I have recently signed Bassline Circus. They "represent the transformation of some of the UK's and Europe's most high profile illegal rave outfits into legitimate organisation." [zoneofthefree.blogspot.co.uk]
This crew has been producing some of the biggest, baddest, music, dance & circus spaces, over the last 10 years of their history. Born originally of free party culture.
This coming year in 2014, will see an entirely new tour of UK festivals, after rehearsal and debut at Fusion in Germany. Fusion is an electronic music, mutoid inspired arts festival.
Image credit: www.kulturkosmos.de/en
After Eden, have been with me since January and we are about to embark on their first self written and produced public show in Brighton Fringe 2014.
Brighton Fringe is the largest arts festival in England and comprises a month of live art events and previews. Mostly in theatre, but peppered with comedy, film screenings, scratch nights and the obligatory Brighton pubbing and clubbing scene. A hot bed of emerging creative talent.
We are to produce a grand, debut of high-end, public, circus performance, on an outdoor rig. This set against the iconic architecture of Brighton, as built in the heyday of it's history as a pleasure resort at the turn of the century.
This is a collaborative working partnership between myself and Brighton Theatrical Director Rikki Tarascas, (One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 2001 & The Modernists 2013) and David Downie and Tony Phipps of Impact Artists: Purveyors of circus entertainment to the the International private sector.
The Show:
The show explores the relationship between physical and linguistic expressions of psychological trips. As visited by instigators of the Bohemian Arts Movement, the Romantic Poets, Byron and Shelly whilst on the Grand Tour of Europe. They "cultivated individualism, reverence for the natural world, idealism, physical and emotional passion." [poets.org]
The show follows this culture through to where it inspires the Beat Poets of 1950s San Francisco. These were a "group of writers interested in changing consciousness and defying conventional writing." [poets.org]. These influences then emerge again in the third act, immersed in the illegal Hip Hop culture, which sprung from the Ghettos of the Bronx in the 1970s. Which is "the constantly evolving spirit and consciousness of urban youth that keeps recreating itself in a never-ending cycle. [globalawarenessthroughiphopculture]
The ethos is for physical performance, live music and live literature performances to express the archetypal, collective, consciousness experience that regenerates and recurs from divergent cultures and upcoming generations of the creative world.
Be sure to come back for rolling updates on forthcoming work.
Please get in touch if you would like any more detailed information:
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Further Info:
Bassline Circus:
http://www.basslinecircus.org/
Zone of the Free Blog (Spiral Tribe / Bassline Circus etc):
http://zoneofthefree.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/BASSLINE%20CIRUS
Zone of the Free Blog (Spiral Tribe / Bassline Circus etc):
http://zoneofthefree.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/BASSLINE%20CIRUS
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