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Tuesday 10 January
7.30pm (preview) Blind Summit Soho Theatre
Wednesday 11 January
7.30pm Blind Summit Soho Theatre
Thursday 12 January
3pm & 7.30pm Blind Summit Soho Theatre
Friday 13 January
7.30pm Blind Summit Soho Theatre
Saturday 14 January
3pm & 7.30pm Blind Summit Soho Theatre
7.45pm* Baccala Clowns Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
Sunday 15 January
4pm Baccala Clowns Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
Monday 16 January
7.30pm* Blind Summit Soho Theatre (BSI interpreted performance with Jacqui Beckford)
7.45pm Baccala Clowns Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm* Hiroaki Umeda Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
Tuesday 17 January
7.30pm Blind Summit Soho Theatre
7.45pm Autour du Mime Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm Theatre Ad Infinitum Barbican Pit
7.45pm Hiroaki Umeda Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
8pm* Invisible Thread Roundhouse
Wednesday 18 January
7.30pm Blind Summit Soho Theatre
7.45pm* Autour du Mime Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm Cie L'Immédiat / Camille Boitel Barbican Theatre
7.45pm Theatre Ad Infinitum Barbican Pit
7.45pm Gandini Juggling Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
8pm Invisible Thread Roundhouse
Thursday 19 January
3pm & 7.30pm Blind Summit Soho Theatre
7.45pm Toron Blues Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm Cie L'Immédiat / Camille Boitel Barbican Theatre
7.45pm* Theatre Ad Infinitum Barbican Pit
7.45pm* Gandini Juggling Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
8pm Invisible Thread Roundhouse
Friday 20 January
7.30pm Blind Summit Soho Theatre
7.30pm NoFit State Circus Southbank Centre's QEH
7.45pm Toron Blues Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm* Cie L'Immédiat / Camille Boitel Barbican Theatre
7.45pm Theatre Ad Infinitum Barbican Pit
7.45pm Gandini Juggling Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
8pm Invisible Thread Roundhouse
Saturday 21 January
3pm & 7.30pm Blind Summit Soho Theatre
3pm* & 7.30pm NoFit State Circus Southbank Centre's QEH
7.45pm* Toron Blues Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm Cie L'Immédiat / Camille Boitel Barbican Theatre
7.45pm Theatre Ad Infinitum Barbican Pit
7.45pm Gandini Juggling Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
8pm Invisible Thread Roundhouse
Sunday 22 January
3pm NoFit State Circus Southbank Centre's QEH
4pm Toron Blues Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
6pm Invisible Thread Roundhouse
Monday 23 January
7.45pm Claudio Stellato Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
Tuesday 24 January
7pm & 8.30pm Tête de Pioche Roundhouse
7.45pm* Claudio Stellato Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm Fleur Elise Noble Barbican Pit
Wednesday 25 January
7pm & 8.30pm* Tête de Pioche Roundhouse
7.45pm Claudio Stellato Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm Fleur Elise Noble Barbican Pit
Thursday 26 January
7.45pm Kulunka Teatro Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm* Fleur Elise Noble Barbican Pit
Friday 27 January
7pm & 8.30pm Tête de Pioche Roundhouse
7.45pm* Kulunka Teatro Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm Fleur Elise Noble Barbican Pit
8pm Sugar Beast Circus Jacksons Lane
Saturday 28 January
3pm, 4.30pm, 6pm & 8.30pm Tête de Pioche Roundhouse
7.45pm Kulunka Teatro Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
7.45pm Fleur Elise Noble Barbican Pit
8pm* Sugar Beast Circus Jacksons Lane
Sunday 29 January
4pm Kulunka Teatro Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
6pm Sugar Beast Circus Jacksons Lane
* meet the artists after the performance
Help with choosing:
Shows using puppetry/animation
Blind Summit, Fleur Elise Noble, Invisible Thread, Tête de Pioche
Shows using masks
Kulunka Teatro, Theatre Ad Infinitum
Shows using circus skills
Baccala Clowns, Cie L'Immédiat / Camille Boitel, Claudio Stellato, Gandini Juggling, NoFit State Circus, Sugar Beast Circus, Toron Blues
Shows using new technology
Fleur Elise Noble, Hiroaki Umeda, Sugar Beast Circus
Family-friendly shows
Baccala Clowns 5+, Cie L'Immédiat / Camille Boitel 8+, Claudio Stellato 6+, Fleur Elise Noble 7+, Gandini Juggling 7+, NoFit State Circus 7+, Tête de Pioche 7+
12+/Parental Guidance
Autour du Mime, Blind Summit, Hiroaki Umeda, Invisible Thread (14+), Kulunka Teatro, Sugar Beast Circus, Theatre Ad Infinitum, Toron Blues
Shows for people with hearing impairment
All shows are suitable, except Blind Summit, for which there will be a BSL interpreted performance on Monday 16 January.
