Birdy takes no prisoners, right from the opening shots. A low-lit stage. A drone. The sounds of war. Specifically, the sounds of 20th century-style war – buzzing plane engines, Hurricanes and Spitfires, lobbed grenades – mixing with the universal and eternal sounds of war: the shouts and cries of confused voices, the groans and gasps […]

Closely linked to the festival’s Storm theme, this highly experimental production (full title: (M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning) highlights the value in turmoil, whipping up a mind-blowing hurricane of images and ideas. Presented as part of a trilogy running throughout Bristol’s In Between Time festival, (M)imosa is a complex and provocative international choreographic collaboration […]

Artificial mist envelopes Bristol’s Pero’s bridge, obscuring everything. In a moment I am lost. Uncertainty and possibility abound: perhaps when this fog clears I’ll find myself in another place – perhaps this is all there is, an endless intangible landscape. Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog Bridge, which receives its UK premiere here, is a sublime piece of […]

Ephemeral Architectures, oodles of Noodles, and anarchic magic: Thomas JW Wilson follows the circus caravan at the London International Mime Festival 2015 Returning for its 39th year, London International Mime Festival (LIMF) continues to be one of the UK’s strongest advocates for contemporary circus, programming well-established companies, such as the ever-popular Circus Ronaldo, and the […]

We’re washed about by the sound of a whistling, chilling wind. Darkness lifts to reveal a snowy landscape and a couple of opposing rickety trailer homes gazed over by a huge sky. A hunched female figure in heels steps onto the vast white and hesitantly halts. Blue plastic bags breeze across her path like polythene […]