeurs (F), SibFest (ROM), Edinburgh Fringe and Greenwich & Docklands International Festival (UK). Since 2000 Etta has been annually invited to Ghent s Artscene International Youth Theatre Festival and FIPAF Youth Theatre Festival in Grasse, France to create and perform work with young people. Etta Ermini 27a Mundania Road, London SE22 0NH

13 10. Fuel Chandini The show: Chandini (A Bride for the Moon) is an outdoor dance and video performance for audiences of all ages. In January 2019 the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its second mission to land a Research Rover on the moon. Work in Progress / Photo: Stephen Wright Chandrayaan-2 will be the world's first probe to land close to the lunar south pole to explore the dark side of the moon. Chandini imagines the Rover in female form and follows her as she travels the perilous 400,000 kilometres to the moon. The show draws parallels between the robot s interstellar journey and an Indian woman s, sometimes equally perilous, journey into her husband s family upon marriage. The woman s life journey is envisioned using elemental forces, water, gravity, the moon and ceremonial yellow turmeric powder. For both the woman and the robot the journey is final. Neither can ever return home. Building upon previous imaginings, the short film Ek Choti si Asha made for Channel4 and A Little Big Dream a dance and projections performance, Chandini will explore the contrasting lives of women in India with the aspirational dreams of India s young Space engineers. It will explore India s new contributions to space science and some of the current social dynamics that shape that country s psyche. This 40-minute performance will combine dance with immersive animations and projections on water into an outdoor spectacle appealing to all audiences, young and old. The team: Hema Palani (Choreographer and Dancer); Rachel Davies and Dan Saul (Film-makers); Mikey Asante (Composer, Musician and Performer); Simon Daw (Designer); Type of show: large scale Audience: all ages People on the road: 7 Estimated cost per day: 6000 Genre: dance Shows per day/duration: 1 x 40 mins Artist/company: Fuel are working with three artists on this project. Hemabharathy Palani who is one of the most promising talents in contemporary dance today. Known for her fluidity and musicality, Hema is a dynamic choreographer and performer. Her work is deeply personal and evocative and has been seen in London at The Place and as Part of Dance Umbrella s Out of India Programme in Hema is currently the Rehearsal Director at the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore, where she also works as a choreographer, teacher and performing artist. Hema is collaborating with R&D Studio which is a new company formed by international award-winning filmmakers Rachel Davies and Daniel Saul who have over 50 years of combined experience and whose dance and theatre collaborations include Moti Roti, Akram Khan, Protein Dance, Station House Opera, and Back to Back Theatre. If selected Rachel or Dan will attend the Ideas Summit to talk about the show. Daisy Drury West Wing, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1L daisy@fueltheatre.com

14 11. Full Tilt Aerial Substratum Substratum Freedom Festival The show: Substratum is a unique outdoor performance event. Combining acrobatic dance for vertical surfaces with projection mapped visuals to create an immersive, dynamic, multi-dimensional spectacle. Performers move between worlds walking, leaping and flying off the walls, while the surface of the building is transformed between element states: earth, water, light, and air. As seemingly solid surfaces shift fluidly under foot - the work explores how a changing environment affects how we move within and experience our world. Hypnotic and arresting by turns, a performance that explores boundaries; between bodies and bricks, between gravity and technology, between certainty and impossibility. The team: Substratum is a collaboration between Full Tilt Aerial Theatre and creative technologists Limbic Cinema, with an original composition by Ahmet Kenan Bilgic & Serkan Emre Ciftci (TR), performed by an International cast and produced by Rowan Fae. Type of show: Very large scale eg. city-wide event, up to 30,000 Audience: varied People on the road: 12 Estimated cost per day: Genre: circus/dance/digital art Shows per day/duration: 2 x 30 mins Artist/company: Full Tilt is an emerging company working across dance, circus and technology and is founded on 30 years combined experience of female director /choreographers Rowan Fae & Dela Seward (Arcadia Spectacular, Invisible Circus, Carnesky Productions, Bassline Circus) Rowan Fae 49 Carlyle Rd, Bristol BS5 6HQ contactrowan@gmail.com

15 12. Glass House Dance Time Machine Disco Photo: JMA Photography The show: Time Machine Disco is a century- hoppin dance extravaganza for the street. It is a participatory performance where audiences release their inner rebel, become the performers and take over their street. Time Machine Disco creates a happening which enables a community to come together in a joyful celebration of dance. The premise of the show is that people in the future are no longer dancing. Mass corporations have stolen the groove from music and people can no longer shake-their-thang. Wherever the time machine lands is the chosen city/town/festival to save the future of dance. With help from Dr Spin and the Sisters of Stylus people have the collective mission of dancing their way through different genres of music on a clubbing journey through the ages. Calling all foot-tappers, dad dancers, disco divas, jumping jivers, old school ravers & shakeyour-money-makers. Join the party and step back in time. Time Machine Disco in its current format has toured to 4 outdoor festivals and we are looking for bookings for further touring in We are also entering a new stage of development to create a women in music special and a Christmas special. The team: The show is directed by Laura McGill and Sarah Lewis. It is performed by Laura McGill, Sarah Lewis, Matt Nunn, Paul Preston Mills and Lalita Kumar. Matt Nunn is designer and set builder. Fiona Rigler is costume designer. Jose McGill is sound designer. Type of show: small - mid scale ( ) Audience: The show is suitable for families and is an opportunity for multiple generations to come together People on the road: 3 Estimated cost per day: 1,000 Genre: dance/music/street theatre/participatory Shows per day/duration: 2 x 60 mins Artist/company: Glass House Dance was set up by Sarah Lewis and Laura McGill to take contemporary dance into the heart of the community. They create essentially human, touching dance pieces with wide appeal for performance in public spaces. To date they have created 3 outdoor shows for touring and have received 6 additional outdoor performance commissions. Laura McGill 36 Grant Street, Norwich NR2 4HA glasshouseadance@outlook.com

16 13. Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates The Black Victorians The show: Britain is a political hotbed and cultural identity has reached a state of national crisis. With the uncertainty of Brexit looming, the mistreatment of the Image: Paralympic Flame Ceremony 2018 Windrush generation, new policies on immigration and the focus on gender and racial rights, people are seriously questioning what it means to be British. It has never been more poignant to address these uncertainties. Enter The Black Victorians. The project is designed to illuminate the missing faces, stories and narratives of British history and culture, especially black history and culture. Inspired by the powerful photography exhibition Black Chronicles II, part of the Missing Chapter Project, The Black Victorians will expand on a movement which is already gaining momentum. The Black Victorians performance will tour Britain and bring our company of professional dancers to iconic British locations to place make, and empower, generating a sense of pride and leaving behind a lasting legacy. The performance will journey through the streets. Our touring company of leading black artists wearing disruptive Victorian costumes, will perform at opportune moments along the way, accompanied by arresting vocals from poet Anthony Anaxagorou and an original music composition harnessing a commanding and bold unorthodox juxtaposition of hip-hop, African Jazz and classical music. The procession will arrive at an iconic performance venue, to be welcomed by an expectant audience. Spectators will be intrigued, curious, and unsure of whether they re experiencing a celebratory parade or protest march. The performance will challenge, intrigue and entertain. In advance of each event, a social media campaign and physical projections on buildings to build curiosity. Each location will benefit from a public outreach programme, featuring workshops from leading cultural historians, artists and Jeanefer, to discover the stories and lives of their town s Black British ancestors. How can we know where we are going if we don t know where we have come from? The team: Jeanefer Jean-Charles, Artistic Director and Choreographer; Marsha Roddy, Costume and Set Designer Type of show: medium large scale Audience: accessible to all, with pubic engagement high on the agenda. Scalable and adaptable - perfect for touring UK and international arts festivals People on the road: 10 Estimated cost per day: Genre: dance/music/processional/street theatre Shows per day/duration: 2-3 x 60 mins Artist/company: Jeanefer Jean-Charles is a Mass Movement Director, Choreographer and Creative Consultant who delivers large scale performances for artists and organisations. Her unique creative process brings to life the talents, strengths and shared stories of local communities and artists in inspiring and unforgettable ways. Jeanefer s 2017/18 highlights include: Manchester Day Parade, Telford Carnival, The Paralympic Flame Ceremony, Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Opera House. As a leading authority in mass movement and public engagement, Jeanefer continues her life mission to harness dance and movement to empower individuals and make overlooked communities visible; communities which otherwise may go unrepresented. Jeanefer Jean-Charles & Associates 55 Herbert Gardens, London, NW10 3BX jeanefer@jeanefer.com