Venues:
Please allow extra time for travel, especially at weekends. Please note: latecomers cannot be admitted.
For up to date travel information use the route planner at Transport for London >
BARBICAN
Cie L'Immédiat/Camille Boitel
Fleur Elise Noble
Theatre Ad Infinitum
Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
Tickets: 0845 121 6839
Book online: barbican.org.uk >
Transaction fee: £3.50 by phone, £2 online
Tube: Barbican, Moorgate
Access: Contact the Box Office on 020 7638 8891
barbican.org.uk/access >
Textphone: 020 7382 7297
JACKSONS LANE
Sugar Beast Circus
269a Archway Road, London N6 5AA
Tickets: 020 8341 4421
Book online: jacksonslane.org.uk >
Transaction fee: £1.95 by phone & online
Tube: Highgate .
Buses: 43, 134, 263, N20, N134 & N43
Access: When making a booking, please inform Box Office of any access requirements
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
Linbury Studio Theatre
Gandini Juggling
Hiroaki Umeda
Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
Tickets: 020 7304 4000
Book online: roh.org.uk >
Tube: Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Holborn
Buses: 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26, 68, 76, 77a, 91, 168, 171, 176, 188, 501 (southbound only), 505, 521, X68, RV1
Access: roh.org.uk/visit/access.aspx >
ROUNDHOUSE
Invisible Thread
Tête de Pioche
Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH
Tickets from 8 Nov: 0844 482 8008
Book online:
Book for Invisible Thread >
Book for Tête de Pioche >
Transaction fee: £1 per ticket online /
£2.50 per single ticket by phone /
No booking fee in person
Tube: Chalk Farm / Camden
Buses: to Camden 24, 27, 29, 31, 134, 135, 168, 214, 253, 274, C2
to Chalk Farm: 24, 27, 31, 46, 168, 393
Access: roundhouse.org.uk/visit/access >
SOHO THEATRE
Blind Summit
21 Dean Street., London W1D 3NE
Tickets: 020 7478 0100
Book online: sohotheatre.com >
No Transaction Fee
All tickets to be collected from the Box Office, or £1 fee for postage
Tube: Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus
Buses: 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 38, 55, 73, 88, 94, 98, 139, 159, 176, 390, 453
Access: sohotheatre.com >
SOUTHBANK CENTRE
incorporating the Purcell Room and
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Autour de Mime
Baccala Clowns
Claudio Stellato
Kulunka Teatro
NoFit State Circus
Toron Blues
Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Tickets: 0844 847 9910
Book online: southbankcentre.co.uk >
Transaction Fee: £1.75
Tube: Waterloo & Embankment
Train: Waterloo, Waterloo East & Charing Cross
Buses: stops on Waterloo Bridge, Stamford Street, Belvedere Road & York Road
Access: southbankcentre.co.uk/visitor-info/access >
Events:
Blind Summit (UK)
The Table - London Premiere
Soho Theatre
Wed 11 > Sat 21 Jan (Preview 10 Jan)
(no performance Sun 15)
7.30pm, plus Thu & Sat 3pm
mats
After-show discussion: Mon 16 Jan
Runs 70 mins / no interval
Book online >
£10 - £20
Tel: 020 7478 0100
'Absolutely sublime, the best thing this excellent company has ever done'.
Time Out
'Remarkable... with considerable wit, Blind Summit once again prove that when you are working in miniature, you don't have to think small'.
