Stockton International Riverside Festival 2010

Commandos Percu - Bombs Per Minute

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:15:21 +0000

For 15 years the team has travelled the world with its innovative percussion work and pyrotechnics. The fusion of music and fireworks stands as its main mechanism. A third element is then added in: mobility, or the art of surprise!

The show B.P.M. Bombs Per Minute is about the violence held in the act of creation. Is destruction a creation? It is a topic fully expressed by the use of percussion associated with no holds barred visual effects. As an answer to the violence of the world, Bombs Per Minute attempts to immerse the audience in noise and rage with the intention of finally reaching peace and silence. A delightful performance with breath taking pyrotechnics!

Prodigal Theatre - The Next Level

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:20:16 +0000

You’ve seen Parkour before. You’ve seen the stunts; the rooftop jumps, the dizzying leaps and rapid vaults – but that’s only half of the story…

Parkour’s essence is in the process of weaving through space – where the human body pours like water through obstacles, coalescing in new forms and new pathways, defying expectation and bending the rules of physics.

Following the success of Urban Playground in 1008, in the ‘Next Level’ Prodigal’s award winning performers bring their unique partner, contemporary and urban dance disciplines together with the astonishing skills of Parkour’s co-creators Gravity Style to present a series of spectacular new choreographies: Welcome to the art of movement; Welcome to The Next Level.

David Moreno - Floating Notes

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:15:50 +0000

Floating Notes brings together music, theatre and film in a performance full of poetry and humour. David Moreno sings, plays the piano and percussion, all while floating six metres above the stage. The lid of his grand piano becomes a cinema screen, showing a 30 minute film. He performs the soundtrack to the film live, while at the same time interacting continuously with the characters and images that appear on screen.

Orkestra del Sol - Top Trumps

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:30:38 +0000

Returning to Stockton with a brand-new show, Orkestra del Sol continue their explosive reinvention of the brass band format: soaring horn lines, mournful melodies, rolling middle-eastern rhythms, triumphant trumpet solos and New Orleans sass.

But who will emerge as Top Trump? What is the Orkestra’s collective lung capacity? Who has the maximum range? The top valve speed?

To find out, join the Orkestra in a frenzy of high-speed riffs, ridiculous musical challenges, one-upmanship and brass bravado - expertly woven into a performance bursting with anarchic humour, wildly skilful musical arrangements and a roguish sense of theatre.

Circus of Horrors - Freaks and Feathers (T)

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:00:51 +0000

Freaks & Feathers has been created exclusively for SIRF by Circus of Horrors so that they can celebrate their 15th anniversary with their loyal army of Tees Valley fans. It’s a show to match the opulent surroundings of the fabulous Salon Perdu Spiegel Tent. Undead Ringmaster Dr. Haze is supported as ever by his Royal Family of Freaks (including the return of the legendary Garry Stretch) while the circus elements of the show promise to reach new heights of seductive glamour. Aerial performers hang from silks, chains and their own hair, while at ground level there are acts of contortionism, blade walking and the shocks and surprises that are the trademarks of the Circus of Horrors. Enjoy it all from your ringside seat in our 350 capacity licensed venue.

Cie.Albedo - Les Tonys

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:00:05 +0000

Compagnie Albedo’s Big Brozeurs brought the High Street to a stand-still several years ago – now Les Tonys are in town. It’s your change to be a celebrity for five minutes when Les Tonys are in town. They are bodyguards on a mission to protect you and yours – if you don’t see any danger, they will (if necessary they will invent it).

Le Muscle - Jean Louis 2000 (caravan) ®

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:15:53 +0000

Popstar Jean Louis 2000 disappeared mysteriously from the international scene in 1981, only to reappear at the dawn of the 21st century. His project is ambitious, his mission is charitable: to bring about universal happiness through Disco. His Trojan horse is his caravan:’ The Biggest Smallest Club of the World’, a shrine devoted to dance that welcomes you with an explosion of lights and special effects.

Jean Louis 2000, his turntables and his surprisingly adaptable bodyguards are also on hand at the Spiegel tent to meet and greet and get the whole place dancing.

Kuljit Bhamra - Chutney

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:15:17 +0000

Get the carnival spirit with ‘Chutney’, a specially-formed strolling street band. Drawing on ‘Chutney’ music, the popular musical style of the Indian community in Trinidad blending influences from Asia and the Caribbean, their repertoire cooks up a spicy mix of guitars, horns and percussion.

A virtuosic instrumentalist, highly-skilled improviser and composer, Kuljit Bhamra has written hit songs, film scores and West End musicals. He is also a pioneer of the worldwide Bhangra phenomenon. Combining traditional Indian rhythms, with western instruments and multi-track recording techniques.

Match Theatre - Kaput!

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:30:38 +0000

Kaput! is an adaptation of Ernst Toller’s Hinkemann by award-winning playwright Torben Betts. Hinkemann is about a soldier’s return home from an ill-founded war to a society crippled by a recession.

Les Ateliers Denino - Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique ®

lgibson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:15:22 +0000

Le Grand Théâtre Mécanique is a real machine, with machine noises in a big box. Created in 1900 by Atelier Denino, the Mechanical Theatre was presented at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. Later this fairground attraction was forgotten and ended up in a storeroom, full of dust. It was later re-discovered and fully restored by the inventor’s grandson, Alain Richet.

If you’re lucky, you can join the 700 miniature spectators already sitting comfortably in this authentic Italian-style theatre. A theatre with its own ushers, its audience who arrive late, its technicians at work, its shops, its public entertainers, its three knocks and curtain lift, its tiny actors and its applause. So come and dip your eyes into a marvellous miniature world full of poetry, and discover the unique, le Grand Théâtre Mécanique Denino.