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With 15 companies from 10 countries, 13 UK premieres including the world premiere of The Mill from Britain’s Ockham’s Razor – one of the festival’s three co-commissioned works - LIMF10 promises one of the most diverse and exciting programmes in its long history. Switzerland’s Zimmermann & de Perrot open the season at The Barbican, the first of many different circus-theatre shows on offer, and there’s world-class puppetry and animation from Israel, Belgium, Russia, Italy and France. Be a guest at Circus Klezmer’s uproarious wedding, be a witness to the chilling USSR Was Here, be spellbound by sorceress-puppeteer Nicole Mossoux in Kefar Nahum and multi-talented bearded lady Jeanne Mordoj with her badgers and mountain goat. Welcome to 19 days of contemporary visual theatre performance, meet-the artist sessions, workshops, and the festival lecture to be given by Bristol Old Vic artistic director and National Theatre associate director, Tom Morris.

For making LIMF10 possible we thank artists, colleagues, supporters and funders, and once again we are delighted to acknowledge invaluable core financial assistance from Arts Council England.

Joseph Seelig & Helen Lannaghan, Festival Directors

SHOWS USING CIRCUS SKILLS
Circus Klezmer
Joao Paulo dos Santos
Cie Bal/Jeanne Mordoj
Okidok
Cie Ieto
Zimmermann & de Perrot
Collectif Petit Travers
Ockham’s Razor
Mimbre

SHOWS USING PUPPETRY/ANIMATION
Ateliers du Spectacle
Cie Bal/Jeanne Mordoj
Etgar Theatre
Cie Mossoux-Bonté
Pathosformel
BlackSkyWhite

FAMILY-FRIENDLY SHOWS
Circus Klezmer
Okidok
Cie Ieto
Zimmermann & de Perrot
Collectif Petit Travers
Mimbre

12 + /PARENTAL GUIDANCE
Ateliers du Spectacle
BlackSkyWhite
Etgar Theatre
Kitt Johnson X-act

SHOWS FOR PEOPLE WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT
Shows in the festival are text-free except:
Ateliers du Spectacle's A Distances, which has a small amount of text in French
Etgar Theatre's Eshet, which has some Hebrew with English surtitles
Jeanne Mordoj's Eloge du Poil, which has some French with English surtitles

If you would like to discuss the suitability of any festival shows for your needs, please email us at mimefest@easynet.co.uk and we’ll be very happy to help.

Venues

Barbican
Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
Tickets: 0845 121 6839
www.barbican.org.uk >

ICA
12 Carlton House Terrace, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Tickets: 020 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk >

Linbury Studio Theatre
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
Tickets: 020 7304 4000
www.roh.org.uk >

Southbank Centre
incorporating the Purcell Room and
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX
Tickets: 0844 847 9928
www.southbankcentre.co.uk >

Warwick Arts Centre
University of Warwick,
Gibbet Hill Road,
Coventry CV4 7AL
Tickets: 024 7652 4524
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk >

Shows

Barbican Events
13-16 Jan:
Zimmermann & de Perrot
19-23 Jan:
Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté
27-30 Jan:
Cie Bal/Jeanne Mordoj

ICA Events
16-20 Jan:
BlackSkyWhite
21-23 Jan:
Kitt Johnson X-act
23 Jan:
Tom Morris (Talk)
24-26 Jan:
Pathosformel
28-31 Jan:
Ateliers du Spectacle

Royal Opera House Events
19-21 Jan:
Ockham's Razor
22-23 Jan:
Joao dos Santos

Southbank Centre Events
16-19 Jan:
Etgar Theatre
20-23 Jan:
Okidok - Slips Inside
21-22 Jan:
Collectif Petit Travers
23-24 Jan:
Circus Klezmer
24 Jan:
Okidok - HaHaHa
25-27 Jan:
Mimbre
28-31 Jan:
Compagnie Ieto

Warwick Arts Centre Event
26 Jan:
Compagnie Ieto

Zimmermann & de Perrot (CH)
Öper Öpis  UK Premiere

Barbican Theatre >
Wed 13 > Sat 16 Jan 7.45pm
Meet the Artists Thu 14 Jan
Runs 70 mins/no interval
£10/£12/£16/£21/£26
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'Magnificent, dreamlike, devilishly good... a riot of fantasy and surprise'. Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris

On a precariously tilting, unstable floor a daredevil game of shifting relationships, balance and control unfolds. Driven by composer/DJ Dimitri de Perrot’s fabulous live scratched soundscore, every move is a risk, every step a challenge and everyone’s perspective distorted.