The Guardian
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LIMF 2012 opens with the new show from the innovators who created memorable puppetry for Anthony Minghella’s award-winning Madam Butterfly, Simon McBurney’s A Dog’s Heart and their own sellout hits, 1984 and Low Life. The Table comes to London after a critically acclaimed and sold out run in Edinburgh, where it won a coveted Fringe First award.
Join Blind Summit on a journey that takes in a ballet of disembodied heads, a story told entirely by pictures emerging from a briefcase, and a tiny Moses with a cardboard head full of lonely wisdom. The Table features beautiful, three-person operated figures, dark humour and flat pack technology. No man is an island…but sometimes a puppet can be a table.
Performers: Nick Barnes, Sarah Calver, Mark Down, Sean Garratt, Ivan Thorley
Baccala Clowns (Switzerland)
Pss Pss
- UK Premiere
Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
Sat 14 > Mon 16 Jan
Sat & Mon 7.45pm, Sun 4pm
After-show Discussion: Sat 14 Jan
Runs 60 mins / no interval
Book online >
£15
Tel: 0844 847 9910
'Virtuosic, exhilarating and poetic Pss Pss evokes the atmosphere of an earlier time. A delight, not to be missed.' La Sicilia
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Camilla Pessi and Simone Fassari met at the famous Dimitri Theatre School in Verscio, Switzerland, going on separately to work in cabarets
and circuses all over the world. In 2004 they decided to work together, devising routines that won awards at many circus festivals, including Cirque de Demain in Paris,
the Moscow Circus Festival and the Wuquao Festival in China.
Created in 2010, and directed by circus-theatre
specialist, Louis Spagna, Pss Pss brings together some of their most acclaimed numbers in a show that has proved
a hit with audiences wherever it has played. Pss Pss blends the best of classic and modern clown techniques with personality, charm and consummate physical skills.
Sixty minutes of pure enjoyment from two of today’s most engaging young circus artists.
Suitable for all ages
Presented in association with Southbank Centre
Hiroaki Umeda / S20 (Japan)
Haptic + Holistic Strata - UK Premiere
Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House
Mon 16 Jan > Tue 17 Jan
7.45pm
After-show Discussion: Mon 16 Jan
Runs 60 mins / plus interval
Book online >
£11.50/£13.50/£16.50/£7 standing/£8.50 students
Tel: 020 7304 4000
‘Like a tin man with oil flowing freely through his veins, Umeda mirrored the pulsating
score with an accumulation of motion’. New York Times
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Tokyo-based multidisciplinary artist Hiroaki Umeda is a performer, sound artist and lighting designer
whose work is both sublime and violent, and very much in touch with his contemporary Japanese roots. Combining street dance
and butoh, in the spectacular and high tension Holistic Strata he appears almost to dissolve in a hurricane of digital
image, while in Haptic beautiful bright hues shift and morph in relation to his fluid movements creating an exquisite
visual and sonic experience. These are works to be felt and experienced more than simply watched.
Both pieces contain loud music and strobe lighting
Autour du Mime (France)
Tell Me The Truth and Other Stories
- London Premiere
Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
Tue 17 > Wed 18 Jan
7.45pm
After-show Discussion: Wed 18 Jan
Runs 65 mins / no interval
Book online >
£15
Tel: 0844 847 9910
' Superb storytellers... charming and very funny - like a silent movie brought to life'. thepublicreviews.com
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Autour du Mime was created in 1997 by Sara Mangano and Pierre-Yves Massip, both former members of the Marcel Marceau Company and inspired by the work of Etienne Decroux and Jacques Lecoq as well as by the teachings of Marceau.
They make their LIMF debut with a programme that explores the art of mime in various contemporary forms. Taking as its starting point a poem by Jacques Prévert (writer of one of the most famous films in cinema history, Les Enfants du Paradis) the title work is Tell Me the Truth (Dis-moi la Vérité) portraying a couple’s dysfunctional relationship. Both stand their ground and feel themselves in the right. Who is the victim and who is the executioner? This piece was an award-winner at the 2011 BE Festival in Birmingham.