17 14. JKart Public art instrument The show: The public art installation, I am proposing consists of entertaining interactive and educational features for groups or individuals. It comprises a 3x3m platform with sixteen pads made of elastic rubber with lights and sensors installed underneath. Twelve of the buttons will resemble different instruments playing five octaves of the same note (depending on the pressure applied by the participants) and four of them in the centre, will act as function keys (loop, filters, modulation etc). The installation is designed to be placed outside, where people can walk all over it and activate the buttons to play sounds, and when collaborating can play anything from Bach to Britney Spears - with the same buttons activating different colours assigned to the pads while pressed. It is designed for up to sixteen people using it at a time. It can also serve as a platform for more sophisticated dance/music performances when used by more skilled/creative participants. It will be suitable for all ages and act as a cross-cultural platform for nonverbal communication and creative participation. Thanks to its form and function it can work as a great promotional object for festivals or institutions wanting to promote related activities. It could become a good way of supporting music education in schools and colleges, as well as a therapeutic tool for hospitals encouraging activities in the fresh air for elderly or children patients. The team: Jakub Kreft, Artist; Ian Costabile, Sound Artist and composer. Type of show: small to large scale Audience: accessible to all People on the road: 3 Estimated cost per day: 1,200 Genre: dance/music/installation Shows per day/duration: unlimited/24 hours The artist: I am a freelance artist and project manager with a background in public art project management and design of interactive art installations. I would like to promote my latest idea for public sound installation to potentially interested parties. I am also a practicing visual artist. Jakub Kreft Flat 5, 38 Everton Rd, Liverpool L6 2EN jakubkreft@gmail.com saatchiart.com/pooh

18 15. Jon Hicks Kickmouse The show: an earnestly funny, unspoken, circle show, to a soundtrack of music and sound effects. Kickmouse, a pink bunny, is a mischevious, sprite (a Pooka). He enjoys games, challenges, illusions, dancing & magic and has an obsession with eggs. He involves the audience with his preoccupations. Pin the Tale on the Kickmouse. Lollipop Pursuit Tag (involving running fast). Mega Child with Megaphone announcer. Parachuting egg pursuit. Zen obstacle course. The Eggstraordinary and Magical Transformation Box Finale with the Ceremonial, Telescopic Pole of Elevation. Kickmouse s alter ego, Jon Hicks, does not wear a bunny suit, but does appear in the show. Is Kickmouse actually Jon Hicks dressed up fulfilling a commitment to a higher being? A deadpan clowning show, laden with physical and prop-based comedy and audience participation. With a running thread of eggs being lost, found and transformed. Incorporating themes of ceremonies, spiritual and physical transformation, reuse & recycling. Technically self-sufficient LOOK: Jon Hicks Fine Art background infuses all his work with a keen eye for the look and he will be the designer/maker Props - ramshackle home-made props using found & recycled objects, with a low-tech sensibility. Commonly found objects will be used to create iconic and ceremonial objects. A box on wheels will house props, also opening and unfolding to become elements for routines. Costumes - a timeless engineer style workwear suit for Jon & a pink Bunny suit for Kickmouse. The team: Petra Massey, Director - Spy Monkey Type of show: small mid scale Audience: a family show suitable for street, festivals, outdoor events People on the road: 1 Estimated cost per day: travel expenses Genre: family/ street theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x 45mins The artist: Performing since 2000 outdoors, in theatre shows, cabarets and on TV Jon works solo, in collaborations and with award winning variety ensemble Slightly Fat Features. Toured worldwide with his ingenious prop based silent comedy and renowned high skill painting act. Current shows: OUTDOORS: "The International Man of Artistry" - solo "WORKS" - Haywood Hix INDOORS: "Slightly Fat Features" - member of touring Variety ensemble."kickmouse with Jon Hicks" solo small scale IN DEVELOPMENT: "Kickmouse Mysterium" - Children s Theatre show, two hander. "Blake s Circus" collaboration, Big Top Circus. "Kickmouse" Outdoors solo Jon Hicks 48 The Keep, London SE3 0AF jonhicksuk@yahoo.co.uk

19 16. Kadam Asian Dance & Music Ltd The Rose & The Bulbul Photo: Simon Richardson The show: The Rose and the Bulbul is a performance piece for gardens combining dance, live music, storytelling and audience immersion with a cast of nine professionals and an ensemble of community performers. Taking its inspiration from the garden design of the Islamic and European traditions, the historical parallels become a starting point for a dialogue between cultures. The historic periods of the Moghul empire in India (builders of the Taj Mahal were contemporaneous with Elizabethan England) and this becomes a backdrop to the performance. Fast forward twenty-first century, the Bulbul (nightingale) bird has fled from war torn lands and flown over the ocean following the scent of the Rose. He lands in a green and pleasant land where he meets the Rose who has lost her colour and zest for life. Bulbul befriends her and together they journey into each other s past to truly understand and respect each other. The Rose and the Bulbul thus becomes a story of love and acceptance of the outsider. It is dedicated to the memory of Jo Cox- We have a lot more in common than that divides us. Type of show: small scale Audience: family friendly - suitable for toddlers through to grandparents. It is not specifically designed for young audiences but as the story has the simplicity of The Little Prince or Jonathan Livingston Seagull, it can be enjoyed by an inter-generational audience. People on the road: 10 + technical team Estimated cost per day: 2,000 Genre: dance/music/processional/narrative theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x 45mins in promenade Artist/company: Kadam Dance has been producing and touring work strongly based on South Asian dance with elements of live music. We specialise in cross-artform and cross cultural work often within a professionalcommunity context. Sanjeevini Dutta 3 St Mary's Street, Luton, LU1 3JA Sanjeevini@pulseconnects.com

20 17. Lost in Translation Circus D'Emblée The show: D'Emblée is a live performance with a self-contained set that acts as a visual art installation. The show explores two themes - exterior and interior worlds and relationships. The exterior World is explored through a meta-circus perspective, the external performance persona, and the real person underneath. The outside walls of the set are conceived as an exhibition (with photos and paintings of circus history) and show the audience how the performers present themselves to the world as artists. It is exaggerated colourful, loud, over the top, with interactive elements for the audience. The performers introduce themselves to the audience in their public personas/characters, then invite the audience into their inner world, inside the roofless tent that is the set. The performance that takes place inside the space will be completely different: intimate, stripped back and honest, inviting the audience to see how the performers are as people. Second theme - Relationships based on the close professional and personal relationship between Massimiliano Rossetti and Roisin Morrisexploring how people interact and behave in a close relationship, what are their boundaries and reactions when those boundaries are pushed. Type of show: small scale Audience: children of all ages People on the road: 3 Estimated cost per day: 1,650 Genre: circus Shows per day/duration: 2 x 45min Artist/company: Lost in Translation Circus creates both indoor and outdoor ensemble-based performances, working with a tight-knit group of performers from Italy, UK, Ireland and Australia. The results are accessible, multi-layered performance told through a highly physical language. In the last years Artist/company has been touring extensively in the UK and Europe with an indoor family show called The Hogwallops, while developing 2 outdoor shows in its creation centre in Norwich. The results are 2 very different shows: Hotel Paradiso, a medium scale outdoor family show with six performers, colourful, chaotic and fun, and D Emblée, a duo show much more intimate and stripped back. Antonio Giuffre 70 Plumstead Road, Norwich, NR1 4JU antonino.giuffre@gmail.com