Opening the 2010 London International Mime Festival, Öper Öpis (‘Someone Something’) is a rich mix of visual arts, circus, music, theatre and dance. Choreographed and led by the rubber-limbed Martin Zimmermann, the company features some of Europe’s top young circus artists.

Zimmermann & de Perrot are based in Zurich. Their self-devised work has been acclaimed for its successful fusing of circus with other art forms, and for the meticulous craftsmanship of their ingenious sets. Öper Öpis is their third piece to feature at LIMF, following Gopf (2002) and Gaff Aff (2006). It has enjoyed an extensive European tour including a sold out season at Theatre de la Ville in Paris.

Concept, direction & stage design: Zimmermann & de Perrot
Original music: Dimitri de Perrot
Choreography: Martin Zimmermann
Devised and performed by: Blancaluz Capella, Victor Cathala, Rafael Moraes, Dimitri de Perrot, Kati Pikkarainen, Eugénie Rebetez, Martin Zimmermann 

Co-production: London International Mime Festival; Equinoxe, Scène Nationale de Châteauroux; Grand Théâtre de Luxemburg; La Ferme du Buisson, Scène Nationale de Marne la Vallée; La Filature, Scène Nationale de Mulhouse; Opéra Dijon; Le Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg; Le Merlan, Scène Nationale à Marseille; Pour-cent culturel Migros; Schauspielhaus Zürich; Theater Chur; Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Théâtre Vidy, Lausanne; Verein Zimmermann & de Perrot.

Presented in association with bite10

Mossoux-Bonté (Bel)
Kefar Nahum  UK Premiere

Barbican, The Pit >
Tue 19 > Sat 23 Jan 7.45pm
Meet the Artists Thu 21 Jan

Runs approx 50 mins/no interval

£12
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'An astonishing performance by the dancer/manipulator. She breathes life into objects. Uncategorisable, irresistible, monstrous and lyrical'.
Le Soir (Brussels)

In Kefar Nahum, sorceress-puppeteer Nicole Mossoux creates theatre of startling, unforgettable images, at once droll and frightening. She endows random objects with human desires and animal impulses, and reincarnates them as actors. They represent the supreme shambles that is humanity. Everything is possible in this world, where suggestion opens the door to the darkest, deepest dreams. Power games and monstrous couplings, feudal rights and unexplained violence take place in a procession of transformations. It’s the story of Creation, a great project gone badly wrong, where people can’t relate and so devour each other. Even the puppeteer herself cannot escape.

Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté have been creating performances at the crossroads of theatre and dance since 1985. Seen in more than 30 countries across the world and also on film, their work - both intimate and large scale - explores inexpressible human feelings through a language of movement that grips the spectator’s imagination. The company is based in Brussels, where Patrick Bonté is also artistic director of the influential avant-garde dance and theatre season, Festival International des Brigittines. Thomas Turine is a performer/composer who has worked with many Belgian companies. He juxtaposes microphones and instruments with the objects and performers he encounters on stage.

Directed by: Patrick Bonté & Nicole Mossoux
Soundscore composed and played live by: Thomas Turine

Production: Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté in co-production with Fidena Festival, Bochum (Germany)

Compagnie Bal/
Jeanne Mordoj (Fr)
Eloge du Poil (In Praise of Hairiness)  
UK Premiere

Barbican, The Pit >
Wed 27 > Sat 30 Jan
7.45pm
Meet the Artists Thu 28 Jan

Runs approx 65 mins/no interval

£12
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‘This is one of the beautiful treasures of the season. At first it’s our eyes that open up to this show, our hearts quickly follow’.
L’Est Republicain

You have to take a risk, accept your discomfort, allow yourself to go with it and let go. It’s almost dizzying’.
Telerama

In a fairground-carnival setting, sharing her freakshow stage with a badger, a mountain goat and other natural curiosities, she juggles egg yolks and bamboo and forces us to consider taboos that rarely come to the surface. Ventriloquist, contortionist and multi-talented circus artist, the charismatic bearded lady reveals truths about identity, perception, sex, and finally death itself.

