Tag Archives: Circus City 2015

Sisters - Clockwork - Photo by Emilio Rivera

Sisters: Clockwork & Tanter: Vixen

November 18th, 2015 by

  Two Scandinavian companies brought their explorations of circus and gender to this year’s Circus City, Bristol’s biennial circus festival. The most powerful image that stays with me from all-male Swedish company Sisters’ exploration of precision physical interaction – Clockwork – is of men flying through the air, pole to pole, like silent gibbons. Not […]

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Lhomme de Boue

Nathan Israël & Luna Rousseau: L’Homme de Boue

October 21st, 2015 by

Presented at the Wickham as part of Bristol’s inaugural biennial festival of circus performance, Circus City, L’Homme de Boue (The Mud Man) is a collaboration between French artists Nathan Israël and Luna Rousseau, and one of a handful of shows from outside the UK bringing a distinctively European sensibility to the festival. We perhaps see […]

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