21 18. Madame Zuchinni The Hot Political Potato Gameshow The show: I'm developing a game where the public express their views by engaging with & throwing potatoes at Vegetable Politicians at indoor and outdoor events. A veg shy activity, placing effigies on tins in a tent, the lineup can include: Nigel Cabbage, Theresa Maize, Boris Butternut, Jeremy Corntin, Nicola Sturnip-geon, Trumpkin & others as the socio-political arena dictates. I invite the public to question the politicians, knock them down if they don t get a satisfactory answer. Presented as 10 min show or ongoing activity, the Trump character works well as finale. I offer the opportunity to create veg figures that they really want to engage with. I d like to develop it as a part of our democratic processes. In appropriate settings the gameshow could be followed by a cookoff, feeding the politicians to the people. The project has audience involvement at its core. My work invites people to contribute their own ideas creating characters to be part of the show, asking questions. People are often inspired by my creations to shape their own story - and much more besides which may become apparent as the project develops. If politics isn t appropriate, other themes can be used eg celebrities, which I tried once with Alan Sugarsnap, Pears Morgan, Marrow-my Clarkson, Andrew Marrsnip. Type of show: very small scale Audience: for families at festivals as well as adult audiences in a cabaret type setting People on the road: 1 Estimated cost per day: travel Genre: street theatre Shows per day/duration: Ongoing sideshow / 15 mins as a finished piece Artist/company: A skilled & intuitive facilitator, performer, theatre maker, entertaining, engaging and educating for 10 years. I ve developed Madame Zucchini & run my own business/made a living in the arts since An experienced producer, writing my material, performing all over the UK, using vegetables to animate my work & engage people in a love of veg creativity. I enjoy performing in the street, pubs, clubs, events, festivals & rural projects. My most recent new piece of work is shadow puppetry for families starring Barry Butternut. Natalie Hunt 122 Providence Road, Sheffield, S6 5BE madamezucchini@gmail.com

22 19. MBD Stories of the Empire The show: Stories of the Empire will be a new outdoor touring installation that blends contemporary dance, digital projection and Virtual Reality film to provide a powerful audience experience that is truly immersive. The installation will be themed around MBD s Empire Soldiers, an emotive VR film series that tell the stories of the forgotten soldiers who fought for the British Empire in WW1. Stories of the Empire will be housed in a large 15m x 12m outdoor tent, complete with crates, sandbags and WW1 props. Audiences are seated, 12 at a time, the tent walls are embellished with digitally projected wartime imagery, from recruitment posters to photographs of soldiers. The tent is then filled with a bespoke soundtrack, and the audience surrounded by a 360degree contemporary dance performance that is projected on the space around them. At the end of the dance piece, audience members will put on a VR headset to watch one of the films from MBD s award winning series; Empire Soldiers. At the end of the film, audience members will remove their headsets to once again be surrounded by the projected images of WW1 soldiers, reaching a powerful and moving finale. Whilst this piece focusses on the soldiers of WW1, Stories of the Empire will be a ground-breaking self sufficient outdoor production testing a model to make Virtual Reality content accessible at Outdoor Arts events and Festivals. The team: MBD will work with 2 choreographers to create and film the digital dance piece; Liam Wallace, a choreographer of Caribbean origin, and Leicester based Indian dance company, Nupur Arts. Collaboratively, the team will create an authentic contemporary dance that reflects the cultures of the soldiers depicted and incorporating traditional and contemporary dance styles and movement. The projected dance piece will be combined with MBD s award winning VR film series, Empire Soldiers, to create a fully immersive outdoor experience. Type of show: small scale Audience: the highly immersive nature of the installation and the exploration of themes dealing with racism and war means it is recommended for an audience of age 13 years and above. The show will appeal to festival goers, and the blend of artforms, as well as the live with digital will mean the show has a wide appeal and will bring Virtual Reality content to a new audience. People on the road: 2 Estimated cost per day: 1,800 Genre: installation/virtual reality Shows per day/duration: 30 x 20min Artist/company: MBD create bespoke experiences that share untold stories to inform, entertain and inspire people from all walks of life. We have delivered multi-artform outdoor projects, including, amongst others: The Gunpowder Plot ( ) Large scale projections, physical theatre and pyrotechnics delivered annually at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, Stamford Bull Run (2017) Projection, performance and soundtrack for the Stamford Georgian Festival to an audience of 5,000+, Safe House (2014) Large scale projections and aerial performance, In 2017, MBD produced VR experience, Empire Soldiers, winning VR Expo Immersive Theatre award and a longlisting for 2018 Lumen Prize. Charlotte Angharad LCB Depot, Leicester, LE1 1RE charlotte@mbd.limited

23 20. MHz Scenography Pull Up Sessions (working title) The show: Inspired by the midnight dance ritual called the 818 sessions where underground Krump dancers gathered in LA parking lots in the 00's, 'Pull Up' reimagines public space - a street dance happening taking place in car parks (outdoors or covered) )with vehicles parked in a circle facing inwards, the dancers are on a raised stage in the centre or atop the vehicles and the audience are up close or inside the cars. MHz will light the performance with reactive, customised headlights and smoke coming from the engines will create a heightened sense of drama for urban dance artists with a practice rooted in battle acts and audience interaction (street busking). Organised at a national and local level with well known performers collaborating with local talent, these events would aim to attract young dance artists involved in the scene, alongside a wider demographic interested in the genre, not so unlike some of the street-dance events already existing but with a more immersive staging to help re-capture the enthusiasm of some of the original off-site gatherings. The team: Creative direction - MHz will oversee as well as the scenographic design; creative consultant Oluwatoyin Odunsi (former 1danceuk North Programmer of Dance of the African Diaspora); dance crews/ guest curators - Theo 'Godson' Oloyade, K.R.U.M.P, dancer, teacher and choreographer (BoyBlue Entertainment and RunDaMoves) + freestyle dancer with Bassline Circus; busking crew, Kaner Flex, Oxford Circus; Glasgow dancer choreographer, Divine Tasinda Type of show: the show is sizeable depending how many cars are available to create the performance space. Audience: young people/teenager/festival People on the road: 2 technical/artists from MHz. We would like to hook up/ collaborate with local dance/ battle crews in different UK cities. Genre: dance/circus/music Shows per day/duration: 2-5 hours Estimated cost: Dance crew + DJ + MHz Planning, design, install, operation Venue/ festival to supply: car hire drop off / pick up LX/Sound System/Smoke machine/ small stage Permissions/ security Crew x2 Artist/company: MHz scenography is a new company run by creative duo Bex Anson & Dav Bernard (who are also part of Bassline Circus), we specialise in devising exhilarating work combining physical performance (dance/ circus) with striking visuals and new music (often live). Current shows include Liquid Sky (Lasers, live set and blindfolded aerial rope performance), Kid X (circus and street dance with live singing and AV, premiere in April), and VOID (solo dance+av show, winner of Total theatre award for dance 2018) Bex Anson bexanson@hotmail.co.uk m-hz.co.uk

24 21. Mischief La-Bas Her Story The show: Her story tells the stories of unsung heroines in history. Focusing on the fields of astronomy, computing and the arts. Their creations will be illustrated through animations, sound, kinetic structures and pop-up technology, using a female technical and creative team. The public will be invited to discover the creations and lives of these ' inventors' through interaction with the structure(s) and through the stories told by the assistant /performers. Type of show: small scale Audience: family friendly, some details of the story are somewhat gruesome. People on the road: 4-5 Genre: street theatre/installation Shows per day/duration: 2-3 x 45mins/1.5hrs (3 hours max per day ) Estimated cost per day: 1,500 Artist/company: Mischief La-Bas has been 'gently warping' the streets of Scotland and beyond since '1992, making performance largely for the outdoors. From walkabout street theatre to large scale promenade shows our work is humorous, interactive, surreal and highly visual. It puts the public at the centre of performance. Our most recent large scale work Nursery Crymes premiered in Nov 17 to critical acclaim. More recently we have been presenting work that reflects on more serious subjects such as death and mental health in positive and engaging ways that create easy fun and safe spaces for public conversation. Angie Dight 1 Cadogan Square, Glasgow, G2 7HF angie@mischieflabas.co.uk mischieflabas.co.uk