Presented in association with Southbank Centre
Theatre Ad Infinitum (UK)
Translunar Paradise - London Premiere
Barbican, The Pit
Tue 17 > Sat 21 Jan
7.45pm
After-show Discussion: Thu 19 Jan
Runs 70 mins / no interval
Book online: barbican.org.uk >
Tickets: £16
Tel: 0845 121 6839
‘An extraordinary performance. Translunar Paradise so moved me (and plenty of others in the oft-sniffling audience) because of its uniquely devastating method, prompting thoughts about bereavement, never cheapening its subject by attempting to describe the indescribable’. Observer
‘Extraordinarily poignant… beautifully performed…. packs a real emotional punch. In the end, this is a show about loss and bereavement that is
as much about mourning your own lost self as about the grief at the death of a long-term partner’. The Guardian
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Translunar Paradise is a story about life, death, and enduring love. After his wife passes away, William escapes to a paradise of fantasy and past memories, a place far from the reality of his grief. Returning from beyond the grave, Rose revisits her widowed companion to perform one last act of love: to help him let go.
Told only through gesture and using a live accordion accompaniment, this exquisite piece of mask and movement theatre enjoyed a critically acclaimed sellout season at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Theatre Ad Infinitum is an award-winning international ensemble based in London, developing new and original theatre for a multi-cultural audience.
Performers: Kim Heron (accordion), George Mann, Deborah Pugh
Age guidance 12+
Presented in association with the Barbican
Invisible Thread (UK)
Plucked
Roundhouse Studio Theatre
Tue 17 > Sun 22 Jan
Tue-Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm
After-show Discussion: Thu 17 Jan
Runs 90 mins / inc interval
Book online >
£14.50 (£12.50 concessions)
Tel: 0844 482 8008
‘For 20 years she (Liz Walker) has explored the art form’s nightmare limits, with surreal dramas about puppets in crisis that have been likened to the works of David Lynch and Samuel Becket’
Independent on Sunday
Pull from your loins a nest of twigs, beware the wolf-man and the raven too! Drawing on images and themes from life and myth and using live video-feed painting, object theatre, puppetry and animation, Plucked follows a journey from beauty to beast and beyond, exploring the frailties and complexities of being human.
Invisible Thread is the new company established by Liz Walker, co-founder and joint artistic director of Faulty Optic. Inhabiting the same world of cronky mechanical sets and strange animated figures as its famous predecessor which toured the world for twenty years, Plucked is a fairy tale for adults, scary and haunting, funny and tragic.
Escape normality and suspend disbelief as you enter the magical world of surreal adult puppetry.
Performers: Dana Amos, Simon Kerrigan, Liz Walker
Age guidance: 14+ Contains bawdy humour
Compagnie L'Immédiat / Camille Boitel (France)
L'Immédiat
- UK Premiere
Barbican Theatre
Wed 18 > Sat 21 Jan
7.45pm
Meet the Artists: Fri 20 Jan
Runs 60 mins / no interval
Book online: barbican.org.uk >
Tickets: £16 - £28
Tel: 0845 121 6839
‘They survive life’s chaos with warmth and wit. Astonishing’. Le Point
‘Incredible and total mastery’. L’Express
L’Immédiat is here and now. On a stage crammed with machinery, objects, junk and bric a brac of every kind, L’Immédiat is Camille Boitel’s tumultuous, visual commentary on the uncertainty and mayhem of modern times.
In sixty minutes of beautifully orchestrated circus-theatre chaos, seven young acrobat-adventurers defy a tsunami of unstable forces that threatens to engulf them, with optimism, dark humour and breathtaking physical skills.
Camille Boitel trained at Annie Fratellini’s circus school in Paris. In 2002 he was a winner at the first Jeunes Talents Cirque, Europe’s most prestigious new circus awards.
He was an original member of James Thiérrée’s Junebug Symphony Company and made his debut at the Mime Festival with a remarkable solo, L’Homme d’Hus in 2005.
Created in 2007, L’Immédiat has toured throughout Europe and was awarded the Prix Mimos in 2010.
Age guidance 8+
Performers: Marine Broise, Aldo Thomas, Pascal le Corre, Camille Boitel, Thomas Debroissia, Marion Lefebvre, Jacques Benoit Dardant
Presented in association with the Barbican
Gandini Juggling (UK)
Smashed - London Premiere of full-length show
Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House
Wed 18 > Sat 21 Jan
7.45pm
After-show Discussion: Thu 19 Jan
Runs 55 mins / no interval
Book online >
£11.50/£13.50/£16.50/£7 standing/£8.50 students
Tel: 020 7304 4000
'The Gandinis are world leaders in pushing the fine art of juggling to new creative levels’.
