by Mia Boum Boum | Apr 25, 2016 | Circus, Reviews
The fifth Circusfest at the Roundhouse closes its final week by hosting British-based Barely Methodical Troupe as they premiere their second show. The popularity of circus for the masses is resoundingly apparent as they launch Kin to a full auditorium, boasting a...
by Laurane Marchive | Apr 25, 2016 | Circus, Reviews
The Ricochet Project are a New Mexico-born circus of two, currently based in Berlin and composed of Cohdi Harrell and Laura Stokes. Their Total Theatre Award-winning show Smoke & Mirrors is an absolute success, clever in the apparatuses it uses, in the way it...
by Laurane Marchive | Apr 19, 2016 | Circus, Reviews
Closing CircusFest’s pop-up week at Jackson’s Lane, last weekend saw another Finnish SIRKUS offering with a double bill from Zero Gravity & WHS and Hanna Moisala. WireDo, which starts the evening, is a new work from tightwire walker Moisala that revolves...
by Victoria Carlin | Apr 30, 2014 | Circus, Reviews
In their debut show Triptych, circus company Bikes and Rabbits demonstrate an unusual affinity with objects. Where a heeled shoe appears, solo performer Alice Allart sees a swinging club, a head of lettuce becomes a rhythmic gymnastics ball. Oddity inhabits this...
by Katharine Kavanagh | Apr 25, 2014 | Circus, Reviews, Theatre
Appearing at the Roundhouse as part of Circusfest 2014, Puffball is a complicated show to critique, as it was developed partly as a social circus project, and partly as a professional production. There is an apparent theatrical naivety to much of the direction, giving...
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