25 22. Modo Circus with Purpose Confusion of Tongues Photo: Clement Segissement The show: Confusion of Tongues. A comic circus kerfuffle revelling in the chaos and the shenanigans that follow as a group of oddballs gather under a common flag to create a new world. As they build their tower of civilisation, it seems that nothing they plan is impossible to them. But frictions emerge, the tower is destroyed, their languages are confounded, and the people scattered upon the face of the earth. But how to leave without abandoning everything precious. Can anything be salvaged from the chaos? Confusion of Tongues is a comic circus kerfuffle created by young people in response to Brexit. Type of show: small scale (eg ) Audience: It is open to all but particularly suitable for families, festivals or an occasion where Brexit might be a focus People on the road: 9 Genre: circus/street theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 /45 mins Estimated cost per day: accommodation and travel Artist/company: Modo uses circus to engage young people across Aberdeenshire and to help them to change their lives for the better. Harnessing the skills and thrills of circus, Modo helps young people to improve life chances, skills, confidence and self-esteem while celebrating and creating the culture and community of the region. Modo works with young people across Aberdeenshire delivering one off circus skills workshops, long term programmes and large-scale community extravaganzas. Working closely with partners, Modo provides young people with positive, progressive and accredited activities, and contributes widely to providing positive pathways for young people. Martin Danzinger 15 Erroll Street, Peterhead, AB42 1PU martin@modo.org.uk modo.org.uk

26 23. Mufti games One Kid and their Dog Photo: Paul Blakemore The show: 3 performers (Shepherd, Dog and Sheep) set out with their agricultural contraption and recruit sheep for a herding display. Public players are adorned with ears and trained in sheepy ways. Patches the dog is introduced- a former show dog who only understands applause- and child shepherds are signed up for the game itself. Once an obstacle course is decided (made up of street furniture and common landscape) the shepherds herd the sheep around the public playground and into the pen. Design wise the show is made, but we are still continuing to experiment with game play. Mufti Games bring their unique approach to family theatre in public spaces with One Kid and Their Dog, inspired by TV's long-running and much-loved sheepdog trial show of the same (ish) name. It's another busy trading day, but sheep are running loose in the town centre! Only an inept shepherd and their mischievous dog, Patch, stand in between an orderly shopping experience and almost certain chaos on the high street. Could you be the one to bring Patch to heel and round-up all the grown-ups? Made for the silly sheep and straight-laced shepherd in all of us, with opportunities to join the lost flock and for young farmhands to take the reins, One Kid and Their Dog is your chance to play with playing by the rules in public. The team: Director, Paschale Straiton; Design, Hilary Statts; Lead artist, Malcolm Hamilton; Performers, Adam Blake (Pickled Image); Kim Heron (Theatre Ad Infinitum), and Katie Storer (Ramshacklicious). Type of show: small scale Audience: children and families - this seems to really attract younger children (under 8) but all ages seem keen to get involved. People on the road: 3 Genre: street theatre/walkabout Shows per day: 3 x 45mins Estimated cost per day: 1,200 Artist/company: Mufti Games uses play, games and theatrical devices to create playful experiences and engage audiences. The work usually sits in the public realm, where happenstance enables high accessibility - a key value. It is often rooted in heritage or folk art connecting to a shared history which allows barriers to be engagement. Mufti Games core aim is to promote and encourage everyday play for all ages. Mufti Games has toured our shows to festivals and venues including Eden Project, National Theatre and Just So Festival. Commissions include Barbican, RSC, MShed, Bristol Green Capital, Wild Rumpus, and numerous academic research projects. Malcolm Hamilton PACTS, Epstein Buildings, Mivart Street, Bristol BS5 6JL malcolm@muftigames.com

27 24. Nearly There Yet The Flying Bazazi Brothers The show: The show is loud and fun and very very accessible. Two characters re-enact their family history using the power of juggling. Internationally renowned superstars Kaveh and Edward Bazazi dance, juggle, and take themselves very seriously indeed. Part cirque du soleil part Patrick Swayze circa 1983, this heady mix of circus, celebrity, and family tradition steeped in history is a real one off treat. Prepare to be amazed, prepare to be dazzled, and prepare to be prepared. We have the tricks and the basic content but feel the characterisation, rhythm, and structure of the piece could benefit from some time in a rehearsal room with an outside director. Type of show: small scale Audience: family People on the road: 2 Genre: circus/street theatre Shows per day/duration: 3 x 30 min Estimated cost per day: Artist/company: We are a circus theatre company and we make work which is entertaining, thought provoking and visually exciting. There is a strong physical element to our work, and whether serious or silly, we aim to be accessible to a wide range of audiences. Kaveh Rahnama 14 Avon House, London N16 9LH kaveh@nearlythereyet.com

28 25. Oceanallover Diapason The show: Diapason is a meeting of two people within the context of all people. Diapason means the whole range or compass of an instrument. Each person is a collection of possibilities and every moment lived allows one or more of those Photo: Florencia García Chafuén possibilities to exist. Diapason will allow its audience to experience the same feelings of creative release felt by the performer who facilitates it. The project draws inspiration from the work of Surrealists Artist Leonora Carrington and a series of mobile sculptural enclosures will be constructed as changing places. One person is invited to enter the changing space where they will meet the artist. Together they will transform themselves into something other, they will become costumed together. Together they will go out into the world to look at all things in a new way. They will make a journey that traverses the given performance site, passing through public and private spaces, allowing the experience to become an inspiration for a series of documentary gestures. They will use drawing, words and actions to both describe and remember what they encounter. The performance is a collection of duets performed simultaneously and cyclically. Each Duet comprises one artist/performer and one member of the public. The duets are performed within hailing distance of each-other and may pass through one another. The artist will perform one character in a continual cycle of eight hours, each iteration of the cycle lasting approximately thirty minutes with a new performance partner each cycle. As each member of the audience arrive they are given a short induction by the artist in the form of a poetic address and then helped into a costume. The costume will be a parallel design to that of the artist and will help the participant to gain a degree of anonymity once they leave the changing place and begin their journey together. The artist will accompany the participant at all times and maintain a dialogue with them that will help them to form a response to the situations in which they find themselves. The participant will be encouraged to discover their own language to express what it is that they feel about their new circumstances. The process will not leave the participant feeling exposed or ridiculed but rather will allow them to share something of the transformative process of performance. For the public observing the process, either directly or as an accidental encounter, this will be seen as a durational work that follows a shifting cycle of relationships between two people, or between one person and a series of other people. You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment.... Leonora Carrington" The team: Alex Rigg, Director/choreographer/designer; Feral Arts producer, Oceanallover music and dance; Trevor Leat, sculptor Type of show: medium scale Audience: everyone People on the road: 10 Genre: street theatre/site specific Shows per day/duration: 12 max x 30 min Estimated cost per day: 3,000 Artist/company: Oceanallover are a company specialising in site-specific, promenade performance. Alex Rigg Auchenstroan: Moniaive, Thornhill, DG3 4JD live@oceanallover.co.uk oceanallover.co.uk

29 26. Pif-Paf Theatre TOAST The show: TOAST will be a beautiful musical animated fire kitchen installation shimmering with heat haze. It will see Pif-Paf returning to our roots of working within real and diverse communities and celebrating of the universal eating of bread with friends and strangers. It will be based around a slowly and inexorably moving engineered charcoal powered kitchen - it will carve a space out of time welcoming audiences to a joyous experience seasoned with music, skill and humour, curating meetings and sharings before serving tiny and meaningful taste explosions. We imagine a space of 8m diameter with audience stepping in to take roles and treats over an evening of largely continuous performance. The core of the music will be voice and multiple tubas - the most visually and sonically impressive of instruments playing music gathered from the streets in our research phase. We envisage making and serving a mixture of flat breads and pancakes from around the world as part of the show - with small and sensational flavours added. The crew will be 2 or 3 performer chef musicians drawn from a pool of collaborators we will build - each with musical and culinary specialities. We will work through 2019 in our local highly diverse area gathering recipes, songs and friends around bread in its many forms and its eating. We will discover and overcome the considerable technical challenges of making this communal kitchen bathed in heat haze, charcoal smoke, song and health and safety that we dream of. This will involve developing test kitchens, songs and characters leading to test showings at limited festivals to trial our ambitious and theatrical aims with live audiences before applying for support for full creation for The team: Pete Gunson, project lead and will develop the engineering of the kitchen; Eleanor Hooper will cocreate, directing the work and leading on song with her extensive training and experience; Jack Stoddart - will lead on the musical composition and will be a co-creator - he will be in charge of any meat; Kyle Hirani will support on more complex engineering and lead on Gujarati and East African language and cooking. Type of show: medium scale (eg ,000) Audience: We aim to step beyond the usual festival audiences into more socially and economically isolated communities People on the road: 2-3 Estimated cost per day: 1,000-1,250 Genre: installation/music/processional/street theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x 60min Artist/company: Pif-Paf is a small and ambitious outdoor arts company based on the collaboration between artist/performer/musician Eleanor Hooper and engineer/creator Pete Gunson, as well as other wildly talented associates. Creations include The CelestialSoundCloud (a sound and light interactive sculpture hung above audiences) Flycycle and Submercycle (Flight of Fancy Simulator journeys for the public) SEED (a rockabillyanarcho-nomad slug and tree tale) and Action Painting (a compressed air cannon communal painting spectacle). We have previously toured a range of shows on our unique transforming engineered circus structures. We have a commitment to constant reinvention and meeting audiences where they live their lives. Pete Gunson Unit 4 Petre Drive, Sheffield S4 7PZ pete@pif-paf.co.uk