National Theatre/Watch This Space
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Smashed is a sensational mix of skill and theatricality inspired by the work of seminal German dance-theatre maker, Pina Bausch. Nine extraordinary performers, eighty apples and crockery galore combine in a series of nostalgic filmic scenes, hinting at conflict and tense relationships, lost love and the quaintness of afternoon tea. A darkly humorous journey with a cathartic finale you will long remember.
Smashed was originally commissioned by the National Theatre as a short, outdoor performance piece for its Watch This Space festival in July 2010, This new, full-length version receives its premiere at the Mime Festival
Performers: Sean Gandini, Kati Ylä-Hokkala, Sakari Männistö, Owen Reynolds, Iñaki Sastre, Niels Siedel, Malte Steinmetz, Jon Udry, Cecilia Zucchetti
Toron Blues (France)
Tendre Suie- UK Premiere
Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
Thu 19 > Sun 22 Jan
Sat & Mon 7.45pm, Sun 4pm
After-show Discussion: Sat 21 Jan
Runs 50 mins / no interval
Book online >
£15
Tel: 0844 847 9910
'Superb. Absolutely must be seen’.
La Depeche
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Two women - they could be sisters, lovers or shadows. Your imagination will decide. Hanging centre stage like a lightening conductor, a rope.
On and around it their story unfolds, without a word, passionate, fierce and disturbing. Inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre’s drama, Huis Clos,
a place from which there is no exit, where ‘hell is other people’.
Unusual, bold and completely involving, Tendre Suie has toured extensively in Europe and South America.
Clémentine Lamouret and Elsa Caillat met at the French National Circus School in Chalons-en-Champagne, where they
both specialized in rope and aerial work. Premiered in 2010, Tendre Suie is their second production.
Circus-theatre with a compelling story, packing a real punch.
Contains nudity
Age Guidance 12+
Presented in association with Southbank Centre
NoFit State Circus (UK)
Mundo Paralelo - London Premiere
Directed by Mladen Materic (Théâtre Tattoo, Toulouse)
Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall
Fri 20 > Sun 22 Jan
Fri 7.30pm/Sat 3pm & 7.30pm/Sun 3pm
After-show Discussion: Sat 21 Jan (after 3pm performance)
Runs 2 hours / plus interval
Book online >
£15/£17.50/£20
Tel: 0844 847 9910
‘….ravishing acts, sensual and impossibly dextrous…’ The Guardian
‘The adult audience gasps, enraptured, for this is grown up yet ever playful circus set to an inventive vaudeville music hall meets Gogol Bordello mad house soundtrack’. The Stage
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Circus exists in a parallel world where the extraordinary seems commonplace, where weird, wonderful, and seemingly impossible feats of human skill are the norm. Following its hugely successful Tabú, Wales’ internationally acclaimed NoFit State Circus leaves its Big Top behind with this new production especially made for proscenium stages as part of National Theatre Wales’ first year.
Mundo Paralelo brings circus and theatre together in a Picasso-blue-hued show, created with renowned Serbian director Mladen Materic.
As superb acrobatic performers move from dollhouse streets to life-size rooftop platforms you will be drawn into micro worlds of dreams, hopes and memories. Interwoven stories unfold with swooping aerial moves and gravity defying skills.
With its company of home grown and international artists and mission ‘to be the circus everyone wants to join’ NoFit State is leading the renaissance of contemporary circus in the UK.
Mladen Materic founded Tattoo Theatre in former Yugoslavia in the 1980s, moving it to Toulouse in 1992. His productions have featured in Europe’s most important festivals, including the Edinburgh International Festival with Pourquoi la Cuisine, devised with Peter Handke
Age guidance 7 +
Presented in association with Southbank Centre
Théâtre Tête de Pioche (France)
Fragments de Vie - UK Premiere
Roundhouse Studio Theatre
Tue 24, Wed 25, Fri 27, Sat 28 Jan
Tue, Wed, Fri 7pm & 8.30pm
Sat 3pm, 4.30pm, 6pm, 8.30pm
After-show Discussion: Wed 25 Jan (after 8.30pm performance)
Runs 45mins / no interval
Book online >
£14.50 (£12.50 concessions)
Tel: 0844 482 8008
Limited seating capacity - early booking recommended.
