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m me LONDON london international mime festival 2015 8 > 31 january Circus Skills Age Guidance Barely Methodical Troupe Bromance Chris Lynam EricTheFred 12+ m ‘A must-see Circus Ronaldo Amortale Gecko Institute 14+ programme of Gandini Juggling 4 x 4 Knights of the Invisible Joli Vyann Stateless Black Regent 12+ me physical and Lonely Circus Fall, Fell, Fallen Theatre Ad Infinitum Light 12+ LONDON Oktobre Oktobre Trygve Wakenshaw Kraken 16+ visual theatre NoFit State Circus Noodles London International Mime Festival For people who are deaf/ 8 > 31 January 2015 work, from the Family Friendly hearing impaired UK and from Barely Methodical Troupe All shows have a visual narrative, New circus, extreme dance, physical Bromance 8+ with little or no use of text, except Mat Ricardo Showman, which imagery, fairground commedia and exotic around the Circus Ronaldo Amortale 8+ Gandini Juggling 4 x 4 8+ will have a BSL interpreted Japanese puppetry are just some of the world’ Lonely Circus Fall, Fell, Fallen 8+ performance on Wed 21 Jan and exciting and essentially wordless media Total Theatre Magazine Mat Ricardo Showman 8+ Oktobre, whose minimal text will through which the Mime Festival’s artists NoFit State Circus Noodles 4+ appear in the freesheet programme. tell their stories. Thomas Monckton/Circo Aereo Audio-described Performance The Pianist 5+ At LIMF 2015 ballet dancers collaborate Theatre Re Blind Man’s Song with Sean Gandini’s brilliant jugglers, Mime/Movement/Dance-theatre on Thu 22 Jan and Basil Twist’s sly foxes dance through Cie 111/Bory/Ito Plexus a hundred hand painted Japanese Knights of the Invisible Black Regent Peeping Tom 32 rue Vandenbranden mimelondon.com ‘dogugaeshi’ theatre screens. From updates : videos : booking Belgium, Peeping Tom makes its Theatre Re Blind Man’s Song London debut with a thriller set in a chilly Puppetry/Animation landscape of wind and ice, while Basil Twist Dogugaeshi Circus Ronaldo’s grandiose puppet Circus Ronaldo Amortale opera brings high tragedy and raucous comedy in equal measure. Entrapped in a forest of light, the extraordinary Japanese dancer Kaori Ito performs in London for the first time in Plexus, created for her by Olivier Award nominee Aurélien Bory. LIMF 2015 offers fabulous contemporary visual theatre for everyone. Read on and book early! Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan photo: Barely Methodical Troupe Festival Directors pages 2 > 3 cover photo: Compagnie 111 / Aurélien Bory / Kaori Ito Platform Theatre Thu 8 > Sat 10 Jan Barely Methodical Troupe (UK) BROMANCE London Premiere LIMF 2015 opens in dynamic style with the debut show by Britain’s hottest young acrobats, winners of the inaugural Circus Maximus competition and a 2014 Total Theatre Award. Relationships are the heart of Bromance, ‘…a show not to be where handshakes become handstands and missed, and backslaps become backflips. Audacious, with a standing ovation touching, exhilarating, and with a great this is a new company soundtrack, this is a tour-de-force of cutting to watch out for in the edge physical heroics, wittily exploring male future’ companionship and its limits. The Public Reviews Barely Methodical Troupe are Beren ‘It is great to see a d’Amico, Louis Gift, and Charlie Wheeller, young British company recent graduates of the National Centre for attempting to make Circus Arts. With their enjoyable personal thematic work, and not chemistry and exceptional skills in parkour, just doing tricks’ Bboying, tricking, hand-to-hand acrobatics, Cyr wheel and more, BMT are destined to The Guardian take British circus-theatre to new heights. Production: Thu 8 > Sat 10 Jan 7.30pm DREAM, developed with support After-show discussion: Fri 9 Jan from Underbelly Runs 60 mins / no interval Productions and the Tickets: £17.50 (£15 concessions) National Centre for Circus Arts as winners Watch the video and book of the Circus Maximus competition. through mimelondon.com Age guidance: 8+ pages 4 > 5 Soho Theatre Fri 9 > Sun 18 Jan Trygve Wakenshaw (NZ) KRAKEN London Premiere Trygve Wakenshaw’s KRAKEN is ‘a blissfully funny hour of physical stream-of-consciousness’ (Time Out), the delirious follow up to his Edinburgh and London 2013 smash hit, Squidboy. Starting with a brilliant, elasticised strip-tease entrance that confirms Marx’s dictum of history repeating itself, first as tragedy then as farce,KRAKEN is a masterpiece of absurd sensibility that follows its own zany logic. ‘It sounds mad, and it is. But in Oozing with whimsy, dripping with charm and Wakenshaw’s masterful hands the magnificently mad, rubber-limbed Trygve is his audience completely buys into the own animator in a cartoon world. Guileless and physical and narrative laws of his world’ innocent, even at his most risqué, this award- Broadway Baby winning, Gaulier-trained clown is a physical comedian in a class of his own. Don’t miss him - ‘To describe what actually happens in book now! the show would be pointless and unjust. If you’re willing to be conquered by his inspired clowning, you won’t regret it’ Fri 9 > Sun 18 