30 27. Place to Wonder Dream a Little Dream The show: Dream a little dream is an intimate outdoor theatre adventure for an audience of 20 and is designed to be performed in parks and outdoor spaces. The show begins in a bell tent and follows the journey of Luna who is caught in a bad dream. The only way out of her bad dream is to find something beautiful. The audience are invited to go on a journey around the park to help Luna do just that, lying on pods looking for faces in the clouds, breathing in dream flowers and putting worries on rainbow coloured webs. Every time Luna tries to see the beauty to get out of her bad dream, a black crow appears and she panics. The whole piece is underpinned by live ukulele scoring. Engaging with the installations in the show can lower anxiety and promote self-regulation, encouraging audiences to tune into nature and notice the extraordinary in the everyday extraordinary. The show follows the process of Lunas journey of managing and overcoming her anxiety, children and their grownups are able to safely make sense of their own anxieties and worries through watching Luna overcoming her own. Children as young as 4 are being diagnosed with anxiety so it s crucial to have creative ways for children to learn how to self-regulate and explore these themes in a safe space. This show was performed in parks in Belfast NI in August 18, we had parents say that After the show they were able to use Lunas story as a gentle way to chat about nightmares/terrors and anxiety with their own child The arts Council NI said This show is magical, enchanting and accessible!. The team: We have the whole team in place. 2 actors, director and stage management support. Type of show: Small scale (eg ) Audience: families People on the road: 3 Estimated cost per day: 550 Genre: narrative theatre Shows per day/duration: 4 x 35 min Artist/company: Place to Wonder create immersive theatre experiences for children and their grownups in nature. We invite grownups to play alongside their child in an extraordinary world, using the medium of theatre to encourage audiences to look closer at the wonder in world around them, whether it be listening to the heart beat of a tree, lying on pods finding faces in the clouds or looking for fallen moon rocks in the grass. Through observation and feedback we have found that there is a positive neurobiological effect that happens during these experiences. The combination of the joy of creativity and the relaxation activated by being in nature means the nervous system begins to self-regulate and parent and child begin to tune into the extraordinary in the everyday ordinary, the trees, the flowers, the clouds, increasing wellbeing and lowering anxiety. Counteracting our stressful busy, everyday lives. Samantha Porciello 24 Lestannon Avenue, Whitehead BT3 8NN hello@placetowonder.com facebook.com/placetowonder

31 28. Puppets with Guts Gnomus The show: Gnomus the giant caretaker of stuff and stories unearths unknown facts about historic places of interest and outstanding natural beauty, engaging family audiences through a devised site responsive big puppet spectacle. After a 52-day run at Kew Gardens in 2018, Gnomus is available for touring from 2019 onwards. Gnomus can engage with local landmarks, historic buildings, heritage sites, botanic gardens, and similar as site-responsive work. Gnomus is available as a walkabout act; characterfully interacting with family audiences. Each bespoke, site responsive work uses the performance structure created for Kew, including Gnomus an eccentric bumbling caring character; which is a large four meter high bunraku puppet, operated by four puppeteers. Alongside Gnomus is a human tour guide character who performs on a 2ft stand. Gnomus and the Tour Guide each have four mini rig speakers for vocal amplification; both are very mobile. We consult local experts about the site and devise a responsive script. The resulting performance includes up to six 15min walking tours engaging 40 to 150 family audiences directly per performance, many more indirectly. We find ideas about the site; how, why it was built, interweaving stories, finding contemporary context for the work. Each commission requires two weeks total to create the work; one week consulting, devising, writing; one week rehearsal with puppeteers and creative team. Gnomus has been presented at Kew, engaging 35,000 family audiences with themes of extinction, challenges plants face, compelling a new generation of environmentalists. Creative team: Puppets with GUTS Artistic Director / Creative Producer, Ivan Thorley; Designer, Nick Barnes; Puppets Director, Andrew Dawson; Writer, Andrew McCaldon; Costume Designer, Alison Alexander; Consultant Producer, Robin Morley; Consultant Director, Claire Rafferty. Puppet Makers: Charlie Tymms, Maia Kirkman-Richards, Oli Simonon, Seb Mayer, Jo May, Caroline Bowman. Cast: Sam Clark, Iskandar Sharazuddin, Katrina Wesseling, Richard Booth, Bertie Harris and Ethan Catchpole Type of show: small scale (eg ) Audience: Family, Children, Festival, local audiences People on the road: 7 Estimated cost per day: 1,900 Genre: street theatre/puppetry/walking tour Shows per day/duration: 6 x 15 mins Artist/company: Puppets with Guts is a high-quality, big puppet theatre company. Our mission is to inspire people, have fun, exploring new ways people can experience and reflect on the world through big interactive spectacular puppetry. In 2018, our work reached over 40,000 people in outdoors settings. We develop educational methods, community engagement, providing workshops and interactive presentations to inspire and develop young people s creative practice, engaging hard-to-reach communities. Throughout our 'Kids Create' programme worked with children at risk of gang grooming in one of Britain's most deprived wards. We also run intensive interactive workshop programmes, making objects for festival settings. Ivan Thorley 2nd Floor, Stanford Gate, South Road, Brighton BN1 6SB mail@puppetswithguts.com

32 29. Ruxandra Cantir & Sarah Rose Graber The Dirty Laundry Campaign The show: The Dirty Laundry Campaign follows two clown politicians who would do anything to win your vote. George Dottington of the Polka Dot political party is running against Edward Aurelius Stripe of the Stripe political party. They are searching for their constituents and are eager to share their campaign agendas with anyone who will listen. And when things don t go according to plan, the mudslinging ensues and dirty laundry is promptly aired. Very silly debating will take place to try to sway your political convictions - from dance offs to surprising tie choreography, silly handshakes and games of tag. The Dirty Laundry Campaign weaves together clown bits, dancing, and mask work to create a dynamic outdoor performance suited for families that encourages everyone to take a side and be vocal about it! The piece includes audience participation via claps, cheers, political party chanting, flag-waving, and water gun and bubble gun fighting at the end to settle the score. There is actual dirty laundry to display as George and Edward are ready to play dirty and accuse each other of lying to their constituents. This is a classic game of one-up-manship, but in suits and ties. 2 laundry trees anchor the playing area on which hang one Striped flag and one - Polka Dotted. There are small political party flags that are distributed around the audience when the two politicians divide their audience in half as their respective constituents. Grandiose music tops and tails the performance fit for the larger-than-life characters that are eager to get you on their side. Type of show: small scale (eg ) Audience: family People on the road: 2 Estimated cost per day: travel & accommodation/or per diem Genre: street theatre Shows per day/duration: 4 x 30 mins Artist/company: Ruxandra Cantir is a physical theatre artist based in Scotland. She trained at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre (Blue Lake, California) where she earned an M.F.A. in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre. She has since performed around the world mostly as a clown and physical theatre performer. Sarah Rose Graber is a multidisciplinary theatre maker also based in Scotland. She studied theatre at Northwestern University in Chicago and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before being awarded a US/UK Fulbright Grant to to explore devising practices and collaborative and interdisciplinary theatrical experiences in the UK. Cantir and Graber have been making and performing original theatre together since 2016 in the styles of Clown, Storytelling, physical theatre and Movement. In the last two years, they have been publicly and privately supported to create Character-based, visual interactive outdoor performances. Their repertoire includes The Dirty Laundry Campaign (2017 and 2018), The Refs (2018), and Unicorn Dance Party (2018). Ruxandra Cantir & Sarah Rose Graber 1/2 93 Stanmore Road, Glasgow G42 9AL ruxy.cantir@gmail.com ruxandracantir.com / sarahrosegraber.com