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Step back to a time before supermarkets and industrialisation.
Théâtre Tête de Pioche’s performance/ installation is an cabinet of curiosities, an atmospheric journey in nine stages conjuring sights and sounds of an almost vanished rural world.
The vital elements are fire, water, earth, wood and metal; nature’s cycles determine every aspect of daily life. A world now only remembered in paintings, old photographs and folk consciousness comes to life in this beautiful miniature.
Award-winning object theatre from a young Anglo-French company, founded in 2009 by former director of the renowned Mirepoix Puppetry Festival, Christine Saint-André.
Performers: Jo Smith, Mathilde Henry
Age Guidance 7+
Claudio Stellato (Belgium)
L'Autre - UK Premiere
Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
Mon 23 > Wed 25 Jan
7.45pm
After-show Discussion: Tue 24 Jan
Runs 50mins / no interval
Book online >
£15
Tel: 0844 847 9910
‘Combining acrobatics, circus and magic, this is an astonishing work. It takes your breath away’ L’Union
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Claudio Stellato manipulates objects, perspective and his own physical form. He’s an acrobat-dancer
and magician, playing with our perceptions, folding himself into four, creating a mysterious world of illusion.
You think of images by Magritte or de Chirico. As space and time are bent there is logic
we cannot grasp, every action seems implausible and we are deceived. Yet everything we see is real.
L’Autre (The Other) is the alter ego we carry inside us, oblivious to
rules and reason, free to act on impulse. The result of three year’s research into the relationship between body and objects, this remarkable performance premiered in Paris in 2011.
Born in Milan and now based in Brussels, Claudio Stellato studied music before training in circus at
the Lido School in Toulouse. Since 2007 he has worked with Belgian choreographer Karen Ponties’ Dame de Pic company amongst other projects.
Performers: Claudio Stellato and Martin Firket
Age guidance 6+
Presented in association with Southbank Centre
Fleur Elise Noble (Australia)
2 Dimensional Life of Her - London Premiere
Barbican, The Pit
Tue 24 > Sat 28 Jan
7.45pm
After-show Discussion: Thu 26 Jan
Runs 40 mins / no interval
Book online: barbican.org.uk >
Tickets: £14
Tel: 0845 121 6839
‘An essay on creativity, control and ways of seeing, witty and technically deft’
RealTime Magazine
‘An Andy Warhol for a new generation’
Adelaide Advertiser
‘Brilliant, provocative, stunning…’
The Herald, Scotland
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Set in an artist’s studio, 2 Dimensional Life of Her is a performance made of drawing, animation, puppetry, projection and paper. It conjures a rich, alternative universe
where images reproduce themselves, drift between surfaces and move in and out of three dimensions. At the centre of this work of light and shadows, you’ll be immersed
in a kaleidoscope of floor-to-ceiling projections, mesmerising animations, and walls that simply peel away. Your sense of reality will be teased and blurred.
First seen in the UK at New Territories in Glasgow, Fleur Elise Noble’s performance / video show has played at festivals
in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and mainland Europe.
Age guidance 7+
Presented in association with the Barbican
Kulunka Teatro (Spain)
André and Dorine - London Premiere
Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
Thu 26 > Sun 29 Jan
Thu-Sat 7.45pm, Sun 4pm
After-show Discussion: Fri 27 Jan
Runs 65 mins / no interval
Book online >
£15
Tel: 0844 847 9910
‘Filled with tenderness, nostalgia and love, it provoked deeply felt emotions. It was hard to keep back tears’ El Mundo
‘impressive and endearing...it’s easy to see how André & Dorine win audiences’
Total Theatre
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André and Dorine are an elderly couple, gently decaying from routine and neglect. But the monotony is about to be broken, by illness. Alzheimer’s is our greatest antagonist, devourer of memories, and of identity itself. André and Dorine need to remember who they were so as not to forget who they are.