Jan (Previews Tue 6 > Thu 8 Jan) The Age, Melbourne Tue > Sat 9pm, plus Sun 7pm, Sat 17 Jan 4pm No performance Mon 12 Jan ‘Reminiscent of the young Jim Carrey… After-show discussion: Tue 13 Jan rubber-faced, loose-limbed and Runs 60 mins / no interval wondrously expressive’ £10 Previews Tue 6 > Thu 8 Jan The Independent £15 (£12.50 concs) Fri 9 > Thu 15 Jan & Sat 17 Jan 4pm £17.50 (£15 concs) Fri 16 > Sun 18 Jan Tel: 020 7478 0100 Watch the video and book Presented in association with DON’T BE LONELY and Soho Theatre through mimelondon.com Age guidance: 16+ contains nudity pages 6 > 7 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room Sat 10 > Sun 11 Jan ‘An aesthetic gem of a show, leaves Lonely Circus (France) spectators holding their breath. Absolutely must be seen’ FALL/FELL/FALLEN L’Art-Vues UK Premiere ‘Totally satisfying, both physical All you need to know about balance and the art of falling and contemplative’ in a fascinating physical dialogue between cutting Ouest France edge acrobat Sebastien Le Guen, and electro-acoustic musician Jérôme Hoffman. In Fall/Fell/Fallen, circus, theatre and music come together in a true artistic collaboration. Its story unfolds with astonishing equilibrium, unusual hand-made props and musical instruments, dark humour and an atmosphere that generates real tension. By and with: Jérôme Hoffmann and Sébastien Le Guen. Artistic collaboration: Nicolas Hérédia, Marion Coutarel Sat 10 Jan 7.45pm Sun 11 Jan 3pm After-show discussion: Sun 11 Jan Runs 50 mins / no interval £18 Tel: 0844 847 9910 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com Age guidance: 8+ Presented in association with Southbank Centre This visit to London is supported by Institut français Co-production: Lonely Circus; La Verrerie d’Ales, Pôle National des arts du Cirque Languedoc Roussillon; U4 - Parc du haut fourneau/Uckange (57) pages 8 > 9 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room Mon 12 > Tue 13 Jan ‘In a landscape both primeval and futuristic, they bring us straight to the place where Arts can make a difference’ Knights of the Invisible (UK) Eugenia Praloran, Mirabilia, Italy BLACK REGENT Iona Kewney & Joseph Quimby UK Premiere From the awesome to the incredible - with relentless strength of imagination and vision, Iona Kewney takes her body on a journey. Euphoric states and pure truth of movement take hold as the body’s vocabulary speaks louder than words. Composer, vocalist, multi- instrumentalist and presence, Joseph Quimby, is the majestic voice and sound of this other world. Coming from a visual art background, Iona’s bold, uncompromising performance work is layered with insight and strong intentions. It has featured at theatres and art, dance and circus festivals throughout Europe and America for many years. Iona trained at Netherlands Dance School and at circus school in Sweden; as well as performing her own work she has toured with Belgian directors Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez and Alain Platel/les ballets C de la B. Laureates at the prestigious Jeunes Talents Cirque/Circus Next in 2013, their most recent appearance in London was a collaboration with artist Conrad Shawcross at the Roundhouse. Mon 12 > Tue 13 Jan 7.45pm After-show discussion: Mon 12 Jan Runs 50 mins / no interval £18 Tel: 0844 847 9910 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com Age guidance: 12+ Presented in association with Southbank Centre pages 10 > 11 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room Wed 14 > Sun 18 Jan ‘An hour of immensely enjoyable entertainment’ Broadwaybaby.com Thomas Monckton / ‘Utilises a range of circus techniques and physical Circo Aereo (NZ/Finland) animations in a seamless, plausible flow of absurdities. THE PIANIST I’m sure this multi-talented London Premiere clown could do almost anything’ Poised, immaculate, and entirely focused on The Circus Diaries impressing his audience, an eager soloist presides over a spectacular concert catastrophe, a recital that never starts. The Pianist is a solo, contemporary circus performance, centred on, in, under and around that most magnificent of instruments, the grand piano. One of his country’s most accomplished young actors, New Zealander, Thomas Monckton, trained at the Lecoq School in Paris, the city he has made his home. The Pianist mixes highly skilled physical comedy with a refined contemporary circus-theatre attitude. Produced by Finland’s innovative Circo Aereo the show has toured extensively since its première in 2013, including a sold- out season at the most recent Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Created by Thomas Monckton and Sanna Silvennoinen Wed 14 > Sun 18 Jan Wed - Fri 7.45pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm After-show discussion: Thu 15 Jan Runs 60 mins / no interval Tickets: £18 Tel: 0844 847 9910 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com Presented in association with Southbank Centre Age guidance: 5+ Production: Circo Aereo pages 12 > 13 Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall ‘Hilarious chaos in a Fri 16 > Sun 18 Jan sublime spectacle.