33 30. Safetycatch Theatre Doctor! Doctor! The show: The satirical slapstick NHS roadshow. DIY Surgery gone wrong meets old time travelling medicine show. A farcical love triangle in a clapped out community ambulance in the middle of an epidemic. The last Doctor, Nurse and Paramedic left standing, armed with the only equipment remaining. How will they cure all? Can the audience in the waiting room help them through this national health crisis? Doctor! Doctor!! is a knock-about laugh-til-it-hurts comedy for family audiences, rewriting the rulebook on our relationship with Doctors, Nurses, Ambulances, Medicine and all that s left of our beloved NHS. If laughter is the best medicine, then this show should be on prescription. Also offering a pre-show interactive A&E Unit installation, engaging the audience with performers as they recruit new doctors and nurses, teach farcical DIY surgical procedures, and disseminate the latest medical research, statistics and wellbeing advice while conducting medical experiments and giving treatment. The team: A collaboration with Foolsize Theatre and Spymonkey with support from 101 Outdoor Arts, Edge Hill Uni and SIRF. Possible residency at IOU to be confirmed. Performers Garth Williams, Joanne Tremarco and Chris Murray, directed by Spymonkey / Aitor Bassauri, co-produced by Stepping Out Theatre, dramaturgy from James Macpherson, Project mentoring from Jeremy Shine. Set Design maker Ian Broscomb. Movement direction from Kevin Edward Turner from Company Chameleon, comedy choreography from Susan Guest of Articulate Elbow. Disability accessibility consultation from Tom Hogan from Proud and Loud Arts. Mental Health consultation from Stepping Out Theatre. Type of show: medium scale (eg ,000) Audience: family People on the road: 3 Estimated cost per day: 1,200/ 2 days = 2,100 Genre: street theatre/dance/physical comedy Shows per day/duration: 2 x 45 mins Artist/company: Safetycatch Theatre creates interplay for outsiders. We believe in unlocking the heart of play, and sharing the fun with our audiences. All sorts of people welcome interactions with us, and through us with each other. Chances to embrace whimsy, laugh ourselves silly and to accept our ridiculousness are created to be enjoyed, often in a giggly way. The potential to open up is encouraged, so we can all see our surroundings in a fresh new light of opportunity for connection, and for community. Garth Williams 15 Lester Street, Stretford, Manchester M32 8BS garth@safetycatch.net

34 31. Saffy Setohy Light Field The show: Light Field is an off-grid, kinetically powered participatory installation made of, and activated by light, people and the sound of light. Suitable for outdoor festivals and public space events after dark, or indoor environments such as community venues, basement galleries, churches and unusual spaces. Light Field features a multi-part sound score made of the sound of our natural and built environment- from the night skies and magnetic north, to a street lamp or emergency exit. This is amplified through kinetically powered lanterns, which emit a diffused glow that gets brighter with activation. Responsive, glowing beacons of light create a gently pulsing environment. Audience-participants are invited by installation facilitators to interact with this environment, as well as each other. They are given gentle, simple instructions which facilitate movement and play. The installation unfolds and changes over time as people come and go, creating an extraordinary and unique experience for those that choose to activate the installation, but also for those that choose to watch or listen to it close up or from a distance. Visually captivating, with a subtle sound score made of the sound of light and VLF/Natural Radio, the work playfully considers philosophical and practical ideas of contrasting needs for natural and technological light and darkness around the world, and our individual and collective relationship to energy generation and consumption. Beginning in the context of Artcop Scotland,Artcop21 and UNesco Year of Light, Light Field was supported by UZ Arts/InSitu, CCA/Dancehouse, and Creative Scotland. The team: Choreographer/installation facilitator, Saffy Setohy; Composer, Bill Thompson; Electronics, Costa Telelaev, Al Bennett, Yann Seznec, Jamie Grier Type of show: small large scale Audience: festival, family, public art events People on the road: 1 (the installation should be stewarded by promoter/festival own staff/volunteers) Estimated cost per day: 500 Genre: installation/participatory Shows per day/duration: ongoing up to 4 hours, people come and go throughout Artist/company: Glasgow-based Saffy Setohy works across choreography, performance, participatory practices and movement direction. Interdisciplinary collaboration is at the heart of her work. Her current practices are concerned with perception, interconnection, and interdependency. She has made various collaborative installation, outdoor, sited, stage and screen works for rural and urban contexts, commissioned and presented in the UK and internationally. Current project is Bodies of Water, a rural touring commission for The Touring Network. This is a participatory installation exploring our relationship to water through dance, sound and sculpture. Recently Saffy was awarded the choreographer bursary by Saltire Society and Scottish Dance Theatre. She is an associate artist of Insitu European network for art in public space, supported by UZ Arts. Saffy Setohy 0/3 80 Firhill Road, Glasgow, G20 7AL saffy.setohy@gmail.com

35 32. Síolta Collective Seeds The show: A brand new five person ground based ensemble show, sprouting up from Irish roots and pushing the physical limits of circus. Watch, listen and feel the anticipation as a blank canvas of space starts to quiver, move and come alive with the bodies of performers as they struggle to make a mark, fight to be heard and find their place. Remote from each other, a constant rhythm of connection and disconnection is created through incredible group acrobatics, bringing the audience into their game before disrupting and surprising. This family friendly outdoor performance takes place during 40 breathless minutes on a 6x6m area of open space in which towers of bodies shoot towards the sky as hoops explode from behind before crumbling into separate pieces. Mixing moments of beauty and humour the base of partner acrobatics in this ensemble show is a foundation on which hula hoop and club juggling layers beautiful shapes and dexterous delights. It is a contemporary show with minimal use of set and maximum use of spaces and bodies, with complementary use of manipulation props. With stunning big scenes that open up the space, it is rich in imagery, high in dynamics, and wide in scale. Focus and attention is played with, and place and Identity are questioned. Between moments of absolute chaos and blissful calm you will leave this show, but it will never leave you. A show for all ages representing a new generation of circus artists coming out of the Emerald Isle The team: Director, Paddy Waters; Creators and Performers, Ali Stanger, Aoife Raleigh, Gracie Marshall, Henrik Gard, Jacob Anderson. Type of show: medium scale (eg ,000) Audience: family, festival, outdoors People on the road: 5 Estimated cost per day: 1,800 2,000 + travel and accommodation. Genre: circus/street theatre Shows per day/duration: 1-2 x 40 mins Artist/company: Síolta Collective ( Seeds in Irish), a brand new five person ground based circus ensemble. The collective formed in 2017 and have spent time researching, training and devising material to create something unique. Síolta collective have recently received funding from the Irish Arts Council to create a show directed by Paddy Waters. Artist/company has shown work in progress at Pitch d Festival, Cork, September 2017, and are currently in residency at CINE, Sineu, Mallorca. Future showings include the National Circus Festival of Ireland November We look to premiere the show at St Patricks Day Festival in March Paddy Waters 66 Connaught Street, Dublin, Ireland paddywaters@gmail.com

