An outdoor circus enquiry Parklife is co-commissioned by Without Walls, the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Brighton Festival. Parklife Video Part playground, part bandstand, NoFit State takes the tent off its circus and invites you to join them in a joyful exploration and celebration of the secret life of public parks. For a week at a time, they will take up residency in festival parks, bringing a spectacular aerial circus playground and an Open House programme of taster sessions, rehearsals, performances and happenings in collaboration with local creative groups and members of the passing public. From impromptu whistling workshops and live music jams to bicycle ballets and displays of extreme sports, there will be plenty of opportunities to get in on the act as Britain’s leading contemporary circus company launches the first phase of its exciting outdoor circus initiative. NoFitState has been invited by Without Walls, a consortium of UK arts festivals to begin the process of developing a new outdoor circus show. The first phase of this development will take place in 2009, with a one week residency at Stockton International Riverside Festival 27 July – 1st August, culminating in a spectacular one off outdoor performance on Saturday 1st August 2009. Click here for Stockton programme.
The performance concept and language for the company’s silver tent shows Immortal and Tabu was developed over a 10 year period, through a trilogy of large scale collaborations between artists working in different disciplines and a wide range of community performance groups. We wish to return to this open hearted, high risk methodology in order to explore a new outdoor circus experience for our audiences.
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Parklife is a creative enquiry aiming to explore and develop new ideas for a large scale outdoor circus performance. The conversation will happen in many modes – singing / music, theatre devising, circus skills training, exchanging skills with other practitioners, playing with objects and new equipment, public engagement - and will include collaboration and creative exchanges between professional artists and creative practitioners at all levels of professional development, creative community groups in each residency location, the passing public and anyone else who wants to join in. |
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Parklife Performance 9pm for a 9.30pm start, Saturday 1st August 2009, Trinity Gardens, Stockton on Tees Welcome to a surreal celebration of the secret life of public parks by NoFit State Circus and a host of guest stars from Stockton and the North East, including: DVC, Urban Kaos, Boardroom Urban Arts, JUMP, Hang Aerial Theatre. Part playground, part bandstand, this is circus as you have never seen it before – aerial acrobatics and fireshow spectacle sit side by side with traditional and contemporary dance, music, sport and urban arts to create a new kind of large scale circus experience uniquely of, and for, Stockton Festival. Don’t miss the spectacular and unpredictable finale of this extraordinary weeklong residency in Trinity Gardens! |
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Parklife at Stockton International Riverside Festival We will be resident in Trinity Gardens, Stockton from 27th July to 1st August 2009 There will be a public meeting at 4pm on Sunday 26th July if you would like to find out more In the mornings, we will be training and rehearsing.
In the afternoons and evenings, we will be running free Open House sessions and meeting local performing arts and sports groups. Please check the calendar for Open House times. To find out what is on when go to our Open House Calendar. |
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