After a wholly online edition in 2021, the London International Mime Festival 2022 is back ‘large and live’. Dorothy Max Prior talks to the Festival’s co-directors, Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan It’s the week before Christmas, and there’s talk – once again – of possible lockdowns to slow the spread of Covid-19, perhaps pre- but […]
Writings


Emerging
December 29th, 2021 by Dorothy Max PriorWhen your world spins, and seismic shifts occur that mean that nothing is ever going to be the same again, what do you do? Make a show about it! This is the story of the new Scarabeus Aerial Theatre project, Emerging. ‘I felt that suddenly my life had gone completely upside down – and not the […]

Bouncing Back
October 14th, 2021 by Dorothy Max PriorThe Outdoor Arts sector is back with a bang! Dorothy Max Prior goes to Great Yarmouth for the Out There International Festival of Circus and Street Arts 2021 People out and about – lots of them, in the park, at the town centre market place, and along the seafront. Families, and gaggles of teenagers, and […]

The Whole Earth and Nothing But the Earth
October 5th, 2021 by Dorothy Max PriorJust what do we mean by environmental art? Dorothy Max Prior reflects on work seen at Symondsbury Estate on the second weekend of Inside Out Dorset, a biennial outdoor arts festival commissioning and presenting performance and installation work that engages meaningfully with the landscape in which it is sited Environmental art-making is on the up. […]

Circus Resurrection
October 2nd, 2021 by Dorothy Max PriorCircus, circus, circus! Three thrilling shows – UNITY, Luminosa, Passagers. One outdoors, two indoors. All seen September 2021 and reported on here by Dorothy Max Prior Well, it’s been a tough couple of years for all of us. Theatres closed, festivals cancelled. Actors, musicians, dancers, technicians all twiddling their thumbs at home, wondering what’s going […]