UK Premiere

Igor Cardellini & Tomas Gonzalez (Lausanne)

The Golden Age

Friday 14 October 2022 – Sunday 16 October 2022

Park St
Birmingham, B5 4BU United Kingdom + Google Map

UK Premiere. Supported by Pro Helvetia.
Not-included in our tiered discount offer.

70 mins £13/11

‘Golden Age’ is a project that takes the form of guided tours of shopping centres, banks and office buildings in the manner of sightseeing strolls through archaeological sites. These places escape our attention on a daily basis and are rarely considered beyond their functional dimension. Starting from the architecture of these specific buildings, the public is invited to walk through the spaces of consumption, capital and wage labour.

These particular spaces, which can be found in any city, are the embodiment of capital, employment and consumerism. Designed in the 20th century, they contain within them models of organisation, circulation and scenography that inspire wonder, confidence, security and discipline.

By treating the visit as a dramatic object, the artists conduct another investigation: what do we do when we visit a place as a group?

For this Birmingham iteration, our local guide will be performer Adaya Henry and the tour will take place within the Bullring & Grand Central complex.

The starting location will be emailed to ticket bookers. This is a limited capacity event and is not included in the ticket discount scheme.

Production | K7 Productions, Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne
Production support | Arts Center Vooruit, Ghent KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels

And | Canton de Vaud Ville de Lausanne Loterie romande Pro Helvetia – Fondation suisse pour la culture Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art Fondation Ernst Göhner Fondation Jan Michalski Fund culturel SSA Fondation Casino Barrière Montreux Corodis

This is a walking tour, which involves walking at a gentle pace for 70 minutes. You will wear headphones throughout and have a guide with you.

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

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Details

Friday 14 October 2022

12.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Friday 14 October 2022

3.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Saturday 15 October 2022

12.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Saturday 15 October 2022

3.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Sunday 16 October 2022

12.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Sunday 16 October 2022

3.30pm

Bullring & Grand Central

Clara Furey (Montreal)

Dog Rising

Thursday 13 October 2022, 9.00pm – 10.00pm

20 Sheepcote Street
Birmingham, B16 8AE + Google Map

Supported by Québec Government Office. In partnership with Nottdance Festival.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

60 mins £13/11

Image: Mathieu Verreault

Bodies launch into orbit, vibrating in a lustful and hypnotic ritual, Dog Rising mirrors the life cycle, the dynamic flow of matter.

From primitive impulses to gestures that are at times sexual, at times mechanical, Clara Furey’s new creation comes together like a polyphony of pulsating bodies, in turns dissonant and in unison. The choreographer pursues an exploration of physical phenomena: the way sound vibrations penetrate the bones, the way our skeletons absorb shocks, listening closely to the presence of the body as it fully manifests itself.

On stage, the trio erects an architecture of pleasure and is inhabited and nourished by empathy and acute attention to the energy of the body and to others. Through their tireless movement work, tensions are released in the endless repetition of cyclical gestures. Dog Rising invites us to embark on an extreme journey, a mesmerising, haunting, and penetrating spiral.

Dog Rising performer and artist Brian Mendez will also be running a Vogue Class at DanceXchange find out more about it here.

Credits

CONCEPT AND ARTISTIC DIRECTION: CLARA FUREY

CHOREOGRAPHED BY: CLARA FUREY

IN COLLABORATION WITH: BE HEINTZMAN HOPE, BRIAN MENDEZ & WINNIE HO

PERFORMED BY: BACO LEPAGE-ACOSTA, BRIAN MENDEZ, JONTAE MCCRORY

REHEARSAL: LUCIE VIGNEAULT

MUSICAL COMPOSITION: TOMAS FUREY

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & LIGHTING DESIGN: KARINE GAUTHIER

WORDS BY: CORAL SHORT

OUTSIDE EYE: PETER JASKO, DANA MICHEL, CHRISTOPHER WILLES, CAROLINE MONNET DISTRIBUTION :A PROPIC | LINE ROUSSEAU & MARION GAUVENT

PRODUCTION: CLARA FUREY

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: PARBLEUX

PRODUCED BY: ATELIER DE PARIS – CDCN (FRANCE), CD SPECTACLES (GASPÉ,CANADA), CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL D’ORLÉANS – DIRECTION MAUD LE PLADEC(FRANCE), FESTIVAL TRANSAMÉRIQUES (MONTRÉAL, CANADA), LA BRIQUETERIE – CENTRE DEDÉVELOPPEMENT CHORÉGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL DU VAL-DE-MARNE (VITRY-SUR-SEINE, FRANCE),LA ROTONDE (QUÉBEC, CANADA), NEW BALTIC DANCE FESTIVAL (VILNIUS, LITHUANIA)

