Cirque Bijou

Last night 'Holiday On Ice' premiered in Germany featuring the brilliant Avital and Jochen who we've provided to perform a stunning swinging trapeze and bungee act in the show. Here's a few photographs our Artistic Director Julian took in rehearsals last week in Brussels. Enjoy the tour guys!

Today we're at the Royal & Derngate with our Extraordinary Bodies partners Diverse City for Splash! auditions. We're so thrilled to be part of this project and are looking forward to meeting those of you coming along today.
Commissioned by The Mighty Creatives Splash! is a brand new outdoor, sensory, visual performance for children and young people with learning disabilities and their families touring next year. Want to know more? Have a watch of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDr5GUGyW LI

Here's a little throwback to the brilliant Alexandra Palace show we put together with the Bullzini Family at the beginning of the month as part of the legendary fireworks display. LED umbrellas, a community chorus of dancers, a live choir and a heart-stopping hire wire finale. Same again next year?

We're off on our travels again! Today our Artistic Director Julian Bracey is heading off to Brussels to drop in on rehearsals for the global sensation that is 'Holiday On Ice'. We've worked with them on providing a gravity defying swinging trapeze and bungee act for audiences of thousands across Europe. Watch this space for more!

*LAST CHANCE TO APPLY FOR THIS AMAZING OPPORTUNITY*
Ourselves and Extraordinary Bodies partners Diverse City are looking for some exceptional D/deaf, disabled, learning disabled and BAME performers to join us for a new show Splash! led by The Mighty Creatives.
We're especially interested to hear from those who are based in the East Midlands. Auditions are taking place at the Royal & Derngate on Thursday 29 November. Applications close Wednesday 21 November!
... To apply or for more information visit: http://www.diversecity.org.uk/splash-audi tions/
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Some beautiful images from our Research and Development week with the Sonia Sabri Company at Birmingham Hippodrome - watch this space for more on this up-coming collaboration! (images courtesy of Limbic Cinema)

Co-Artistic Director Billy is currently in Taiwan at Wei Wu Ying, one of the largest Arts Centres in the world and Taiwan’s main centre for circus and street theatre. He spoke today about our project Extraordinary Bodies, in partnership with Diverse City, and is enjoying the culture, the country and all the circus!

Firebreathing with Janet Jackson at the MTV awards

There's still time to apply for this amazing opportunity!
Extraordinary Bodies, our partnership with Diverse City, are looking for D/deaf, disabled, learning disabled and BAME performers for a new outdoor show Splash! which will be led by The Mighty Creatives and tour next year. We're particularly interested in those performers based in the East Midlands.
See below for more details - applications to audition close on the 21st November!

As well as entertaining over 16,500 people at firework displays and bonfire nights up and down the country last weekend, we also headed to Bilbao for the MTV EMAs where we provided fire breathers and LED drums for this very special performance with the legendary Janet Jackson who received the Global Icon Award.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4JvHpXH yk&feature=share

We're onsite at Alexandra Palace Fireworks Festival getting ready for our spectacular shows tomorrow night and Friday.
Read more about the show in this interview in About Time Magazine with our producer Geraldine: https://www.abouttimemagazine.co.uk/…/a bout-time-you-met-g…/

Phew, we've got a busy weekend of outdoor events coming up!
See our daredevil highwire show at Fireworks Festival Alexandra Palace, an out of this world crane show with video mapping to celebrate the tercentenary of Thomas Chippendale at Dumfries House Firework Display, and dazzling light-up walkabout acts for Newham London Guy Fawkes Night.

Well done to Kate Webb, Circomedia et al for a wonderful celebration of 250 years of circus at Bristol Museum last night!

Looking forward to Guy Fawkes Night in Newham next Saturday 3rd November - come and check us out!

KIN: An act of kindness: A new event from our friends at Shambala Festival. 8-11 November, Arnolfini, Bristol
While nations flounder, the media gets weirder and big business gets bigger, KIN is a gathering for those yearning for a kinder world.
Art, films, activism, music, talls, workshops and parties, featuring Paul Mason, Chidera 'The Slumflower' Eggerue, KRUST, GRRRL, MC Xander, David 'Salad Fingers' Firth, Ras G & the Afrikan Space Programme and so much more..
... KIN’s content – vast, varied and eclectic – is split into individual days and nights. Tickets are available for an individual day or night, a day and night combined, the whole weekend, or a ‘day pass’, that gets you access to Friday, Saturday and Sunday’s day sessions combined.
Use promo code WEAREALLKIN at checkout to get tickets to any day or night for just £15, or a whole weekend ticket for £80.
Explore the individual day and night line ups here: https://kin.world/whats-on/ Book tickets here: https://kin.world/buy-tickets/
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*SWAY COMMISSION OPPORTUNITY* via Stumble dC
Calling all artists who work in Circus, Dance, Physical Theatre, Live Art or a mixture there are three £2000 commissions available. Sway invites artists to think radically about how their creative work impacts on others, to create CHANGE within society, towards better futures.
The commission ties in with the 2nd Serious Circus Symposium at Jacksons Lane, London on the 15th - 16th February 2019. Applications deadline is 9th November. more information here http://www.stumbledancecircus.com/project s/sway-commissions/

What a crowd! What a scream! We are loving being at Trinity Leeds for Light Night Leeds - 2 more shows this evening #artinthedark

Did you catch us on BBC Look North (East Yorkshire & Lincolnshire) last night? Skip to 7.24 to see what we've been up to at Trinity Leeds for Light Night Leeds. Better still head down there between 7pm - 10pm this evening to see it for yourself. Don't forget to look up...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/…/look-north-york shire-late-news-0410…

Delighted to be at Trinity Leeds again this year and to be part of the awesome Light Night Leeds - here's Jake doing MOONBEAM atop a tremendously high highline. You can see him perform 4 times this evening at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm and 10pm.

Wonderful performance this evening at SIRF! Thank you for a great show! C'est magnifique!

Total respect to the two performer who did the breath-taking high wire walk across the River Wear on Friday night during Sunderland's Tall ships event. The music was perfectly matched to the outstanding performance.

Thoroughly enjoyed the mini show at SS Great Britain just now.



"The woman in the cherry dress"

Simply Fantastic

OUTSTANDING performance at SIRF's finale tonight - simply breathtaking!!! X

Wonderful performance this evening at SIRF! Thank you for a great show! C'est magnifique!

Total respect to the two performer who did the breath-taking high wire walk across the River Wear on Friday night during Sunderland's Tall ships event. The music was perfectly matched to the outstanding performance.

Thoroughly enjoyed the mini show at SS Great Britain just now.



"The woman in the cherry dress"

Simply Fantastic

OUTSTANDING performance at SIRF's finale tonight - simply breathtaking!!! X