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Recently Premiered Shows are marked in RED
En Route Shows are marked in BLUE
Flights of Fancy Shows are marked in GREEN
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Angela Sidwell / Eagle and Wolf (outdoor)
Angela is a sculptor who works with natural materials modelled around a steel frame. She likes her creations to 'grow out of their own surroundings'.
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Aqueous Humour / The Sky Muffins (outdoor)
Debonair without the rage and armed with ever-ready smiles and synchronised manoeuvres, The Sky Muffins will ensure that your day goes without a bump! Street theatre with a chaotic twist.
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Architects of Air (outdoor)
Architects of Air build luminaria, giant inflatable palaces of colour and light designed by Alan Parkinson. For x.trax they will bring a new structure – kick off you shoes, enter and be amazed.
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Artizani / Syrovy (outdoor)
Inspired by the comic routines of Buster Keaton, Harpo Marx, Gene Kelly and Neil Armstrong, Syrovy is beset on all sides as everyday objects conspire against him: newspapers become sails, there is a waterfall of cutlery, he dances with chairs and clothes confound him.
Artizani / Farmer Giles (outdoor)
Farmer Giles leans over his five bar gate and gives advice on any subject from farming (about which he knows little) to philosophy (about which he knows less).
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Asere (Cuba) (music)
Sensational Cuban band with a contemporary twist on the dance tradition.
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Avanti Display / Mr Lucky’s Birthday Party (outdoor)
Mr Lucky returns - as usual, all alone and under a perpetual downpour - to celebrate his birthday. Sitting in a café, his luck is about to turn as he’s joined by a guest and romance blossoms. As the party commences, the weather worsens, the downpour increases and their mood blackens. In typical Avanti style it concludes with a bizarre, spectacular and unexpected twist.
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Axial Dance / 'Bubble' (outdoor)
An intriguing dance theatre duet taking place in a cocoon of plastic reminiscent of a novelty snowstorm: shake it up and blue feathers rain down on a white world in which our dancers dream!
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Bash Street Theatre / Frankenstein (outdoor)
A comic horror, silent movie show Bash Street’s re-working of this classic tale of man and monster is much more comic than gothic. This hour-long show is performed on and around a 20ft high set, with a stunning life-giving machine as its centre-piece. An action-packed family show, it features live piano accompaniment, death-defying stunts, comedy, pathos, and much more.
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Boneyard (music)
The Shout Band tradition of the South Eastern United States originated from the exuberant church music of North Carolina. African - American brass players formed bands predominantly trombone-based, inspired by jazz, blues and Dixieland, gospel and old-time spirituals: imagine a more souful version of a New Orleans Brass Band. Star trombonist Dennis Rollins has reinterpreted this Black musical tradition and brought together the UK's top jazz, funk, Latin and Ska trombonists to form his own 'Shout Band'.
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Bureau of Silly Ideas / The Small Job / The Ground Job (outdoor)
The Small Job - is an explosive hole digging, acrobatic adventure proving that blood is thicker than tarmac. Road works have never before been a source of entertainment until now as our 3 circus brothers arrive to work on your street! This 40 minute show is a highflying acrtobatic slapstick farce set in an everyday work scene. The Ground Job - is a colleciton of animated street furniture reminds us that there is more to life than meets the eye. These machines are expertly operated by a team of character players. Barry the mobile loo is about to be let loose in the Garden of Delights so be aware!
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Chapeau Magique (France) / Magic hat workshops (outdoor)
An invitation to a journey through origami and an opportunity to make a great hat and stand out from the crowd.
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Cie des Quatre Saisons (Belgium) / Big Mama (outdoor)
Big Mama would like to be discreet, to fade into the background but she is so tall (4.5 metres) and so beautiful that everybody follows her as she parades and twirls - stopping now and then to reveal her secrets.
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Circo Imperfecto (Spain/Catalonia) (outdoor)
The perfect street artist duo, have found the perfect spot to perform their show. They begin to arrange their mountain of suitcases and think that they are alone: that is until their annoying assistant Lily springs out a trunk! Lily longs to be part of the team; tries to join in but to no avail. Lily vies for attention as the duo set about acts of funambulism; unicycling; juggling and acrobatics; and eventually her perseverance wins the day. The duo becomes a trio… genuinely imperfect!
