7 shows with awesome acrobatics

Published: Thu, Jan 11 2018
7 shows with awesome acrobatics

Make sure you don’t miss seeing artists with incredible strength, dexterity and flexibility this FRINGE WORLD season – it’s mind blowing and inspiring! 

Steve Hensby's Circus

What started out as a one-song-session for the Berklee College of Music graduate, WAMI-nominated guitarist of the year, morphed into a double album full of gypsy/circus infused songs.

Presenting the album with him are circus performers, burlesque and aerial acts.

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Elixir

Elixir is circus with a difference! A big hit at last year's Festival - they're back to do it all again! 

Uninhibited by expectation, subversive and hilarious, the story follows three enthusiastic and acrobatic scientists who attempt to create the elixir of life. 

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By A Thread

By A Thread

Seven acrobats and thirty metres of rope...what happens next?

By a Thread is an ensemble circus creation exploring the relationship between trust and play.

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Laser Kiwi

Combining stand-up, sketch comedy and circus to create a wonderfully diverse and bizarre 60 minutes!

If you enjoy lighting matches with your toes, zebra, or Japanese game shows, this show is for you! If you don't, don’t you worry - they’ve got some other ideas.  

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Unsuitable

Unsuitable

Ireland's award-winning Tumble Circus presents Unsuitable; a gang of acrobats, jugglers and aerialists engaged in the pursuit of circus devilment.

Forget what you think about circus and give yourself and your family one hammer smashing great hour of revolutionary Belfast inspired circus. 

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TOEC Circus presents Entropy

Elegant by nature, sophisticated in style, "Entropy" explores what happens to regular circus acts when additional factors are introduced.

Bodies are pushed off balance and props are stolen mid-trick, water spilt and apples split.

Delving into the absurd, these fiery female acrobats entwine their skills and bodies to create a world where gravity doesn't always pull downwards...

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My Sight Their Sight

My Sight Their Sight

A quirky and atmospheric interpretation of the relationship between being sighted and not sighted - exploring shifts in power, poignant moments and pure physicality. 

My Sight Their Sight is about evening out the playing field and creating an understanding between those who are sighted and those who are not.

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Driftwood

This is a circus show that does not let you forget that to feel is to be human and in a moment of danger, a grasping hold is survival.
The unique acrobatic shapes signature to Casus abound in this journey of explosive encounters, hidden looks, and humorous discoveries.

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Opportunities to see such great performances don’t come along every day – get into it this FRINGE WORLD Season.

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