PARTNERS AND SUPPORT FOR CREATION PARBLEUX(MONTRÉAL, CANADA), L’ÉCART – ART ACTUEL (ROUYN-NORANDA, CANADA), DANSE À LA CARTE(MONTRÉAL, CANADA)

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

New for this year we’re offering a tiered discount on bookings for multiple shows, giving you savings whether you’re planning to attend just a handful or all of them. The more tickets you buy, the more you save.

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Fierce Says

ENERGY, sometimes its palpable. Prepare to be hypnotised by this piece by one of Canada's most exciting talents. We watched this piece on video during lockdown and even through the screen it was impressive - we can't wait to experience it live with you all. Colour, Music, Movement - a simple but winning combination!

Details

Thursday 13 October 2022

9.00pm

Crescent Theatre, Main House

UK Premiere

Simone Aughterlony (Zurich/Berlin)

Remaining Strangers

Thursday 13 October 2022 – Friday 14 October 2022

University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road
Coventry, CV4 7AL United Kingdom + Google Map

UK Premiere. Supported by NPN International Guest Performance Fund for Dance and Goethe-Institut. Included in our tiered discount offer.

105 mins £15/13

- uses strobe lighting

Rows of empty chairs are lit by spotlights

Smiling person in a black dress holds a microphone to their mouth. Behind them neon lights and chairs are visible.

Photo by Maxi Schmitz

A naked person wearing bunny ears is seen from behind, backlit by spotlights

Photo by Maxi Schmitz

Remaining Strangers

Remaining Strangers is the final work in a series that reflects on the notion of the ‘stranger’.

In Remaining Strangers we acknowledge the strangeness inherent in every individual, the stranger within and the emancipatory possibility of always remaining curious of the other. A commitment to remaining strangers fosters relations that are durable: the other can never be fully known, our knowledge of the other is never finished.

Those present get involved in recognisable social situations like a dinner party with a DJ and toasting farewell to the things that we have already lost. Using only foldable chairs and microphones, the artists Jen Rosenblit and Nic Lloyd, together with the musician Hahn Rowe, prepare and host an ever-changing event to welcome their guests, highlighting our infinite differences and limitations.

Credits

Performance & Creation: Jen Rosenblit, Gary Wilmes / Nic Lloyd
Concept & Direction: Simone Aughterlony
Music: Hahn Rowe
Light design: Joseph Wegmann
Dramaturgical advice: Saša Božic, Jorge León, Felipe Ribeiro
Stage design: Thibault van Craenenbroeck
Costume: Nathalie Pallandre, Thibault van Craenenbroeck
Mask: Nagi Gianni
Stage manager: Jan Olieslagers
Technical manager: Marie Prédour
Production management: Sina Kiessling
Production: Verein für allgemeines Wohl / Imbricated Real
Co-production HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), Gessnerallee (Zurich)
Supported by: City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich Culture, Prohelvetia – Swiss Cultural Foundation, Goethe-Institut London,
Migros-Kulturprozent, SIS – Swiss Interpreten Foundation, Anne-Marie Schindler Foundation, The Invisible Dog Art Center – New York, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ – Co-production fund for dance, funded by the federal government commission for culture and media.

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Fierce Says

Simone Aughterlony has become a firm Fierce favourite after hit shows at the festival in 2017 (Supernatural) & 2019 (Everything Fits in the Room). This time text plays a more central role, in this incredibly layered and intelligent work.

Details

Thursday 13 October 2022

6.00pm

Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre

Friday 14 October 2022

6.00pm

Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre

UK Premiere

Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa Harkins (Stockholm, Montreal & Tulsa)

Radio III ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ

Saturday 15 October 2022, 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street
Birmingham, B5 4TB United Kingdom + Google Map

Supported by the Embassy of Sweden, London and Québec Government Office. Presented in partnership with FABRIC. Included in our tiered discount offer.

60 mins £13/10

RADIO III /ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩᏦᎢ is an indigenous futuristic concert, a beautiful and uncomfortable dance performance and a perverse triangle of shifting power. RADIO III questions, challenges, and defies minimalism and postmodern dance’s aesthetic claims of neutrality. It strives to make visible what has been kept invisible in colonial systems of recognition and aesthetics.