Jeanne Mordoj was brought up in rural France. Her parents were sculptors and goat farmers. At 18 she joined Cirque Bidon for a 300 performance tour of Italy, travelling in horse-drawn caravans. She has trained and worked with Jérôme Thomas, Yoshi Oida and Jorg Müller among other circus and theatre artists, and from 2002-2006 performed with the Cahin Caha circus group. Eloge du Poil is her third solo show exploring aspects of femininity and meaning.

Conceived & performed by: Jeanne Mordoj
Directed by: Pierre Meunier

Production: Compagnie Bal

Co-production: La Breche, Cherbourg; Pronomades en Haute-Garonne; Theatre de l’Espace, Besancon; Le Merlan, Marseille; Parc de la Villette, Paris; Equinoxe, Chateauroux; Cirque-Theatre d’Elbeuf; Les Subsistances, Lyon.

Presented in association with bite10

BlackSkyWhite (RUS)
USSR Was Here  London Premiere

ICA Theatre >
Sat 16 > Wed 20 Jan 8pm
Meet the Artists Tue 19 Jan

Runs approx 60 mins/no interval

£14 (£12 concs)
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‘The skill of the company is such that they manage to condense the entire history of mime from Debureau up to contemporary forms of expression in this extraordinary work’.
Critics’ Prize - Mimos Festival, Perigueux

‘The most alternative of all theatre groups in Russia, its performances are without even the smallest conventions. Borderless chaos, indescribable apocalypse – the audience is caught up from the first moment’.
Amadei

Moscow’s BlackSkyWhite made an indelible impression on British audiences with its nightmarish Bertrand’s Toys and subsequently with Astronomy for Insects.

USSR Was Here is a vision of disintegration. Through movement, shadows, sound and light, often terrifying characters and grotesque costume, this is an overwhelming, impressionistic response to the sudden collapse of a great edifice.

‘In a single minute this building that 250 million called home simply vanished. Perhaps it was unattractive from the outside, perhaps uncomfortable inside, for some a prison. Some were happy to see it go, others couldn’t survive the change. We don’t seek to examine the effect of its disappearance but only to display it, lest it be forgotten’. Dimitry Aryupin.

Directed by: Dimity Arypuin
Performers: Marcella Soltan, Egor Moiseev

Kitt Johnson X-act (Den)
Rankefod   UK Premiere

ICA Theatre >
Thu 21 > Sat 23 Jan 8pm
Meet the Artists Fri 22 Jan

Runs approx 55 mins/no interval

£14 (£12 concs)
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‘Beyond the notion of ugly or beautiful, male or female she achieved a state of pure living existence. An intense and wonderful experience’.
Dance International, Canada

Rare is the choreographer who can say a great deal with very little’.
New York Times

A stunning solo performance that explores the origin of the species.

Kitt Johnson moves like a magical creature from a bygone age. Reptilian, insect-like, animalistic, human – her body changes in front of your eyes. This is the story of our evolution analysed with one fascinating body and its unconscious memory, set to a soundscape of computer-manipulated sounds from the natural world.

Kitt Johnson came to butoh, German expressionist theatre and contemporary movement from a background in elite athletics. As a performer and choreographer she has worked with Sasha Walz and Mark Tompkins amongst others.

Choreography/performance: Kitt Johnson
Composition/live music: Sture Ericson

Supported by the Royal Danish Embassy

TALK

Tom Morris   (UK)
Chapter 3  

ICA Theatre >
Sat 23 Jan 2.30pm
Session runs approx 75 mins
£7 (£6 concs)
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Tom Morris is Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic, where he will direct Juliet and her Romeo, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, in March. He was director of BAC from 1995-2004 where he revolutionised the programme and established the venue as a national centre for the development of new theatre, working with companies such as Complicité, Improbable, Ridiculusmus and many others, and nurturing high profile projects such as Jerry Springer: The Opera.