Like Germany’s acclaimed Familie Floez, Kulunka Teatro has created a piece of thoroughly contemporary and committed mask theatre that transcends language barriers. Uplifting and thought provoking and based on a true story, it explores important themes with warmth and humour.
André and Dorine has toured extensively in Spain, and South America, and goes to New York and Los Angeles after these performances at the Mime Festival. It was an award winner at the Birmingham European Theatre Festival in 2011.
Performers: Eduardo Carcamo, Jose Dault, Garbine Insausti
Presented in association with Southbank Centre
The Sugar Beast Circus (UK)
{Event(Dimension):} - UK Premiere
Jacksons Lane
Fri 27 > Sun 29 Jan
Fri & Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm
After-show Discussion: Sat 28 Jan
Runs 60 min (including 10 min interval/changeover of audiences)
£14.95 (£12.95 concessions)
Tel: 020 8341 4421
book online >
‘The show as a whole is an interesting concept that crosses genres like a short-sighted jaywalker and I’m looking forward to where Ms Foster-Gluck takes this concept next.’
The Londonist (on Milkwood Rodeo)
‘Jacques Derrida suggested that to be haunted by a ghost is to remember something you have never lived through. The Milkwood Rodeo, the first of a double bill by Sugar Beast Circus, is like a physical manifestation of this idea, a strange melancholy ghost story’
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
In this new show by Geneva Foster-Gluck’s Sugar Beast Circus, a fascination with one of the most beautiful scientific experiments leads circus athletes and audience into the world of quantum mechanics.
Reminiscent of kitsch Sci-Fi films and analogue computer graphics, {Event(Dimension):} calls upon our instinctual understanding of reality to question the role of the observer and the nature of time.
The Sugar Beast Circus has been recognised internationally for its distinct aesthetic and conceptual approach to contemporary circus. It represents a new generation whose work combines fine art, abstract narrative and physical skills to create an exciting new form of storytelling.
WORKSHOPS
Please include details of any special
access requests at the time of booking.
The State of Clown or The Clown’s Intelligence
Led by Angela de Castro
Dates: Mon 9 > Fri 13 Jan, 09.30 > 18.30
Venue : People Show Studios, Pollard Row,
Bethnal Green, London E2 6NB
Fee: £260
Bookings: whynotinstitute@aol.com
A regular LIMF highlight in recent years, The
State of Clown is a unique workshop, a full
time, full-on course exploring the state of
clown - an intense, inspiring, challenging
and transformatory journey, with laughs and
play along the way.
For Angela de Castro, clowning is not a
technique but a ‘state’. Through practical
exercises and games, this energetic
workshop helps you find your clown
persona and experience it in this ‘state’.
It gives truthfulness and depth to your
clowning, embracing the tragic as much as
the comic. For actors and other performers,
it helps make performance more real,
individual and joyful. For beginners, it is a
journey of discovery.
Angela de Castro is one of the most
respected female clowns. She has been
awarded fellowships with Nesta Dreamtime,
the Arts Foundation and the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama. She is well
known for creating the Green Clown in
Slava’s Snowshow.
A busy touring schedule keeps Angela de
Castro abroad for much of the year so this
is a rare opportunity to attend her workshop
in London. Early booking recommended. www.thewhynotinstitute.com
A Graphic Eye
Led by Iain Lanyon
Sat 14 Jan, 10:30 > 15:30
Central School of Speech & Drama, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
£25 Bookings:workshops@mimelondon.com
A one day workshop to revolutionise
the way you communicate, rethink your
Company’s graphic identity, or just look at
the world in a different way. Bring a small
camera if you can and some graphics
you want to share. Suitable for ages 16
and over, aimed at professionals, theatre
students, and other enthusiasts.
Iain Lanyon is a graphic designer with
30 years experience of designing for the
theatre, including the Mime Festival.
The Theatrical Body
Led by Autour du Mime
Sun 15 Jan - fully booked
Extra workshop just added:
Mon 16 Jan, 10:30 > 15:30
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
£25 Bookings: 0844 847 9910 book online >
A one-day mime workshop, exploring ways
to create a powerful, physical language,
using the body only.