As we live, layer and situate form in our bodies we hurtle through past, present and possible futures. We invite you into a supportive co-existence, separate but aligned, an anthem for xenophilia, a complicit dream, a consensual prophecy.

The intention of Radio III, a larger work that includes Elisa Harkins’ solo Wampum performance, is to create a metaphorical peacekeeping agreement between the performers in the work as well as with people watching the piece, regardless of tribe or race.

Presented in partnership with FABRIC.

Zoë Poluch’s artistic practice puts into motion different mediums and takes shape in different rooms. Her love-hate relationship with the “contemporary dance” scene is based on a long term and practice-based interest in the politics and poetics of moving and sensing. As she teaches, dances, talks, writes and thinks, she does it with a precise gymnastics of the senses.

Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist and composer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Harkins uses the Cherokee and Mvskoke languages, electronic music, sculpture, and the body as her tools. Harkins received a BA from Columbia College, Chicago and an MFA from CALARTS.

Hanako Hoshimi-Caines is a mother, dancer, performance-maker, writer, questioner, enthusiast and organizer born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her work plays with the pleasure and the haunt of the familiar as strategies of resistance and transformation.

Credits

With and by: Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa Harkins

Light Design: Paul Chambers

Costumes: Jade Tong Cuong

Regalia: Carol Young

Earrings: Molly Murphy-Adams

Residencies, co-production: MAI, MDT, Dance Victoria

Funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Swedish Arts Council, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Agora de la danse, The Stable.

Discussion partners: Ivanie Aubin-Malo, James Goddard, Maria Kefirova, Stina Nyberg, KatieWard, k.g. Guttman, Kelly Keenan and Magnus Nordberg

Photo: Kinga Michalska

Performance photos: Mathieu Verreault

The work opened at MAI in Montréal June 3, 2019

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Fierce Says

The combination of Elisa's music and Zoe & Hanako's dance is irresistible. You may remember Hanako from Make Banana Cry at Fierce 2019. Prepare for Elisa to become your favourite new popstar!

Details

Saturday 15 October 2022

2.00pm

Birmingham Hippodrome, Patrick Studio

Other Spaces (Helsinki)

Wolf Safari

Wednesday 12 October 2022 – Friday 14 October 2022

+ Google Map

Supported by TINFO and the Finnish Institute.
This performance involves walking and light running for around one hour.
Not-included in our tiered discount offer.

4 hours £15/13 Ages 16+

Please see detailed access information below.

In the nocturnal wandering performance Wolf Safari by Other Spaces (Toisissa tiloissa), the civilized urban space collides with untamed nature. The participants encounter the city from the perspective of a wild, social predator. The protagonist, the wolf, embodies more than a metaphorical conflict. On one hand, we know that it is one of the most socially developed and organised creatures, on the other hand, it is one of the most feared and controversial animals, onto which humankind has projected all its undesirable traits.

Wolf Safari is a participatory performance based on a collective exercise in which the participants form a pack of wolves that wander around the city space at night. The transformation from human to wolf is based on a simple set of behavioural patterns borrowed from wolves and adapted for humans. In the performance the participants howl like wolves, search each other, create a pack and go hunting for an animal of prey. After the hunt, the participants participate in a final discussion to share their experiences and findings.

Welcome to the Wild Side! Please bring comfortable shoes!

Wolf Safari: Access Information

Wolf Safari involves taking on traits of a wolf during the encounter. It is a physical participatory performance, taking place outside at night. It involves walking and at times some running within a defined area (there is no fixed requirement to run at a particular speed however).

Participants should wear shoes and clothes they can move easily in, and be warm in on an October evening.

If you have further questions please email contact@wearefierce.org

Performers: Outi Condit, Minja Mertanen, Heli Mäkinen and Helena Ratinen.

Wolf Safari (premiered on 16.-18.10.2014 at NordWind Festival, Hamburg, Germany) is one of the most popular performances by Other Spaces. It has been performed in several noted festivals in Finland, Italy, Russia, Denmark and UK.