In 2004 he became an Associate Director at the National Theatre and was responsible for the development of some of the NT’s greatest successes of recent times, Coram Boy, A Matter of Life and Death (adapted with Emma Rice of Kneehigh), and War Horse, which he also co-directed. Throughout his professional career Tom has been closely associated with Britain’s most notable visual theatre companies, supporting people and ideas that, in his own words, “turn out to be blooming marvellous a few years later”. Tom’s production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (co-directed with Felix Barrett of Punchdrunk), opens in the Olivier Theatre on January 12th.

Pathosformel  (It)
The Timidity of Bones  
UK Premiere

ICA Theatre >
Sun 24 > Tue 26 Jan 7pm & 8.30pm
Meet the Artists: Mon 25 Jan (after 8.30pm show)

Runs approx 25 mins/no interval
£10 (£8 concs)
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Eerily impressed into the surface of a large, luminous white screen, the outline of bones and skeletal forms appear. Perhaps the debris of buried civilisations, fragments build to form a floating frieze, and finally a body that evokes an unimaginably distant and mysterious past.

Pathosformel is Daniel Blanga Gubbay and Paola Villani, young artists based in Milan. Their work explores new ways of using the body on stage and radically experiments with movement and visual imagery. The Timidity of Bones was created in 2007 when it won special mention at Premio Scenario, Italian theatre’s leading awards celebration. In 2008 it was an award-winner at Sezione Autonoma in Cesena, an event established by Romeo Castellucci’s Societas Raffaello Sanzio.

Production: Pathosformel / FIES Factory One

Les Ateliers du Spectacle (FR)
A Distances UK Premiere

ICA Theatre >
Thu 28 > Sun 31 Jan Thu – Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm
Meet the Artists Fri 29 Jan

Runs approx 80 mins/no interval
£14 (£12 concs)
Booking opens 12 Nov >

‘Is it a show or a dream? It’s both and more and unlike anything you’ve seen before. They are engineers of art and genius’.
La Croix

‘Astonishing, poetic and completely original’.
Il Messagero

From France, extraordinary animation theatre in seven short episodes, mysterious, unconventional and entertainingly quirky. A Distances is a micro-epic for two performers, shadows, puppets, objects, sounds, imagination and wonderful, clanking Heath-Robinson machinery.

From the same planet as Faulty Optic, Jan Svankmejer and the Brothers Quay, Jean-Pierre Larroche’s Ateliers du Spectacle have been devising boundary-breaking visual theatre for more than twenty years.

A Distances won the Jury prize for Most Original Production at the 2009 Valladolid Festival, Spain.

Directed by: Thierry Roisin
Performers: Jean-Pierre Larroche and Marion Lefevbre

Ockham's Razor (UK)
The Mill  World Premiere

Linbury Studio Theatre,Royal Opera House >
Tue 19 > Thu 21 Jan 7.45pm
Meet the Artists Wed 20 Jan

Runs approx 60 mins/no interval
£6.50/£11/£13/£16
(£7.50 students/under 16s)
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'Daring aerial theatre’. The Independent

'Physically thrilling’. Sunday Times

To date the only ever British award winners at the prestigious Jeunes Talents Cirque, Ockham’s Razor create daring physical theatre on aerial equipment specially created for each new show.
  
In The Mill, their latest production, the world of Ockham’s Razor revolves quite literally inside and around a wheel of wood and steel suspended seven metres in the air. By turns treadmill and pleasure wheel, it’s the vehicle for a roller-coaster ride through every human emotion and its affects are unpredictable and dramatic.
 
The Mill is directed by Toby Sedgwick - founder member of 1980’s cult group Moving Picture Mime Show, and most recent winner of the Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer for the National Theatre’s hit production, War Horse. Dramaturgy is by Rufus Norris, recent winner of The Evening Standard Award for Best Director.

Devised by: Charlotte Mooney, Alex Harvey and Tina Koch in association with Toby Sedgwick
Performers: Charlotte Mooney, Alex Harvey, Tina Koch, Paul Evans, Stefano Di Renzo.

