As a genre, circus is something you can get very, very right, or just as easily get very, very wrong. A strong start is up for grabs in featuring impressive acrobatics, so long as it's well rehearsed and not too diluted (full marks so far),...
The summer has started, which can only mean one thing: festival time on the south bank, and more specifically, circus time at London Wonderground. Headlining the Spiegeltent with Scotch and Soda are Company 2, the team behind last year’s hit Limbo, returning to the capital...
Geek is chic. Professor Brian Cox has made physics accessible and desirable, and through Apple, technology has been transformed from a playground for nerds into being genuinely sexy. By altering the way the public interact with “geeky” ideas, both have broadened the appeal of their...
Sadler's Wells have announced a run of the award-winning show Traces at the Peacock Theatre this summer, from contemporary circus company, The 7 Fingers. Combining traditional acrobatic forms with street elements, theatre and contemporary dance, the story of Traces takes place in a make-shift shelter,...
The big purple cow is back on the south bank, and seeing those heliotrope bovine mammaries saluting the sunshine can only mean one thing. The Udderbelly Festival is here, and it's heralding the start of summer. Kicking off our coverage of the festival in style,...
It has been announced that this spring - summer, Udderbelly Festival’s circus season is back, continuing to support cutting-edge circus companies. Between April and July 2015, there will be three spectacular headline shows – A Simple Space, Circus Geeks: Beta Testing, and Bromance - which...