If you are participating in the Wolf Safari, we recommend getting acquainted with the Wolf Knowledge, where you can find information about wolves that Other Spaces have collected. After this you can pass the Wolf Knowledge Quiz

About Other Spaces Collective:

The Other Spaces collective is one of the most influential and international Live Art groups in Finland. The group’s artistic work is based on collective bodily exercises and participatory performances that enable an experiential contact with non-human forms and phenomena, in other words “visits into other spaces”. The collective’s goals include facilitating more sustainable and collective ways of thinking and behaving and to increase our understanding of the mutual equality and interdependence between all kinds of living beings.

*THIS EVENT HAS A VERY LIMITED CAPACITY AND THEREFORE IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE TICKET DISCOUNT SCHEME.*

Fierce Says

Finland has a reputation for producing collectives that plunge the audience into encounters that blur categories of art making and get us to think about things in totally new ways. See also Reality Research Center, and Live Art Society. Shakira endorses this performance!

Details

Wednesday 12 October 2022

6.00pm

Venue revealed to ticket bookers

Thursday 13 October 2022

6.00pm

Venue revealed to ticket bookers

Friday 14 October 2022

6.00pm

Venue revealed to ticket bookers

Club Fierce feat. Saeborg & Soya the Cow (Tokyo)

The Ho Down

Saturday 15 October 2022, 10.00pm – Sunday 16 October 2022, 4.00am

77A Upper Trinity Street, Digbeth
Birmingham, B9 4EG United Kingdom + Google Map

Supported by the Daiwa Foundation, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and Pro Helvetia. Included in our tiered discount offer.

£10/8 Running Time: 6 hours

Songs performed by Soya the Cow are from the perspective of a dairy cow about animal agriculture, factory farms and slaughterhouses. Many difficult topics are sung or spoken about (but not visually shown), which are inherent to these systems.
• forced motherhood
• abuse (physical, mental, verbal, sexual)
• excessive or gratuitous violence
• animal cruelty / death
• death dying
• blood
• torture
• killing
• ecosystem destruction
• loss / grief
• Loud noises / music
• Flashing lights
• Strobe
• Use of haze / smoke

Saeborg

Soya the Cow

Mystic Meg

If we’ve become known for anything this past quarter of a century, it’s for throwing an absolutely lit party. Step forward The Big Fat Birthday Ho Down, a rootin’ tootin’ deranged barn dance cum country fete for all the senses.

We’re excited to welcome Tokyo fetish legend Saeborg who’ll present her performance Pig Pen, featuring giant latex momma pig and her newly birthed piglets! On stage we’ll have Soya the Cow, from Zurich,(as seen on Germany’s The Voice) and from Margate roll up the Pink Suits, the original queer country icons. And all the way from Montreal, working the pole Dulce Villano. As usual, expect a hot line up of Birmingham’s finest selectors and some perverse sideshows to keep you entertained when you’re not dancing.

Did somebody say Buckaroo?

Dress Code: Farmyard Hoes, (un)Stable Sluts, Mucky Cows, Cuntry Bumpkins, Pervert Pumpkins, Lesbian Cowboys, Rodeo Nellys, Missy Elliot on her Tractor, Bad Harvests, Pesticide Chic, Bee Keeper Types, Farm Shop Produce, Haute Manure, Fat Ass Donkeys, Mutton Dressed as Lamb, Sexy Ducky Wuckys, Anxious Scarecrows, Farmacists with Sedatives, Hunt Saboteurs, Cèilidh Cult Members, Dolly Parton & Dolly the Sheep.

PERFORMANCE LINEUP

Saeborg (Tokyo) presents Pig Pen
A giant nursing mother pig bound for the production line gives birth to a litter of scrambling, human-sized piglets, desperate to suckle and feed. In Pigpen, inflatable latex is used to shape the huge figures of a truck-sized pig and its humanoid piglets. No matter how cartoonish and friendly they seem, the birth of the inflatable piglets is playfully twisted. Sleazy, shiny, squeaking, anthropomorphic, these pigs are crossbreeds between BDSM and animal-costumed PETA protesters.

Pigpen is part of the wider Slaughterhouse series, overlapping ideas of gender and the artificially controlled processes of animal husbandry. The humans step aside while the pork-chops trot in the spotlight; is it a queer performance of operatic proportions or an allegory created to initiate kids into veganism? Are those cute piglets to be hugged and petted or are they bloated sexual fantasies?

Soya the Cow (Zurich)
Animal rights, climate activism, music and queer feminism – spiced up with a good dose of drag: that’s Soya the Cow. The alter-ego of performance artist, musician and activist Daniel Hellmann, who lives in Zürich and Berlin, blurs the boundaries between male and female, human and cow, and manages the balancing act between a serious desire to change the world and a humorous sense of lightness.