The Mill is a LIMF co-commission
Produced by Turtle Key Arts
Ockham's Razor is funded by Arts Council England

O Ultimo Momento / Joao Paulo Dos Santos (Fr/Por)
Contigo  UK Premiere

Linbury Studio Theatre,Royal Opera House >
Fr 22 > Sat 23 Jan
Fri 7.45pm, Sat 4pm
Meet the Artists Sat 23 Jan

Runs approx 50 mins/no interval
£6.50/£11/£13/£16
(£7.50 students/under 16s)
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‘A master of physicality’. La Provence

‘Graceful, mind-blowing, dizzying’. DNA

'The intoxication of height and the excitement of falling’. Danser

Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta and circus artist Joao Paulo Dos Santos created Contigo as a commission for the Avignon Festival. Using one of the more unusual and most dramatic pieces of circus equipment - the Chinese pole - they tell a heart-stopping story about anger and loneliness.  

Joao trained at Chapito, the Lisbon circus school, and at the Rosnay Circus school in France. He has worked with Philippe Genty and is a member of the Cheptel Aleikum circus collective. Rui Horta danced with the Gulbenkian Ballet and for eight years in New York. He formed his own Frankfurt-based company, S.O.A.P. which performed all over the world including several visits to The Place in London. His dance works feature in the repertoire of Cullberg Ballet and Netherlands Dance Theatre among others and he staged Ola Kala for the renowned French aerial circus group, Les Arts Sauts. A compelling hour of artistry, strength and physical risk-taking.

Directed by: Rui Horta & Joao Paulo dos Santos

Performer: Joao Paulo dos Santos

Co-production: SACD (Le Sujet à Vif) Avignon Festival, O Espaco de Tempo, O Ultimo Momento

Etgar Theatre (ISR)
Eshet  UK Premiere

Purcell Room, Southbank Centre >
Sat 16 > Tue 19 Jan
Sat, Mon, Tue 8pm, Sun 6pm
Meet the Artists: Mon 18 Jan
Runs approx 55 mins/no interval
Not suitable for children under 12
£14
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‘Wonderful use of puppets combined with excellent movement work… sensitive restrained and touching’. Ha’aretz

Five life-size puppets and their human doubles play out the Old Testament story of Tamar, a young widow forced by convention to marry one of her dead husband’s brothers. Echoing the treatment of women in many societies today, Eshet is a powerful drama that mixes puppetry and movement to denounce male oppression and the harshness of laws concerning women.

Originally created for the Acco Festival, Israel’s leading alternative theatre season, Eshet was most recently seen in Europe at the Mimos Festival in 2009.

Conceived, directed and designed by: Elit Veber
Performers: Renana Raz, Yuval Fingerman

Co-production: Etgar Theatre, Acco Theatre Festival 2002.

Presented in association with Southbank Centre

Collectif Petit Travers (Fr)
Pan-Pot   UK Premiere

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre >
Thu 21 > Fri 22 Jan
7.30pm
Meet the Artists: Fri 22 Jan
Runs approx 55 mins/no interval
£16/£14/£12
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'They can do things with balls that make your jaw drop and cinema's CGI effects look plain and uninspired'.
Daily Telegraph (Le Petit Travers at LIMF09)

Pan-Pot is a firework display of brilliant juggling building to a spectacular climax. On a bare stage lit in mood and colour inspired by American painter Mark Rothko, sombre-suited jugglers conjure cascades of fizzing light from a stream of whiter-than-white balls. Like showers of shooting stars, objects fly from hand to hand with precision, grace and awesome speed.

Based in Toulouse Collectif Petit Travers brings together stage performers, designers, directors, writers and musicians to create new theatre using circus arts. Pan-Pot is their latest show and brings the group to the Festival for its third consecutive appearance.

World class juggling artistry - astonishing to see. Performed to piano music by Liszt, Ligeti, Mozart and Beethoven played live by Aline Piboule - this is a concert like no other.

By and with: Nicolas Mathis, Julien Clément and Denis Fargeton

Piano: Aline Piboule

Co-production: Collectif Petit Travers – Théâtre Gérard Philipe/Frouard – L’Arche de Béthancourt – Les Subsistances/Lyon – Promenade(s) en Haut-Garonne – Les Migraiteurs in partnership with Le Maillon/Strasbourg.