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Circus Wonder (Netherlands) / The Man Who Can Breathe Through His Eyes
Enter the world of the genuine Victorian freakshow and meet the man who CAN breathe through his eyes - just don’t try this at home.
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Claire Ducreux (Spain/Catalonia) / De Paseo (outdoor)
DE PASEO is the meeting between a bench which does not keep still and a dancer who would like to sit down. Balance, intensity, emotion, almost dance, almost humour.
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Colette Gilmartin (outdoor)
Colette is a Manchester-based artist who works in imaginative ways with textiles. She will design and make a set of 'bugs and ladybirds' in the form of removable 'skins' for children's space hopper bouncing toys. They will be played on by small children throughout the weekend and given to a local playgroup afterwards
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Danza Rota (UK/Spain - Catalonia) Barred
Barred presents us with the lives of two bar workers played out in front of their customers. Set to live bass guitar and the nostalgic music of Frank Sinatra they give an ironic and humorous performance of the lives of the two bar workers: one of them in her loneliness does a passionate duet with a lemon and the other dies of laughter from a broken heart. They end up drowning their sorrows (literally). It is an eccentric and entertaining performance where the audience is left on a high.
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Dark Horse / The Bigheads (outdoor)
The Bigheads are coming! Enormous, latex heads with hyper-extending tongues, disappearing legs and emerging arms, telepathically linked for instant interactive hilarity. You can’t lick ‘em (but they can lick you).
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Dave Southall / Vertically Challenged (outdoor)
From the great age of Victorian adventure sprang the Alpine Club, an intrepid group of mountaineers dedicated to conquering the great ranges of the world. One peak remains unconquered ...... one mountaineer, before your very eyes, attempts it (complete with mountain)!
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Department of Correction (outdoor)
‘Helicopter Landing Officer’ - If you want a helicopter landing, or at least a crowd to swear that's what's happening, Officer Randy Stenchz is your man! No site’s too difficult, no venue too inappropriate to prevent Randy, “doing his job”. ‘Radio Control Man’ - He's in control of anything that moves. Pigeons; plastic bags; clouds; drunks: all have been at the wrong end of John's manipulations. ‘Frank the Litter Picker’ - At first glance, unsavoury Frank is simply picking rubbish until you realise that's the one thing he never does.
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Dot Comedy / The Dig (outdoor)
The Time Team have arrived: Are they digging a massive hole for themselves? Will they find evidence of prehistoric activity? Or just end up to their necks in it? Only time will tell!
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Durgesh Srivastava (outdoor)
Durgesh's prolific output of installation, graphic prints, etchings and large format paintings explores metaphysical notions of time, memory and the Universal, through the lens of her own experiences of love/happiness, loss/suffering and immigration. Her powerful and highly personal art works act as an inspiration and challenge to herself and her audience.
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Dynamic New Animation (D.N.A.) / The Skin Deep Circus Sideshow (outdoor)
A small-scale freak show circus - amusing and disturbing in turn - which raises questions about oppression disguised as compassion. Handy Tips - is an elegant booth, splendid in its Victoriana, hosts Monsieur Main as he prepares for the day ahead in his bachelor garret.
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Elephant Talk (music)
Drawing influences from all over the globe, Elephant Talk weave a line between world and trance, funk and house creating unforgettable music for the head, heart and dance floor.
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Fair Play (outdoor)
Sheik and Vic's carpet Kasbah takes to the road. You'll find out how carpet can reduce crime, why bare boards can lead to baldness and what Tom Selleck has been doing for the last ten years. And then there's the genuine Flying Carpet…
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Fairly Famous Company / 'Below the Behind' (outdoor)
The antidote to cheesy T.V, street magicians - David Paine defies the laws of nature (and the trade description act) with his astounding magic tricks including his grand finale "Below the behind"
Fairly Famous Company / ''Lifeguards' (outdoor)
Perched high on their chairs, the lifeguards impose the timeless values of the municipal baths. No petting will be left unchallenged, no running tolerated and horseplay is right out !
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The Flying Buttresses (outdoor)
Hodman Dodmanott and Sally Forth, an enchanting, interactive puppetry walkabout featuring an elderly couple of miniature proportions, with huge personalities and a not-so-firm grip on the ways of modern living. Having lived by themselves for hundreds of years, blissfully unaware of the changing world around them, this pint-sized pair have ventured out in search of fame, fortune and friendship, touring the world with their possessions strapped to their backs.
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