Pink Suits (Margate)
pink suits are a Non Binary, Queer Feminist Punk Rock & Rage duo based in Margate, UK. Formed in 2017, pink suits make loud aggressive political punk noise as well as dance, physical theatre, film and art. pink suits work is an exploration of sexuality, fantasy, mental health, politics, activism and is a resistance of binary gender expectations, questioning how voices and bodies can be used as a form of protest.

Dairy King (London)
Dairy King has been appearing in the East London drag scene since April and despite best efforts, is still performing. He has brought his own produce to sell today from his dairy, and is weirdly insistent that it’s free of charge because he just wants to see your growing bones.

Dulce Villano (Montreal) on the pole
and host Yshee Black (Birmingham)

DJs

Mystic Meg
Island:T

SIDESHOWS

NAYCHA BOI (Birmingham)
Fatt Butcher’s ABBAtoir (Birmingham)
Soya’s Udderly Beautiful Photo Booth
and Buckaroo with Pork Pie

Details

Saturday 15 October 2022, 10.00pm – Sunday 16 October 2022, 4.00am

7SVN, 77A Upper Trinity Street

UK Premiere

Francesca Grilli (Brussels)

Sparks

Friday 14 October 2022 – Saturday 15 October 2022

Balsall Heath
Birmingham, B12 9AN + Google Map

UK Premiere. Part of our Flanders Focus, supported by Flanders House.
Not-included in our tiered discount offer.
This is an 18+ event.

30 Mins £10/8

- low level lighting

“I am interested in the sense of responsibility, which I put in the hands of children: their firm belief in their visions and ideas of the future. I believe in a utopia-in-the-making as a social objective, even if it remains intangible and incomprehensible.” – Francesca Grilli

How often do you completely surrender to a child?

Sparks creates a space where the usual power relationships between the child and the adult are inverted. The children become oracles; bearers of mystical knowledge; wielders of magical powers.

As you enter the space, you encounter a community of oracles, including, for the Fierce festival edition, the artist’s daughter. Their faces are hidden behind masks but you can hear their voices. How does it feel to have a child tell you your destiny?

This event is presented as part of our Flanders Focus.

This is a limited capacity event and therefore is not part of the ticket discount scheme.

This event is for audiences 18+ only.

credits
Creation: Francesca Grilli
Words: Azzurra D’Agostino
Sound: Roberto Rettura
Movements: Benno Steinegger
Hat designer and realization: Paola Villani
Advice: Chiara Guidi
Palm reading advices: Guido Rossetti
Producer: Chiara Massari
Communication: Elena Regazzoni / Studio Francesca Grilli
Administration: Chiara Fava/ Corpoceleste

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Details

Friday 14 October 2022

5.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Friday 14 October 2022

6.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

3.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

4.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

5.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

UK Premiere

Francesca Grilli (Brussels)

Sparks

Friday 14 October 2022 – Saturday 15 October 2022

Balsall Heath
Birmingham, B12 9AN + Google Map

UK Premiere. Part of our Flanders Focus, supported by Flanders House.
Not-included in our tiered discount offer.
This is an 18+ event.

30 Mins £10/8

- low level lighting

How often do you completely surrender to a child?

Sparks creates a space where the usual power relationships between the child and the adult are inverted. The children become oracles; bearers of mystical knowledge; wielders of magical powers.

This event is presented as part of our Flanders Focus.

This is a limited capacity event and therefore is not part of the ticket discount scheme.

This event is for audiences 18+ only.

*THIS SHOW IS NOT INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Details

Friday 14 October 2022

5.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Friday 14 October 2022

6.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

3.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

4.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Saturday 15 October 2022

5.00pm

Moseley Road Swimming Baths

Alice Ripoll / Cia REC (Rio de Janeiro)

Lavagem (Washing)

Saturday 15 October 2022 – Sunday 16 October 2022

Presented in collaboration with Art Happens (Ghent) as part of Flanders Focus. UK Premiere.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

70 mins £15/13

Performers all grouped together on a big blue tarp covered in water.

Using buckets, water & soap, the performers in Lavagem (Portuguese for “washing”) explore the action of cleaning as a performative and political gesture. The performers produce images with bubbles, suggesting a dreamlike world, yet by its very nature the soap is also a source of frustration which stops them from staying upright. The process of scrubbing now also becomes an investigation of the identities who are cornered to perform certain tasks in our societies, something that became even more evident with the pandemic, in Brazil and beyond.