Presented in association with Southbank Centre

Circus Klezmer (Sp)

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre >
Sat 23 - Sun 24 Jan Sat 7.30pm, Sun 2.30 & 7.30pm
Meet the Artists:
Sun 24 Jan (after 2.30 show)
Runs approx 75 mins/no interval
£12/£15/£18
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‘Gloriously good fun to watch’. Music OMH

They’re back! After last year’s hit marriage ceremony, bride, groom, guests and band re-assemble to do it all over again. A nice Jewish village wedding, somewhere in Eastern Europe, but it’s all going wrong as the rings are mislaid and the arguments start. Circus Klezmer conjures up the bustling, colourful world of Emir Kusturica’s Time of the Gypsies and Chagall’s dreamlike paintings in this riotous, atmospheric and acclaimed circus-theatre entertainment performed with live klezmer music. If you missed out last time – book early to avoid disappointment!

Directed by: Adrian Schvartzstein

Presented in association with Southbank Centre

Okidok (Bel)
HaHaHa  

Purcell Room, Southbank Centre >
Sun 24 Jan
3pm & 6.30pm
Runs approx 75 mins/no interval
£14
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'There are extraordinary levels of skill and comic control operating here. The smallest mistake in timing would bring the whole edifice tumbling down. But there are no tumbles. Instead, the show sends you back out into a dark, cold world feeling as if you had a little piece of the sun secretly stashed in your pocket’.
Guardian

Their bizarre make-up and costume hint at Beckett or the great tradition Russian clowning, but Xavier Bouvier and Benoit Devos have developed their own distinctive universe and style. First seen in London in an earlier version at LIMF03, HaHaHa is a series of original, wordless sketches and impressive physical routines which they polished and perfected in the course of touring with different circus troupes in Europe, America and Canada. 

Supported by Communauté Française de Belgique

Presented in association with Southbank Centre

Mimbre (UK)
Until Now  London Premiere

Purcell Room, Southbank Centre >
Mon 25 > Wed 27 Jan 8pm
Meet the Artists: Tue 26 Jan
Runs approx 60 mins/no interval
£14
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‘A contemporary acrobatic company with energy enough to power the national grid’. British Theatre Guide

Until Now is a beautifully improbable acrobatic adventure, with a little magic and a few surprises. Lyrical and timeless, fashioned from joyful flips and harmonious balances it tells a story of journeys and goodbyes and astonishing feats of friendship.

Graduates of The Circus Space in London, Silvia, Lina and Emma founded Mimbre in 1999. Their successful fusion of contemporary physical theatre, dance and world class acrobatic performance has seen them tour to theatres, festivals and open stages across four continents, creating unforgettable images and winning popular acclaim.

The director is Spanish clown Leandre Ribera (last seen at LIMF performing with his long-time stage partner Claire Ducreux) whose own poetic universe is a perfect match for Mimbre’s effortless skills.

Funded by European Cultural Foundation and Arts Council England.
Commissioned and supported by London International Mime Festival, Laban Theatre and Jackson’s Lane
Presented in association with Southbank Centre

Compagnie Ieto (FR) 
Ieto  UK Premiere

Purcell Room, Southbank Centre >
Thu 28 > Sun 31 Jan
Thu-Fri 8pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 4pm
Meet the Artists: Sat 30 Jan

Runs approx 70 mins/no interval

£14
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'Constantly inventive, mesmeric and delightful acrobatic theatre'.
Telerama

This acrobatic battle of wits is the latest winner of Jeunes Talents Cirque - the annual competition to find Europe’s best young circus artists – to feature at LIMF. Following, among others, Camille Boitel (LIMF05) Ockham’s Razor (LIMF08) and last year Collectif Petit Travers and Compagnie Un Loup Pour L’Homme, Jonathan Guichard and Fnico Feldmann were winners of the 2008 Award with this impressive exhibition of equilibrist skills.

Using little more than a few wooden benches, some rope and a fine understanding of mechanics, these two inventive artists draw us into their warm-hearted power struggle.

Ieto is directed by top French circus-theatre creator, Christian Coumin.

Presented in association with Southbank Centre

Compagnie Ieto also performs at:

Warwick Arts Centre >
Tue 26 Jan 7.30pm

Co-production : Jeune Talents Cirque Europe / Les Migrateurs-Strasbourg / Théâtre de la Digue-Toulouse/ Le Hangar des Mines-St Sébastien d’Aigrefeuille / Chemin de Cirque (Eurorégion, La Grainerie-Balma, La Ferme de Riu Ferrer-Arles Sur Tech /, l’Ateneu-Barcelone) / Studio Lido-Toulouse

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