36 33. Splatch Arts Y Mor The show: This was one of three of our hugely successful sold shows. Inspired and made by the Cardiff community. We celebrated the changing façade of a historical local landmark; Penarth Pier. With a core team of professional circus artists and over 50 local amateur dance, music and theatre participants we paid homage to the memories shared there. The late groom wheeling down the hill on his unicycle arriving at the Pavilion (restaged as wedding cake) the angry juggling bride ushering people inside to a world of circus shenanigans attributing to its gymnastic years, local lindy hop and tap dance groups collaborating together restaging it s dance hall days, an actress toppling over the edge dripping wet having finished her swim across the channel, an elderly dance group that had attended the event themselves many years before, all supported with voice recordings and visual research collected from the public. We want our productions to have this personal touch, a shared intimacy that resonates with the location whilst also creating a visual spectacle to create new beginnings. This is why we had a 1000ft high wire walk along the length of the pier, 4 aerial rope artists dancing in the dusk sky, a dynamic swinging trapeze performance hypnotizing the mass of audience, cyr wheel performers acrobatically running the length of the pier. It s the community and rich history around us that drive our work, we believe remembering our past helps us build our future. The team: Co-founders, Esther Fuge and Elle Edwards; Core team, Olga Ina Moratia and Alise Piebalga Type of show: Very large scale (eg. city-wide event, up to 30,000) Audience: directly engages with the local artistic community through series of outreach classes, collecting memories from the general public and performance participation. This in turn naturally propels local families to attend. The physically dynamic and visual spectacle draws in youth, young adults, older residents for their nostalgic look into the past of a much love landmark, and tourists. All ages for workshop participation, especially for those who don t usually engage with the arts. People on the road: 8 Estimated cost per day: individually costed, dependent on many factors Genre: circus/dance/installation/ theatre/participatory Shows per day/duration: 2 x 1 hour performance / 45 mins workshop engagement Artist/company: Splatch is community interest circus company that creates site specific work involving local artists to artistically rejuvenate local landmarks. We invite 100's of performers from amateur groups to be supported by a professional circus show inspired by the memories and history of that area. Our aim is to create a structure of a show to tour piers around England and Wales to increase tourism in that area whilst providing a platform for local artists whose collaboration can continue long after. Esther Fuge 110 Iscoed Road, Swansea, SA4 0UN Esther.fuge@gmail.com facebook.com/cardiffsplatch/

37 34. Strong Lady Productions POWER The show: POWER will tell stories of strength beyond lifting heavy things, and of power without having power over someone else. This new show will be ready for touring in My creative process has always begun with the tricks I want to perform, the show has evolved from there. My work has always had significant meaning, but no clear narrative, and I am extremely proud to have received funding from ACE s Developing Your Creative Practice award, to explore new devising processes that begin from the story, as well as to expand my physical vocabulary for performance. This project will allow me to grow so that POWER can be a show that tells a powerful story. I have been collecting interviews from extraordinary ordinary people about their experiences of strength and power to form the backbone of the show. I intend to include some voice overs from these interviews in their wonderful array of accents. I am also interrogating my own experiences as a strong and independent woman for threads of narrative. My deep curiosity about the workings of the human brain will likely weave into this journey. I am exploring physical vocabulary of object manipulation and animation (puppetry), dance and movement, handbalance and feats-of-strength to tell these stories. I am keeping the possibilities of the show very open at this stage to allow myself time to integrate new skills and ideas gained through working with an array of inspiring collaborators and mentors including Complicité, Ockham s Razor, Company Chameleon and a Significant Object. Exciting times ahead! Type of show: medium scale (eg ,000) Audience: Outdoor Arts Festivals (there will also be an indoor theatre version of the show) People on the road: 1-2 Estimated cost per day: 650 Genre: circus/narrative theatre/street theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x mins tbc Artist/company: Originally from Australia, I have been touring outdoor arts festivals internationally for over 15 years, mostly as a Strong Lady. My solo show STRONG LADY presents an array of feats of strength with a playful mix of elegance, muscle and comedy. I am also an acro base and have created shows with Mimbre, Mario Queen-of-the-Circus and Tutti Frutti before touring LEAP with Reuben DotDotDot. In my work I celebrate strength, body positivity and kindness - with a feminist subtext. I am passionate about creating shows that build a deep connection with a wide variety of audiences. Charmaine Childs 9A Ramuz Drive, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 9JA thestronglady@gmail.com strongladyproductions.com

38 35. The Doing Group A Home For Nessie The show: After applying last year, in the wake of Brexit, for the Loch Ness Monster to receive permanent residency status, The Doing Group made headlines in most newspapers after being told by the Home Office that Nessie had no right to remain in the UK. Despite a short film chronicling the effort we went to square away all the relevant paperwork and records, we are now left with no choice but to seek a new home for the monster. Allowing the public to suggest a new home, we received over 40 submissions from around the world, all viewable on our website. People gave us a description and image of their favourite lakes and why it would be a suitable home for the creature. Soon a winning lake will be announced and with support from the Goethe Institute, we aim to aid Nessie's emigration through Europe to her new home lake. Guiding her along waterways, the wetsuit-clad Doing Group hope to inform the population face to face of the monster s transit, quashing their fears of the beast and finding out what the people of Europe can offer the expelled monster in assistance, and Scotland in return. The team: The 6 members of The Doing Group intend to devise, plan and perform the piece internally, but are very open to collaboration. Type of show: small scale (eg ) Audience: We don't expect a particular target audience in Europe, but we are hoping to be able to add a farewell to Nessie performance in Scotland before we leave. We would like this to be aimed at the children and older people of the Inverness area to hear their differing perspectives of the emigration, given the Brexit vote was spilt so strongly along age lines. People on the road: 4 Estimated cost per day: 1,000 Genre: processional/walkabout Shows per day/duration: 3 x 45 mins Artist/company: The Doing Group is a collaborative performance group concerned with the process of doing which in turn produces new realities. In opposition to the stasis of a reading group, this Glasgow Uni-borne group uses performance as a means of inquiry, but simultaneously see themselves as performative odd job people, filling cracks where performances need 'doing'. Stanley Smith 12a Seton Terrace, Glasgow G31 2HU stanleyjacksmith@gmail.com ahomefornessie.com / thedoinggroup.com

39 36. The Fabularium There Be Monsters! The show: 'There Be Monsters! is the brand spanking new outdoor heroic romp-around from acclaimed outdoor performers The Fabularium. As you meet these two iconic half-masked characters, you are invited on a promenade to 5 walk-able locations to witness each scene in a different setting! This is a journey like no other, with live original music and catchy songs that will deliver a fun yet thought provoking, site specific, promenade piece. The Fabularium utilises stunning visuals, captivating music and powerful storytelling to give energetic performances that engage and interact with all ages in all settings! They strive to create a welcoming atmosphere before any performance that invites an audience to relax and enjoy a theatre experience like no other! There Be Monsters! presents a spectacle on the ground amongst the audience, engaging not only those that have come to watch the show, but members of the public whom they cross paths with while journeying from one scene to the next! This retelling of Cervantes epic novel revives a story for younger audiences who may not know the tale and offers everyone the chance to be a part of it, young and old. The team: Director, Richard Headon (Desperate Men); Mask & Character Work, Geoff Beale (Ophaboom Theatre); Artist and Maker, Jonny Dixon; Creative Producer, Lou Lomas Type of show: Small scale (eg ) Audience: Families, Older people, Carers, Festivals, City Settings People on the road: 3 Estimated cost per day: 750 Genre: processional/walkabout/ interactive/street theatre/narrative theatre Shows per day/duration: 2-3 x 60min Artist/company: Established in 2010, The Fabularium has produced work for outdoor events, festivals, carnivals and processions for over 8 years. Since then they have been developing work for national and international touring in the forms of stories presented upon a traditional medieval pageant wagon and street walkabout acts. Recent years have seen The Fabularium perform The Town Band of Bremen on an international level, establish the Tales of Animalia at Just So Festival for over four years, and have achieved over 77 public performances of Reynard the Fox nationally. Gareth Price-Baghurst 54 St Christians Road, Coventry CV3 5GX gareth@fabularium.co.uk

40 37. Turas Theatre Collective Remnants Photo: Anita Murphy The show: Remnants is a visually spectacular and enthralling tale of three characters whose lives have been disrupted, and who find themselves alone and homeless. The story interweaves the characters pasts with their hope for the future in a beautifully choreographed performance. A moving and powerful meditation on displacement, Remnants is best programmed as site specific street theatre show - the audience arrive at a meeting point and walk with the performers to the performance location. Premiered at Summer in Southside with 5 performers, then performed as a re-worked 3 performer version at Just So and Big Feast, Stoke. Type of show: Small scale (eg ) Audience: Older People on the road: 3 Estimated cost per day: 1,200 Genre: street theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x 30 mins Artist/company Turas Theatre Collective are based in the west of Ireland and create high quality, innovative and original street theatre. Blending movement, physical theatre and soundscape they tell stories in a unique way, taking their audience on a compelling journey into a world of stunning imagery and sound. Their new show Remnants is a response to the performers personal experiences of working in refugee camps with the organisation Clowns without Borders. Debbie Wright Loughrea, Galway, Ireland H62 W868 turastheatrecollective@gmail.com TheatreTuras