Alice Ripoll & CIA Rec dissect the polarised reality of Brazilian society where contact between different sections of the population remains extremely tenuous. The performers come from the favelas, the shantytowns within Brazilian cities, and have a very personal connection to the topic: Their mothers and grandmothers worked as cleaners their whole lives. Lavagem asks the questions: What actually needs to be cleaned? The houses, the dirt in the rooms? Or the sophisticated strategies that aim to make some people become invisible?

Credits

Director Alice Ripoll

Original idea Alan Ferreira

Performers Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correia, Rômulo Galvão, Tony Hewerton, Tuany Nascimento

Production director

Natasha Corbelino | Corbelino Cultural Production assistant, set assistant Thais Peixoto

Artistic assistant Laura Samy

Photos Renato Mangolin

Set designer Raquel Theo Visagism

Props Cleber de Oliveira

Costume designer Paula Ströher

Light designer Tomas Ribas

Light Technician Nadja Naira

Tour planning ART HAPPENS

Supported by Rafael Machado Fisioterapia

Co-prodution Kunsten fetival des arts, PACT Zollverein,Kaserne Basel, Wiener Festwochen, Julidans, Festival de la Cité Lausanne, Passages Transfestival, RomaeuropaFestival and Teatro di Roma – Teatro Nazionale, Festival d’Automne à Paris.

Special thanks Alexandre Belfort, Sulamita Costa, Juliana França, André Oliveira, Walace Ferreira, Juliete Schultz, Mauricio Lima, Pedro Bento, Thamires Candida, DiloPaulo, Diewry Patrick, Lenna Santos de Siqueira, Camila Rocha, Centro Coreográfico daCidade do Rio de Janeiro, Arnoldo Pereira de Souza, Anita Tandeta, Camila Moura, Renato Linhares, Cecilia Ripoll, Andrea Capella, Casa de Mystérios e Novidades

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Fierce Says

This was one of the first shows we saw post lockdown: so we loved the proximity of being so close to the performers, which felt like a real privilege, with the audience sat closely on all sides. They create compelling images that had us on the edge of our seat for an hour. This is the first time this Brazilian company has been to the UK - and it's long overdue! A hot ticket.

Details

Saturday 15 October 2022

7.00pm

MAC Birmingham

Sunday 16 October 2022

7.00pm

Midlands Arts Centre

UK Premiere

Alice Ripoll / Cia REC (Rio de Janeiro)

Lavagem (Washing)

Saturday 15 October 2022 – Sunday 16 October 2022

Midlands Arts Centre, Cannon Hill Park
Birmingham, B12 9QH United Kingdom + Google Map

Presented in collaboration with Art Happens (Ghent) as part of Flanders Focus. UK Premiere.
Included in our tiered discount offer.

70 mins £15/13

Credits

Director Alice Ripoll

Original idea Alan Ferreira

Performers Alan Ferreira, Hiltinho Fantástico, Katiany Correia, Rômulo Galvão, Tony Hewerton, Tuany Nascimento

Production director

Natasha Corbelino | Corbelino Cultural Production assistant, set assistant Thais Peixoto

Artistic assistant Laura Samy

Photos Renato Mangolin

Set designer Raquel Theo Visagism

Props Cleber de Oliveira

Costume designer Paula Ströher

Light designer Tomas Ribas

Light Technician Nadja Naira

Tour planning ART HAPPENS

Supported by Rafael Machado Fisioterapia

*THIS SHOW IS INCLUDED IN OUR TIERED DISCOUNT OFFER*

Buy tickets for 6 shows =10% off
Buy tickets for 9 shows = 15% off
Buy tickets for 12 shows = 20% off

Please note that this discount is only applicable to full-priced tickets, and only on certain shows.

Please see each individual event page to see whether that show is included in the offer.

Fierce Says

This was one of the first shows we saw post lockdown: so we loved the proximity of being so close to the performers, which felt like a real privilege, with the audience sat closely on all sides. They create compelling images that had us on the edge of our seat for an hour. This is the first time this Brazilian company has been to the UK - and it's long overdue! A hot ticket.

Details

Saturday 15 October 2022

7.00pm

MAC Birmingham

Sunday 16 October 2022

7.00pm

Midlands Arts Centre