Reflect

Collapsing Time

Thomas Wilson takes to the Tardis and time-travels through the archive, landing on key events for UK contemporary circus

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Spymonkey

Spymonkey, Cooped

Bridget Azizov

Cooped Restaged: 22-25 May at Brighton Festival

The Playlist

Helen Lannaghan

Mime What’s That?

Everything Moves - Jacques Lecoq, 1921-1999, A Tribute

Andrew Dawson, Absence and Presence

London International Mime Festival - Then and Now

The Works: Complicite

Quotation

“At the beginning, there were clearly a lot of people there for the possibility of titillation. But as the evening wore on the intensity of Abramovic's relationship with the crowd became almost unbearable. The police, the fire service, and an ambulance were all called at one stage. People cried. Others shouted out. Someone suffered an epileptic fit. Inevitably the Guggenheim's rotunda added to the effect – almost like a bear pit, with crowds of people gawking from the various tiers of the ramp – but there developed an overpowering sense of something horrible happening there that night, like a gladiatorial conflict, or a cock fight, in which I felt increasingly uneasy about participating.”

— Robert Ayers in ‘New York, New York - Dream On’

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