41 38. Ukemi Ltd (Ukemi Project) The Greatest Park Never Built The show: There is no guarantee how long a site will stay the same before warping into something new. Urban sports communities do not have the same stake in a site that others do. Usage of a site for free and open activity often comes second to developers. Urban sports are disruptive to architecture as they transgress its function. These activities are not based around transport and therefore rarely considered in the development of a city. They exist in a space between sport and arts and are rarely supported by either. The Greatest Park Never Built is a tribute to all the best urban sports spot s (training locations) in Scotland and a critique on how we commodify city spaces. We will collaborate with Scotland s largest urban sports communities to identify the places they consider to be the best in order to respond with an artwork. The project would culminate with an installation. The centrepiece will be an integrated physical model created using elements from each site. Supporting this will be a photography exhibition featuring iconic photos/videos of the sites being used with information about each location. It is a celebration of the each individual site s history, architecture and how urban sports communities transgress the sites function to create a culture. We will highlight these communities and provide legacy by creating a visual library of spaces used for movement and play. Therefore the project will continue to exist as a digital library, creating an actionable and repeatable community arts initiative that contributes towards making cities more accessible. The team: Producer/Artistic Lead, David Banks (Ukemi); Digital Designer, Tim Pearce (Ukemi); Web Designer, Daniel Smith (Ukemi); Prop Maker, Thom Wall (Sorenzo Studios). Type of show: Small scale (eg ) Audience: Urban Sports Communities / Young People / Architects Designers / Youth Workers People on road: 2 Estimated cost per day: 500 for first day and 100 per day thereafter Genre: installation Shows per day/duration: Installation can be open all day. Artist/company: My work ranges from performance to Parkour coaching and design. A large part of my practice is through a company I co-founded called Ukemi. Ukemi is the name given to the Art of Falling. Quite simply; Strong Ukemi decreases likelihood of injury if you fall. We believe restrictions on our freedom to move/play, pacified playparks and cities designed for cars has a negative effect on our Ukemi. We aim to tackle health and safety culture to movement more accessible. Most recently we partnered with Scottish Canals on the Youth Urban Games - an event for over 7,000 people. Our role included design/implementation of the stage and managing athletes/participants. David Banks 22 Aboyne Road, Aberdeen AB10 7BT david.banks@ukemi.ninja ukemi.ninja

42 39. Upswing Catch Me The show: Catch Me will be Upswing's third touring production for outdoors and public spaces. The show will blend a moving and evolving art installation to frame a series of solo and duet pieces incorporating acrobatics, dance and object manipulation. We will be working with an intergenerational cast, a young male circus performer and two older female dance artists. The show is a continuation of our exploration of age Photo: Josh Hawkins and gender stereotypes and will blend circus and design trickery to playfully poke at our expectations of the relationship between generations, genders who is of value to whom, and who is capable of what. The performance will take place in a space populated by multiple chairs (30-40) utilising the ability of the dancers to shift, weave through, over and under chairs, building structures, pushing the dynamic of their relationship with the space and what it says about their relationships with each other. There is an aspiration at the end of the performance that members of the audience will be invited to enter the installation and occupy the remaining chairs to listen to a bespoke composition that takes inspiration from the work of artists like David Tudor and Yuri Suzuki using localised sounds to create a textured audio landscape. The use of sound, bodies, space and design enables us to really delve into and question interpretations of the relationships we see unfold before us. Depending on location the capacity would be between people. The team: Vicki Amedume will be directing, working with award winning designer Becky Minto. We have already been in touch with a number of sound artists and have spent a week in R&D with acrobat Matthew Smith and dancer Pamela Woods. Type of show: medium scale (eg ,000) Audience: We aim to step beyond the usual festival audiences into more socially and economically isolated communities People on the road: 2-3 Estimated cost per day: 1,000-1,250 Genre: installation/music/processional/street theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x 60min Artist/company: Upswing is a leading, award-winning, contemporary circus company based in the UK. Recognised as the storytelling circus company, Upswing interweaves aerial, theatre, dance, text and multimedia to create fresh experiences with narrative punch, telling new stories in extraordinary ways. Harnessing the broad appeal of circus Upswing delves deeper to explore its emotional breadth and physical possibilities and create world-class transformative experiences for audiences, artists and participants. Presented indoors and out, and often in the round, shows such as Bedtime Stories and Red Shoes have continued to tour since their creation. More recently, Upswing collaborated with humanities researchers to develop a performative seminar, the Choreography of Compassion. Camille Bensoussan Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA camille@upswing.org.uk

43 40. Whalley Range All Stars The Best of All Possible Worlds The show: The Best of All Possible Worlds is very loosely based on the novel Candide by Voltaire. It features 3 innocents torn from the pages of the novel and placed in an unfamiliar and unpredictable world. It's a comic panoramic vision of the world that takes place on a large table. Developed with D/deaf artists, this is a witty and highly visual puppet theatre show, performed without words. The show was performed during 2018 at Greenwich & Docklands International Festival, Oakwell Park, Waddesdon House, Waterfoot Wakes, and Stockton International Riverside Festival Challenge your world weary kids with the sly, funny and surreal performances of the Whalley Range All Stars The Guardian. Type of show: small scale (eg ) Audience: suitable for everyone as it's completely visual and runs to a specially composed musical soundtrack. One of the performers is profoundly deaf and the show has been successful in drawing in a deaf audience. People on the road: 4 Estimated cost per day: 1,700 + travel & accommodation Genre: street theatre Shows per day/duration: 2 x 30 min Artist/company: Whalley Range All Stars were formed in 1982 by Edward Taylor and Sue Auty. Since then they have created over 70 shows, installations and events, and have toured to 25 countries over 5 continents. They have won critical, popular and artistic acclaim for their visually imaginative and vivid work. From 2003 until 2015 they were regularly funded by Arts Council England. Edward Taylor Unit 7a Britannia Mill, Cobden St, Bury Bl9 6AW info@wras.org.uk

44 41. Woven Circus Collective Resonances The show: Woven Circus Collective interweave the techniques of theatre, dance and acrobatics expressing a rebellion against what they see as the damaging acts of the cultures they grew up in, with a focus on toxic masculinity and patriarchy. They are traditionally inspired musicians, playing their own compositions during the show. Resonances has been performed as a work in progress at Waterford Spraoi Festival, Sul Filo del Cirko (Italy) and Festival Liu Lunasa in Belfast. Type of show: medium scale (eg ,000) Audience: The show was created for an adult audience, but is suitable for children People on the road: 4 Estimated cost per day: 2,500 Genre: circus/ dance/music Shows per day/duration: 1-2 x 55 mins Artist/company: Woven Circus Collective are two men and a woman, all based in Belfast. They have individually completed professional circus school in Italy and England. Their creation is called 'Resonances' and is a contemporary circus piece created as a response to the patriarchy they experienced living in many different communities and cultures. Ruairí Cumiskey 32 Cheltenham Park, Belfast BT6 0HR wovencircuscollective@gmail.com facebook.com/wovencircuscollective

45 42. Ziggy Slingsby Forest Bathing The show: This project will take place in woodlands and parks. It combines live aerial movement choreography with installation. The audience will be able to find their own place within the woodland to sit, lie or stand on specially created structures to watch the performers and take in the woodland landscape. The aerial choreography will be slow building and minimal to bring attention to performers bodies suspended within the natural environment. The focus will be on creating an experience for the audience to relax and be part of this environment, connecting them to their own bodies. This idea is partly inspired by forest bathing, an activity that brings health benefits by calming the nervous system through spending time lying down under trees. Laying down and looking up is a great way to take in aerial movement and the forest canopy. Type of show: Small scale (eg ) Audience: families and local people (encouraging people to use and explore their local woodlands and parks) People on the road: 6 Estimated cost per day: 2,500 Genre: circus/installation Shows per day/duration: 1-2 x 60 mins Artist/company: Ziggy Slingsby is an aerial circus artist working across experimental theatre and visual arts. His solo show Two Legged Animal, explores the experiences of a young woman and a wild horse. Reflecting human kinds relationship with other species and the wild. His new work continues this theme exploring our human connection to primates and trees through aerial circus. Ziggy Slingsby 52 Battersea Road, Bristol BS5 6AL ziggyslingsby@gmail.com