Sara Mangano and Pierre-Yves Massip
both studied with Marcel Marceau,
subsequently becoming members of his
performing company. They have taught
throughout Europe, passing on original
ideas and techniques inspired by the work
of three celebrated French masters, Marcel
Marceau, Etienne Decroux and Jacques
Lecoq. Their workshop seeks to discover
the full range of body expressivity, nuances
of movement and dramatic gesture.
Ages 18+. Suitable for theatre, dance and
circus school students and professionals.
Participants should wear clothes suitable for
movement-based work.
Puppet Manipulation
Led by Liz Walker from Invisible Thread
Sat 21 Jan 10:30 > 16:00
Central School of Speech & Drama, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
£45 Bookings:workshops@mimelondon.com
This workshop will concentrate on
manipulation and simple improvisation,
using two person puppets, materials
and objects. Suitable for ages 18 and
over, aimed at professionals, theatre
and puppetry students, and enthusiasts
who wish to explore puppetry and gain
more confidence in techniques, play and
observation.
The Storytelling Body
Led by Theatre Ad Infinitum
Sat 21 > Sun 22 Jan 10.30 > 16.30
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
£50 (for the two days, to include show
ticket for Translunar Paradise on Sat eve)
Bookings:020 7382 7297 book online >
This is a unique opportunity to dive
headfirst into a productive theatrical
environment that explores storytelling
via a Lecoq-style method that will push
the physical limits of the actor as a
creative theatre maker. The workshop will
explore how the actor in an empty space
can bring to life an abundant world of
characters, spaces, colours, emotions and
‘atmospheres’ with the body alone. Together
we will search for each performer’s specific
and individual storytelling style, and gestural
language. In the final part of the weekend
participants will create a short devised solo
piece for performance.
It encompasses all of the mime-style work
used in our productions, but especially
in Translunar’s flashbacks, and it’s about
uncovering each individuals gestural
language (we all have one, believe it or
not) and harnessing it in a theatrical way
through storytelling -the results are always
fascinating, rewarding and exciting.
Ages 18+. Suitable for university students,
drama school students and theatre artists.
Presented in association with Barbican Weekend
Extreme Puppetry
Led by Mark Down of Blind Summit
Sat 28 Jan 10.30 > 16.30
Central School of Speech & Drama, Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY
Cost:£45 Bookings:workshops@mimelondon.com
Blind Summit Theatre is doing for Japanese
Bunraku Puppetry what South Park did for
cartoons: subverting and reinventing the
art-form for modern audiences. With Blind
Summit it’s not just the puppets that are
manipulated. Using their skills they create
highly inventive and engaging physical
theatre where the actors manipulate
objects, furniture, the set and each other.
This one day masterclass is an opportunity
to work with Mark Down, co-artistic director
of the company, to gain some experience
of their methods of working. It will cover
the basic concepts of breath, focus and
fixed point. Participants will learn to channel
their acting skills into an object or puppet
to bring it alive and to work closely with
two other puppeteers using Blind Summit’s
unique improvisational performance technique.
For experienced puppeteers and/or actors
with an interest in learning puppetry.
Participants should wear clothes that are
suitable for movement and soft shoes or
trainers.
Devising Theatre and Performance
Led by Thomas Prattki, Founder and
Director of LISPA
Sat 28 > Sun 29 Jan 10:00 > 16:00
London International School of Performing
Arts (LISPA) The Old Lab, 3 Mills Studios,
Three Mill Lane, London, E3 3DU
£100 for the two days
Bookings:
welcome@lispa.co.uk
or call 020 8215 3390 www.lispa.co.uk
A new generation of performing artists is
changing the landscape of today’s theatre.
What began a few decades ago as an
avant-garde movement has changed the
vision of main stream theatre as well. The
idea of the performer as a creator of her/his
own work is no longer a fringe phenomenon,
but reflects the broad desire of an entire
generation of performers to develop their
very own artistic voice and to take creative
responsibility in shaping their vision of life.
This two-day workshop taught by Thomas
Prattki, will give an introduction into
LISPA’s teachings for the devising artist. It
addresses all performers, dancers, actors,
directors and teachers in the field of the
performing arts who have an interest in the
idea of creating original work.
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