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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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Gandini Jugglng / K-DNK (outdoor)
This company has grown from a small avant-garde ensemble to the world’s leading choreographed juggling group. The K-DNK Glass Cube is one of a kind. It is a four sided bullet proof glass box which allows jugglers to create complex mind-boggling ball bouncing patterns.
 
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Gowri Savoor / Winds of Change (visual)
Winds of Change is a site-specific installation piece, constructed from dozens of multiple layers of translucent fabrics, each containing an anonymous secret hope or wish. 'Secrets' will create a peaceful and intimate space for collecting ones thoughts with each secret wing floating its message freely in the wind.
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Hohodza (music)
Using traditional and modern instruments, Hohodza are an original African music and dance group that takes their inspiration from the ancient and contemporary music of Zimbabwe.
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Horace X (music)
Fluorescent danceband, who play a rampant mix of Irish and Indian fiddles, jazzy sax, ragga ranting, samples and drumming, propelled at a breakneckspeed.
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Icarus (Australia) / Roo'd (outdoor)
Giant Bouncing Kangaroos on powerskip stilts. Jumping up to a metre off the ground and 2 metres in a bound, they are a phenomenal sight. Their characters are a crossover of outback macho and inner city punk savvy always Roo'd but never offensive.
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Irene Nolan (outdoor)
Irene Nolan creates images of landscapes and gardens on painted & stitched pieces of calico. Her work will be hung from trees, and new pieces will be created during the showcase.
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IOU / TATTOO (outdoor / night time)
In a mechanical wild life arena, nocturnal creatures are coming to life
A fuming army of petrol driven insects are in erratic pursuit of a monstrous mechanical egg factory. Venting gooey foam along the way, this towering structure ambles through the audience attempting to keep its precious crop from the clutches of the marauding swarm.
Tattoo uses a cast of dancers and mechanics with giant mechanical structures, elaborate costumes and specially composed music to create a captivating and exhilarating show.
Rub shoulders with the impudent pests in this free outdoor event. Wear warm waterproof clothing whatever the weather! Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Not recommended for under 9s.
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ImMortal / Coming Out Alive (circus)
The award winning troupe, NoFit State Circus return with the premier of their brand new production ‘ImMortal”. With an International reputation for innovative, exciting and highly accessible circus, this will be the highlight of this year’s circus and theatre calendar, don’t miss it!!
Immortal is a journey into what it means to be human. Immortal is a unique, timeless experience where the spectator enters the performance world and doesn’t simply watch it. It's an event, a multimedia promenade where action explodes all around you, above and below. It is a total show, where music keeps the time and theatre has no numbered seats to map out the forbidden space.
Immortal is daring, ambitious, anarchic, surreal, magical, breath-taking, thought-provoking and funny. Excessive and irreverent, Immortal is a spectacular meditation on one of the biggest questions of the human race: are we immortal?
PLEASE NOTE:
ImMortal will be presented in Hulme Park and will be presented throughout the weekend at 2.30pm and 7.30pm– delegates will need to book tickets for this show at the festival centre.
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Larkin’ About / Caw! (outdoor)
A unique blend of puppetry and stilts featuring an eight foot giant scarecrow with a very cheeky talking crow for a companion.
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Leandre (Spain/Catalonia) / Play (outdoor)
Leandre returns with a brand new street show. 30 minutes of inspired lunacy and subtle clowning with live music from a deadpan (and disapproving) David Moreno on piano.
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Les Fleurs du Mal (outdoor)
Two lovely wenches dressed in flowing astroturf dresses, covered in faux real flowers. The allegory of a summer’s day! With their sweet voices and fresh faces they seem to have skipped straight off the set of Sound of Music. Traditional German songs about busy shepherdesses, clear blue mornings, babbling brooks and love-sick violets.
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Les Zanimos (France) / Le Marfand de Fables (outdoor)
Long awaited new show from a highly talented young puppet company. This time we are entertained by the creatures living in a musty old bookshop, who entertain us and each other performing stories from some of the books. A wonderful use of puppets made from waste materials, each with their own strong personality. Performed in English.
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Liam Curtin / We’re all at sea in a paper boat (outdoor)
Artist Liam Curtin will be creating a boat, from CD’s, in the shape of a traditional origami boat. The vessel’s symetry and geometric shape will be complemented by its shimmering reflection. In sunlight it will create a thousand rainbows; on cloudy days it will be a silver phantom blending into the water.
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Little Bigtop / Seeds, Slugs and Sunflowers (outdoor)
Quirky outdoor theatre using clowning and suitcase puppetry aimed particularly at under 5’s, and their families. A gardener opens the lid of her wheelbarrow to reveal a world where seeds grow into the most extraordinary plants and battle with slugs and other mischievous garden pests for survival.
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Luci Gorelle Barnes / Bookshed (outdoor)
From the outside, Bookshed is an unremarkable 8' by 6' wooden shed. On the inside however, is a tiny and immaculate room with a timeless atmosphere. It houses a collection of handmade artist's books. These books contain tales which are bound together through their themes of desire and compulsion. Welcoming the audience is the keeper of the books. She invites people to chose a book and sit and read for a while. Bookshed offers an intimate and eccentric experience.
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